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To borrow a line from 'Trading Places', "In Houston Texas, they worth fifty bucks."

I hope the artists are dead. They don't deserve that much money.

Did Poultney & Trimble of Baltimore, Maryland, who manufactured Gilbert Smith breechloaders, make any 8 or 10 bore pinfire or centerfire shotguns?

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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Rumor has it that a "big shot" happens occasionally on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland. I was offered a "big shot" a couple of years ago when a large group of RSA mallards relocated permanently to a nearby house pond. Unfortunately, I didn't have a punt gun so we fielded a group of shooters to "relocate" as many of the trespassers as possible in one afternoon shoot. I should have brought in a couple of eight bores for the job, but the invitation was on short notice and I didn't have time to go home, over a hundred miles, for the guns.

According to the gentleman that I bought the Tolley 8 bore from, he was still using it in the Chesapeke Bay area last fall. He had some 8 bore brass made up that had "10 ga XXX" stamped on the head.

Also not to steal the thread, here is a punt gun that Cabela's has, tried to get Destry to buy it.
I've seen the gun and it is nice, had to be refinished or never used.
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/conten...erarchyId=11649

Two years ago while buying a Parker I was allowed to hold a 6ga SxS and a 4ga single barrel. Both were for shells but I didn't see any. Paul

Grogel,
That's a great picture. I wonder if that wasn't taken in Washington DC in front of what was the US Fish and Wildlife Museum. They supposedly had a big display of large bore shotguns that has been confiscated when anything larger than 10 gauge was outlawed in 1918.

Paul,

The 6 gauge was a breech loader? That's a new one on me, seen quite a few 6 gauge muzzle loaders but never one that took cartridges.

Pete from Oregon,

Not been around due to depression at the fact being finally proven that they actually made damascus barrels here in the US? I know how you must hate being wrong.

That William Read at Cabela's is hardly a "punt gun"!! It is far too nice. It is really just a big old fowler. Punt guns were by an large pretty crude devices, as the one pictured with the two gents holding it.

Sneider in Baltimore made at least one 4-gauge double barrel hammerless shot gun. It was displayed by the Southern California Arms Collectors Association in their display at the 1987 NRA Convention in Reno. It had 38-inch Damascus barrels and weighed 28 1/2 pounds. It would take a man like Destry to swing that fowler.