Punt gun discussion from CBMM on Facebook

I go to CBMM often and I am still upset they closed the waterfowl building and got rid of the sneakboxes they had on display. The new visitors center has some of the artifacts from the waterfowl building. I would combine a visit with something like the Waterfowl Festival versus a specific trip.

Rick Lathrop
 
Richard Lathrop said:
I go to CBMM often and I am still upset they closed the waterfowl building and got rid of the sneakboxes they had on display. The new visitors center has some of the artifacts from the waterfowl building. I would combine a visit with something like the Waterfowl Festival versus a specific trip.

Rick Lathrop
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What became of the boats? Storage? Auction?
 
Not long ago a friend and I stopped in Trunbull Restoration. I was surprised to see a punt gun with all the history and details concerning it in the show room. I've seen the displays at the Waterfowl Festival and at museums on the East Coast. I did not expect to see a fine example here in Western NY. Made my day. The Outlaw Gunner has been in my book collection for many years bought at Tidewater Specialties, $12.50. Dr. Walsh was always in attendance at the old Waterfowl Festival. Those Were the days.
 
Last time I was at the CBMM they had a full display of punt guns and punt skiffs inside the main building and quite a few layout & battery boxes in outdoor areas, but that would have been around 1984.
 
Richard Lathrop said:
Jode,

I spoke with the collections manager and they are stored off site. I will probably take a look at them over the winter.

Rick Lathrop
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Rick~

My 40+ year-old memories include at least one gunning coffin (aka sedge box) and a vessel (cannot recall hull-shape) set up for gunning ice: white paint and I think runners. Please share some photos!

All the best,

SJS
 
MLBob Furia said:
Last time I was at the CBMM they had a full display of punt guns and punt skiffs inside the main building and quite a few layout & battery boxes in outdoor areas, but that would have been around 1984.
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Bob~

My visit was the same era: maybe '82 or '83.

All the best,

SJS
 
Steve,
I'm sure that I have a bunch of slides of that exhibit of boats and guns from the '84 trip to the Bay.
Was a great trip (in December & January), and we spent lots of time progging around all the little backwater towns up and down the shore. Tidewater Inn was our home base.
Trips to St. Michaels, Assateague to see the wild ponies, eating "arster" stew in Ruke's General Store out on Smith Island, Seafood fresh off the boats at a little restaurant called The Bridge, Lem and Steve's shop BEFORE it became a museum. Even had a visit with Ida Ward Linton in Crisfield (...courtesy of an intro from Buckeye Joe Wooster). She dragged out a bunch of her dad and uncle's carvings for us to examine. I remember standing in a field at the Blackwater Wildlife Refuge at dusk when thousands of ducks, geese, and swans came in to spend the night. Talk about the sky black with birds. I have never heard such a cacauphony of wildfowl calls and sound since!
Bob
 
jode hillman said:
What became of the boats? Storage? Auction?
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Don't know where they came from, but there were a couple of sneak boxes in the lobby at the National Conservation Training Center, a US FWS facility (aka, Club Fed; aka, the Robert Byrd memorial boondoggle that is impossible to fly anywhere near as the closest airports are in Baltimore, DC and Pittsurburgh, all at least 2 hours away) in Shepardstown, WV. Also some classic mid-west duck boats, too.
 
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