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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Punt_gun.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Punt_gun.jpg/300px-Punt_gun.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Punt_gun.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="412" data-file-height="251" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">A punt gun as illustrated in <i>Science and Mechanics</i> magazine in October 1911</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Shotgun, Hunting</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A <b>punt gun</b> is a type of extremely large <a href="/wiki/Shotgun" title="Shotgun">shotgun</a> used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of <a href="/wiki/Waterfowl" class="mw-redirect" title="Waterfowl">waterfowl</a> for commercial harvesting operations. These weapons are characteristically too large for an individual to fire from the shoulder or often carry alone, but unlike artillery pieces, punt guns are able to be aimed and fired by a single person from a mount. In this case, the mount is typically a small watercraft (e.g., a <a href="/wiki/Punt_(boat)" title="Punt (boat)">punt</a>). Many early models appear similar to over-sized versions of shoulder weapons of the time with full-length wooden stocks with a normal-sized shoulder stock. Most later variations do away with the full-length stock – especially more modern models – and have mounting hardware fixed to the gun to allow them to be fitted to a <a href="/wiki/Pintle" title="Pintle">pintle</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Operation_and_usage">Operation and usage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Punt_gun&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Operation and usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Side_view_of_punt_and_ducks_YORYM-S385.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Side_view_of_punt_and_ducks_YORYM-S385.jpg/220px-Side_view_of_punt_and_ducks_YORYM-S385.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Side_view_of_punt_and_ducks_YORYM-S385.jpg/330px-Side_view_of_punt_and_ducks_YORYM-S385.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Side_view_of_punt_and_ducks_YORYM-S385.jpg/440px-Side_view_of_punt_and_ducks_YORYM-S385.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1754" data-file-height="1403" /></a><figcaption>Sighting a punt gun</figcaption></figure> <p>Punt guns were usually custom-designed and varied widely, but could have bore diameters exceeding 2 inches (51 mm) and fire over a <a href="/wiki/Pound_(mass)" title="Pound (mass)">pound</a> (≈ 0.45 <a href="/wiki/Kilogram" title="Kilogram">kg</a>) of shot at a time.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A single shot could kill over 50 <a href="/wiki/Waterfowl" class="mw-redirect" title="Waterfowl">waterfowl</a> resting on the water's surface. They were too big to hold and the recoil was so large that they had to be mounted directly on <a href="/wiki/Punt_(boat)" title="Punt (boat)">punts</a> used for hunting, hence their name. Hunters would maneuver their punts quietly into line and range of the flock using poles or oars to avoid startling them. Generally, the gun was fixed to the punt; thus the hunter would manoeuvre the entire boat in order to aim the gun. The guns were sufficiently powerful, and the punts sufficiently small, that firing the gun often propelled the punt backwards several inches or more. To improve efficiency, hunters could work in fleets of up to around ten punts. </p><p>Punt guns are usually muzzle-loaded with a lock similar to muskets or rifles of the day including <a href="/wiki/Flintlock_mechanism" title="Flintlock mechanism">flintlock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Percussion_cap" title="Percussion cap">percussion</a>, and more modern types. <a href="/wiki/Holland_%26_Holland" title="Holland & Holland">Holland & Holland</a> offered models using breech loading and standardized shotgun shells in both brass and combined paper and brass base in the 1890s via custom order.<sup id="cite_ref-africahunting.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-africahunting.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Double-barrelled models also existed,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-africahunting.com_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-africahunting.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> typically in the smaller 8-gauge loadings.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In most cases, these guns were work-guns with little additional adornment in surviving examples. Many appearing in modern auctions have signs of being repaired or upgraded in some fashion, such as upgrading a flintlock action to a more modern percussion system or refinishing by <a href="/wiki/Bluing_(steel)" title="Bluing (steel)">rebluing</a> the piece.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Snowden_Slights_with_big_gun_YORYM-S364.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Snowden_Slights_with_big_gun_YORYM-S364.jpg/220px-Snowden_Slights_with_big_gun_YORYM-S364.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Snowden_Slights_with_big_gun_YORYM-S364.jpg/330px-Snowden_Slights_with_big_gun_YORYM-S364.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Snowden_Slights_with_big_gun_YORYM-S364.jpg/440px-Snowden_Slights_with_big_gun_YORYM-S364.