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Punt Gun |
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Navy Heritage Centre, Garden Island, NSW |
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°33 51' 34" S - °151 13' 49" E |
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This punt gun is one of a number of trophies brought back to Australia by the NSW Naval Contingent sent to China in 1900, as part of an International force, to help quell the Boxer Rebellion. The Boxers had attacked foreigners in China, including missionaries and had laid siege to the foreign legations in Peking.
A punt gun is a type of extremely large shotgun in the 19th and 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations. A single shot could kill over 50 waterfowl resting on the water's surface. They were too big to hold and the recoil so large that they were mounted directly on the punts used for hunting, hence their name. Used against people it could inflict casualties to a large number at one time. |
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