Not for the faint hearted!

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I would be more interested in a swivel gun similar to what Lewis and Clark had on their keel boat. They have a couple of swivel guns on display at the old Fort in St Augustine, Florida.
 
A friend built a 6' barrel long rifled wall gun that had the spigot for mounting onto a pallisade fortress wall. That sucker stood taller than him.
 
That's fantastic!

I was reminded of how much I hate working modern "Philippine mahogany" in fine detail work. Tear out, chipping, flaking ... ugh. They did a great job of final clean-up, but I surely would want to use something else, given the choice.
 
There's another name for wall guns but it escapes me now. This is an image of Pete, a fellow I know who built a few wall guns.

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I was hoping for there to be some description of the process of making the barrel. I guess that's how they make their money though so why give out the secrets? 2 inch would be just about right for a golf ball with a little wadding...
 
The large fouling pieces were called 'Punt' guns and were lashed to small boats to take out whole flocks of ducks and other aquatic birds. Were quite a bit too large to shoulder but they still made them look like a gigantic rifle for some reason.
 
Yes, punt gun is the term I have always heard for 2 ga or larger guns. They would, as RecoilRob pointed out, lash them down to a tiny wooden pirogue, paddle up as close as possible and shoot at the thickest part of the flock sitting on the water. 1 shot, 15 or 20 birds was the plan.
 
Punt guns are well known, but I've never heard that term applied to a military weapon -- only a large hunting weapon.

Anyone know?
 
I once got to "play" with the one inch rifled wall/boat gun that is in the Museum of American History in DC while it was in the Williamsburg gun shop for a refurbish.

I consider myself very fortunate to have been able to handle a gun that once served in the war of 1812.

Be decent, polite, respectable and interested and folks sometimes let you do things other folks might not get to do. Also got to walk a few passes on the Williamsburg gun shop rifling machine and snap a brand new made 16 bore fowler to seat the new flint there once.

One of my Professors at Florida State had a pivot gun in a large block of wood he used for a door stop in his inner office. It was a bit over one inch in bore and more the traditional unstocked tiller aimed gun. The casabel was lengthened to for the tiller.

-kBob
 
Not a 2 bore (gauge) but a 2". A 2 bore would be nearly 3/4" smaller at 1.3". A 2" is even a good bit bigger than a 1 bore. A 2 bore would utilize a lead round ball of nearly 1.75lbs. Which kinda puts things in perspective.
 
Blast! Seriously, I was just putting together the fixin's for a 4-bore underhammer!
Now here's this 2" Gun! Now I've got to live long enough to build one of them, too!
You're getting tough on the Old Man, Fellows!
I wonder how much shot she would take? The jug-choke ought to take up just about the whole length of the barrel. "PULL!"
 
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