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06-29-2019, 02:46 AM | #14 | |||||||
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Id say 99% of the clients we had wouldn't pay for than 5gs for a sxs or o/u . Beretta and browning were the most popular. |
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06-29-2019, 02:04 PM | #15 | |||||||
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It had iron fittings instead of brass but looked just like this one. The seller stated the family who had owned it used it for punt shooting back in the market days . And the loop on the bottom of the iron grip they used to tie it into place when it was mounted in the punt . Just something interesting I thought I would share . |
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06-29-2019, 03:02 PM | #16 | ||||||
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Often, guns which were secured to the punt, when fired, would collapse the boat. I think they finally figured out that the best thing to do was cushion the recoil with tight bags of marsh grass as recoil pads behind the gun, in front of the transom
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06-29-2019, 04:58 PM | #17 | ||||||
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I've seen some punt guns with rope to absorb recoil much like the cannon aboard sailing ships. This in addition to what John mentioned.
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06-29-2019, 05:12 PM | #18 | ||||||
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Seems like these 8 gauge market guns are kind of a in between of a true punt gun and a shoulder fired gun . I have read a little of them being used for both . At 16lbs it is heavy but still litter than a 4 bore fowling piece haha .
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06-29-2019, 05:43 PM | #19 | ||||||
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I had the good fortune to know a market hunter when I first started hunting. He was a cousin to my hunting partner and a taxidermist that would mount and sell the birds we shot and we could pick up the meat the next day. He told us of baiting a pond near his house morning and night then using 2 10 doubles, 2 barrels on the water rested on a log the second 2 as the survivors rose then shooting the cripples with a Winchester 97 with an extended magazine. He gathered them up and sent them to Boston on the morning train getting payment on the return train.He did this twice a day until '' the law came on them. An 8 would have made his work easier
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06-29-2019, 05:54 PM | #20 | |||||||
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I suppose even back when they were legal 8 gauges were not common. |
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