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Yup, the punts had to be replaced fairly often but the guns were usually handed down in families by "market hunters" and later poachers. Many of the guns even were given names by their owners. There are several of them on display in museums in the Chesapeake Bay area. I saw the largest one ever made and the thing had a bore like a sewer main!
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If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ~ Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
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