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Chad Love: Own Your Own Whale Gun
By Chad Love
Do you constantly fret over the adequacy of your gun collection? Are you worried there's a gaping hole in your hunting arsenal? Do you have guns for small game, upland birds, waterfowl, turkeys, predators, deer, elk, moose, bear, dangerous game, plains game, and pretty much anything else that walks, crawls or flies, but you still think there's something missing for the really, really big game?
Well, fret no more, because for the low starting bid of $19,950 you can complete your ultimate hunting battery with this, the Kongberg 90mm Harpoon Cannon, complete with everything you see here (crusty Norwegian whaler dudes sold separately).
Yes, that really is a genuine deck-mounted harpoon gun offered for sale on Gunbroker.com. And yes, if you really wanted it and had the coin to buy it and have it shipped to the states it could be yours. The question is, what the hell would you do with it? Is it the ultimate bowfishing rig? Could you bolt it to the bed of your truck to scare off annoying tailgaters? Lawn darts? Or is this the ultimate post-apocalyptic weapon for protecting your home?
What would you do with this thing? Click through this gallery of more photos of the harpoon gun for inspiration, then give us your best and most creative answer. Bonus points awarded for those that are written in a fake Norwegian accent, make some reference to Moby Dick, or include the term "thar she blows!"
Unless I get lucky and draw for, say, a humpback tag, I believe I'd simply mount the thing in my front yard to deter vacuum cleaner salesmen.
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Comments (53)
Mounting it in the front yard would work great to shoot and real back those speeding through my neighborhood!
I definitely mount it on my front yard to get those pesky Jehovah Witness away from my house!!!
Would be very hard to haul that sucker into the climbing stand with my parachute cord...
Looks like the perfect weapon for those pesky helicopters flying really low trying to find out what kind of cash crop you really have in the back 40.
Where do I buy expandable broadheads for that?
Would be nice to have, just in case a T-Rex wandered in to the neighborhood. Would also be fun to use it to test fixed versus mechanical broadheads.
If alligators were a little bigger, maybe ...
Whooley Mooley look at the state of the art scope on that sucker! I need to get that up in my 30' high 14X70 mobile home deer,duck,moose,goose blind and wait for em to get lined up on the food plot!! deer,duck,moose,goose siskabobs!!! Whooo hoooo!!!
Do they have a presentation model with engraving and a monogram?
Seriously, does anyone know what propellant or ignition system these things use?
That'll teach my pesky neighbor to spy on me when I'm shooting shotguns nekkid
Ya. Tis good fer me bow of me blubber busten boat! Yeah I know. Very weak Norwegian with more of an Amish/Eskimo accent.
Happy, I'm gonna take a wild guess and say the thing is a Tim Tooltime version of an air gun.
wonder if it has exchangable chokes?
I'd mount it on a flatbed, then create a float for the Rose Bowl Parade with a harpoon line running from the gun to a large likeness of Rosie O' Donnell.
Guess I'll have to belay my plans for the 6 pound civil war cannon ($12000 with carriage and ammo box) and save up for this more modern gun to keep jet skis away from my camp.
I could launch a lure waaaay across the lake with this rig. What fires it anyway?
Sure beats a potato gun.
As usual Mike, you have laughing with your post.Now if my Jurassic park experiment works, I have a fun toy!!
So is it a "muzzleloader" or does it come with shells? Or is it run off hydraulics? I am not ready to bid without some questions answered first. Does it come with anti-whaling activists too?
interesting, does it come with a winch to real the harpoon back in or is that more? when you combine the knock down power and an automatic retrieve it adds much allure to the whitetail hunter
Well, if Arnold Schwarzenegger could purchase the exact M-47 tank he drove while in the Austrian Army, why not a Harpoon gun for the rest of us? Can you imagine firing this at a cannon shooting event? Thar she blows!!!
It's a muzzle-loading breech-loader. You stuff a harpoon in the front. You load a shell in the breech. Aim it. Set it off. Kablooie. Dead whale.
That's no crusty norwegian sailor dude, that's Petzal after using the swedish peni pump, my god look at the weight he's lost. He must be abusing it.
I'd put it in the bed of my truck with a sign that reads:
Ye who follow to closely shall will get my point so back off my bumper or be run thru!
i think it would be fun as hell just to shoot some random stuff with it
I'd mount it on the back of a JD 9400 and go armored car fishing. It'd be like shootin' fish in a barrel, Aye?
