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@PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Two men posing with a 'Punt Gun', a kind of shotgun for hunting waterfowl in large quantities, 1923

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Two men posing with a 'Punt Gun', a kind of shotgun for hunting waterfowl in large quantities, 1923

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  • @Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    35•1 year ago

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

    • @Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year 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
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        2•1 year ago

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

    • @cerement@slrpnk.net
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      13•1 year ago

      specifically, mounted on a punt

  • @Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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    35•1 year ago

    Excuse me doctor, do you have anything which might treat my currently normal ability to hear sounds?

    • PugJesusM
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      11•1 year ago

      YOUR WHAT?

  • @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18•1 year ago

    Looks deafening

    • @Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world
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      8•1 year ago

      WHAAAAATT???

      • @LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz
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        2•1 year ago

        Oh he’s deaf. It’s my fault. I uh…

        • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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          2•1 year ago

          I SO hoped it would be that scene.

          So, what’s the best war movie of all time and why is it Black Hawk Down?

    • @JoShmoe@programming.dev
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      3•1 year ago

      WHY IS EVERYONE ALL CAPS??

      • KingJalopy
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        1•1 year ago

        WE’RE ANGRY!

    • @cerement@slrpnk.net
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      2•1 year ago

      BOOKS ARE BECKONING, YOU SAY?

      • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
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        3•1 year ago

        THEY SAID “ROOKS THE RECKONING!”

  • @snekerpimp@lemmy.world
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    17•1 year ago

    Really good for graboids as well

    • @canthidium@lemmy.world
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      9•1 year ago

      “Broke into the wrong gul dern recroom, you big jerk”

      I can’t unhear the silly USA network censoring after having watched so many times.

    • @DeskP1loti@lemmy.world
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      6•1 year ago

      Also low-flying aircraft.

  • @spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
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    11•1 year ago

    These things would often decimate bird populations. They are not legal to use for hunting anymore.

    • ME5SENGER_24
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      4•1 year ago

      And somehow massive fishing nets still allowed.

      • @ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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        5•1 year ago

        Ducks don’t lay a million eggs on one go.

      • KingJalopy
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        2•1 year ago

        Plenty of fish in the sea

    • @Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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      3•1 year ago

      Here’s a song about what these guns accomplished.

    • @342345@feddit.de
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      decimate bird populations

      decimation then:

      In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio ‘removal of a tenth’[1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.

      and now:

      The word decimation in English is often used to refer to an extreme reduction in the number of a population or force or an overall sense of destruction and ruin.

      🤷‍♀️

    • PugJesusM
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      For the best, but I can’t say I’m not morbidly curious as to what the result of one of these monsters would look like. A flurry of feathers and falling bird corpses, I would expect.

  • reflex
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    Stand-by for Titanfowl.

  • @Bsher8365@lemmy.world
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    deleted by creator

  • @LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz
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    2•1 year ago

    Muzzle loader? And is that a trigger with no guard?

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