End to the Ultimate Turkey Gun/Load Debate

[Old Gobbler]

I think that gun shoots about a 4 ounce payload with 5 drams of black powder -  I don't know what end of that gun hurts more

[Matt81302]

Yeah.......I'll pass on that one.

[Gooserbat]

Say what You want, but I want one...Shannon would I still have to keep my conversations to 40 yards or closer?

[JuniorPre 360]

And I complained about the recoil of 3.5 inch shells...

[Clif Owen]

Man!! That thing kills on one end and ...well..it kills on the other end too!!

[kevin2]

After his Orthopedic surgery went good, he'll spend the next 3 years in Therepy!

[Tom Dooley]

Here is another funny shooting video on You Tube.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkgfrS9FanU

[beagler]

Wonder what choke would work best in that bad boy? 

[tomstopper]

Wow. I am a bigger man but even I would refuse to shoot that monstrosity...

[jblackburn]

Here is another funny shooting video on You Tube.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkgfrS9FanU

I guess messing with your buddies is funny in any language.

[MouthCaller]

Wouldn't want to shoot that sucker while sitting against a tree.

No doubt!

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[Old Gobbler]

That gun I think is a modern reproduction of a vintage 4 bore/gauge

8 and 4 bores saw widespread use during turn of the century market gunning for waterfowl , canvasback ducks would fetch upwards of $5 a piece for  , it was popular here in the states and punt guns were common in England - guns like the one pictured really put a hurting on waterfowl populations , regulations were drafted around the timeframe of the migratory waterfowl bird act to outlaw them -

   

Some skull/ punt boats ( low sneak boats) often times had several mounted to the deck in a semi fan arrangement ,this was called a " battery'"  many methods were deployed like drifting or stalking into a raft of ducks and shooting at the raft and trying to kill as many as possible , I would say they were getting as close as possible to kill as many as possible , and they shot geese, ducks and swans in this manner

If you know how to skull a sneak boat well you can get as close as 20 yards , a skull boat is low like a layout , but has a special oar out the back that is rowed in a semi figure 8 , they are very stealthy - I happen to know one person very well that was open water skull hunting diver ducks and  he got so close and timed the shot so well with a browning A5 he killed 36 diver ducks with one shot --this was done in another country were there were no bag limits , and there literally hundreds of thousands of them - it's a situation like Argentina dove hunting

I have a few 8 bore Winchester rounds in my safe , I don't need them and was thinking of giving them away , they are slag rounds used to break molten iron from the insides of furnaces - neat shells

But anyways large bore guns like that were the hammer of doom for waterfowl a hundred years ago , they could kill at long ranges , and they could kill many many ducks with just one shot -

[mikejd]

That gun I think is a modern reproduction of a vintage 4 bore/gauge

8 and 4 bores saw widespread use during turn of the century market gunning for waterfowl , canvasback ducks would fetch upwards of $5 a piece for  , it was popular here in the states and punt guns were common in England - guns like the one pictured really put a hurting on waterfowl populations , regulations were drafted around the timeframe of the migratory waterfowl bird act to outlaw them -

You beat me to it. I new a guy who had a 4ga and it was designed to be mounted to a duck boat.
He told me that they would take the whole flock with it.

Anyway that guy was looking for his fillings after that shot.

   

Some skull/ punt boats ( low sneak boats) often times had several mounted to the deck in a semi fan arrangement ,this was called a " battery'"  many methods were deployed like drifting or stalking into a raft of ducks and shooting at the raft and trying to kill as many as possible , I would say they were getting as close as possible to kill as many as possible , and they shot geese, ducks and swans in this manner

If you know how to skull a sneak boat well you can get as close as 20 yards , a skull boat is low like a layout , but has a special oar out the back that is rowed in a semi figure 8 , they are very stealthy - I happen to know one person very well that was open water skull hunting diver ducks and  he got so close and timed the shot so well with a browning A5 he killed 36 diver ducks with one shot --this was done in another country were there were no bag limits , and there literally hundreds of thousands of them - it's a situation like Argentina dove hunting

I have a few 8 bore Winchester rounds in my safe , I don't need them and was thinking of giving them away , they are slag rounds used to break molten iron from the insides of furnaces - neat shells

But anyways large bore guns like that were the hammer of doom for waterfowl a hundred years ago , they could kill at long ranges , and they could kill many many ducks with just one shot -