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1754" data-file-height="1403" /></a><figcaption>Size comparison of a man and punt gun</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, this practice depleted stocks of wild <a href="/wiki/Waterfowl" class="mw-redirect" title="Waterfowl">waterfowl</a> and by the 1860s most states had banned the practice. The <a href="/wiki/Lacey_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Lacey Act">Lacey Act</a> of 1900 banned the transport of wild game across state lines, and the practice of <a href="/wiki/Market_hunters" class="mw-redirect" title="Market hunters">market hunting</a> was outlawed by a series of federal laws in 1918. While use and possession of punt guns is still legal in the United States, Federal regulations prohibit their use in migratory waterfowl hunting.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Eunan O'Halpin's book <i>Defending Ireland</i>, a <a href="/wiki/Army_Reserve_(Ireland)" title="Army Reserve (Ireland)">Local Defence Force</a> unit of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Army" title="Irish Army">Irish Army</a> in Co. Louth was equipped in 1941 with a number of flintlock weapons that had been gifted to them. Among these guns was a weapon described as being a "nine-foot (9 feet (2.7 m)) [long] blunderbuss", which could be more commonly understood to be a punt gun.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, a 1995 survey<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too vague attribution or weasel words. (May 2012)">which?</span></a></i>]</sup> showed fewer than 50 active punt guns still in use. The <a href="/wiki/Wildlife_and_Countryside_Act_1981" title="Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981">Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981</a> limits punt guns in <a href="/wiki/England_and_Wales" title="England and Wales">England and Wales</a>, and in <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, to a bore diameter of 1.75 inches (44 mm) that fired a load of projectiles weighing 1.125 pounds (510 g).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 there has been a punt gun salute every <a href="/wiki/Coronation_of_the_British_monarch" title="Coronation of the British monarch">Coronation</a> and Jubilee over Cowbit Wash in <a href="/wiki/Cowbit" title="Cowbit">Cowbit</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a>, England.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Diamond_Jubilee_of_Elizabeth_II" title="Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II">Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II</a>, 21 punt gun rounds were fired separately, followed by the guns all being fired simultaneously.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fictional_usage">Fictional usage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Punt_gun&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Fictional usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Desmond_Bagley" title="Desmond Bagley">Desmond Bagley</a>'s 1973 thriller, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tightrope_Men" title="The Tightrope Men">The Tightrope Men</a>,</i> features a percussion-fired punt gun. Although the book is set in northern Finland, punt guns were never used in the country. </p><p>In his 1978 novel <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_(novel)" title="Chesapeake (novel)"><i>Chesapeake</i></a>, author <a href="/wiki/James_A._Michener" title="James A. Michener">James A. Michener</a> details the historical use of various punt guns (described by him as "long guns") and their impact on waterfowl numbers. One, called "The Twombly", was described as 11.6 feet (3.5 m), 110 pounds (50 kg) (with a load of 0.75 pounds (340 g) of <a href="/wiki/Black_powder" class="mw-redirect" title="Black powder">black powder</a> and over 1.5 pounds (680 g) of #6 shot (0.11 inches (2.8 mm)), which was used to hunt geese and ducks by the highlighted watermen of the Chesapeake Bay. </p><p>The 2004 film <i><a href="/wiki/Tremors_4:_The_Legend_Begins" title="Tremors 4: The Legend Begins">Tremors 4: The Legend Begins</a></i> featured a punt gun used in combat. This punt gun was custom-built for the film and was 8 feet 4 inches (2.54 m) long, weighed 94 pounds (43 kg), and had a 2-inch-diameter (51 mm) bore (classified as "A" <a href="/wiki/Gauge_(firearms)" title="Gauge (firearms)">gauge</a> by the Gun Barrel Proof Act of 1868 in Schedule B). The weapon was not actually of this bore, instead being a large prop shell concealing a <a href="/wiki/12_gauge_shotgun" class="mw-redirect" title="12 gauge shotgun">12 gauge shotgun</a> firing triple-loaded <a href="/wiki/Black_powder" class="mw-redirect" title="Black powder">black powder</a> <a href="/wiki/Blank_(cartridge)" title="Blank (cartridge)">blanks</a>, with the barrel sprayed with <a href="/wiki/WD-40" title="WD-40">WD-40</a> water displacer to produce a large smoke cloud on firing.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the novel <a href="/wiki/Outer_Dark" title="Outer Dark">Outer Dark</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy" title="Cormac McCarthy">Cormac McCarthy</a>, the use of a four-gauge punt gun for hunting ducks is described. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Discworld" title="Discworld">Discworld</a> novel Pyramids, mention is made of a "Puntbow", 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title="Gauge (bore diameter)">Gauge conversion guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sneakbox" title="Sneakbox">Sneakbox</a>, a small boat used for hunting waterfowl</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M18_Claymore_mine" class="mw-redirect" title="M18 Claymore mine">M18 Claymore mine</a>, directional <a href="/wiki/Anti-personnel_mine" title="Anti-personnel mine">anti-personnel mine</a> with similar effects to that said firearm.