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Browsing through web just found a awesome air-gun which looks like Moriarty's favorite tool. Here it is:  and some close shots     it is not fantasy. it's real. based at .58 cal,680+ fpe.. i can say 'OMG' only =) |
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Drake White
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2007, 06:23:12 pm » |
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OMG is right, that thing is gorgeous...
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2007, 06:51:12 pm » |
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Gosh! By the power of Her Majesty Queen Victoria herself that is a magnificent piece of design and functionality! Good find, sir! Do you have a link to the location of the purveyor?
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Zaxton Books
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2007, 07:05:18 pm » |
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That is the most beautiful weapon I have ever seen. I ache to test it.
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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2007, 07:12:07 pm » |
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Oh that is nice! I wonder, in rifle mods such as these, would affixing a brass pocket telescope be feasible for a scope?
(The topic of this post made me picture Christopher Walken dancing and flying.)
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« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2007, 07:24:04 pm » |
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I don't like weapons...
But that's art.....!
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« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2007, 07:37:21 pm » |
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A singular piece of craftsmanship!
The "original" was constructed to Moriarty's specifications by a blind German mechanic named Von Herder.
This was the weapon used by Colonel Sebastiian Moran in his attempt to assasinate Holmes.
"The Empty House" was the story in question.
I suspect Conan Doyle would be extremely impressed.
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schmeisser
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« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2007, 09:44:18 pm » |
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Gosh! By the power of Her Majesty Queen Victoria herself that is a magnificent piece of design and functionality! Good find, sir! Do you have a link to the location of the purveyor?
sure http://www.glbarnes.com/catalog.html
this is catalog of custom PCP guns. model named Yukon. i like weapons, and i like weapon art =) here's additional shot  |
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« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2007, 01:18:20 am » |
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If you removed the shoulder stock from that Victory carbine and refinished it with a suitable faux-metal finish, you'd have quite the beauty of a death-ray.
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« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2007, 02:43:26 am » |
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beautiful firearm, but how could they attach that boring black metal scope to such a work of art? What it needs are a set of polished lenses in open brass framing - practicality be damned!
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« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2007, 03:20:26 am » |
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I don't like weapons...
But that's art.....!
Ditto! I think even Ghandi would find beauty in that firearm  |
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« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2007, 04:02:09 am » |
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That, sir, is absolutely amazing. Thank you for finding that one.
I do believe that the airsoft sniper rifle conversion has jumped a few places in the project queue, though I know I could not come close to that specimen.
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"Dancing Under The Rose" - The Albion Band.
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« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2007, 05:59:29 am » |
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Wow! Thats wonderful. Upon further research, that "airgun" is fully able to take down a buffalo in one shot. Yikes.
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schmeisser
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« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2007, 08:40:04 am » |
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« Last Edit: July 31, 2007, 08:41:46 am by schmeisser »
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Dr. Tobias Archer
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« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2007, 03:36:21 pm » |
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I fancy myself something of a swordsman, and so have little experience with projectile weapons, but I daresay that to have one of these delightful contrivances displayed above the mantle piece would indeed make even the most puritanical of melee fighters swell with manish pride.
Thank you very much for sharing these beautiful images!
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« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2007, 05:39:15 pm » |
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I daresay that to have one of these delightful contrivances displayed above the mantle piece would indeed make even the most puritanical of melee fighters swell with manish pride. Likewise... these are indeed things of beauty, even for us pracitioners of the gentlemanly blade. |
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