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« Reply #325 on: April 08, 2011, 08:23:37 am » |
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« Reply #326 on: April 08, 2011, 08:25:49 pm » |
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you gotta love livin babe, cause dyin is a pain in the ass -----
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« Reply #327 on: April 08, 2011, 08:46:04 pm » |
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« Reply #328 on: May 08, 2011, 08:55:30 pm » |
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Didn't see where this was mentioned before, so how about a WWI German Gatling gun? The Fokker-Leimberger was an early example of an externally powered machine gun of Imperial German origin that predated the M134 Minigun. It had 12 barrels and could fire at a rate of 7,200 rounds per minute but it suffered from jamming due to the poor quality of German war time production ammunition at the time.[1] The weapon was experimented with during World War I until the armistice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker-LeimbergerPerfect for your Zeppelins, if you can do better than the Germans did with cartridge quality control. |
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A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
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« Reply #329 on: May 08, 2011, 10:00:07 pm » |
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May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Hope you got your things together
Hope you're quite prepared to die
Looks like we're in for nasty weather
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« Reply #330 on: May 18, 2011, 02:40:52 pm » |
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If you're packing a cannon like the .455 Webley why would you need the Howdah Gun?  That being said I think your weapon load should about cover every possibility you can with a portable weapon.....may need something heavier for the Krakens though! |
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« Reply #334 on: May 22, 2011, 03:46:33 pm » |
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http://asoac.org/bulletins/89_alley_gardner.pdf"The Gardner Patent Gun manufactured by the Pratt & Whitney Company was exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1878 where it was awarded the Gold Medal. The Gatling Gun finished second."
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« Reply #335 on: May 22, 2011, 04:45:25 pm » |
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 http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=230653698S&W also made a lot of safety hammerless ones like that too. There were a lot of knock-off manufacturers producing extremely similar guns. I carry a Hopkins & Allen .38 S&W for side matches. Antique single actions are such a rage right now for cowboy action shooting that these double actions are pretty cheap. Many old gunshops seem to have them starting at about $60.00. |
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akumabito
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« Reply #336 on: May 22, 2011, 06:45:13 pm » |
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I love top break revolvers.. such a sexy design, especially with the extractors that just throw out the spent cases on opening.. I can't believe they went out of fashion.. and I'm not buying into the explanation that they're too weak. I am pretty confident that with modern materials the hinge and locking mechanism could be made strong enough to handle modern cartridges without shaking to bits..
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« Reply #338 on: May 26, 2011, 08:30:03 am » |
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There is one piece that still puzzles me. It resembles an oversized Lancaster pistol (although shape and mass of the barrel assembly may indicate earlier origins), unwieldy but interestingly outlandish and even elegant in its own crude way. Does anyone knows this weapon or at least can tell if it is a real firearm or a prop? http://discordia.pl/~thanatos/pseudolancaster.jpgRegards |
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« Reply #339 on: May 26, 2011, 10:26:16 am » |
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That looks like a real prototype to me, Wereboar. A great number of impractical multishot weapons were developed in the 19th century, very few of them actually achieving production. In this case, I think the inventor was trying to make a weapon that was flatter than a revolver, to fit better under clothes, and fired more shots. It looks ridiculously hard to aim, and the recoil would be variable and off center, but it is flat and does have 10 barrels. It seems a nicely made piece, possibly the inventor commissioned a gunsmith to make it or was a trained gunsmith himself.
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« Reply #340 on: May 26, 2011, 02:01:11 pm » |
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I'm going to toss in the Maxim 1lb autocanon, a Victorian era machine-gun of explodey doom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QF_1_pounder_pom-pomEssentially someone in the 1890s struck on the idea of making the standard maxim a little bigger, and have it fire 1lb 37mm explosive shells. This obviously wasn't enough, so they applied the 'make it bigger!' principle made a 2lb version for real shootyness. They even mounted a few of them on top of and in the gondolas of some airships! |
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« Reply #341 on: May 26, 2011, 03:36:32 pm » |
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There is one piece that still puzzles me. It resembles an oversized Lancaster pistol (although shape and mass of the barrel assembly may indicate earlier origins), unwieldy but interestingly outlandish and even elegant in its own crude way. Does anyone knows this weapon or at least can tell if it is a real firearm or a prop? http://discordia.pl/~thanatos/pseudolancaster.jpgRegards In the States we would refer to that as a "Harmonica gun"... they were either vertical- or horizontal-slide multibarrel; they were trendy, if I recall correctly, from about 1880 through roughly 1900 for cartridge guns; some examples of percussion or even flintlock are also extant. Some examples:     For a pepperbox style pistol, with much steamy potential, I give you the Russian SPP-1 Spetsnaz underwater dart gun.  It fires these long and bizarre cartridges; it was not lethal at great range, but could be used above water as well. I was advisor to a production company that took my suggestion to use this as the perfect weapon for an ex-Spetsnaz Russian Mafia leader, slightly psychotic. It was his signature to put a couple of darts into the head of a victim after extracting information from him.  Cheers! Chas. |
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« Reply #342 on: June 11, 2011, 11:29:15 pm » |
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.303 caliber Lee Metford Mk 1* rifle that the angry beavers of the Khyber got ahold of.... note the copper wire wrapping (about 50% seems to be missing).  |
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« Reply #343 on: June 12, 2011, 10:45:43 am » |
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Almost any early machine gun counts, even the Maxim gun was water-cooled and covered with brass.
I however, would like to suggest the Mexican Mondragon rifle, the first production semi-automatic rifle, and the German Bergmann MP18, the first production submachine gun. Or for some much earlier weapons, try the Nock Volley Gun (Seven barrels and they all fire at the same time!) or the Afghan jezail musket. In between, there's all those early revolver designs experimented with before Sam Colt finally got it right, and the wonderful but flawed Colt M1855 Revolving Rifle.
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« Reply #344 on: June 30, 2011, 02:12:49 pm » |
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...and has anyone mentioned the 37mm Hotchkiss Revolving cannon yet?
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« Reply #345 on: July 04, 2011, 06:03:38 pm » |
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.303 caliber Lee Metford Mk 1* rifle that the angry beavers of the Khyber got ahold of.... note the copper wire wrapping (about 50% seems to be missing). Nothing wrong with a Khyber Pass Kopy. Aye, not as accurate OR safe, but GOD are the arabized rifles pretty!  There's a nice arab musket buttstock for your viewing pleasure! |
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« Reply #346 on: July 05, 2011, 07:24:00 am » |
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What do we want? Decapitations!
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« Reply #347 on: July 05, 2011, 07:29:18 am » |
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 How about something like this? |
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« Reply #348 on: July 05, 2011, 11:08:23 am » |
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Unfortunatly no. A friend of mine sent me the link. However as my persona is somewhat of an Explorer I think I am going ot mod somethign and make one similar to it. |
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« Reply #349 on: July 05, 2011, 05:23:09 pm » |
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Nothing wrong with a Khyber Pass Kopy.
No. It is not a copy. It's one that's been whittled down, but I assure you, it's an authentic Lee Metford Mk I*. |
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