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How big a boy r you?

Sep 26, 2006 @ 09:39 pm by Moose

Photo courtesy of NC Wildlife

From the days of market hunting this Punt Flintlock is on display at the Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education.

The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences has temporarily loaned a flintlock punt gun – used in the earliest days of market hunting – to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission for a month-long special exhibit at its Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education. The display will be unveiled on Oct. 1 as part of Excursion Day, an annual celebration at Currituck Heritage Park.

Think you are man enough to shoulder this gun?

Standing nine and a half feet tall and weighing more than 100 pounds, the punt gun began its northeast North Carolina career in 1853, blasting dozens of waterfowl from the sky with a single shot. That was very much the gun’s purpose, to effectively kill as many birds as possible, which then were shipped to be sold in distant cities.

I guess I’ll stick with my 50 caliber in-line. If you want to read more about this here is the press release.