What Is It?
posted by Xavier at 11:59 PM
Monday, April 30, 2007
Xavier is a Registered Nurse who specialized in complex wound care. He has practiced for over fourteen years in his community. He often provided nursing service in areas where law enforcement refused to enter without back-up. Xavier now works in surgery. Xavier has been an avid shooter for over 30 years. He strongly supports the 2nd Amendment, opposes gun control of any sort, and carries a weapon 24 hours a day. Xavier is known on various internet gun forums as XavierBreath. He is married with three children, and is moderated by an apathetic one eyed cat, a goofy Golden Retriever, and a stalwart German Shepherd Dog. One day, he hopes to be deserving of them all.
Domari Nolo
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The Four Rules
1. All firearms are always loaded
2. Never let the muzzle of a firearm point at anything you are not willing to destroy
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot
4. Be sure of your target and what lies beyond it
The Five Rules of Concealed Carry
1. Your concealed handgun is for protection of life only.
2. Know exactly when you can use your gun.
3. If you can run away -- RUN!
4. Display your gun, be prepared to go to jail.
5. Don't let your emotions get the best of you.
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55 Comments:
That's easy.
It's a pigeon launcher.
Designed by JMB to provide extra firepower to non-frontline troops, such as radio operators, who may not necessarily be carrying hand grenades.
The four included pigeon cartridges were also intended to provide companionship to the man at the lonely post, who may otherwise go for days without hearing the soothing call of a wild bird.
First!
It's a Henworth?
Some sort of bullet catcher / trap?
Mr. Bruce
an adapter to fire in
pill box peep or
tank peep slot
Nice...
hey wanted to thank you commander has less bite, fitting hammer just a matter of match to old one
will try Ed Brown grip safety
Maybe an early attempt to a bullet catcher?
A tool for opening a gun that is jammed with a live round. I just don't know the technical name for it.
Some sort of pressure testing apparatus?
A stapler ... you know, for those really big jobs...
A manually-operated, single-shot barrel assembly adapter for firing square/rectangular bullets from a semi-auto handgun?
I thik it's the "Better mousetrap" that we keep hearing about.
It's old, though; I'd estimate a manufacture date of, oh, say, 1911 or thereabouts.
Are you going to let us know, or are you trying to find out too?
My best guess is some sort of silencer?
A 1911 Jack Hammer?
~ WHAT IS IT? ~
Without a doubt…the item in question just has to be a “one handed” POOPER-SCOOPER!Produced expressly for the shooting aficionado!
Please remember, keep your finger off the trigger until you have acquired the “TARGET” in your sights! LOL!!
Pray tell, what’s the prize for being the very first to correctly name this acclaimed devise? May I take CA$H in lieu of the coveted first prize?
Spring has sprung,
the grass has riz,
I wonder where,
the flowers is?
Keep em coming X, your blog is usually the very first I eyeball as my day begins (I have plenty of company here!)
God Bless Us, Everyone!
As always,
Ronaldo
The coolest Pez dispenser ever?
I'm going to take a wild guess and say "I have no clucking fue".
Did I win?
It's a semi-automatic toaster.
It's a semi-automatic toaster.
Hmmmm.
Engine starter of some type?
Chet
moreammo@hotmail.com
A hardcore mouse trap?
-Andy
unless I missed my guess, that contraption is a "pooper scooper" for cleaning up doggie turds, assembled from an old handgun...
That, my friend, is a mouse gun. The box at the muzzle is where you load the mouse.
Great blog!
Charlie
I'm gonna go with some kind of firing port prototype for a 1911, to let early AFV crew members shoot from inside the vehicle.
I KNOW! I KNOW!!
The latest rage in gun locks, right!
Pull the handle and the shovel end opens up allowing you to shoot...
That was easy... NEXT!
;)
Wild quess, some kind of dispenser: confetti, leaflets...
or maybe a starting pistol combined with potato peeler...
Anyway
You don't know and asking or know and want to make a hard nut quiz?
Herrmannek
That's a rare 1911 pancake batter dispenser.
No chance we can see the other side?
H'm. THAT's funky.
WAG: A firing-slit setup for an armored car (bank, not military) or a high-security prison door. The gun mount locks into a slot in the door at about waist-height or a little higher, and the guard has an armored-glass window or vision slit above it at head-height for aiming.
DaveP.
it's a Jaworski "bullet Rotovator"; itt urns 230 gr. hard ball into No. 8 bird shot, then spreads the pattern horizontally for more close range lethality.
