Willmott-Dixon, William ("Thormanby") (2007) [1901]. Read, Tony (ed.). Kings Of The Trigger: Biographical Sketches Of Four Famous Sportsmen (Reprinted.). Alcester: Read Country Books. ISBN 978-1-406-78745-0. Hawker kept a regular diary which contains observations of Europe before and after the Napoleonic period and of wild-fowling, game-bird shooting and detailed hunting techniques and conditions prevalent in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His diary, printed in an abridged form in two volumes, became a popular work. The most recent paper edition appeared in 1988. Hawker also published an originally anonymous memoir of the Peninsula War. [6] Revisionist views [ edit ]

Hawker, Peter (1810). Journal of a Regimental Officer During the Recent Campaign in Portugal and Spain under Lord Viscount Wellington. London: J. Johnson. All or a portion of this article consists of text from Wikipedia, and is therefore Creative Commons Licensed under GFDL. Gentleman punt-gunners brought a bit more sophistication to the guns used. Hawker, active as a shooter during the early to mid-1800s, developed the double punt-gun. Hawker bought a cottage near Lymington and, from there, expanded his interest in wildfowling. Yes, he`s very much still researching although he keeps it all very close to his chest and is very reluctant to share any information whatsoever, which is very frustrating. Myself and a coleague have put lots of information and connections his way, but it seems to be very much a one way street. Regular encounters on the marshes with other shooters, including what were described variously as 'swarms of gunners' and 'gangs of shore shooters', illustrate just how much pressure the wildlife faced. Indeed, it's a wonder anything at all survived. He also records, though, details of local people following behind the gunners in the hope of retrieving dead or dying birds, presumably for the pot - times then were certainly tough for the poorer members of society.

The diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, 1802-1853, with an introduction by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, bart. Volume 1 1893 (1893) [Leatherbound] The fact that your associate wants to keep information to himself is a bit of a pity but I can understand it as my brother researches the story of soldiers killed in WW 1 and feels the same way. I often wonder what the sales figures would be for a book on Hawker considering that all his books are now in the public domain . Someone may be able to make a phd thesis out of it but just how much interest modern shooters would have in it is questionable. I just had my curiosity raised by Sir Ralph Payne Gallweys statement that he could have produced more books from the original manuscripts and remarks in his diary like the ordnance used some of my ideas in the Enfield P53 but unwisely not all of them - you just want to known what he was referring to . Continental Europeans took part in punt-gunning much as the British did and many examples of French-made punt-guns exist. Hawker is perhaps best know for his exploits as a wildfowler and general killer of wild birds, pastimes that were sadly even more acceptable in his day than today; and as the author of a wildfowling book, 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen', which was first published in 1814.

Sporting Intelligence". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. Newcastle, NSW. 9 December 1893. p.11 . Retrieved 16 July 2015– via National Library of Australia. Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9743 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001254 Openlibrary_edition Some big guns gained almost cult status. Irish Tom was made as a muzzle-loading punt-gun. It was bought from an Irish market gunner in the early 1930s by Stanley Duncan. He had it converted to a breech-loader by Greener and started using it in 1936. When Duncan had finished with the gun he sold it to actor James Robertson Justice. It was rediscovered and restored in the 1980s and given to BASC to display at its HQ.

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If its the Durs Egg double punt gun that you are interested in there are a couple of images of it on Google, they are faded and not very good quality, but may give you a lead. It`s taken a mate of mine some twenty five years of badgering to get a look at some of the UK located copies of the original documents. Carman, W. Y. (2004) [1955]. A History of Firearms: From Earliest Times to 1914 (Reprinted.). Mineola, NY: Dover Publications. p.74. ISBN 978-0-486-43390-5.

Colonel Peter Hawker (24 November 1786 – 7 August 1853) [1] was a celebrated diarist and author, and a shooting sportsman accounted one of the "great shots" of the 19th century. [2] His sporting exploits were widely followed and on occasion considered worth reporting in The Times. [3] Early life [ edit ] Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey’s gun was also of 1½in bore but it was double barrelled and 9ft long. It had one trigger that was selective — either right, left or both barrels could be chosen. Like Hawker’s gun, when both barrels were fired, there was a slight delay between detonation, allowing for the birds to rise into the second charge. Hawker is best known today for his published works on the sports of shooting, wildfowling and fishing. Hawker published his “Advice to Young Sportsmen” in 1814, a popular work having nine imprints in his lifetime with the latest paper edition printed in 1975. Forty years after Hawker's death an Australian book reviewer states that "Probably no book on the subject of sport ever enjoyed so wide or so long sustained a popularity as the "Instructions to Young Sportsmen". [6] Hawker kept a regular diary (published in abridged form) which contains observations of pre and post-Napoleonic Europe, wildfowling, game-bird shooting and details of hunting techniques and conditions prevalent in the late 18th and early 19th Century. His diary, printed in two volumes, was also a popular work with the last paper edition printed in 1988. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-07-20 00:01:05 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40604205 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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Holland & Holland first notes the manufacture of a punt-gun in 1872 and thereafter made several, improving on the design each time. A typical Holland & Holland punt-gun of the 1880s was the London, which was a single-barrel breechloading gun, 8½ft long, weighing 100lb and of 1½in bore.