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The punt gun

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The punt gun was an extremely large shotgun, what was meant for shooting even 100 birds per shot. This shotgun is illegal in modern times, but it still remains one of the most brutal and extreme firearms in history. The punt guns were used in the late 19th. and early 20th. century. The thing, what caused the end of this kind of extreme firearms is how lethal they are, but they are not actually prohibited. There is possible to use this weapon legally for hunting, and there are still those guns in the register at Great Britain.

In 1914 the British Army tried to use those guns on the battlefield because punt gun was harder to locate than a machine gun. When the machine gun started to fire the snipers could shoot the shooter, and in the night the flame, what comes from the pipe of the gun is very visible. But if the soldier uses punt gun, would that position be harder to locate, and those guns are extremely lethal against assaulting troops. In fact, I don't personally know has that weapon used in battle, or did they only in test use in some test range. And in modern time claymore-mines could be used to protect the position in the same way. When the trooper would notice that the enemy is coming, could he launch the claymore mine, or plate mine, what would send a deadly burst of bullets thru the air.

The idea of punt gun has taken from shrapnel-rounds. The shrapnel is actually the cannon, what is filled with musket ball-bullets. That thing is effective against cavalry and infantry.  The shrapnel has given an idea to make extremely large shotgun ammunition for cannons. That ammunition would give the 155 mm. cannons air defense capacity, and if that ammunition is used against infantry formations the power of those weapons could be devastating. If the 40 mm. cannon is filled with shotgun-type ammunition, it would be easier to shoot down the small size drones.

In Waco, Texas the cult members of David Koresh were used own made punt guns against FBI. I don't exactly know, what kind of ammunition those people used in this sad case. But sometimes the own made punt guns were used in some military actions. Those things were actually steel tubes that were filled with steel balls and at the back of the tube was dynamite or plastic explosives. They are able to launch by using electric nails, and that makes possible to launch them from distance and use them as claymore mines.

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