"Mark Rand" wrote in message
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:55:53 -0500, "Ed Huntress"

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"Mark Rand" wrote in message
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:02:38 -0500, "Ed Huntress"

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Some enthusiasts in the UK make replicas (yes, they were legal there
long
after they had been outlawed in the US). Or they did, back in the '80s.
Good
luck finding them.


Howthehell else are you expected to harvest duck on the Norfolk
Broads???



Mark Rand
RTFM

Are you going to make me go search myself? I'm getting old and tired. See
what you can come up with first. d8-)


That was a rhetorical question G

When I was a child in Norfolk, punt guns were the tool for the job.

Mark Rand
RTFM

gulp It's good for us that you didn't have those things during our
revolutionary war.

And what job was that they did in Norfolk? Wipe out the entire European
flyway of ducks? They were outlawed here for migratory waterfowl sometime
before 1900, I think.

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Ed Huntress