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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60476	The experienc'd fowler: or, The gentleman, citizen, and country-man's pleasant and profitable recreation Containing, I. The true art of taking water and land fowl, with divers kinds of nets, lime-twigs lime-bushes, and how to make the best bird-lime. II. Directions for bat-fowling, lowbelling, tramelling, and driving fowl, how to find their haunts, and take them with springes, snares, &c. III. An exact method for using the fowling-piece at a true level, to shoot at the water, ground, bush or flying. ... By J. S Gent.	Smith, John, d. 1684.	1697 (1697)	Wing S4108C; ESTC R220081	40,290	164

with if they are not on high Trees for then at your near approach they will discern you There are other things that are used for shelter in this case as in Marshes and Rivers to deceive Water-fowl moving Blinds may be made of Flags Bents Rushes or such things as grow there wattled together with pack-thread or small cord like Flags Bents or Rushes for Chimney-backs In Fields woody places c. a Bush may be so ordered and proportioned by the addition of more to a bigness that carrying it in one hand you may shelter your whole body with it Also a Hedge may be made of Osier-twigs and others long and light easily portable likewise a Tree behind whose pastboard body painted you may shelter the top being stuck with Twigs and Branches like a Tree But these being unusual to motion you must move with them exceeding slowly or the Bird will take fright and be gone A way in general to take Birds with the Crown-net The Crown net in all respects may be made like that for cloven-footed Water-fowl already described pag. 8. This may be placed any where as near a Barn-door in Corn Stubble or on green Swart in the morning or evening where you have observed the Fowl to haunt If near a Barn-door hide it with very short and light Straw or Chaff if in Corn-fields with the breakings of short Stubble if in Grass with Grass then hide your self and when the Fowl descend and swoop draw up with a swift hand One of these Nets may be set at a Barn-door where there is not room to play them in the nature of a pitfal gently held up by a stick with a string to it and through a crevis when they are under it draw the string which pulling away the stick will suddenly let it fall on them and to hasten the fall hang some weight on the Cord that Verges it An excellent way to dare and take Larks in the day-time Have Nets in the form of a Scoop or Hoop-net such as Anglers land Fish withal made of fine green Thread or a small Trammel-net will do better Then carry a Hobby or Lark-Hawk on a Pole into the Fields where the Larks haunt about Harvest-time beat them up with a Dog and observing where the Flock alights creep as close to them as may be then on a sudden hold up your Hawk on your Pole and as soon as ever they perceive him they will be so coward that you may easily draw your Net over them without their so much as stirring for they are so fearful of the Hobby which preys on them about this Season that they will rather almost adventure to let you take them with your hand than rise And this Sport you may continue till Michaelmas when the wild Hobbies leave this Country or that Exercise and then the Lark is more confident and not so to be affrighted To know good Powder cast round Shot of different sizes charge your Fowling-pieco and cleanse it when foul A lesser quantity of Powder will serve where it has been well made and not lost she strength by being kept too long much damped or exposed to the Air and to try this lay a little Train of it on a clean board give fire to it and if it moves with a quick motion going up as with one flash though the train be five or six Inches leaving behind it a white mark a little enclining to blewish then it is good but if in going off it sputters and moves slowly in the manner of Wild-fire leaving a black mark or singe behind it smelling rank or too much of Sulphur then it is either decayed or ill made and wants much of its strength clogging and fowling the Piece presently the best grain is that which has a blewish gloss on it hard and round and will not presently dissolve on your Tongue but carry a quick sharp tincture with it the smaller the grain the better To teach you to make this will signifie nothing to the Fowler because it is too chargeable in doing it for small quantities and may be bought at an easier rate but for Shot it being easie and to advantage I shall give you proper directions Peices of old Lead may be got at easie rates put them into a Crucible or Iron melting Ladle and when it is melted scum it and then being well heated it will turn of a greenish colour put in then as much Auripigmentum as will lye on a broad Shilling stir it and it will flame after it extinguishes try it by putting in a little Iron Ladle with a Lip or Nick and taking out some let a few drops fall into the Water if it become round there is Auripigmentum enough if it has tails put more till it will do This done you must have a Copper-plate square the bottom thin and the sides that stand up like a Pye thick in the middle have thirty or forty round holes drilled lay Charcoal lighted on either end the Plate to keep it hot place it on two Bars of Iron over a Tub of Water and then pour on the Lead and dropping thro' the holes into the Water it will become round if it cool on the Plate blow the Coals and taking off the cooled Lead melt it over again and pour on hot You may in one Plate have several sized holes and separate the Shot with Sieves proportionable to the respetive sorts or sizes For clearing a Piece when furred and fouled with Firing to make it carry well or prevent breaking dissolve a little Salt in Vinegar over a gentle fire Then to the Horney end of your Gun-stick fasten a Rag or little Wisp of Tow stop the Touch-hole with a small Pin of Wood pour the Vinegar in pretty warm as much as will a quarter sill the Barrel then turning it up and down shake it well then lay it on a level Table and let it lye for a time pour out that and put in fresh then churn it up and down with your Gun stick and Liniment put in more till it comes out clear then tye on a dry Liniment heat it at the fire and dry the inside of the Barrel put the Cork then into the Bore and set it in the Chimney Corner till it be thoroughly dried As for Charging the readiest way to prevent often pulling out your Powder to catch a dampness is to make even Cartrages which will be a due charge and make them up in Moulds like Serpents but with a very thin Paper about them so that being presently taken from your Pouch and thrown in have a little Priming-Wire to bore the Touch-hole and after that do the like by the Shot so that it both carries farther and saves you much time the Shot by this means coming out closer and more level Directions to make the best Birdlime for Land and Water and how to keep it from Freezing There is yet another way to take Fowl much approved of that is with a Clammy or Glewy