tucker301 Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Click here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollombj1 Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Great post! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingbone Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 hey even I could hunt waterfowl with that shotgun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Vincent Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Thanks. I've read about it, but I've never seen it perform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tucker301 Posted December 12, 2006 Author Share Posted December 12, 2006 For those who may not know what a punt gun was used for: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A punt gun is a type of extremely large shotgun used in the 19th and 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations. Punt guns were usually custom-designed and so varied widely, but could have bore diameters up to 2 inches. A single shot could kill a whole flock of waterfowl resting on the water's surface. They were too big to hold and the recoil so large that they were mounted directly on the punts used for hunting, hence their name. Hunters would maneuver their punts quietly into line and range of the flock using poles or oars to avoid startling them. To improve efficiency hunters could work in fleets of up to around ten punts. In the United States, this practice depleted stocks of wild waterfowl and by the 1860s most states had banned the practice. The Lacey Act of 1889 banned the transport of wild game across state lines, and the practice of market hunting was outlawed by a series of federal laws in 1918. There are few punt guns remaining. [ 12-12-2006, 03:10 PM: Message edited by: tucker301 ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott R Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Now thats a shotgun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdkidaho Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 To quote Crocodile Dundee... "That's not a gun. Now THAT'S a gun:" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty or death Jr. Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 And to think that it was actually legal to use one for waterfowl. Has anybody read about the 2 gauge the scottish guy made for taking geese at 100+ yards? I remember reading the article but I can't seem to find it online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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