Perhaps it is a misnomer to speak of any duck as “tame,” it gives a
false impression; but by wild wild-duck is meant to be implied those
fowl that breed in a natural way, and are only to be killed with much
success by artifice. For instance, there are three great varieties of
wild-duck shooting besides the punt gunner’s business. The most
practical of these is “flighting”; the next often “indulged” in, if it
can be called indulgence, is “shore shooting”; and the third kind is the
“gaze” system that is practised mostly upon the Hampshire Avon and
Stour. There are many modifications of this system employed upon other
rivers and on chains of pools.