Elmer Fudd's Shotgun?

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Elmer has two guns, one is a single barrel with a full stock and blade front sight, possibly a rifle. His other gun looks like a SxS shotgun. Most time he carries the single barrel gun.
 
Obviously fired black powder shells, 'cause when Bugs would stick his finger in the barrel and blow it up, Elmer's face and hat had way too much soot on them for smokeless loads . . . . or when he would bend the barrels in a "U" shape and shoot himself in the face . . . yep, charcoal burner . . . .
 
This was the beginning of a commercial loading operation of special op shells....originally called 'Fudds Duds'....engineered to blow up just properly without creasing his hat.

First in 10 and 12 gauge, later in smaller all the way down to 410 and 28s for the true purist who would accept no substitutes ....known to enthusiasts as "Fuddy's Duddies"

Even today old collectors of this kind of thing remain known by this name
 
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Supposedly a New Ithaca Double (they were well regarded in years past) was at point the "model". Read that somewhere years ago. It might even be true. Shrug.

If you notice the size of the pellets that Elmer had flying, he seemed to almost always be using buckshot. Of course since he was chasing a talking, and sometimes cross dressing, rabbit that was taller than he was, I suppose that was for the best.

In reality, Elmer simply had a terrible Absinthe habit that he'd picked up in the trenches during Dubya Dubya Wun. This also lead to his speech impediment. Bugs was simply a figment of his drug induced hallucinations.
 
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