fowling piece

“During the founding era, Americans typically owned muskets for militia service and fowling pieces to hunt birds and control vermin,” the brief said.

Guests will also be able to prime and fire replicas of two early American firearms: a “Brown Bess” British short land service pattern musket and a fowling piece, a precursor of the modern shotgun.

He drilled with an old fowling piece his grandsire had given him to shoot ducks on the Concord River.

Jones, a writer of admirable narrative energy, wastes no time in firing, as it were, the other barrel of the fowling piece: namely, the traditional incursion into the house from outside.

Besides, you must remember these are but fowling pieces.