Picture of the Day - Unusual Guns

[DunRanull]

Looks like a good use of two cents...
Andy

I think that the claws you mention were for running a rope thru to secure the weapon while moving it... think tying it to a camel...

 

[Andy54Hawken]

I think that the claws you mention were for running a rope thru to secure the weapon while moving it... think tying it to a camel...

That makes sense...damn now I gotta go and join the US Camel Corps....
Andy

 

[DeanMk]

So after taking a closer look....
The flintlock has a safety latch behind the hammer...also the frizzen is covered with a leather tab.
The safety latch is neat...and not often found on replica locks.
The tab is meant as a "safety" to prevent the flint from striking the frizzen.
This seems to me at least , signs of a working , as in fireable flintlock muzzle loader.

if you look at the barrel there are two lugs near the stock..those are for locking into the swivel , which is mounted on the wall or boat.
Wall guns / swivel guns were often oversized...they tended to shoot .80 caliber or larger round ball or shot.

It appears to me at least , after a second look...
like a swivel gun that has been re-stocked...again not sure what the 'Claw" thing is on top of the barrel , near the fore end.
Andy

Pretty good assessment.
I was gonna say, with that big sling on it, it could be an early form of what was called a Moutain Gun.
But a wall/swivel gun also makes sense.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Saw this for sale on gunprime

 

[The Heretic]

Rifle version:

 

[CamoDeafie]

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Rifle version:
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"Standard Manufacturing"? Clearly High Standard fell from their glory days

 

[ilikegunspdx]

"Standard Manufacturing"? Clearly High Standard fell from their glory days

They make some real bubblegume. They have the volley fire two barrel thing (thunderstruck I think it's called maybe) which is one of the worst gun designs ever made Imo, right after the zip 22, which was also an abomination made by them. Utter bubblegume imo.

 

[NobullSKS]

This was new to me….
Saw on YouTube channel and apparently made in the 70s 80s
.308 1911 pistol upper… also saw .223

 

[DeanMk]

Saw this for sale on gunprime
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Looks like a cross between a STEN and a Star Z70

 

[The Heretic]

 

[JRuby]

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Bad day

 

[rdb241]

How about a Russian 12.7x108mm HMG turned into a sniper rifle!

 

[Mike_M57]

This was new to me….
Saw on YouTube channel and apparently made in the 70s 80s
.308 1911 pistol upper… also saw .223

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I knew someone that has a .308 version. He let me fire it a couple of times. meh.

 

[NobullSKS]

I knew someone that has a .308 version. He let me fire it a couple of times. meh.

Yeah I think it's neat that they have slap on "uppers" for the 1911.

Maybe with enough money and the right connections ….. can find or get made any cartridge. Wouldn't mind having.50 Beowulf as range bling.

 

[The Heretic]

 

[bradsteen]

That's pretty neat!

 

[rdb241]

Modern day Luger technology

 

[DeanMk]

Yeah, pretty wild. Looks like a Thompson, works like a Luger. I bet it wouldn't have stovepiped if he held it by the forearm instead of the mag.

 

[The Heretic]

 

[rdb241]