The gun was manufactured according to the request and the specifications of the customer and the usual was the gun barrel 51 mm diameter was one shot weigh about half a kilogram and the total length of the gun more than 3 meters - and the largest gun called "Tom Irish" length of 4.2 meters and a total weight 136 kg One shot weighs 1350 grams and that shot was able to hit about 100 birds at once -
The aim was to kill large numbers of water birds as efficiently as possible.
The fisherman was unable to carry them to their enormous weight and to the force of the rifle. The hunter could not support the heel of the gun to his shoulder. A number of fishermen were involved or mounted on a special carrier or placed on a boat.
The shooting of birds between 6 and 12 meters - and the efficiency and widespread use of the Punt gun has led to a decline in the number of water birds in the United States, which led to the issuance of successive laws since 1860 limiting the use until the ban in the United States in the early twentieth century - But it is Is still used in Britain, where the 1995 survey showed that there were about 50 Punt guns still in use.
