![]() ![]() Shotguns were loaded with black powder and lead shot through the muzzle in the 17th century to the late 19th century. Later flintlock shotguns and percussion cap guns were used. Hunting with shotguns began in the 17th century with the matchlock shotgun. Muscovy ducks were depicted in the art of the Moche culture of ancient Peru by 200 BCE, and were likely hunted by many people of the Americas before then. 1900 BCE) shows a man in a hunting blind capturing swimming ducks in a trap. Ducks, geese, and swans appear in European cave paintings from the last Ice Age, and a mural in the Ancient Egyptian tomb of Khnumhotep II ( c. Wild waterfowl have been hunted for food, down, and feathers worldwide since prehistoric times. Waterfowl can be hunted in crop fields where they feed, or, more frequently, on or near bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, sloughs, or oceanic coastlines. Thus it is possible to take different species of waterfowl in the same outing. Many types of ducks and geese share the same habitat, have overlapping or identical hunting seasons, and are hunted using the same methods. Waterfowl hunting (also called wildfowling or waterfowl shooting in the UK) is the practice of hunting ducks, geese, or other waterfowl for food and sport. ![]() Decoy ducks can be seen around the canoe. A duck hunter with his dog on a lake in the Chippewa National Forest in a photograph taken on Novemby an employee of the United States Department of Agriculture. ![]()
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