Thread: What kind of BFG is this? Cool picture anyway.

Thinking about putting this pic in my clubs newsletter.

Waterfowling Punt Gun, and yes I want one
Punt gun
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A punt gun as illustrated in Science and Mechanics magazine in October 1911

A punt gun is a type of extremely large shotgun used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations and private sport. Punt guns were usually custom-designed and so varied widely, but could have bore diameters exceeding 2 inches (51 mm) and fire over a pound (≈ 0.45 kg) of shot at a time.[1] A single shot could kill over 50 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. Generally the gun was fixed to the punt; thus the hunter would maneuver the entire boat in order to aim the gun. The guns were sufficiently powerful, and the punts themselves sufficiently small, that firing the gun often propelled the punt backwards several inches or more. To improve efficiency, hunters could work in fleets of up to around ten punts.

Woohoo that would be a hoot.

I remember seeing footage of one being used on ducks when I was a wee fella, growing up in Canada. Maybe there is a clip in cyberspace someone could dig up.

They built on a Gunsmoke episode

Im sure i have seen a relatively recent punt gun Vid... Somewhere

Load up a pound of powder and a pound and a half of shot.

paddle your punt up near a flock of ducks on the water then

KA Frecking BOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

150 dead ducks to pick up and pluck for market.

Wildfowling with a Punt Gun - YouTube

Cheers
Pete

Thanks guys, video was brilliant.

Somewhere I had a catalogue from Christies, it had for auction a 4 barrel gun with 4" bores. Be a bad day if it chain fired

Originally Posted by Rushy

Woohoo that would be a hoot.

You should set one up in your pool Rushy, sort out the duck poop problem one shot

Originally Posted by ebf

You should set one up in your pool Rushy, sort out the duck poop problem one shot

Ha ha ha ha my missus put a floating crocodile head on the edge of the pool last night to try and frighten them from coming in the back yard. I had to laugh this morning when there was duck shit all around it.

It would have worked on Louisiana ducks.

Originally Posted by Maca49

Somewhere I had a catalogue from Christies, it had for auction a 4 barrel gun with 4" bores. Be a bad day if it chain fired

Isn't that a "Nock" gun?

That's the geese cull on Ellesmere sorted then.

Originally Posted by Steveh054

Isn't that a "Nock" gun?

Like on Sharpes


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