I have heard a punt gun go off once in my lifetime. It was awesome. Wish you all could hear it. Oh to be alive in the 1880's, when they were many working the Chesapeake Bay. Ducks rafting in the thousands, bay full of shell fish, clams, oysters and fish. The plastic semi auto not even a thought, no pump guns, no repeaters. Just a double gun and the rare big punt guns.