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World's Largest Shotgun - The Punt Gun - Video
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| 04 28 09
| Notoriously Conservative
Posted on 04/28/2009 12:28:47 PM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
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To: Notoriously Conservative
What a wuss. Can’t even shoulder that pea shooter.
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posted on
04/28/2009 12:32:01 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
To: Notoriously Conservative
It’s merely a cannon shaped like a gun
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posted on
04/28/2009 12:32:21 PM PDT
by
Scythian
To: Notoriously Conservative
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posted on
04/28/2009 12:33:08 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
To: Notoriously Conservative
“Give the ducks a whiff of the grape.”
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posted on
04/28/2009 12:35:04 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(American Revolution II -- overdue)
To: Notoriously Conservative
Uhhhh...around these parts, we call that a cannon. Sheesh!
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posted on
04/28/2009 12:36:03 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Who ever thought we would long for the days of the Clinton administration...)
To: Scythian
Thats what I thought: grape in a cannon!
Is there any meat left to eat on the birds after this?
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posted on
04/28/2009 12:36:19 PM PDT
by
Kansas58
To: Notoriously Conservative
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posted on
04/28/2009 12:40:27 PM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people.....)
To: Notoriously Conservative
A rapid fire air cannon loaded with flechettes or loads of grapeshot, small chain, nails could do a better job, and without any gunpowder.
Or the MOAG (mother of air guns).
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posted on
04/28/2009 12:53:36 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
To: Notoriously Conservative
To: fuzzybutt
Weapon of choice for gang bangers....according to DiFi.
To: Eye of Unk
Is that little air cannon yours? If so, how did you make it?
To: Kansas58
Is there any meat left to eat on the birds after this? Yes ... they would have been charged with No.4 or No.6 shot, and were designed to spread the charge over a very large pattern. Pattern density wouldn't have been much greater than a normal shotgun. Pattern size, OTOH, was huge. Thus they were able, per the article, to kill ~50 birds with one shot.
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posted on
04/28/2009 1:14:58 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
http://www.americanaircannons.com/American-Air-Cannons-About-Us.html
http://www.xinventions.com/main/spud/home.htm
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posted on
04/28/2009 1:17:12 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
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posted on
04/28/2009 1:18:59 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
To: Notoriously Conservative
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posted on
04/28/2009 1:19:06 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: tacticalogic
Give me a high volume air supply like a Sullair trailer mounted air compressor used for construction sites, a yard of schedule 80 PVC pipe and fittings, some electric pilot valve quick discharge valves and various common materials from welding rods to ashtrays and I could build a home defense system that would penetrate ballistic material, car doors or create a last stop defensive sytem.
Or a mobile unit with a remote operated tube slaved to a video camera. Land of the Free at work when all the guns are being collected.
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posted on
04/28/2009 1:31:11 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
To: Notoriously Conservative
I never knew what a punt gun was. I knew that they were illegal, because the hunting regulations that came out every year said they were. I knew that I didn’t have one of whatever they were, so I was good to go....
A few years back, I stopped over in London for a couple of days on the way home from a business trip. Visited the Tower of Londaon and the Tower Museum. They have a punt gun there, mounted on a punt. The real deal, not a mock-up.
If anyone here has the opportunity to visit the Tower Museum, especially the weapons throughout history rooms, I recommend it highly. You will nor be disappointed.....
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posted on
04/28/2009 2:08:31 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FR. ....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
To: Notoriously Conservative
It wouldn't help. Even if I dragged the dang thing all the way up the mountain with me I still couldn't hit a chukkar.
To: Notoriously Conservative
My grandfather hunted with one of these in the Verdigris River bottoms before the war in Indian Territory. They also hunted crows with barrels of pea gravel and dynamite suspended in roost trees. Crows were a nickel a head bounty back then.
He remembered passenger pidgeons blackening the sky.
Subsistence hunting was not meant for large populations. Fossil energy has allowed populations to blossom in the last century.
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posted on
04/28/2009 2:22:22 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Half of the population is below average)
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