Market hunting with and without punt guns was never excepted as a sport in the south....the Reel Foot lake wars, the Arkansas battles between the market hunters and the "sports".....hunting lodges that were burnt to the ground by the market hunters. Market hunters is the reason we can't shoot the old 8 gauges.

There was no romance in being a market hunter as some would like you to believe. It was just a lazy disrespectful way to make a living.