Spencer Neuharth

February, 2022, someone reaches out to me with a hot tip that Rock Island Auction has two of them coming up for sale that summer.

Again, Rock Island, they're the biggest auction house when it comes to historic guns.

Here's some examples of the guns that they have sold in the past.

Han Solo's DL-44 Heavy Blaster.

That sold for $1 million.

They sold two Remington revolvers that were owned by Ulysses S. Grant.

Those sold for $5 million.

And then they sold a Winchester 1886 with the serial number one.

So literally the first ever Winchester 1886 that sold for $1.2 million.

Just to give you an idea of like the kind of guns that they traffic.

That's who had two of these punt guns for sale.

March of 2022.

Here are some emails with Steve.

Here was one where he said, quote, as my dad always said, you can't lose your ass on punt guns.

I don't know if Steve's dad actually said that, but I like, you know, it'd be like, as Abraham Lincoln said, you can't trust everything you read on the internet.

Like, I feel like that's what Steve was doing, but I'm just like trying to give you more context of how excited Steve was about this.

The next day he says, I can't wait to mount it to a boat and set out some soda bottles like ducks.

Here's an email from a few weeks later.

He says, we got to buy the damned punt gun.

We're poised and ready.