I have heard a punt gun go off once in my lifetime. It was awesome. Wish you all could hear it.
I'm not sure, if this is a good wish. As written in the article, Slights dog was totally deaf because of the gun's immense noise over it's head...!
Cheers,
Gunwolf
Deaf dogs have been around for longer than I have. We had several due to Cutts compensators and shooting right over the dogs head. I had a Chessie who was particularly nasty if you shot over his head and did not kill anything. Hated the sound of the gun but loved retrieving. Was a duck retrieving machine who would tirelessly got after wounded birds, even wounded Geese which a lot of dogs learn to hate.
The concussion from that punt gun blast could be felt in your stomach, in your bones. The noise was even louder coming on a cold morning, on the water. It just rolled and echoed back as a fainter shadow of itself. Of course everything on the water sounds louder, when everything is dead silent. The entire island knew at once what happened. Kind of a shared secret.
That punt gun was reported "lost" later and not recovered. I don't believe it. Most likely, the story was started because the Feds were sniffing around and some explanation had to be supplied. Reports of men dragging hooks, trying to recover something on the bottoms could have been a massive misdirection. Watermen are clannish towards outsiders but will help each other out without even being asked. Guess they figure it could be them looking for something next time and the more help the better.
