Quick on the draw
The years before World War I produced glorious wildfowling outings at Wells-next-the-Sea. There were plenty of ducks and thousands of pink-footed geese flighting out to their roosting grounds on the vast sands and returning to their feeding grounds in the early mornings. A few local gunners lined the sea banks and sand dunes for morning flight when the wind was strong enough to keep the geese low, but on fine, still mornings thousands of geese could be seen passing along the saltings with never a shot fired at them.
A few gentlemen gunners who visited the town in those days were certainly not so
