A friend here in Michigan has a punt gun that he built, his name is Jim Marsh. I know he's fired it quite a bit with just paper and powder but don't know if he ever actually loaded it with shot or not.
It's still legal in the UK but there are very few punt gunners these days. I know a few, but have never been lucky enough to get to go out for a try. They do it during the day, not at night like it was mostly done here. Years ago all the punt gunners in the country sort of made a gentleman's agreement to stop the night gunning as it scared the birds so badly and that's hung on through the years up until the present day.
I have an early muzzle loading 1 1/2 gun in my collection that came off the Mississippi River at Chester, Ill.
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