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End to the Ultimate Turkey Gun/Load Debate

Started by jblackburn, February 11, 2014, 08:23:21 PM

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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
:wave:  OG .....DRAMA FREE .....

-Shannon

Matt81302


Gooserbat

Say what You want, but I want one...Shannon would I still have to keep my conversations to 40 yards or closer?
NWTF Booth 1623
One of my personal current interests is nest predators and how a majority of hunters, where legal bait to the extent of chumming coons.  However once they get the predators concentrated they don't control them.

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!
I am going to bag my first Turkey this spring if it is the last thing I do!

Tom Dooley


beagler

Wonder what choke would work best in that bad boy?  :toothy12:
Never Misses

tomstopper

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

jblackburn

Quote from: Tom Dooley on February 12, 2014, 04:09:08 PM
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.
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Genesis 27:3 - Now then, get your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.

MouthCaller

Quote from: TURKEYWHACKER on February 11, 2014, 09:55:01 PM
Wouldn't want to shoot that sucker while sitting against a tree. :z-dizzy: :z-dizzy: :z-dizzy:
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 -

:wave:  OG .....DRAMA FREE .....

-Shannon

mikejd

Quote from: Old Gobbler on February 12, 2014, 09:24:55 PM
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 -