Thread 63892918

If it looks weird (pic related), operates weird (G11), shoots weird ammo (also G11), or whatever else that's weird, post it here. Stumbled across pic while looking at the Diablo Pistol; no video of the thing shooting which kind of sucks.

Yeah check this thing

S333 Thunderstruck (finalized)

>>63892938
S333 Thunderstruck (prototype)

Egg gun

SAAs with hammers that are tailored to fanning.

Along with the Merwin and Hulbert revolver, I would like to see reproductions of turret guns. (they look cool)

This revolver reminds me of those STG-44s with the bent barrels. Now, onto buying another cheap gun because conceal carrying 3 guns on my person isn't enough and I'm poor.
>>63892927
Apologies for sounding ignorant but what happens when a gas block is upside down?

>>63892991
The gas port on the barrel no longer lines up with the gas block, and so no gas can travel through the gas tube to the bolt carrier.
The result is a rifle that is no longer semi auto, but more of a straight-pull bolt action.
Even if the barrel's gas port was drilled to accommodate this, you'd need a gas tube that bends around and down below the barrel into the gas block

>>63892918 (OP)
What about ones we own? Daisy-Heddon VL. Caseless 22LR (basically), cocks and loads like an underlever air rifle. Uses what essentially looks like an air rifle piston to force air through a small hole, heating it up, detonating the yellow propellant cylinder attached to the back of the bullet, whatever they made it from.

>>63893021
I guess he really wanted a bolt action? Hope that's the case. Thanks for the explanation.
>>63893070
">What about ones we own?"
Even better! Cool piece too. Isn't it that one gun that got in trouble with the ATF because they labeled it as an actual gun while it was being sold as an air rifle due to its ammo?

>>63892942
Mossberg suing for patent infringement in 3, 2, 1....

>>63893070
Where I'm from it's an old school boy trick to modify break-barrel air rifles to do the same thing.

The process involves replacing the mainspring with a stronger one, then using diabolo-type pellets with a large skirt which is filled with a paste made of grease and crushed up match heads.
The Diesel effect as the air heats up is enough ignite the propellant and massively boost the speed of the pellet.
Muzzle velocity is high enough to make a loud and clear supersonic snap.
The downside is that the rifling on regular air rifles aren't made for velocities even remotely that high, so the pellets don't stabilize property and the accuracy is complete shit.

>>63895080
When I was a kid we'd add a tiny droplet of kerosene, WD-40 or similar to the back of the pellet, then let it "diesel". Like you said it does give a lot more power but the accuracy would generally be shit because the velocity was inconsistent.

>>63893026
How did this guy get an STG-940?

>>63895029
>Isn't it that one gun that got in trouble with the ATF because they labeled it as an actual gun while it was being sold as an air rifle due to its ammo?
I want to say possibly but I do remember I kept misremembering something about the rifle's history so I want to say that may be only partly true if at all. I do know that Daisy went on to later get an actual license to manufacture some time in the late 80s and would make some..."interesting" rifles. Things like the 2201 with a Zamak/zinc receiver (seems to be the same metal as their air rifles), quite nice adjustable buttplate, screw-ring attached polymer jacketed barrel, plastic faux-wood or real wood stock, and (in higher end models; 2201 is single shot with no feed tray) a rotary magazine that suspiciously looks like a 10/22 magazine (*IIRC). Daisy also made the 2203, a semi-auto 22 built on a similar receiver that has bulky plastic magazines with a weird (cheap) locking mechanism and a cocking mechanism mimicking the Winchester 1903. Yeah, the one with the plunger. Generic image for reference.

>>63895156
It's an IO repro.

>>63895080
>>63895103
doing this really burns up seals too. Can't do it on CO2 guns though.

>>63896121
Yeah, I only ever tried it with break-barrels.

Speaking of oddball airguns, the Webley Hurricane and Tempest are neat. They have great ergonomics, a strange safety, and feel very nice and heavy in the hand. They made them in .22 and .177

>>63895959
this is the first time ive seen a carry handle that i hated

>>63895047
If the short act makes it through can we get flashlight guns like normal firearms like we used to?

>>63892970
>help, I'm surrounded and i need to commit suicide right this minute
>gun fairy: I have just the thing

>>63893070
I have a box of cartridges for one of those. I've never seen one of the rifles, and I spent the first 20 years of my life travelling to gunshows every weekend with my dad until he finally retired and quit renewing his ffl.

>>63895080
The trick when I was growing up was a single drop of gasoline or lighter fluid inside the pump piston, then pump to diesel it. The pellet wpuld crack like a .22, so I guess they were supersonic. Saw a couple blown up air rifles, but nobody got hurt bad enough to tell parents. Did see a 15 year old blow most of his hand off heating up a C02 cartridge with a zippo though. That was wild.

>>63892991
It shoots the bullet back into you and launches your bolt carrier downrange.

>>63900880
Believe it or not I found this one in a very local gun auction held by a local auctioneer that usually does full estate auctions (household junk, the guns if any, then the cars if any, then the house) with the help of a local gun shop to handle the transfers. There were TWO OF THEM and one had a wooden stock (AFAIK right now a $500 aftermarket stock). Both went for under $50 before transfer lol. The other, I saw a local guy selling and he wanted about $250 maybe 8 years ago. He also claims a guy talked to him who owns one. Why there are so many in my county I do not know. Try to find weird places like that; especially during COVID no one was bidding at all on weird shit. The bolt action 22LR Daisy went for about $100. I think my 1903 knockoff Daisy was like $250-300 with a wood stock and I nearly shit a brick when on closer inspection, the sale tag said "includes box, magazine." The rear sight had never been installed. Also check nearby large chain hunting stores for their used sections. Sometimes they get collections. Saw it with Daisy rifles as well as Remington Nylons. Prices were not bad either!

>>63900880
>>63901349
>The other, I saw a local guy selling and he wanted about $250 maybe 8 years ago
Whoops, I meant to say the first one I saw was 8 years ago going for $250. In total I've seen 3 VLs, 2 2202s ($225-250), 1 2201, a 2213 (mine), a 2203 (LGS), and whatever else the store had when I bought my 2213 meaning probably at least two other 2203s. Stop by local large chains if possible. Sometimes neat shit goes cheap. Sometimes there's nothing for months on end. Sometimes you end up spending money you shouldn't be because you found a vintage 22 that comes with the original box.
PS: Make sure you very clearly tell the guys working to not tape up your original box; they'll double-box it with whatever generic box that chain uses.

>>63895891
So that thing's probably a ticking timebomb right?

The "bop it" gun