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Lt Belenko,

Wow! Anything else seems a waste of words.

gunnergoz,

If I think I'm going to encounter a Raptor, I want shell!

MickH,

Agreed!

Affentitten,

If bore=gauge, then a two bore would fire a lead ball weighing half a pound, for that's how shotgun gauges are figured. the gauge is how many lead balls it takes to make a pound.

Michael Emrys and gautrek,

They had one of those on the (misnamed) History Channel show Pawn Stars. A punt gun wasn't used on flying birds, but on whole flocks on the water. That's what a "sitting duck" is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_gun

Regards,

John Kettler

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Affentitten,

If bore=gauge, then a two bore would fire a lead ball weighing half a pound, for that's how shotgun gauges are figured. the gauge is how many lead balls it takes to make a pound.

Er, not always, John. Regrettably it gets more complicated than that. And this chart shows a 2 gauge that is 33.67 mm in bore...more or less what Affentiffen said.

However, you are right that it would fire a shot weighing half a pound.

Michael

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