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Two men posing with a 'Punt Gun', a kind of shotgun for hunting waterfowl in large quantities, 1923 (lemmy.world)
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[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 35 points 9 months ago

Usually they are mounted on boats, not fired as a team:

[-] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That is an absolute cannon.

I could just see it now, BOOM and the boat goes shooting into the lake ass backwards.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

LOL, I moved my kayak around with a 12-gauge.

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 12 points 9 months ago

specifically, mounted on a punt

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