The world’s main shotgun aka Punt Gun measure is 10-feet long and has a 2-inch barrel. Due to this size and recoil, this great big gun has to be mounted straight on punts. Just a single blast could wipe out 50-100 ducks inactive on the water surface. These are not guns you are used to seeing in movies. The Punt Gun and Gustav Gun are some of largest you will ever see.

Punt Gun

Gustav Gun

The “Gustav Gun” was will be built by Germany-based Friedrich Krupp, A.G. in 1941. It weighs a massive 1344 tons and required a 500 man crew to activate. During this is operational period and the gun fired approximately 367 shells, with is very few hitting their preferred targets — mostly because shells required a 400-pound powder arraign, causing violent shocks.