Would you have to fill out a 4473 for it????? And once you got it home, you'd know you'd have to try it. The perfect target would be one of those cars that sounds like a weed eater with the booming stereo in it. That would be a hoot!
I'd almost bet we see this wind up on 'Mythbusters'.....
Like me newbie "punt gun" ya. Had to get one for the "miss's" after what that "great white whale" did to her after she said "thar she blows" ya. And her knowin' Moby Dicks a male an all ya.
Keeps the "outlaw/inlaws" from commin' round to ya !
Got it down at "Whales Are Us" ya, on sale for a krown n' a song ya !
"Hey dad, can I take your new whale gun in for show and tell? I really want to impress all my freinds, an' I figure they'll think this is pretty neat."
Big O:
This "punt gun" makes the 1.25 caliber model in the NRA Firearms Museum look like a BB gun.
Testing fishing reel drags with a bass boat just doesn't seem all that extreme any more. If a reel can't stop a harpoon, It ain't good enough.
That gun would be great for harpooning Florida c0ckroaches and Alaskan mosquitos.
Mike Diehl +1 for you that is a good one.
Gee twice the caliber of my 44mm golf ball mortar! I suspect it only shoots harpoons and the reloads must be pricy. Crusty Norwegian looks fun too!
Goodness Mike, and I was thinking of mounting the harpoon gun on my Jeep and towing a large inflated Rush Limbaugh balloon! Perhaps they are both gasbags full of hot air? (I suspect the gas within Limbaugh is more methane and hydrogen sulfide than nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide).
MERCY!!! I don't know what I would use it for but everything about me tells me I NEED it.
Is it leagle in a X bow zone? Might have to get it for my next Brontasuarus hunt.
One question could you use it for carp hunting that might be fun.
maybe I could get those brats with the fourwheelers that are always ruining crops and buzzing my house the the fouwheelers??? sounds good to me!!!!
I think I would mount it on the roof of the house just above the front door. Use it as a deterrent for those dang neighborhood kids that ring my doorbell at 11 o'clock at night and then run away! Thar she BLOWS!!!!
See now this is what I need to snag and reel in the Miller Genuine Draft truck that's been perusing my street and eluding me for years. Granted, I'll lose a few beers when I take the shot but with my Kongberg 90mm Harpoon Cannon, as long as he doesn't break my line, he'll have a hard time getting away.
RRRRRRRRRRRRRR Mateee"s She'd look good mounted near the fron of my 16' kevlar canoe, It would be partially camoflaged by the batwin sail in the middle.
We can change the old saying,
"Close only counts in Horseshoes, Handgrenades, & Harpoons!" Watch Out Trout! We got the Harpoon Out!
(I figure a shot within 2 feet odda do it SSSSSSSS!
TTTTTTTTTTTTT, ETC. LOL)
Rrrr min matt jeg hooker opp til de foran min et og gå ut til Loch Ness og rattmonterte ut og knytte min første mate opp og smide ham over bord og bruk for bait og når Nessy kommer opp uppsving der squirts blod og deretter id få det montert.
Rrrr my mattes I hooker up to the front of my dingy and go out to Loch Ness and paddle out and tie my first mate up and throw him over board and use for bait and when Nessy comes up boom there squirts blood and then id get it mounted.
Its exactly what I need to get "BIG DADDY"! Its hard to see the moose in my logo, but he's about 8' at the hump, & over 10 feet eyeball to eyeball.
I might try to post it
ive shot one :D:D:D
I would use it to let those hormone ridden boys that want to date my daughter know that I can "reach out and touch them, their car, and just about anything else I want if she comes home with a tear in her eye...
Ya hey der me an ole oly wood mount dat der pig sticker on da front of r tirteen foot jan buot an head down der to da land o lincon to shoot us some of dem flyen carp I tell ya.
Ohh ya me post one of dem der pictuas on dis site and me face and my lovely wooman are all over de cyspace. My wooman I call Wooley Booger ya she get wrapped in seal skin at night. My pa had a wooman lide dees but she done him wrong. Saw da great Mody from da poop deck said "Dar she blow' and da rope on de harpoony wrapped on he leg and took pappy wid him.
Actually this weapon is a joke considering what the founding fathers had compared to their enemies...
What is the bullet drop at 300 yards?
$20,000 and it comes with that crappy scope? Must have picked it up at Walmart.
I take two at that price! one for the yard and one for the truck!
I think I'd have to mount it on the roof of the house.
