Big Guns Open Thread

If you want to skip to the good part -- here's a golfball fired by a giant punt gun into a ballistic-gel model of the head.

Posted by: Ace at 05:09 PM

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1 Splodey. Very cool.

Posted by: huerfano at May 26, 2025 05:13 PM (n2swS)

2 Second

Posted by: Accomack at May 26, 2025 05:14 PM (28cZF)

3 Third and a Nood call

Posted by: Accomack at May 26, 2025 05:18 PM (28cZF)

4 I'd hate to see the bad part.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 26, 2025 05:19 PM (63Dwl)

5 Howdy! Hope everyone is having a nice, reflective Memorial Day weekend!

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 26, 2025 05:20 PM (rbKZ6)

6 Is that Weasel's next acquisition - after a fence for FSJ and Gertie?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 26, 2025 05:20 PM (VNX3d)

7 punt guns were insane - basically a way for commercial hunters to kill an entire flock of birds with a single shot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2025 05:21 PM (uWKK8)

8 My FiL was a D-Day Vet, combat engineer

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 05:21 PM (ypFCm)

9 Ruh-roh. The video mentioned powder weights. There has been a great disturbance in the cob force.

(being purposefully obscure because I don't want cobs mad at me, 'specially the one I'm thinking of).

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at May 26, 2025 05:22 PM (v23vE)

10 That gun is deadly on both ends.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 26, 2025 05:23 PM (NVNRw)

11
Oh for heaven's sakes. You men.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 26, 2025 05:25 PM (n7rxJ)

12 Do they have a derringer punt gun?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 26, 2025 05:26 PM (fJZtu)

13 Some big guns in NYC this weekend. Fleet Week.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 26, 2025 05:26 PM (wWAFp)

14
Need a Hello Kitty model for the 'ettes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 05:26 PM (QnmlO)

15 Oh, never mind, it's black powder weight. That's allowed. Carry on as if I never said nothin'.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at May 26, 2025 05:27 PM (v23vE)

16 King Charles is visiting his vassals.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 26, 2025 05:28 PM (fJZtu)

17 I want a fully automatic punt gun with a thing that goes up.

Posted by: fd at May 26, 2025 05:29 PM (vFG9F)

18 Guns are a slang name for biceps amongst us hard-core gym bros.

And I am an up-and-coming Big Gun for the Democrat Party.

* flexes *

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at May 26, 2025 05:30 PM (0sNs1)

19 Big Guns Open Thread

Like, "Nuns with Big Guns"? https://tinyurl.com/4uu2azsx

Sadly, it was literally JUST nuns with large firearms, and not also large breasts as I had hoped.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 26, 2025 05:30 PM (ycI94)

20 Punt gun for protests.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 26, 2025 05:30 PM (0eaVi)

21 "Some big guns in NYC this weekend. Fleet Week.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade "

Speaking of...

Anybody give a cause for the Mexican bridge fiasco?

Posted by: eleven at May 26, 2025 05:31 PM (0HaGk)

22 Gives a whole new meaning to the term "Gell-Mann amnesia"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 26, 2025 05:32 PM (PiwSw)

23 Sadly, it was literally JUST nuns with large firearms, and not also large breasts as I had hoped.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 26, 2025 05:30 PM

Admiral, don't start nun, won't be nun.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 26, 2025 05:32 PM (0sNs1)

24 "'I don't aspire to be humble. And I don't recommend it, I think that one must be humble. But to aspire to be humble would be quite inauthentic,' she said.

'If one understands that, just, I mean, there's so much that is magnificent and awe-inspiring about this world and its people."

-- Kamala Harris-Emhoff

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 26, 2025 05:35 PM (0sNs1)

25 So Fred Mertz is gonna allow punt guns against Russia?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 26, 2025 05:35 PM (0eaVi)

26 I'd never heard of a punt gun. Is the destruction because the projectile is a very large caliber, the muzzle velocity is super-great, or both?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 05:36 PM (omVj0)

27
So Fred Mertz is gonna allow punt guns against Russia?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

He's got some splainin to do!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 26, 2025 05:37 PM (63Dwl)

28 I'd never heard of a punt gun. Is the destruction because the projectile is a very large caliber, the muzzle velocity is super-great, or both?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Seems like that would be the going-for-it-on-fourth gun.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 26, 2025 05:39 PM (UBKzV)

29 Guns are a slang name for biceps amongst us hard-core gym bros.

And I am an up-and-coming Big Gun for the Democrat Party.

