Holy Cow Look at this Duck Getter

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Check out the size and bore


http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=61285123

Dak To 68

It's an old "punt gun", commonly used by commercial waterfowl hunters and poachers in the old days. They were used on flocks of ducks sitting on the water, and were very effective.

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6 gauge and a 50 cent piece will fit in the barrel.[}:)]

n/a

Are you sure that was a duck you shot! There ain't enuff left to tell!

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I ain't shooting it.. Let Mikey shoot it. He will shoot anything.

Dak To 68

Any ideas what it's worth? It would be a blast to fire, and a very interesting collectible. Think it would attract any attention at the range?[8D]

zipperzap

My grandpappry - as did his - used to use punt guns - they were very effective against Carrier Pigeons - obviously they worked too well!![:0][:0][:0]

COLT

...saw a show about these...they laid the gun down over the bow of a boat; and the "hunter" laid down too.

He would then paddle w/little ping-pong looking paddles out to where the ducks were sitting on the water...and you can figure out the rest...[:0][:D]

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Pot shooting Ducks.. boy that sounds real sporting. I guess a 30+ pound gun is hard to swing.

Dak To 68

It wasn't for sport it was for money and/or food hunters. It's illegal now.

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quote:Originally posted by Dak To 68
It wasn't for sport it was for money and/or food hunters. It's illegal now.



I hunt for the sport but the food taste good too [:)]

zipperzap

They were used for commercial duck hunting concerns after they were outlawed for private use - shortly after they were outlawed for everyone. 'Sportsmanship' had very little to do with it at the time - who was going to clean and cook 250 ducks for dinner every couple of days?[:D][:D][:D]


... you also have to remember there were about a bizillion ducks in those days and only 20-30 million 'Mericans! Few actually saw the problem of over hunting in those days - I think they were considered and treated as Liberals, today.[8D]

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Wonder what choke they used [:0][:o)][:o)][:o)]LMAO

iceracerx

I'm thinking it is just a Goose Gun - Punt guns were much bigger then 30#s.

"In the 1880s, at the height of hunting of waterfowl for commercial purposes, market hunters used large bore shotguns of domestic manufacture. The hunters mounted these cannon-like punt guns on the bow of a flat-bottomed duck boat, called a punt. They poled the boat quietly, at night, close to a flock of ducks resting on the water and fired a large load of shot and powder that killed many ducks at once. Used in tandem, a group of hunters could bag five hundred ducks per day.

Federal Laws banned punt guns, market hunting, and the fashion feather trade by 1920, after much of the wild bird population was decimated from decades of over-hunting.

The punt gun pictured on this page is a muzzle loader that looks crude in design, much like an iron pipe with a rough wooden stock strapped onto it. It weighs almost a hundred pounds, so it would have been mounted on a boat or nestled on padding against the stern and discharged. "

http://www.museum.state.il.us/RiverWeb/harvesting/harvest/waterfowl/tools_techniques/guns/punt_gun.html

Dak To 68

That's a punt gun from a much earlier time, it is a crude looking flintlock. I've read of punt guns as large as 2 gauge. The subject gun here is way too large for wing shooting geese, it is a smaller commercial gun.

Alpine

"No rust". I wonder what gun he is describing. Just look down the bore.

iceracerx

Dak To 68, perhaps you are correct, however, having seen "punt guns" at various guns show around the Great Lakes (Michigan and oHIo), I've never seen one as small as the one offered on GB.

Physics being what Physics is, I'd want something heavy if I was going to shoot a shotgun as big as this one appears. Objects at rest and all that jazz.

Maybe is was used with a swivel and a gun pit like in Chesapeake Bay?

Spider7115

quote:Originally posted by Dak To 68
That's a punt gun from a much earlier time, it is a crude looking flintlock. I've read of punt guns as large as 2 gauge. The subject gun here is way too large for wing shooting geese, it is a smaller commercial gun.

Sorry to correct you but that's a percussion ignition and not a flintlock.

sig232

That barrel looks like the exhaust pipe on my Harley![:0][:0]

Dak To 68

Spider7115, I was referring to the gun in the link posted by Iceracerx, not the subject gun of this thread, which is very obviously a caplock.