Punt guns were usually custom-designed and 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 …

The gun, affixed to the punt of the boat (hence the gun’s name being a punt gun) was typically a single shot shotgun that could kill multiple ducks with a single shot, which made it popular for …

Jul 8, 2022 · Though comically large, the punt gun was no laughing matter. The 10-foot, 100-pound weapon was so deadly to North America’s waterfowl that it was outlawed by 1918, as …

Jul 26, 2024 · 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 …

Nov 3, 2010 · I have recently come accross a pair of 0GA aluminum shotgun shells with the markings "0 GA. FOR SHOT ONLY" on the side and "0GA. W" on the base. Can anyone tell …

In 1912 off Hollands Island in Dorchester County, four punt guns firing at once took down 562 Redheads (or 419 depending upon the source). The known record for numbers killed with one …

Dec 14, 2016 · These guns could fire a shot as big as a pound, or 0.45 kg, with the barrel as big as 2 inches, and with the killing ability of at least 90 waterfowls with one shot. One advantage …

Oct 7, 2019 · Punt guns were oversized black-powder shotguns used by market hunters in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They were capable of downing scores of ducks with a single shot. …

Mar 17, 2018 · Hunter Ray Todd, claimed he and three other hunters with punt guns managed to kill 419 ducks one night in a single volley after encountering a huge flock “over a half-mile long …

Aug 11, 2009 · Military Armament Corporation expanded its line of M1911-style, double-stack handguns with its new Double-Stack Duty, D-Comp and Comp designs. Made in the U.S.A., …