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    Taking a punt

    With opening morning 1 sleep away, I've got myself sorted and the mind starts to wander.
    I still hate having to use steel, it rules some of my favourite old guns out and doesn't do the business as well IMO.
    The only sub gage where lead is still allowed is the 410 but are there other options?
    What about a muzzle loading shotgun or a punt gun.
    After a quick look at the regulations I can't find any reference to maximum size of bore or muzzle loaders for that matter, and shooting from a boat or canoe is allowed after opening weekend.
    There is I suppose the daily bag limit to consider but 3 or 4 rowers, loaders, pluckers should fix that.
    I am amused by the thought of a Rangers conversation regarding one.
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    shooting on the water is the fly in ointment there,,,,,,,
    allowed up to 10ga I believe but dont think any bigger.
    would be one hell of a lot of fun all the same....now for canada geese where there are NO RULES.....it could be VERY VERY interesting,paddle in to within 70 yards of mob and let rip with #BBs or #7 buck woooohoooo the carnage would be awesome.
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    Bet that wee boat is mighty strong

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    Quote Originally Posted by muzza View Post
    You can use lead with a black powder shotgun .
    only if its muzzle loaded...or would be having a blast....well ACTUALLY there might just be a few micky loads in my ammo box to try out.....home rolled black powder,steel shot wad and load of steel BBs n #2 shot wont be going fast but shite they pattern tight in an unslit wad. might just be the ticket for finishing off woundie on water LOL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by muzza View Post
    You can use lead with a black powder shotgun .
    Next year maybe, would be a bit of fun. Got an old hammer sxs in good nic that would fit the bill.

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    Wrong for so many reasons but I like the sentiment

    So just build a cannon then
    Same thing and could shoot both shot and ball
    Maybe stake out a paddock being bothered by pigeons or canada geese
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    Re shooting on the water, I believe it was done but the option of shooting when just on the wing gave the biggest bags of over 150. I would imagine if shooting them sitting the front ones would absorb a lot of the shot.
    Anyhow my pederzoli will be getting an outing for a river walk at some stage, 90 grains of 2f, and an ounce and a quarter of no4s should get me something I reckon.
    I hope I meet a ranger
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    I wonder about the legality of a 10 gauge volley muzzleloader
    Is that still legal at 10 gauge ?
    5 or 6 or more barrels with one shared ignition path
    Just what ever high pressure tube you could find to bundle together

    Or does it have to be shoulder fired to be legal ?
    Gimble mounted you could have your shoulder there somewhere

    Although I might be careful to have my face too near the back end of some of those old punt guns
    I expect some were 1/4 or 1/2 pound charges and a massive shot payload

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    As a teenager I had a go at shooting them on the water. Made the classic mistake of aiming at the mob rather than an individual duck. Outcome was the whole lot of them took off unscathed.
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    in Keith Drapers book...a waterfowlers tail there is chapter on puntguns...makes for interesting reading....
    you aimed above birds,clapped and fired as they rose up.
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    Just remember not to use plastic hulls or wads with BP, you will line the bore with a long thin plastic condom!! Cardboard components only!!
    Duck shooting with BP is great fun, but hard to see the hit!
    Boom, cough,cough,cough

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    Quote Originally Posted by muzza View Post
    You can use lead with a black powder shotgun .
    Still??

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    Surely if a gun was only BP proofed it would be legal even if not a front stuffer?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mauser308 View Post
    And how may I ask, did you find that out?
    How do you think he found out?
    In my experience plastic hulls are OK for a few reloads but the petals start melting with shot no 1. Roll crimped good ones like winchester a a can go half a dozen reloads.
    Plastic wads line the bore but a turks head brush shifts it, still those plastic cups aren't in the spirit of the thing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty Henry View Post
    With opening morning 1 sleep away, I've got myself sorted and the mind starts to wander.
    I still hate having to use steel, it rules some of my favourite old guns out and doesn't do the business as well IMO.
    The only sub gage where lead is still allowed is the 410 but are there other options?
    What about a muzzle loading shotgun or a punt gun.
    After a quick look at the regulations I can't find any reference to maximum size of bore or muzzle loaders for that matter, and shooting from a boat or canoe is allowed after opening weekend.
    There is I suppose the daily bag limit to consider but 3 or 4 rowers, loaders, pluckers should fix that.
    I am amused by the thought of a Rangers conversation regarding one.
    Thats a chap called Snowden Slights. He was a market gunner from East Yorkshire, not far from where I came to NZ from. Very famous among wildfowlers

 

 

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