Picture of the Day - Unusual Guns

[tac]

I don't like it, but I appreciate you posting it. Apart from the KA-Boom that obviously took place, can you tell us the story? Remember, if you can recall a good deal back, that I was in the next bay from a guy shooting his dad's 1917 Colt revolver when it came part and killed his cousin, standing next to him. A compressed load of a around 20gr of Bullseye will do that to an older gun.

 

[The Heretic]

I don't like it, but I appreciate you posting it. Apart from the KA-Boom that obviously took place, can you tell us the story? Remember, if you can recall a good deal back, that I was in the next bay from a guy shooting his dad's 1917 Colt revolver when it came part and killed his cousin, standing next to him. A compressed load of a around 20gr of Bullseye will do that to an older gun.

I have no further info. I provided the link to a blurb which asks for more info.

It looks to me like two rounds went off at the same time.

Normally I wouldn't post a ka-boom pic as there are so many - but this one seems unusual to me even for a kaboom.

 

[tac]

It looks to me like two rounds went off at the same time.

Yup, sympathetic detonation, it's called, I'm told.

Well, it happens with a loose load - this here is a Euroarms R&S that was loaded with 24gr of nitro something, probably 2400, judging by what was in the other chambers and cleared out. The guy next to this puppy was badly injured, but the ****wit who was shooting it was unscathed. sympatheic

 

[The Heretic]

I could see how that could happen with a BP revolver, but I fail to see how it could happen with a modern smokeless cartridge revolver.

 

[tac]

Me, too. But nevertheless is DOES happen, like in the one and only KA-Boom I know about personally, since it occurred in the bay next to us. A six-shot revolver had the actual firing chamber let go, and one on each side- just like the image you showed us.. It MAY have been from fragments of what was surely a detonation, and not a conflagration. A compressed load of around 20 - 24gr of Bullseye did the biz in my case. The shooter had been loading .223 Rem the evening before, it seems, and had forgotten to check the meter setting....we tried to stop the victim from dying, but it's very hard to put a tourniquet on the neck.

 

[DeanMk]

The "inline muzzleloader" isn't a 20th century idea or invention.
Here is another pistol of mine...
A "inline" flintlock "box lock" pistol by Joseph Barber of London circa 1760's / 1770's....
Andy
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Andy,

Wasn't that commonly referred to as a "boot gun"?


Dean

 

[DeanMk]

...and speaking of unusual muzzle loaders, an old pirate gun called a "Duckfoot"....



...and a 4 barreled version...

 

[DeanMk]

The infamous PUNT GUN ...

 

[DeanMk]

...and finally, another old pirate gun...an 1837 Cutlass Pistol...



...and another take on the Cutlass pistol...



...look back by the hilt, see the barrel? There's another one on the other side of the blade, too...

 

[po18guy]

The Arsenal "double-wide" 1911. Here's a vid of Jerry Miculek doing the "quad wield."

 

[ZoidMeister]

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Mine is a bit more accurate.

My .357 mouse gun . . . .

 

[rdb241]

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Andy,

Wasn't that commonly referred to as a "boot gun"?


Dean

In period accounts they are referred to a Pocket Pistols or a Muff Pistol.
Muff being a fur tube hand warmer....
I haven't seen the term Boot pistol in 18th or 19th century accounts....I think it is a 20th century sales term....
Andy

 

[Andy54Hawken]

To be clear tac is talking about "kit"
As in a piece of your kit ...items that you use and carry...not a Kit gun....that was made by someone at home at their work bench

I've quit calling it a kit gun , cause that term causes too much confusion....I have however seen period references to it as a pocket pistol...so I stick with that
Andy

 

[Andy54Hawken]

It was made by Joseph Barber circa 1760
Andy

 

[Andy54Hawken]

tac ,
Dean was asking about this pistol ....
My Joseph Barber Pistol...it is indeed circa 1760 or so...not a Kit gun , as in a build it yourself gun , nor a replica
Andy

 

[Andy54Hawken]

I was answering a question that Dean asked me about the gun that I just pictured...SEE post #86
Not any of the guns the you just pictured.....
Andy

 

[tac]

Crossed wires, sorry.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

No worries tac its the hazards of electronic communication...
Andy

 

[tac]

Tuesday.