!!!worlds biggest shoot gun get a load of it!!!

redrocketman · February 25, 2009, 11:14 PM

her is a link to the worlds biggest shotgun. It will blow ya minda away litterly

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/t...demonstration-
It is called the punt gun. how would u like to own 1 of these or shoot it?

princess-bluey · February 26, 2009, 03:31 AM

It's a big Mutha!!!

troy_mclure · February 26, 2009, 04:57 AM

punt guns have been around forever. they used to be used by commercial waterfowl hunters.

redrocketman · February 26, 2009, 06:15 AM

well that's something u don't get to learn about every day mate thanks

dahermit · February 26, 2009, 06:36 AM

Those punt guns were a horrible example of man's excess. With each shot into a "raft" of floating ducks, many were wounded and swam away from the men collecting the dead ones on the water. There was little or no effort to pursue the wounded ones...they would just reload and look for another raft of ducks to shoot into.

Double Naught Spy · February 26, 2009, 06:47 AM

Ah, but it is a topic we have discussed several times here...
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...archid=2972290

TEDDY · February 26, 2009, 12:55 PM

when I was in Trinadad in WW2 had a cat showing punt guns one I remember was 37 mm bore.

redrocketman · February 27, 2009, 05:10 AM

yer but it is nice to get things going again and the link makes it fell more technical

Leif · February 27, 2009, 07:29 AM

That used to be a big thing in this part of the country about a century ago, especially on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They would lay the guns down in the front of a skiff or small rowboat. I always wondered how the much the boat moved when one of those was touched off.

Couzin · February 27, 2009, 07:58 PM

Waay back! That is why the punt gunners laid down in the boat when firing. BTW - they are called 'punt' guns because they were mounted in a small boat/skiff called a "punt" boat. I believe the term is old English and probably carried well into the Chesapeake Bay where Elizabethian english is still heard. Punt guns were loaded with all manner of projectiles, nails, gravel, small nuts and bolts - nasty things. Punt guns are still in use in England with a bore limit of 1-3/4".

redrocketman · March 2, 2009, 07:15 AM

what would be to happen if they put .......22 shorts in the punt gun ha-ha catch my drift

February 25, 2009, 11:14 PM	#1
redrocketman Junior Member Join Date: February 5, 2009 Location: QLD AUSTRALIA Posts: 9	!!!worlds biggest shoot gun get a load of it!!! her is a link to the worlds biggest shotgun. It will blow ya minda away litterlyhttp://www.techeblog.com/index.php/t...demonstration- It is called the punt gun. how would u like to own 1 of these or shoot it? __________________ I COME FROME THE LAND DOWN UNDER Last edited by redrocketman; February 26, 2009 at 06:15 AM.

February 26, 2009, 03:31 AM	#2
princess-bluey Member Join Date: November 22, 2008 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 37	It's a big Mutha!!! __________________ Mrs SCULL and CROSSBONES 65 Mother to redrocketman

February 26, 2009, 04:57 AM	#3
troy_mclure Senior Member Join Date: November 17, 2008 Location: gulf of mexico Posts: 2,716	punt guns have been around forever. they used to be used by commercial waterfowl hunters. __________________ There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."

February 26, 2009, 06:15 AM	#4
redrocketman Junior Member Join Date: February 5, 2009 Location: QLD AUSTRALIA Posts: 9	well that's something u don't get to learn about every day mate thanks __________________ I COME FROME THE LAND DOWN UNDER

February 26, 2009, 06:47 AM	#6
Double Naught Spy Senior Member Join Date: January 8, 2001 Location: Forestburg, Montague Cnty, TX Posts: 12,716	Ah, but it is a topic we have discussed several times here... http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...archid=2972290 __________________ "If you look through your scope and see your shoe, aim higher." -- said to me by my 11 year old daughter before going out for hogs 8/13/2011 My Hunting Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/HornHillRange

February 26, 2009, 06:36 AM	#5
dahermit Senior Member Join Date: October 28, 2006 Location: South Central Michigan...near Posts: 6,501	Those punt guns were a horrible example of man's excess. With each shot into a "raft" of floating ducks, many were wounded and swam away from the men collecting the dead ones on the water. There was little or no effort to pursue the wounded ones...they would just reload and look for another raft of ducks to shoot into.

February 26, 2009, 12:55 PM	#7
TEDDY Junior member Join Date: December 10, 2006 Location: MANNING SC Posts: 837	punt guns when I was in Trinadad in WW2 had a cat showing punt guns one I remember was 37 mm bore.

February 27, 2009, 05:10 AM	#8
redrocketman Junior Member Join Date: February 5, 2009 Location: QLD AUSTRALIA Posts: 9	yer but it is nice to get things going again and the link makes it fell more technical __________________ I COME FROME THE LAND DOWN UNDER

February 27, 2009, 07:29 AM	#9
Leif Senior Member Join Date: April 12, 2005 Posts: 1,237	That used to be a big thing in this part of the country about a century ago, especially on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They would lay the guns down in the front of a skiff or small rowboat. I always wondered how the much the boat moved when one of those was touched off.

February 27, 2009, 07:58 PM	#10
Couzin Senior Member Join Date: August 27, 2006 Location: Terrell, Texas Posts: 240	Waay back! That is why the punt gunners laid down in the boat when firing. BTW - they are called 'punt' guns because they were mounted in a small boat/skiff called a "punt" boat. I believe the term is old English and probably carried well into the Chesapeake Bay where Elizabethian english is still heard. Punt guns were loaded with all manner of projectiles, nails, gravel, small nuts and bolts - nasty things. Punt guns are still in use in England with a bore limit of 1-3/4". Last edited by Couzin; February 27, 2009 at 08:07 PM.

March 2, 2009, 07:15 AM	#11
redrocketman Junior Member Join Date: February 5, 2009 Location: QLD AUSTRALIA Posts: 9	what would be to happen if they put .......22 shorts in the punt gun ha-ha catch my drift __________________ I COME FROME THE LAND DOWN UNDER

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