Fictional Usage
The film Tremors 4: The Legend Begins featured a punt gun used by Hiram Gummer to combat graboids. This punt gun was custom-built for the film and was 8 feet 4 inches long, weighed 94 pounds, and had a 2-inch-diameter (51 mm) bore (classified as "A" gauge by the Gun Barrel Proof Act of 1868 in Schedule B).
In his novel Chesapeake, author James A. Michener details the historical use of punt guns to hunt geese and ducks by the watermen of the Chesapeake Bay.
Desmond Bagley's 1973 thriller The Tightrope Men features a percussion-fired punt gun.
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