Thad
I don't thing it's a firearm at all personally, just resembles one.
It kind of reminds me of the old time bed warmers that use hot ash for heat.
I am sure that I am wrong.
Looks like a fancy smancy homemade garlic press or cheese grater to me.
a mouse execution chamber???
seriously
or a VERY strange bullet catcher
New congressionaly proposed safety lock? A new Glock designed 1911? The world's shortest shooting range? A really bad idea for a fingernail clipper? J.M. Browning's vacuum cleaner? Not safe for inside the waistband? Bumblebee Killer 3000?
Hello... anyone can tell what that is. Its a popcorn popper for the campfire. When the top pops open (or maybe explodes is the correct term) the your jiffy pop is ready to share.
No idea, but I'm sure Carolyn McCarthy will add it to the ban list.
Ok, 8 hours searching the net, and not a clue. How 'bout a hint?
an early novelty cigarette lighter, fun but intended to impart the reminder that each use is akin to pointing a bullet at your head...
Sedgely made it so it can't be that obscure - what's the answer?
Oh, I know what that is...it's a rectal-cranial separator.
WWI igniter box for setting off multipal fuzes to charges at one time. ed j
Hmmmm.
Magazine release would seem to be missing or intentionally absent. That combined with the rather robust latching mechanism at the top would indicate to me a single-shot-only device. And by the looks of that handle at the top, it is meant to be forcefully held with two hands against something that is being worked on.
Workmanship looks really nice - reminds me of late 1920's or early 1930's vintage metalwork. The straight screws would also hint pre-mid-1930's.
I would have thought a "nail gun" for putting fasteners into concrete or similar, but the front is wide and flat. I can only guess some sort of blade for cutting went in there, and seeing as how the front opens at the same time the "slide" opens, I would assume the blade is single use.
So I'll venture this guess: it is a cutter for cutting lines in a hurry, like those used to moor ships or airships. I throw airships in there because of my assumed vintage.
This is easy, I can't believe nobody knows this. It's a DINGLEHOPPER!!!
It looks like one of those door-breachers I've seen marketed to ninjacops, only that one used the gas from a .357 blank out of a Taurus 608.
It's for launching a safety line from ship to ship. There is a spool of line in the front trap, you open the door with the top lever and then fire the lead weight towards the distressed ship. Once you get the string to the distressed ship, you haul larger rope over.
So what do I win??????
Seve
I think its a scaler for cleaning something like a foundry furnace
Where is Xavier to answer this question...the world wants to know!
Here is a guess.... but P.F. Sedgley was know for strange gun items.
In the late 50's on diesel subs we had several varients of flare/signal guns. Some like the photo were built on a 1911 frames. They were used by officers in lieu of photo signaling, because the light emitted was short and acute. Think rudamentary laser flashes, without the long distance application. Laser is probably not the right word, but nontheless we had flare/signal "units" that looked very similar to that contraption. The trigger was pulled and (2) windows opened from the top of the metal box, flashed for a fraction of a second. There were 6 "rounds" to fire off, the "rounds" were held in a drum type magazine.
Hope this helps. Neat looking contraption no question.
It's a powder tester, per this site:
http://www.collectorsfirearms.com/admin/product_details.php?itemID=1888
"Powder tester"?
Seems dubious to me.
In my best impression of the Governator:
"I know what this is.. it's an espresso machine... no no no.. it's a snow-cone maker.. is it a WATER heater?"
Thank you, THR.
http://www.collectorsfirearms.com/admin/product_details.php?itemID=1888
It's a powder tester.
I don't see any sights, so I guess precision aiming isn't required. And a handle on top, so it's either meant to be fired in an unusual position or the sheer weight makes the second handle necessary.
That is a heck of a puzzler.
The new sidearm designed for our Armed Forces by the National Democratic Commitee.
I'll be the dope who asks the next question: what's a powder tester?
ok, so it's a powder tester.
but what does it do?!!
You fire a charge, then weigh the unburnt fraction. Gives you an idea of the proper mix per load.
I'm really pulling this out of my nether regions....I have no clue!!!!
Steve
I went to Collector's Firearms in Houston to pick up another shotgun and mentioned this Item to the crew. They brought it out to show me. HEAVY. and very carefully made. the chamber looked to be about .32 caliber (was expecting .45)
Usually this crew really knows their stuff in C/R but no one really knew much about this one. If you are in Houston you will know that this place is big and you can spend a lot of time drooling. They have entirely too much of my money.
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