* flexes *
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at May 26, 2025 05:30 PM (0sNs1)
====

"Your frat name will be... Twiggy!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2025 05:39 PM (RIvkX)

30 >>Oh for heaven's sakes. You men.

Yea, but you like us.

You have no idea the stupid shit we come up with. It's not our fault. We were programmed this way.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 26, 2025 05:40 PM (viF8m)

31
26 I'd never heard of a punt gun. Is the destruction because the projectile is a very large caliber, the muzzle velocity is super-great, or both?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 05:36 PM

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A giant muzzle-loading shotgun that can kill an entire flock of birds.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 26, 2025 05:41 PM (+sEI/)

32 Anybody give a cause for the Mexican bridge fiasco?
Posted by: eleven at May 26, 2025 05:31 PM (0HaGk)

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Bridge too low, esse.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 26, 2025 05:42 PM (u73oe)

33 You know how there aren't any passenger pigeons any more?

Now you know why.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 26, 2025 05:42 PM (W5ArC)

34 Okay, I looked up "punt guns." Apparently they could have a bore diameter of up to 51 mm. I had trouble picturing this until I realized my Rolex Sub watch is 40 mm in diameter -- so even bigger than that??? Wow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 05:42 PM (omVj0)

35 Anybody give a cause for the Mexican bridge fiasco?
Posted by: eleven at May 26, 2025 05:31 PM (0HaGk)

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Bridge too low, esse.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 26, 2025 05:42 PM (u73oe)

They left Speedy Gonzalez on shore.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 26, 2025 05:43 PM (VNX3d)

36 30 >>Oh for heaven's sakes. You men.

Yea, but you like us.

You have no idea the stupid shit we come up with. It's not our fault. We were programmed this way.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 26, 2025 05:40 PM (viF8m)
——

‘Us studs gonna stud!’

— David Hogg

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 26, 2025 05:43 PM (wWAFp)

37 >>>Guns are a slang name for biceps amongst us hard-core gym bros.

And I am an up-and-coming Big Gun for the Democrat Party.

* flexes *

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate

>Do you even lift, bro? I'm thinking even Greta Thunberg could power lift more than your candy ass.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 26, 2025 05:43 PM (dqmL3)

38 willowed comment of the day

88 I have trouble with this site. I peek in and the next thing I know it's an hour later.
Posted by: Ben Had

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 05:45 PM (nnVdx)

39 Punt guns were generally used for commercial hunting of waterfowl, and were mounted in punts.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 26, 2025 05:47 PM (0sNs1)

40 Wow! Have you seen the size of the waves and the strength of the wind around Cape Horn?

I know, it's frigging nuts. You'd have to be a fucking idiot go through that.

Hey, what if we did a singlehanded sailboat race through it?

That sounds awesome. Let's go!

Posted by: JackStraw at May 26, 2025 05:47 PM (viF8m)

41 We live in a small town, 2500 population. We were amazed how many people were at the town cemetery today. It was heartwarming to see.
Posted by: fourseasons

Grandmother always said of the town cemetery -
More people were conceived there than are buried there.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 26, 2025 05:47 PM (/lPRQ)

42 Everytime I see vids with this gun I'm reminded of the last dictator of North Korea, Kim Whatever. He has some of his officers executed by lining them up against a wall and shooting them with anti-aircraft guns. A bit drastic but effective.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 26, 2025 05:49 PM (eDGGN)

43 A friend of mine was visiting Denmark by ship a couple of weeks ago. While passing through the locks, his ship was trapped for nine hours by protesters, who glued their hands to the hand rail to protest tourism.

We're looking at a Europe that has degenerated into a theme park, and the locals are harassing the customers to destroy their only viable economic engine.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 26, 2025 05:51 PM (wBaIH)

44 Grandmother always said of the town cemetery -
More people were conceived there than are buried there.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

I'm the ghost with the most.

