P.S. to the above:

Our village postmaster, Maurice (Monnie) Slauenwhite, has the record for ducks with one shot, set before I was born but witnessed by fishermen I gunned with.

Monnie, lame and large with a gunning reputation, dropped 21 whistlers from a stone blind at tiny Bard's Island in our village.

All we know is that he had "some hard-hitting gun." The choke I leave to you!