a tangent here on the topic of big bores and wildfowling.
the newest issue (June 2012) to arrive of the UK's
Shooting Gazetee has a letter from a gentlemen who is looking to collect information and submissions from shooters on the 10 bores and bigger that are still in use in the marshes (remember the guage/bore restrictions are not in place there).
his goal is to assemble a book on the topic, that would be something to see, a four bore in action.
not sure if he would include a colonial piece