Firearms post whore thread

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FB_IMG_1733431747210.jpgThough it may look like something out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, the punt gun was a real weapon used to hunt ducks in 19th-century America. The length of a car, the punt gun could fire up to a pound of ammunition at a time and kill an entire flock of more than 50 ducks in a single shot. As one American hunter named Ray Todd recalled, he and three other hunters equipped with punt guns once managed to kill 419 ducks in one night after each fired just one shot into a huge flock more than half a mile long. "By morning we had killed over 1,000 ducks," Todd later said. "It was the best night's work we had ever done." Learn more about the absurd but deadly weapon that decimated America's waterfowl population:
 
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