Wartime, home made silencer

[Flying10uk]

Somewhere I do have a picture of the punt with the enormous gun mounted on it and by today's standards the gun looks so large as to be almost comical. I would think that there would have been very little left of any bird if it had been unfortunate enough to be hit by it.

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[Merle]

Somewhere I do have a picture of the punt with the enormous gun mounted on it and by today's standards the gun looks so large as to be almost comical. I would think that there would have been very little left of any bird if it had been unfortunate enough to be hit by it.

Punt guns were used to shoot at a flock of birds, not one individual. I would expect that the shooter would know the MINIMUM range to avoid shredding the birds.