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Phil Perry

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Peter, it's called a Punt gun - a 2 gauge shotgun designed to kill around 50 ducks in one shot. They were never held at the shoulder like the bloke in the photo is doing, instead they were installed in small boats called Punts, like an artillery piece, and the firing of a Punt gun would drive the Punt backwards.

The Punt gun was fixed in the Punt and the shooter had to manouevre the Punt into position to aim the gun.

 

https://blade-city.com/blogs/gun-knife-blog/2-gauge-shotgun-the-punt-gun-is-the-world-s-largest-scattergun

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That punt shotgun is soooooo 19th Century. 

 

What you want to be at the vanguard of modern weaponry is a Gauss Shotgun

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A coilgun, also known as a Gauss rifle, is a type of mass driver consisting of one or more coils used as electromagnets in the configuration of a linear motor that accelerate a ferromagnetic or conducting projectile to high velocity. The coils are switched on and off in a precisely timed sequence, causing the projectile to be accelerated quickly along the barrel via magnetic forces. In almost all coilgun configurations, the coils and the gun barrel are arranged on a common axis. A coilgun is not a rifle as the barrel is smoothbore (not rifled). 

Coilgun - Wikipedia

Interestingly, while these devices are capable of propelling a "bullet" of sufficient mass and velocity to cause harm, at teh moment they are outside the legal definition of a firearm because the means of propelling the bullet is not the pressure from either expanding gas (regular sort of cartridge) or compressed air (air rifle). The Law can control them by classing them as Dangerous Weapons in the same way that crossbows are controlled. However, since this is cutting edge technology, the Law probaly doesn't even know they exist.

 

Here's a video which explains the functioning of the weapon and then shows it in action on the range. On the range, I think the target is at 25 metres, but if you watch down range from the target you will se the the projectile goes through the target and lands further down range.

 

 

 

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