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Title: Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929 Buck, Walter John
Subjects: Hunting -- Spain Game and game-birds -- Spain
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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out a thousand birds before the gun: wigeon,shovelers, and a few garganey, all mixed, with about a scoreof pintails and three or four gadwall; but, whether purposelyor by accident, they kept at very long range from oursedgy shelter, and when at last, owing to a leaky seam * This failure of the gunning-punt in Spain is the more inexphcableas in Egypt—the onlj- other southern land in which, to our knowledge,this sport has been attempted—the very reverse was the case. AnEnglishman who took out a punt to the Nile abandoned the pursuit, ashe found no ditficTilty in taking the craft to such close quarters thathe bagged fifty to sixty each shot. Similarly, Lord Londesboroughfound the fowl in the Egyptian lagoons so easily accessible that, aftersecuring 2,290 geese and 1,800 ducks in the season (sixty-four geesebeing his biggest shot), he abandoned finther operations as lackingthe one essential condition—that of difficulty. (Badminton Library.—• Shooting: Moor and Marsh, pp. 261-2.)
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a O S 73 3 13 O THE STANCHION-GUN IN SPAIN. 401 long and evening coming on, we were obliged to risk ashot, only some six or eight duck were secured. To complete this sketch of Spanish punt-gunning, w^ewill l)rietl3- narrate the incidents of two other days sport,as follows :—Fchruary 28th. Started at daybreak, takingboth the punt and a cahrcsto pony. The first shot was ateleven teal, of Mhich eight fell to the two barrels (12-bore) ;the second shot realized seven more teal and a marsh-harrier. The latter capture afforded rather a curious

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