Punt guns


    Have you ever heard of a punt gun?

    A punt gun is a type of extremely large shotgun used in the 19th and 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations. Punt guns were usually custom-designed and so varied widely, but could have bore diameters exceeding 2 inches and fire over a pound (.5 kilos) of shot at a time.

    (From Wikipedia.org)

    2 inches is over 50mm!

    20mm is considered a cannon in the military! Unfortunately not many punt guns exist these days and most are not capable of being fired.

    Here are some photos of punt guns and two videos showing one in operation.


    Steve Johnson

    I founded TFB in 2007 and over 10 years worked tirelessly, with the help of my team, to build it up into the largest gun blog online. I retired as Editor in Chief in 2017. During my decade at TFB I was fortunate to work with the most amazing talented writers and genuinely good people!


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