Show off a creative Vintage Gun shot

[Missionary]

When up north I view it my civic duty to help eradicate vermin. And flying crows with flintlocks is more fun than swatting flies.
Pictured are our two primary crow dispatchers. A double .60 and a .60 Trade Gun. Both well capable of 40 yard crows when loaded with my mix of #4 and #6 lead shot with 75 grains of 3F Goex and 3F in the pan.

 

[Missionary]

I had previously posted a photo of our Hall rifles. Found a photo about 5 years back of it being fired on the 50 yard line of the Danville Rifle Club.
This rifle is one of our hunting rifles and easily capable of punching a .54 RB through a corn cruncher at our river bottom hunting areas in East ILL-Nois.

 

[Snakeoil]

An armed society is a polite society.

Yup. My Grandfather worked in NYC when he first came here from France. He was without a doubt the most low-key and kind man I'd ever met. His philosophy was live and let live and would not hurt a flea. Yet when he worked in the city he carried a .32 H&R Young America which I later played with as a kid. His other personal defense weapon was a sword cane. I never got to see it. But my Dad told me that it had a button that you pushed and the lower staff of the cane would drop away to reveal a double-edged sword. Nobody knows what happened to it. I tore that house apart as a kid looking for that cane. Never found it. It might still be in house hidden in a rafter somewhere. My cousin lives there now. We probably should do another search.

 

[L Ross]

Yup. My Grandfather worked in NYC when he first came here from France. He was without a doubt the most low-key and kind man I'd ever met. His philosophy was live and let live and would not hurt a flea. Yet when he worked in the city he carried a .32 H&R Young America which I later played with as a kid. His other personal defense weapon was a sword cane. I never got to see it. But my Dad told me that it had a button that you pushed and the lower staff of the cane would drop away to reveal a double-edged sword. Nobody knows what happened to it. I tore that house apart as a kid looking for that cane. Never found it. It might still be in house hidden in a rafter somewhere. My cousin lives there now. We probably should do another search.

I imagine EMS and modern medicine has undermined the usefulness of such historic pieces. That said, any gun, or cane, beats a broken wine bottle.

 

[RicinYakima]

Base ball bats seem to be the weapon of choice for street crime today. None of the about will work very well.

 

[glassparman]

Not a firearm but interesting none the less.

From my private ammo collection.

Who can identify these rounds?

Hint - not .50 cal.

 

[glassparman]

My type 19 8mm Japanese Nambu and holster.

I load for and shoot this fine specimen.

 

[Michael]

.55 Cal Boys Anti Tank rifle.

Neeext.

 

[fiver]

cupro nickel
pinch and roll crimped...
won't be this kid touching any of those off.

pretty sure those 'belts' are mushed in place over the brass as a sleeve too.

 

[glassparman]

Ok Michael . . . I'll pick something harder! LOL

Nice work though.

 

[Missionary]

Those "pinch and roll" crimps remind me of some 1903 vintage Mauser 1896 Broomhandle ammo I came across down here years back.

 

[Bret4207]

Yup. My Grandfather worked in NYC when he first came here from France. He was without a doubt the most low-key and kind man I'd ever met. His philosophy was live and let live and would not hurt a flea. Yet when he worked in the city he carried a .32 H&R Young America which I later played with as a kid. His other personal defense weapon was a sword cane. I never got to see it. But my Dad told me that it had a button that you pushed and the lower staff of the cane would drop away to reveal a double-edged sword. Nobody knows what happened to it. I tore that house apart as a kid looking for that cane. Never found it. It might still be in house hidden in a rafter somewhere. My cousin lives there now. We probably should do another search.

Highly illegal in NYS. I mean, think of all the news stories you've read where some little old man goes on a killing spree with a sword cane...

 

[Snakeoil]

Highly illegal in NYS. I mean, think of all the news stories you've read where some little old man goes on a killing spree with a sword cane...

Yeah, I know. I wonder though if it is controlled like switchblades are controlled. I always thought that they were flat out illegal. But my understanding is that you can own them, you just cannot carry them.

My type 19 8mm Japanese Nambu and holster.

There appears to be a broken flat spring near the bottom front of the grip. Is that the mag release? If so, I can imagine a soldier or two getting one round off and then nothing as the mag is now lying on the ground cuz his finger was where it wasn't supposed to be. Hate when that happens.

 

[glassparman]

Snake oil, yeah that is a mag tension spring. Unfortunately it is rivited in. You can cut your hand on it if not careful. There is a guy that makes them but I've just never got around to it.

 

[Snakeoil]

Snake oil, yeah that is a mag tension spring. Unfortunately it is rivited in. You can cut your hand on it if not careful. There is a guy that makes them but I've just never got around to it.

You know, it just occurred to me that the Nambu looks a lot like it could be an early Ruger. Now the Japanese were part of the Axis powers, so it would not come as a surprise that they copied the shape of the Luger when they designed this pistol. Now throw in the difficulty that the Japanese have with the letter L, and it could very well be the origin of the name Ruger. I can here the Inspector General as he looks it over.

Ooooh... very nice a pistor. It rook rike a Ruger.

 

[glassparman]

Yeah, actually the old man I got it from told me he had a "Japanese Luger". I knew what he was talking about so I didn't argue . . . I just paid the man and went on my way.

 

[Walks]

I gotta grab a couple outa the safe

 

[L Ross]

This one's definitely vintage. And I think unique. I'm wearing this in my avatar photo at a Scheutzen match.