Maxgussam said: (quoted from post at 03:13:21 12/29/08)
Not a Guage said: (quoted from post at 14:25:07 12/28/08) The 410 is not a guage it is a caliber .410 and is therefore .410 inches in diameter. The guage of a shotgun is determined by the number of balls of lead the diameter of the barrel which equal one pound of lead. There are also very large shotguns the largest I have heard of is 4 guage they are usually mounted and not hand held.
Are these 4 ga also known as "Punt Guns"? I saw one such gun fired on a Discovery Channel show...It was practically a crew served weapon.
Quite a few 4bore guns still in use for wildfowling in UK. 6bore not quite so common, but lots & lots of 8bores still around. People reload commercial boiler cleaning 8bore cartridges, since I think only one company still produce 8bore cartridges.
10bores becoming more common since the nonsense about not using lead shot. Since steel is so poor in normal loads, the 10bore has made a bit of a come back here.
Some 4 bores were made to double as punt guns (6 bores too) but most were shoulder fired.
Punt guns tend to be 2bore up to about 1 1/2" diameter barrels, all new ones are made by engineer enthusiasts, but I bet the cost per shot of 6 or 12oz of tungsten or Hevishot tends to concentrate the mind a bit!!
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