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October 15, 1910 Sporting Life
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1910/VOL_56_NO_06/SL5606023.pdf
The newest thing in the line of firearms is a featherweight shotgun of 20 bore being manufactured by the Ithaca Gun Company, of Ithaca, N. Y., for use in an aeroplane. This is a new departure, the order having been received from a New England man who desires to try water fowl shooting from his aircraft.

I believe that would be somewhat "Frowned" on today, as well it should be.
I do realize of course that you are not advocating it, only posting it for interest.

Heck I would have road shotgun if given a chance.

Anybody ever run ducks down with a speedboat and shot them from the front seat? Not that I would've ever done so, but just sayin'................

Used to be a common practice on the Savannah River here, before the wardens got fast boats.

SRH

My dad shot a lot of pheasants. A majority from the driver's seat of his car.

Seriously?

No, I can't say I have ever done that or even contemplated doing that.

I recall reading an article about a warden engaged in Wolf or Coyote control many years ago who was shooting them from a 2-seater airplane. I don't recall very many of the details, but do recall he stated the hardest part was figuring out how far "Behind" them to shoot. As the plane was moving faster than the animal the "Lead" was reversed.

Used to be a fairly common practice where I grew up for farmers shucking corn to keep a loaded shotgun in the cab of the combine. Pheasant gets up in front, throw combine in neutral, shoot bird, retrieve.

A 1938 Ford with a crank out windshield was a good way to shoot a few late summer rabbits sitting on dirt road after a shower. Bobby

Been there and done it in the tandem seat 1946 J-3 Cub I had on our ranch. Not for the faint of heart! Biggest fear I had was my shooter getting carried away and putting a hole in the struts or tire. Gave it up when one day as pilot I got carried away with chasing the coyote and forgot everything else. At what had to be the very last split second I glanced forward and what seemed to be only yards away was a canyon wall I was headed straight for. How I cleared it and survived I have no idea but am pretty sure the Lord had a lot to do with it. Had a lot of cleaning to do inside the cabin when back at the ranch house and never shot out of the plane again. Life is short!

Being a lightweight 20-bore Ithaca Flues Model, the frame probably cracked long ago and it was reduced to scrap.

Here is another featherweight Ithaca --

I'd almost ran down a cormorant in my Bass boat......he jettisoned a load of poop in his escape!

Don't have any guns for shooting out of planes, but I do have a Model 37 with provisions for aerial sights to shoot at planes. From Uncle Sam's arsenal of course.

We use to paddle or push pole john boats up guts to flush out and shoot Mallards which seem to hide on them everywhere. That was legal but some decided to run their outboard motors instead of paddling and that was not. Game Wardens got smart and started watching from the air in planes. If they saw a motor in use they would call and direct another Warden in a boat to catch them when we came out the gut. Never used a motor but did shoot a lot of ducks that way. I never minded paddling or using a push pole but others could not be bothered. With a hard bottom you could move a boat up a gut just as fast as with a motor at slow idle.

Sorry, but what is a "gut" in this context? I'm not familiar with that term.

A gut is a slough, or a narrow little canal that worms it's way to the larger body of water, be that a river, lake, bay, etc. Guts are sometimes dry, sometimes filled with water, according to the level of the larger body of water.

To be clear, I never shot a duck out of a motorboat while under power. My son and I have one that will seriously run them down, but you would need to be on a large body of water. It's a 21' Allison with a custom built 2.5 Merc and a 14 x 23 x 28 prop. Couldn't no duck outrun that.

My duck killing boat is for jump shooting them, and I just drift with the current.



SRH

The Gut is a street in Valletta, Malta, known for establishments to separate sailors from their money.

https://books.google.com/books?id=6T_pCA...gut&f=false

SRH

From the context of this post, it seems quite obvious to me that Jon wasn't referring to a street in Valletta, Malta.

Both definitions may well be correct, but the context determines which one applies.

For instance, a "Ball Bearing Mouse Trap" could be a very efficient, near frictionless, mechanical device for catching little brown rodents, or it could be a "Tomcat" depending upon exactly how the phrase was used.