My father bought some seal rifles.They where
a local guntype along the coast to hunt seals
On the sea ice in the spring caliber from ,500-
Almost one inch Mussel loaders changed from
flintlock to percussion and the oldest is probably
pre flintlock
They had the gun mounted on a ski with a white
sheet with a hole to aim through.And crawled on
the stomach towards the seal.They had to get in
fifty yards range to get a instant kill. If not the seal
would dive in to the water and be lost. Many men
was lost forever if there was a storm and the ice
opened up