[marktwain]

The Firearms Blog is way too large and successful a publication to be considered a mere "blog", just as freerepublic is far more than a mere blog.

But the use of the term Blog in their name made inclusing in the blog category necessary.

This story has a very cool video of the 8 gauge semi-auto guns in action.

[OKSooner]

Never knew there was such a thing.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

That would make a nice street sweeper for riot control.

[DBrow]

How much do these things cost, I wonder? I had never heard of one. They carefully don’t use “firearm” anywhere, so a search is unlikely to pick them up.

[dirtboy]

When I was in Tulsa, my neighbor had a 10 gauge double barrel goose gun. I thought that was a big honkin’ gun, but 8 gauge?

[IronJack]

I believe there used to be an 8-guage shotgun called a “punt gun” that was used for waterfowl hunting. It was mounted on a swivel on a small rowboat.

[BBB333]

“That’s nuthin’ - I got me a 6 gauge” - John Kerry (served in Vietnam)

[niteowl77]

When I was a kid, there was a good-sized, coal-fired generating station a few miles from town. Every so often, one of the employees had to open an access door at the bottom of the stack(s) and "knock the soot out." This was done by essentially crouching just outside the door, holding the shotgun sort of at arms length, firing a round up the stack and getting the hell out of the way as quickly as possible.

They utilized a cheap 12 gauge shotgun, and the grownups who had to perform the task did not consider it "fun" after having done it once.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

I like this blog!

Much better than the one that shows how many watermelons you can shoot through with a .50 cal when you don’t aim or use a backstop!

[sauropod]

Bkmk!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

‎83.5 caliber, 21.2 mm.

[Stevenc131]

I’ve seen a 4 gauge English single barrel shotgun up close (or 4 bore as they would say). It was a muzzle loader and designed to fire a 4oz lead ball, not small shot. Impressive weapon, and I would be glad to watch someone else fire it.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

We used one of those to blast slag in the power plant I worked at. The ammo has a shoulder in it so it can’t be used in a shotgun, if you could find a shotgun in 8 gauge.

[ezo4]

Grand Dad had a 2 gauge on a swivel mount with a lanyard on the front of a his Jon boat for duck hunting. This was back in the day when he carried a 1911 and a BAR in his police service years hunting gangsters down.

[jim_trent]

Something like 45 years ago, I took a tour of a Cement making facility (part of an engineering class) Cement kilns are very long steel tubes that rotate. They are low on one end so that anything put in the high end will slowly make their way down to the low end while being thoroughly cooked.

At the bottom end, they had an 8ga, single-shot, slug-gun on a tripod. They used it to break up large clinkers in the steel tube. The slugs were zinc. When my son went through engineering school, he took a tour of the same place and they still had an 8ga shotgun mounted there (probably the same one).

When you look at the chemical makeup of cement you often see trace amounts of zinc. Now you know where it comes from.

[Still Thinking]

Nobody needs a gun like that for duck hunting.