Hi there, and welcome to #FridayFucksorSucks, a weekly game with simple rules: guns fuck, or they suck. This week, we have the Punt Gun. Large caliber shotguns equipped with a variety of actions, they were so effective they decimated waterfowl populations and were banned from hunting in the US.
fucks ducks
Fucks. Also, I think both guys in the first photo are deaf the second that thing goes off.
Lowkey sucks for hunting. For military use tho? Sounds fun.
great for large subterranean worms.
Worms of Unusual Size? I don't believe those exist.
Hold fire until you feel the tremors.
Obviously, anything of the genre "gun with a vehicle built around it" fucks.
crew-served 1-gauge shotgun, preposterous overkill, personal smoothbore hunting artillery. Love it. Fucks. No reason this should exist today but I am thrilled that it ever did.
Good gods that first image bro would fold backwards like tissue paper firing it like that.
Sucks. Absolutely devastating.
Sucks. Extincing species is bad
IMO sucks. It's not really man portable, any more than a recoilless rifle is, and was used exclusively for the commercial hunting that caused the extinction of the passenger pigeon. Pretty horrific IMO.
Okay simple. Idk if they were drinking when they made. For safety concerns from myself as an EKG technician due the potential loss of life from the user, sucks.
Crew served anti-drone armament. Fucks
They fuck so hard, that’s why they suck. It’s not you vs a flying duck or trying to decoy a duck, it’s you throwing a phalanx of pellets across a resting flock. It’s VERY effective. Did this by accident as a boy. Crawled 200 yards w/870 pump in mud to get close, killed my 7 duck limit w/1 shot. Oops
depending on how you squint at it, it's a crew-served shotgun...or canoe artillery absolutely fucks. I want to rent a kayak, duct tape a 12 gauge to it, and call myself a historical re-enactor.
Interestingly the Irish Reserves in 1941 had a collection of Punt Guns issued out, listed as "nine foot smoothbore blunderbusses." They were meant to be used as a sort of portable antipersonnel canon to spray across streets in city fighting, but outside of a handful of exercises they weren't fired.
Ah, ye olde LB-X Autocannon. Fucks.
Big gun? Fucks
A local museum has some punt guns on display. They definitely fuck.
kiiiinda fucks In Agents of Mayhem, which I really loved but everyone seemed to hate, Johnny Gat really wants a punt gun just because he already has a quite large shotgun and a punt gun is really the only thing bigger that can still be called a shotgun for pure, stupid ambition, it fucks
Why does the first and 2nd image remind me of this? Except instead it’s 2 people holding a comically large rifle.
Instead of comically large spoon we have a punt gun, A comically large musket that requires you and bro to operate it. You operating the trigger and receiving all the recoil and bro in the front hoping you don’t dislocate his hand. But that home intruder is gonna have a wild story to tell god.
“So how did you die?” “Well while invading a home” “With what exactly?” “It’s complicated”
I remember seeing one of these at the Higgins Armory Museum (one of the coolest museums ever, I'm still bitter it closed). In person they are just so fucking weird that I found it hard to get my mind around it. As someone else said, the gun fucks, but the consequences for wildlife sucked big time
Canoe artillery fucks Sucks for wildlife tho
Sucks.
Fucks. Gun was too op and got banned
Fucks, but the ecological consequences sucks
nothing serves punt quite like the Punt gun!
Raw aura? fucks. Effectiveness? Fucks also. We need to make one semi-auto just to see if we can.
This may be the first one I've seen that unequivocally fucks hard and with the door open. Just a shame about the damage they caused to local wildlife.
Literally just Elmer Fudd's shotgun Fucks
The ecological impact though? Suuuucks
The Trench Crusade girls know just how hard this one fucks
If we used it for something cool, like stopping the Nazis, then it would've fucked. Driving the passenger pigeon to extinction? SUCKS in all caps
I agree! I was going to say that this gun perhaps sucks BECAUSE it fucks and people pointed them at the wrong shit too much
Looking at Princess Mononoke psycho monk-ass implements here
Hilariously ridiculous, fucks.
Fucks so hard, it has a smoke afterwards.
Oh, this one fucks!
Fucks aesthetically as it is some looney tunes bullshit. Also bigass shotguns my beloved. Sucks when you consider what it was used for. :( So there's nuance here, it neither fully fucks nor fully sucks.
Fucks, especially when mounted on a punt to create the A-10 Warthog of canoes! It's ecological impact sucks though.
This is probably the first one I've seen that I can say actually fucks. It looks hilarious, but actually works. The only problem is it was used for something that sucked - almost genociding entire species of birds. We should bring these back for use on the fascists for a redemption arc.
sucks, not really sporting imo.
the real question is: does this count as a technical
(fucks either way tho)
This has some “nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition” vibes to it. Combined with extinction levels of bird shot, it fucks