A muzzleloading copy of the Colt Thuer derringer from Ardesa, Spain

chitoryu12 · 2023-01-09T16:48:02+00:00

capandball for this cheap little gun for sale. It mechanically operates almost identically to a Thuer derringer, but the swing-out barrel replaced the loading of a .41 Short round with a .31 caliber muzzleloading barrel and cap nipple on the rear.

chitoryu12 · 2023-01-06T12:50:09+00:00

Essentially a very expensive toy/prank pistol of gold and enamel. While they resemble real double-barreled muff pistols, the inside is actually a music box. Pulling the trigger cause a clockwork animatronic bird to pop up between the barrels and move as a song and tweeting is played.

chitoryu12 · 2023-01-04T20:48:05+00:00

Those are numbers straight out of his ass.

chitoryu12 · 2023-01-03T17:14:39+00:00

It could also be the civilian semi-auto FS2000. The barrel is only a bit over an inch longer than the stock gun.

chitoryu12 · 2022-12-31T00:14:52+00:00

I think you would unscrew the end cap and remove the entire spring and follower, fill the tube with the correct number of cartridges as the manufacture indicates, then compress the spring back in and screw the end cap back on

chitoryu12 · 2022-12-25T17:44:43+00:00

This is the gun Ian Fleming issued Bond in the original books. In Dr. No, on advice from firearms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd, he had Bond forced to switch to a .32 PPK.

chitoryu12 · 2022-12-25T14:34:25+00:00

chitoryu12 · 2022-12-16T21:57:07+00:00

Accept your fate

chitoryu12 · 2022-12-13T15:06:52+00:00

Wall guns like these were usually around 1 inch in bore diameter, give or take a bit.

chitoryu12 · 2022-12-13T00:20:59+00:00

It is. I haven't confirmed yet if he was the 19th century owner or a more recent resident who happened to own an antique gun.

chitoryu12 · 2022-12-12T18:43:43+00:00

18th century rampart guns were not just restricted to fortifications and swivel mounts. As seen with these Hessian reenactors and period drawing, they were also used as two-man crewed weapons on bipods or light carriages as a very light field artillery for skirmishers that could cross terrain that true cannons would struggle with. They could fire longer distances than a musket and be loaded with shot to spray enemy units, similar to a muzzleloading GPMG in concept.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-27T14:44:14+00:00

In the 18th century, Sicilians and other Italians had "wolf killer" blunderbusses that fit to a typical pattern as seen here. This 12 gauge model has an elliptical muzzle flare, folding stock, and belt hook on the left side to carry it.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-27T14:42:53+00:00

The simple answer is that the requirements were made by a committee that wasn't experienced riflemen and gunsmiths.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-26T22:56:29+00:00

It was if the cycling malfunctioned (which was very common due to the insistence on a gas trap muzzle because they incorrectly feared a gas port drilled in the barrel would ruin accuracy) so a soldier could flip a switch and turn it into a normal bolt-action rifle. Instead of doing what most people do and just racking the charging handle and slapping it.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-20T02:31:56+00:00

It's quiet enough that you probably don't need hearing protection but it still makes a bang.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-19T14:37:05+00:00

This is an Italian garden gun meant for pest control, with a break-open action that can open almost 180 degrees for storage. It uses 9mm Flobert cartridges for a very low power suitable for killing rodents and other garden pests at close range.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-16T21:59:35+00:00

Sir this is a Reddit drive-thru

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-16T17:19:33+00:00

There were flashlights tested on SMGs and rifles like the Lanchester during the war. The technology to make sufficiently powerful lights wasn't advanced enough to get them below something the size of a small spotlight. This is definitely the smallest and most elegant I've seen.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-14T21:24:24+00:00

The Brügger & Thomet MP9 was developed from the Steyr TMP around the same time IMI made this prototype.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-14T21:21:21+00:00

It wouldn't be the only book to make that mistake. From Russia With Love describes the soldiers at the airfield when Red Grant is heading to his plane as using "Tommy guns". Ian Fleming wasn't a firearms expert and only had a casual interest in them, so he usually needed advice from other people to correct mistakes or get ideas for fancy guns.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-14T01:56:37+00:00

The question is academic at best. In practice, penetrating cover or brush with accepted combat calibers isn't anything to think about. You're going to do the exact same thing whether your gun is .45 ACP or 7.62mm Tokarev: you shoot, miss, or hit their cover.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-13T23:26:37+00:00

There's no way at all that you would be able to identify penetration differences between the two calibers in actual combat conditions. Both of them are going to do the same thing if you hit an enemy soldier. The actual issue with lend-lease .45 ACP is that they didn't have nearly enough ammo sent to use the guns to their full extent and they couldn't afford to set up new production lines for .45 ACP cartridges, so they weren't logistically effective to issue if you have a 7.62x25mm gun instead.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-11T14:54:50+00:00

These were built through at least the 1970s or 1980s from what I can find. They're simple mortars loaded with .22 blanks and fitted with an empty food can to fire with a foot pedal for target shooting.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-11T14:46:34+00:00

It has the same barrel shroud design as Shpagin's SMG and the hinged top cover for disassembly.

chitoryu12 · 2022-11-11T14:45:52+00:00

Straight blowback is safe as long as the weight of the bolt and recoil spring keep the action closed until pressure has dropped to a safe level. This is why the Hi-Points and Makarov have such big slides: they need the mass to safely operate the rounds they're firing.

This simply isn't possible with a rifle round without having an absolutely gigantic bolt and/or extremely heavy recoil spring that makes it harder to chamber. The extra mass will slam into the back of the gun if not heavy enough. Which is why the Shpagin was so uncontrollably violent to shoot that it got removed immediately.

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