Posted by: Beetlejuice at May 26, 2025 05:52 PM (0sNs1)

45 One 4th of July, my nephew and I fabricated a golf ball mortar out of pipe, fueled by sparkler bombs.

Those golf balls seemed to reach orbit and then helicoptered back down to earth like a maple seed. Check out the shape of the golf ball.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 26, 2025 05:52 PM (dqmL3)

46 "'I don't aspire to be humble. And I don't recommend it, I think that one must be humble. But to aspire to be humble would be quite inauthentic,' she said.

'If one understands that, just, I mean, there's so much that is magnificent and awe-inspiring about this world and its people."

-- Kamala Harris-Emhoff
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 26, 2025 05:35 PM (0sNs1)

Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble.

Posted by: Mac Davis at May 26, 2025 05:53 PM (Aqu9a)

47 Somebody needs to get out and give the thread a push.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 26, 2025 05:57 PM (UBKzV)

48 Sadly, it was literally JUST nuns with large firearms, and not also large breasts as I had hoped.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 26, 2025 05:30 PM (ycI94)

You’re gonna get an extra century in purgatory for that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2025 06:00 PM (i5oKA)

49 Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble.
Posted by: Mac Davis at May 26, 2025

***
"Some folks say I'm egotistical;
I don't even know what that means!
I think it has something to do with the way
I fill out my skin-tight blue jeans!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 06:00 PM (omVj0)

50 Is someone pining to break the logjam of the comments?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 26, 2025 06:00 PM (VNX3d)

51 'If one understands that, just, I mean, there's so much that is magnificent and awe-inspiring about this world and its people."

What does that have to do with her personal humility or lack thereof.? It's not it's as if Kamala was responsible for the creation of the world and all its people.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 06:00 PM (hP9t8)

52 50 Is someone pining to break the logjam of the comments?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 26, 2025

***
Somebody will prove to have the right timber

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2025 06:01 PM (omVj0)

53 Back, and to the left.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 26, 2025 06:01 PM (Aqu9a)

54 I suppose town here is a few thousand, thought 200 spectators plus band and dozen partisans

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 06:02 PM (ypFCm)

55 On this date in 1959 Harvey Haddix of the Pirates pitched 12 perfect innings against the Braves. He lost in the 13th. Baseball ain't fair

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 26, 2025 06:04 PM (eDGGN)

56 partisans? that thing like a cross between a spear and a billhook?

always liked halberds, myself ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 26, 2025 06:04 PM (/Ghsb)

57 Commie Chicago Mayor Invents Holiday and Wishes Everyone ‘Happy Africa Day’ on Memorial Day Weekend (Video)
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Happy Africa Day !!!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 26, 2025 06:05 PM (/lPRQ)

58 I'm pushing. Pop the clutch.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 26, 2025 06:05 PM (UBKzV)

59 Wahoo! My besties are coming back for a visit.

This is a good day.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 26, 2025 06:05 PM (viF8m)

60 partisans? that thing like a cross between a spear and a billhook?

always liked halberds, myself ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Corseca for the zombies - its the polearm that is basically three spears points at a wide angle (unlike trident with three points in parallel) - better for lopping heads with a thrust.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 26, 2025 06:09 PM (/lPRQ)

61 I'm pushing. Pop the clutch.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 26, 2025 06:05 PM (UBKzV)

Ignition: On!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 26, 2025 06:09 PM (Aqu9a)

62 >>On this date in 1959 Harvey Haddix of the Pirates pitched 12 perfect innings against the Braves. He lost in the 13th. Baseball ain't fair

It's supposed to be hard. If it was easy everyone would do it. Hard is what makes it great.

Really great line from an otherwise forgettable movie.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 26, 2025 06:09 PM (viF8m)

63 I'd never heard of a punt gun. Is the destruction because the projectile is a very large caliber, the muzzle velocity is super-great, or both?
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The small boat is referred to as a 'punt'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 06:09 PM (XeU6L)

64 Titleist for the win!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 26, 2025 06:11 PM (dqmL3)

65 that's one I never heard of ... learn somethin' new every day around here!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 26, 2025 06:12 PM (/Ghsb)

66
The small boat is referred to as a 'punt'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Ah. Duncanthrax at May 26, 2025 05:47 PM was well ahead of me.

