The takeaway here: If you set your decoys right and hide well, water­fowling is a close-range sport.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why You Miss Ducks (And Other Insights From Our Waterfowl Guide Survey)] Reference

"What do you call fowling nets?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference

Michigan afforded a rich field for "fowling" and fishing, and its forests were plentifully supplied with various kinds of game.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock] Reference

Frazer's fowling-piece, at the figure in the foretop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

Fritz brought down occasionally with his fowling piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

He carried a fowling piece, and evidently was the criminal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference

I took myself two fowling pieces, and I gave him two muskets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference

That is, if you will order my fowling-piece to be returned to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference

I have also caught them in a bat fowling net at night out of thick hedges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

I did not forget to carry off my hundred crowns, my fowling-piece, and game-bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference

At this moment Joshua Wiggs, the innkeeper, came up, carrying three fowling pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

For an ancient but interesting account of rock fowling in the Orkneys, see Pennant's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

In hunting, fishing, and fowling there was always ample out-of-door recreation at hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference

True, the dead body of a man had been found in the fowling nets up in the mouth of the Little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference

Glossary the meaning of: stern; bulge; spikes; adz; limes; mute; league; thong; fowling; piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference

But if the inhabitants of those colonies were to go a fowling for those birds in the manner that.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

Perhaps you hear the sound of an axe in the woodland; occasionally, the report of a fowling-piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference

Shawnees, he secured a fowling-piece, and then fought on bravely until again forced to give ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference

As to arms, they carried all sorts -- old flint-locks, fowling-pieces, rifles, and occasionally good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference

"What! you don't mean to say you are going to fire with a couple of fowling pieces at a water-spout?".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

He published many books on husbandry, on fowling, on angling, on military discipline, on horsemanship.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference

Meanwhile, Mr. Toley and his companion had each taken a fowling piece and gone away with the landlord.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

In addition to these, a shallop, a pair of steelyards (scales), and three fowling pieces were disposed of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference

Formerly the outlaws had only bowie-knives and a few fowling-pieces; now they have an ample supply of rifles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

The guns were very light fowling-pieces, and the birds were clustered too thickly together to be easily missed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference

"We'll see," replied Fritz, taking up the fowling piece and slinging a powder flask and shot case round his neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

There were plenty of cannon, old and new, as well as machine guns, rifles, pistols, and fowling pieces of all kinds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

Provisions for four days were on one of the horses, and a goodly stock of fowling-pieces, beside my mountain barometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference

Several of the children had gone fowling for the taskmaster's meal, and were so long absent that I was sent to look for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

Norwegian was the other; the fowling-piece having kicked him completely off the edge of the rock into our natural moat, the bog.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

He is, in a word, a sportsman of small game, ready to bring down any sort of bird that chances within reach of his fowling-piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

When he rose, it was with a musket or fowling-piece in his hands, which he cocked, and, coming forward to the bow, levelled towards us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

My boy then said to me, 'If you want to kill monkey, master, you should try buck-shot'; so returning him my rifle I took my fowling-piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

The good Etienne, touched with my condition, took his fowling-piece, and went into the neighbouring woods, to endeavour to shoot me some game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference

Only when the gathering darkness drove him from his hoard did he think of using his fowling-piece, and scanty was the provision thus obtained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

Unfortunately, just at the time when wanted, my fowling-piece was found to be unloaded, that is to say, not reloaded after having gone off yesterday by an accident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byeways in Palestine] Reference

"Nej, nej," exclaimed the Norwegian, with much trepidation, laying hold of R---- 's fowling-piece, that he had jokingly raised to his shoulder preparatory to its discharge.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

Two of my men have I sent a fowling, and myself, the master, the surgeon, and one more with our guns and our dogs, have been into the woods to see what comfort we could find.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages] Reference