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Two men posing with a 'Punt Gun', a kind of shotgun for hunting waterfowl in large quantities, 1923 (lemmy.world)
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[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

These things would often decimate bird populations. They are not legal to use for hunting anymore.

[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And somehow massive fishing nets still allowed.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Ducks don't lay a million eggs on one go.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee -3 points 11 months ago

Plenty of fish in the sea

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Here's a song about what these guns accomplished.

[–] 342345@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

decimate bird populations

decimation then:

In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio 'removal of a tenth'[1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.

and now:

The word decimation in English is often used to refer to an extreme reduction in the number of a population or force or an overall sense of destruction and ruin.

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