It pays to read the thread before posting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 06:14 PM (XeU6L)

67 Doesn't Weird Dave have a punt, or was it a little dinghy?

Posted by: Both Oars at May 26, 2025 06:16 PM (G5+As)

68 It pays to read the thread before posting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 06:14 PM (XeU6L)

Ain't nobody gots time for dat.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 26, 2025 06:16 PM (Aqu9a)

69 55 On this date in 1959 Harvey Haddix of the Pirates pitched 12 perfect innings against the Braves. He lost in the 13th. Baseball ain't fair
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Sounds like something the Pirates would do though. LOL!

They did win the World Series a year later, so there's that!

youtu.be/YIjHo4xwyr4

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 26, 2025 06:18 PM (sAmhv)

70 I'm convinced. Arnold Palmer was the second shooter, using a driver off the Grassy Knoll.

Posted by: Gref at May 26, 2025 06:21 PM (aBgBM)

71 Dodgers won in 59, Pirates won in 60.

Posted by: October Classic at May 26, 2025 06:22 PM (G5+As)

72 We're looking at a Europe that has degenerated into a theme park, and the locals are harassing the customers to destroy their only viable economic engine.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

And at the same time:

@judgeglock May 25
Wait, Britain arrests 1000 people a MONTH for online posting? I knew it was bad but not this bad.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 26, 2025 06:23 PM (mlg/3)

73 ames A. Michener's novel "Chesapeake" includes hunting with a punt gun. It includes a tally of the birds shot.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 26, 2025 06:23 PM (YjKzF)

74 .45-70 vs ballistic head;
https://tinyurl.com/44mrp4ht

Skip to 3:52 to get right to it.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at May 26, 2025 06:23 PM (IQhz0)

75 The Junkyard Dog wouldn't let a punt gun stop him. His skull is three inches thick and there's nothing in it!

Posted by: Bobby " The Brain" Heenan at May 26, 2025 06:28 PM (G5+As)

76 Doesn't Weird Dave have a punt, or was it a little dinghy?
Posted by: Both Oars
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Can we just move on to prams?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 06:28 PM (XeU6L)

77 Doesn't Weird Dave have a punt, or was it a little dinghy?
Posted by: Both Oars
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Can we just move on to prams?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 06:28 PM (XeU6L)

I have to push the pram a lot.

Posted by: Knight of Camelot at May 26, 2025 06:34 PM (Aqu9a)

78 Nood.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 26, 2025 06:34 PM (0sNs1)

79 I just got back

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 06:36 PM (ypFCm)

80 When I was a kid, two cousins had a 'cannon' made of 1 1/4" galvanized pipe. Ammo was a large marble, driven by a cherry bomb. Would punch through a 55 gal steel drum.

The things kids did before they had smartphones.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 06:36 PM (XeU6L)

81 74 .45-70 vs ballistic head;
https://tinyurl.com/44mrp4ht

Skip to 3:52 to get right to it.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at May 26, 2025 06:23 PM (IQhz0)

Yow. This may explain why Major Reno was stunned into insensibility for a time nearing the end of his attack on the Indian camp. Reno stood next to Indian scout Bloody Knife. Many accounts say a bullet exploded Blood Knife's head, splattering blood and brains across Reno's face.

Posted by: Gref at May 26, 2025 06:38 PM (aBgBM)

82 63 I'd never heard of a punt gun. Is the destruction because the projectile is a very large caliber, the muzzle velocity is super-great, or both?
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The small boat is referred to as a 'punt'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 06:09 PM (XeU6L)

I've got your punt, right here!

Posted by: Ray Guy at May 26, 2025 06:40 PM (aBgBM)

83 ‘‘Tis but a flesh wound!”

Posted by: Farmer Bob at May 26, 2025 07:06 PM (hlNLQ)

84 Where is Obama Golfing Now?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 27, 2025 04:59 PM (wGqjj)

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