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This is a punt gun. designed to be fired for waterfowl, to bring down a maximum number of birds. Usually, they were mounted in a punt, and that's a small shallow draft boat. They were aimed by aiming the boat.

Apparently they are featured in a film : "Tremors 4: The Legend Begins"
alng with a lot of other older guns, you can see on the film's site http://www.thelegendbegins.com/weapons_of_tremors4.html#1886
 
They're the reason Canada and the U.S. signed the Migratory Birds Convention Act in 1917 , as market hunters using those types of guns were eradicating all the duck and geese populations!
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They also near wiped out the whitetail deer. Conservation was not part of the game back then. But from the minds of true sportsman came an answer that helped future hunters enjoy what we have today, bless those folks for a job well done.
Frank
 
Are you man enough?

I just found an article I got a hold of years ago. It says that 2 trappers from Slave Lake, Alberta were out shooting partridge one afternoon when they came across a grizzly. All they had to defend themselves was an old single shot 22 rimfire. They killed it with 7 shots to the head. Think about that-shoot,reload,shoot,reload,shoot,reload,shoot,reload,shoot,reload,shoot,reload,shoot and do this while a 1100lb grizzly is within ten feet of you. Some of you will not believe this story but this happened in 1958 and the rifle & bear rug is hanging at the Renoylds Museam[can't spell right now] in Wetaskiwin,Alberta.This grizzly also was the new world record in 1958. I think that I would have #### my drawers that day,trying to do that with a 22. Makes you really think about the firepower that people use nowadays.SSCCAARRYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Shot placement is everything. :D

Also yah another fellow I know was talking about them 'punt guns'...I think one was at the Kamloops show. In the day they apparently loaded them with whatever, from nails, screws, old bolts, to rocks etc.

Glad they stopped Market hunting in North America. :)
 
Accuracy by volume...

Anyway, I once saw a bolt-action rifle built around a 20mm cannon cartridge. BMG, eat your heart out :)

And I think everyone on the net has seen the video of the accuratereloading.com guys testing out the sporter-weight 577 tyrannosaur :)

Reminds me of the first time my buddy tried a .375 H&H :D
 
buckboy said:
I just found an article I got a hold of years ago. It says that 2 trappers from Slave Lake, Alberta were out shooting partridge one afternoon when they came across a grizzly. All they had to defend themselves was an old single shot 22 rimfire. They killed it with 7 shots to the head. Think about that-shoot,reload,shoot,reload,shoot,reload,shoot,reload,shoot,reload,shoot,reload,shoot and do this while a 1100lb grizzly is within ten feet of you. Some of you will not believe this story but this happened in 1958 and the rifle & bear rug is hanging at the Renoylds Museam[can't spell right now] in Wetaskiwin,Alberta.This grizzly also was the new world record in 1958. I think that I would have #### my drawers that day,trying to do that with a 22. Makes you really think about the firepower that people use nowadays.SSCCAARRYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Actually, it was a 63 year-old Native woman named Bella Twin, here's the complete story:

http://www.outdoorcanada.ca/hunt/matchmaking.shtml
 
Calum said:
Put down the Rifle and pick up a Spear, and then I'll be impressed. :D
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That elephant will stamp you flat enough so that you could be sent home in a envelope!!

ps, both the hunter and the elephant walked away from the situation!
 
Glad to here it...I'm kinda' partial to the big Huffalumps. :D
Personally I think I would have pooped myself. :eek:

It's one of the few animals in Nature that actively morns its own dead...not passing judgment on Big game hunters, just an observation. :)
 
They had one of them things in the feed mill in town where I lived when I was a kid. Half a pound of 3 fff and two pounds of shot. Impressive.
 
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