Okay, ye Landlubbers...I had no need for a piece of artillary with the likes o' that when I went after that great deadly piece 'o fish flesh, 'Blue Velvet', the largest 'gill in the Seven Ponds. I just used me five pounder an' blew 'er to Kingdom Come, wheres I now resides along with 'er, her mean spirited carcass mounted above me Lazy Boy... 90mm harpoon cannon indeed !! Pshaw !
the beretta A400 was a let down as a dinosaur gun so maybe I'll invest my money in this puppy.
you would have to have one big target to sight that bad boy in!
This is the basis for a third-world-country entry into "the race to space". The Jamacans plan to harpoon the moon and then climb up the rope. (Ja! Dot weel work, mon!)
rabbitpolice88 we used an empty oildrum thrown overboard.. worked great.. :P
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I'd mount it on a flatbed, then create a float for the Rose Bowl Parade with a harpoon line running from the gun to a large likeness of Rosie O' Donnell.
I definitely mount it on my front yard to get those pesky Jehovah Witness away from my house!!!
That'll teach my pesky neighbor to spy on me when I'm shooting shotguns nekkid
MERCY!!! I don't know what I would use it for but everything about me tells me I NEED it.
Would you have to fill out a 4473 for it????? And once you got it home, you'd know you'd have to try it. The perfect target would be one of those cars that sounds like a weed eater with the booming stereo in it. That would be a hoot!
I'd almost bet we see this wind up on 'Mythbusters'.....
Looks like the perfect weapon for those pesky helicopters flying really low trying to find out what kind of cash crop you really have in the back 40.
wonder if it has exchangable chokes?
Would be very hard to haul that sucker into the climbing stand with my parachute cord...
Whooley Mooley look at the state of the art scope on that sucker! I need to get that up in my 30' high 14X70 mobile home deer,duck,moose,goose blind and wait for em to get lined up on the food plot!! deer,duck,moose,goose siskabobs!!! Whooo hoooo!!!
Like me newbie "punt gun" ya. Had to get one for the "miss's" after what that "great white whale" did to her after she said "thar she blows" ya. And her knowin' Moby Dicks a male an all ya.
Keeps the "outlaw/inlaws" from commin' round to ya !
Got it down at "Whales Are Us" ya, on sale for a krown n' a song ya !
maybe I could get those brats with the fourwheelers that are always ruining crops and buzzing my house the the fouwheelers??? sounds good to me!!!!
Where do I buy expandable broadheads for that?
Would be nice to have, just in case a T-Rex wandered in to the neighborhood. Would also be fun to use it to test fixed versus mechanical broadheads.
So is it a "muzzleloader" or does it come with shells? Or is it run off hydraulics? I am not ready to bid without some questions answered first. Does it come with anti-whaling activists too?
Big O:
This "punt gun" makes the 1.25 caliber model in the NRA Firearms Museum look like a BB gun.
I think I would mount it on the roof of the house just above the front door. Use it as a deterrent for those dang neighborhood kids that ring my doorbell at 11 o'clock at night and then run away! Thar she BLOWS!!!!
See now this is what I need to snag and reel in the Miller Genuine Draft truck that's been perusing my street and eluding me for years. Granted, I'll lose a few beers when I take the shot but with my Kongberg 90mm Harpoon Cannon, as long as he doesn't break my line, he'll have a hard time getting away.
ive shot one :D:D:D
I would use it to let those hormone ridden boys that want to date my daughter know that I can "reach out and touch them, their car, and just about anything else I want if she comes home with a tear in her eye...
What is the bullet drop at 300 yards?
$20,000 and it comes with that crappy scope? Must have picked it up at Walmart.
the beretta A400 was a let down as a dinosaur gun so maybe I'll invest my money in this puppy.
Mounting it in the front yard would work great to shoot and real back those speeding through my neighborhood!
If alligators were a little bigger, maybe ...
Do they have a presentation model with engraving and a monogram?
Seriously, does anyone know what propellant or ignition system these things use?
Ya. Tis good fer me bow of me blubber busten boat! Yeah I know. Very weak Norwegian with more of an Amish/Eskimo accent.
Happy, I'm gonna take a wild guess and say the thing is a Tim Tooltime version of an air gun.
Guess I'll have to belay my plans for the 6 pound civil war cannon ($12000 with carriage and ammo box) and save up for this more modern gun to keep jet skis away from my camp.
I could launch a lure waaaay across the lake with this rig. What fires it anyway?
Sure beats a potato gun.
