‘Rotten fish sauce’ doesn’t sound appetising but it served to disguise the taste of high game, as Sir Johnny Scott reveals in his latest book, The Countryman Sets Forth Again
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Punt-gunning was a business in the 19th century but there were also very fine vessels made for gentleman fowlers, says Diggory Hadoke
For punt-gunning, you had to lie as flat as possible in the flat-bottomed punt
Punt-gunning today is a curiosity. Once it was a business. To some Victorian sportsmen, it was an art to be learned and practised. The punt, the punt-gun and the punt-gunner are characters from a fading chapter in the history of old British shooting sports. Younger readers may have no idea what it was all about. Perhaps a brief retrospective is in order.
Punt-gunning wild duck