Picture of the Day - Unusual Guns

[tac]

Anyhow, Andy this is MY unusual gun for the day. It is a 1/4th working scale model of a four-times life-size Enfield musketoon of 1861. I guess that makes it the world's smallest replica of a giant-sized muzzleloader!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Well If you are ever over this way...please drop by for a visit...and you can look till yer heart's content...
Andy

 

[DeanMk]

Well only if you are Goliath I suppose....
Be neat to use for my display for sure ...just wish it was a copy of a Colt 1860 Army instead of a Remington New Model Army...
Andy

It'll require its own trailer and a winch to use it.

 

[CzechOne]

Flash Gordon, eat your heart out!!!!...

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[StacattoP]

Here's some wierd ones

 

[CamoDeafie]

Here's some wierd ones

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That bottom one... I can see where Hi Point got the idea for the Planet of Apes styled stock for their 9mm carbines before the Tactical/"Target" stock

 

[StacattoP]

Lmaoooo

 

[Capn Jack]

Here are some pictures of my, "Iwacky Anti-tank gun". With 90 psi.it will send a (D Cell) battery 600 yards.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Cool. I enjoyed the taofladermous YouTube video of shooting the rifle and pistol gyro-jet. What a crazy but interesting idea that gun was.

 

[Capn Jack]

tac,
I followed them both while they were in the gun magazines. To me, the Dardick Trounds seemed the most practical. They were easily mass produced and looked like a more reliable system

 

[The Heretic]

Ah, make it three. Please add to that pair the Remington electronic ignition rifle - a genuine cure for which there was no problem whatsoever.

There are a number of issues that electric ignition would solve/mitigate:

1) Mechanical triggers and firing pin movement - both can have significant effects on accuracy of the firearm/shooter combination. In addition, they can affect rate of fire in a firearm that uses caseless ammo, or where the ammo is pre-loaded into the barrels (e.g., the "Metal Storm" systems).

2) Electronic ignition coupled with plasma/liquid propellant can allow much higher velocities by controlling the pressure of the propellant charge; raising the pressure at a controlled rate, then keeping it at the maximum desired pressure until the projectile has left the barrel.

The experiments I read about showed velocities in the 5000 fps range without pressure problems. This is mostly applicable for military weapons (tanks, artillery, etc) and now electric rail guns have far exceeded those velocities, but rail guns are still very expensive and require significant power plants - whereas electronic ignition with the right propellant does not.

The other related benefit is that the user can "dial down" the velocity as desired without changing the ammo.

 

[The Heretic]

I actually have an electronic trigger on my Steyr air pistol, so I'm not entirely biased.

However, I would draw your attention to the sales figures of Remington's daring rifles, and the cost of the ammunition, and whether or not you can still buy any of it at the usual ammunition price level.

Not saying Remington's effort was a commercial success (a LOT of tech often first comes out well before "its time") or maybe the implementation wasn't well thought out, just saying that there are reasons that electronic ignition (which is usually different from an electronic trigger) has significant advantages and uses - so it isn't a solution looking for a problem.

 

[tac]

I'm corrected AND chastened. Consider my post un-writ.

 

[CountryGent]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

Oh who am I kidding, I love the wackiness.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Wacky for sure...
On the M203...you use the M16 magazine as a "pistol grip" when shooting the grenade launcher...
Not sure where you do that on the Marlin 1894...
I know there is no box magazine to act as a pistol grip here...just wondering where your hand goes when you shoot the M203 pictured.
Andy

 

[EPS]

Wacky for sure...
On the M203...you use the M16 magazine as a "pistol grip" when shooting the grenade launcher...
Not sure where you do that on the Marlin 1894...
I know there is no box magazine to act as a pistol grip here...just wondering where your hand goes when you shoot the M203 pictured.
Andy

When you are cocking the leaver to load another shot you just hit the launcher trigger .
On the way back LOL

 

[Andy54Hawken]

When you are cocking the leaver to load another shot you just hit the launcher trigger .
On the way back LOL

EEK...!

Although that might work...

I really like the M203 it is a versatile weapon system for sure.
They were nice to have around for the security man on our sniper teams.
Andy

 

[EPS]

EEK...!

Although that might work...

I really like the M203 it is a versatile weapon system for sure.
They were nice to have around for the security man on our sniper teams.
Andy

Or just leave the leaver forward and use it like you would use the mag on a M16.
Lol

 

[EPS]

I will say this .
That's a cool looking gun with that SUPPRESSER on it.

 

[CamoDeafie]

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

Oh who am I kidding, I love the wackiness.

I don't hate it either...