As usual Mike, you have laughing with your post.Now if my Jurassic park experiment works, I have a fun toy!!
interesting, does it come with a winch to real the harpoon back in or is that more? when you combine the knock down power and an automatic retrieve it adds much allure to the whitetail hunter
Well, if Arnold Schwarzenegger could purchase the exact M-47 tank he drove while in the Austrian Army, why not a Harpoon gun for the rest of us? Can you imagine firing this at a cannon shooting event? Thar she blows!!!
It's a muzzle-loading breech-loader. You stuff a harpoon in the front. You load a shell in the breech. Aim it. Set it off. Kablooie. Dead whale.
I'd put it in the bed of my truck with a sign that reads:
Ye who follow to closely shall will get my point so back off my bumper or be run thru!
i think it would be fun as hell just to shoot some random stuff with it
I'd mount it on the back of a JD 9400 and go armored car fishing. It'd be like shootin' fish in a barrel, Aye?
"Hey dad, can I take your new whale gun in for show and tell? I really want to impress all my freinds, an' I figure they'll think this is pretty neat."
Testing fishing reel drags with a bass boat just doesn't seem all that extreme any more. If a reel can't stop a harpoon, It ain't good enough.
That gun would be great for harpooning Florida c0ckroaches and Alaskan mosquitos.
Mike Diehl +1 for you that is a good one.
Is it leagle in a X bow zone? Might have to get it for my next Brontasuarus hunt.
One question could you use it for carp hunting that might be fun.
RRRRRRRRRRRRRR Mateee"s She'd look good mounted near the fron of my 16' kevlar canoe, It would be partially camoflaged by the batwin sail in the middle.
We can change the old saying,
"Close only counts in Horseshoes, Handgrenades, & Harpoons!" Watch Out Trout! We got the Harpoon Out!
(I figure a shot within 2 feet odda do it SSSSSSSS!
TTTTTTTTTTTTT, ETC. LOL)
Rrrr min matt jeg hooker opp til de foran min et og gå ut til Loch Ness og rattmonterte ut og knytte min første mate opp og smide ham over bord og bruk for bait og når Nessy kommer opp uppsving der squirts blod og deretter id få det montert.
Rrrr my mattes I hooker up to the front of my dingy and go out to Loch Ness and paddle out and tie my first mate up and throw him over board and use for bait and when Nessy comes up boom there squirts blood and then id get it mounted.
Its exactly what I need to get "BIG DADDY"! Its hard to see the moose in my logo, but he's about 8' at the hump, & over 10 feet eyeball to eyeball.
I might try to post it
Ya hey der me an ole oly wood mount dat der pig sticker on da front of r tirteen foot jan buot an head down der to da land o lincon to shoot us some of dem flyen carp I tell ya.
Ohh ya me post one of dem der pictuas on dis site and me face and my lovely wooman are all over de cyspace. My wooman I call Wooley Booger ya she get wrapped in seal skin at night. My pa had a wooman lide dees but she done him wrong. Saw da great Mody from da poop deck said "Dar she blow' and da rope on de harpoony wrapped on he leg and took pappy wid him.
Actually this weapon is a joke considering what the founding fathers had compared to their enemies...
I take two at that price! one for the yard and one for the truck!
I think I'd have to mount it on the roof of the house.
Okay, ye Landlubbers...I had no need for a piece of artillary with the likes o' that when I went after that great deadly piece 'o fish flesh, 'Blue Velvet', the largest 'gill in the Seven Ponds. I just used me five pounder an' blew 'er to Kingdom Come, wheres I now resides along with 'er, her mean spirited carcass mounted above me Lazy Boy... 90mm harpoon cannon indeed !! Pshaw !
you would have to have one big target to sight that bad boy in!
rabbitpolice88 we used an empty oildrum thrown overboard.. worked great.. :P
That's no crusty norwegian sailor dude, that's Petzal after using the swedish peni pump, my god look at the weight he's lost. He must be abusing it.
This is the basis for a third-world-country entry into "the race to space". The Jamacans plan to harpoon the moon and then climb up the rope. (Ja! Dot weel work, mon!)
Gee twice the caliber of my 44mm golf ball mortar! I suspect it only shoots harpoons and the reloads must be pricy. Crusty Norwegian looks fun too!
Goodness Mike, and I was thinking of mounting the harpoon gun on my Jeep and towing a large inflated Rush Limbaugh balloon! Perhaps they are both gasbags full of hot air? (I suspect the gas within Limbaugh is more methane and hydrogen sulfide than nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide).
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