hey Gunner

Howthehell else are you expected to harvest duck on the Norfolk Broads???

Mark Rand RTFM

Not whatever Ed, destructive. It's the pre-bush label for a WMD.

That and cyclic rate bbut largely the former until recently.

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JC

Are you going to make me go search myself? I'm getting old and tired. See what you can come up with first. d8-)>>>

-- Ed Huntress

One with a right angle eyepiece Gerry :-)} London, Canada

I'm not sure that 5 pounds of shot qualifies as a "punt gun". More likely as a "gun" in the navel sense :-) Cheers,

Bruce

Did you see the photo in the link above? That's a heck of a bore. Two inches is, what, about 50mm?

The first time I saw one of those things was on a school trip when my family lived in Hagerstown, MD. I was impressed, especially since I thought you put that buttstock up against your shoulder.

Many years later we used to go to Eastern Shore vacation spots, and I saw several of them at once in a museum down there. I distinctly remember that the bore on one of them was 2-1/4".

They also had old photos of the punts, and they were square-enders, longer than the little boats I saw Googling around for a photo of one of the guns. As I recall they looked more like traditional Jon boats.

They had some of the cut shot at the museum, too; little triangles cut from a flat sheet of iron. Cut shot was also made from lead, but I don't know if they used that in the punt guns.

-- Ed Huntress

I want the auto-loader model! I promise it'll be the last gun I'll buy!

That was a rhetorical question

When I was a child in Norfolk, punt guns were the tool for the job.

Mark Rand RTFM

It's good for us that you didn't have those things during our revolutionary war.

And what job was that they did in Norfolk? Wipe out the entire European flyway of ducks? They were outlawed here for migratory waterfowl sometime before 1900, I think.

-- Ed Huntress

Things are different today. I have a ten-shot 12 guage hanging above the door for the junkies across the road.

Punt guns are still in use with that proviso.

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regards Mark Rand RTFM

Mama mia.

Oh, that's interesting. I hope some of the US gun enthusiasts visit that site and see how much activity there is in the UK. The impression I had was that it was all but dead.

-- Ed Huntress

The answer to the question of"how many firearms do you have?" is, "If you know how many you have, you don't have enough!" :-) Jim

Indeed. I actually found a couple that I didnt realize I owned.

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