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canister_shot" title="Canister shot">Canister shot</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Guns of similar size or application</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-materiel_rifle" title="Anti-materiel rifle">Anti-materiel rifle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-tank_rifle" title="Anti-tank rifle">Anti-tank rifle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jingal" class="mw-redirect" title="Jingal">Jingal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elephant_gun" title="Elephant gun">Elephant gun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wall_gun" title="Wall gun">Wall gun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organ_gun" 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title="Blowgun">Blowgun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crossbow" title="Crossbow">Crossbow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pistol" title="Pistol">Pistol</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Punt gun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rifle" title="Rifle">Rifle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spear-thrower" title="Spear-thrower">Spear-thrower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shotgun" title="Shotgun">Shotgun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_sword" title="Hunting sword">Sword</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Throwing_stick" title="Throwing stick">Throwing stick</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silencer_(firearms)" title="Silencer (firearms)">Silencer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shooting_brake" title="Shooting brake">Shooting brake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shooting_sticks_(weapon_mount)" title="Shooting sticks (weapon mount)">Shooting sticks</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Game_(hunting)" title="Game (hunting)">Game</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alligator_hunting" title="Alligator hunting">Alligator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bear_hunting" title="Bear hunting">Bear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Five_game" title="Big Five game">Big five</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bison_hunting" title="Bison hunting">Bison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boar_hunting" title="Boar hunting">Boar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coon_hunting" title="Coon hunting">Raccoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deer_hunting" title="Deer hunting">Deer</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deer_stalking" title="Deer stalking">Stalking</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fox_hunting" title="Fox hunting">Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hare_coursing" title="Hare coursing">Hare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_hunting" title="Human hunting">Human</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Headhunting" title="Headhunting">Headhunting</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackal_coursing" title="Jackal coursing">Jackal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mink_hunting" title="Mink hunting">Mink</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plains_game" title="Plains game">Plains game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rabbiting" title="Rabbiting">Rabbit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rook_shooting" title="Rook shooting">Rook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiger_hunting" title="Tiger hunting">Tiger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkey_hunting" title="Turkey hunting">Turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turtling_(hunting)" title="Turtling (hunting)">Turtle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lion_hunting" title="Lion hunting">Lion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quail_hunting" title="Quail hunting">Quail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolf_hunting" title="Wolf hunting">Wolf</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wolf_hunting_with_dogs" title="Wolf hunting with dogs">With dogs</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seal_hunting" title="Seal hunting">Seal</a></li> <li>Squirrel <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Squirrel_poaching" title="Squirrel poaching">Poaching</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whaling" title="Whaling">Whale</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aboriginal_whaling" title="Aboriginal whaling">Aboriginal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolphin_drive_hunting" title="Dolphin drive hunting">Dolphin drive hunting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subsistence_hunting_of_the_bowhead_whale" title="Subsistence hunting of the bowhead whale">Subsistence hunting of the bowhead whale</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Infrastructure</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_jump" title="Buffalo jump">Buffalo jump</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_pound" title="Buffalo pound">Buffalo pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chase_(land)" title="Chase (land)">Chase (land)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deer_park_(England)" title="Deer park (England)">Deer park (England)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deer_forest" title="Deer forest">Deer forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desert_kite" title="Desert kite">Desert kite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Game_larder" title="Game larder">Game larder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Game_reserve" title="Game reserve">Game reserve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Game_farm" title="Game farm">Game farm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guest_ranch" title="Guest ranch">Guest ranch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_blind" title="Hunting blind">Hunting blind</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bird_hide" title="Bird hide">Bird hide</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salter_(trap)" title="Salter (trap)">Salter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sporting_lodge" title="Sporting lodge">Sporting lodge</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jagdschloss" title="Jagdschloss">Jagdschloss</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolf_trap" title="Wolf trap">Wolf trap</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By location</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_in_Australia" title="Hunting in Australia">Australia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dugong_hunting_in_Australia" title="Dugong hunting in Australia">Dugong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kangaroo_industry" title="Kangaroo industry">Kangaroo</a></li></ul></li> <li>Azerbaijan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historical_tiger_hunts_in_Azerbaijan" title="Historical tiger hunts in Azerbaijan">Tiger</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_in_Cambodia" title="Hunting in Cambodia">Cambodia</a></li> <li>Chad <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elephant_hunting_in_Chad" title="Elephant hunting in Chad">Elephant</a></li></ul></li> <li>Greenland <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reindeer_hunting_in_Greenland" title="Reindeer hunting in Greenland">Reindeer</a></li></ul></li> <li>India <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tiger_poaching_in_India" title="Tiger poaching in India">Tiger poaching</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhino_poaching_in_Assam" title="Rhino poaching in Assam">Rhino poaching in Assam</a></li></ul></li> <li>Kenya <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elephant_hunting_in_Kenya" title="Elephant hunting in Kenya">Elephant</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_in_New_Zealand" title="Hunting in New Zealand">New Zealand</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helicopter-based_hunting_in_Fiordland" title="Helicopter-based hunting in Fiordland">Helicopter-based hunting in Fiordland</a></li></ul></li> <li>Pakistan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Trophy_hunting_in_Pakistan" title="Trophy hunting in Pakistan">Trophy hunting</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_in_Russia" title="Hunting in Russia">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_in_Romania" title="Hunting in Romania">Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_in_Spain" title="Hunting in Spain">Spain</a></li> <li>Switzerland <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_hunting_reserves_in_Switzerland" title="List of federal hunting reserves in Switzerland">Federal hunting reserves</a></li></ul></li> <li>Tonga <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pigeon_snaring" title="Pigeon snaring">Pigeon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_in_the_United_States" title="Hunting in the United States">United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_and_fishing_in_Alaska" title="Hunting and fishing in Alaska">Alaska</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_and_shooting_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Driven_grouse_shooting" title="Driven grouse shooting">Driven grouse shooting</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Regulation and conservation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bag_(fishing_and_hunting)" title="Bag (fishing and hunting)">Bag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bag_limits" title="Bag limits">Bag limits</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservation_officer" title="Conservation officer">Conservation officer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deer_management" title="Deer management">Deer management</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Game_Act_1831" title="Game Act 1831">Game Act 1831</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Game_law" title="Game law">Game law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Game_preservation" title="Game preservation">Game preservation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_license" title="Hunting license">Hunting license</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_Act_2004" title="Hunting Act 2004">Hunting Act 2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunting_season" title="Hunting season">Hunting season</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poaching" title="Poaching">Poaching</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sustainable_hunting" title="Sustainable hunting">Sustainable hunting</a></li></ul> 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