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  1. 12-03-2023, 06:49 PM #1
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    hey ben, check this out

    punt gun

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTRL1d7jO7c
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wAUEDE2vnY

    despite the shenanigans, that is an impressive gun :yikes:
    it's time to change the air in my head
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  2. 12-03-2023, 07:16 PM #2
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    They are sometimes referred to as a kiln gun since they are fired inside a kiln to break loose the buildup of slag...The biggest I ever heard of was a Remington 870 in 4 gauge...The one pound round ball which fit into the muzzle of the monster in the videos would make it a 1 gauge gun...For those who didn't know, the number of round lead balls to fit inside the muzzles of shotguns totaling a weight of one pound is how the "gauge number" is arrived at......Ben
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    I always knew them as "punt guns" which were mounted on the bow of a sneak boat.

    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 1900 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.
    I know for sure that this practice continued around some of the Chesapeake Bay islands long past 1918. They would run these boats at night as well as in the day light. Ducks tend to gang up in a "float" at night so the take was tremendous.

    One of the problems these guys had was the muzzle flash would give them away to the federal boys.
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    The slo-mo car shots were impressive.

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