I learned something new today.

50 Shooter · July 13, 2005, 06:52 PM

Lewis and Clarke carried an air rifle with them on their expedition.

http://www4.vmi.edu/museum/air_rifle.html

Some good reading, follow the other links for more info.

ZeroX · July 13, 2005, 07:09 PM

That's one heck of a BB gun.

**taliv** · July 13, 2005, 07:57 PM

holy crap. i would never have guessed they had the ability to make a seal that tight.

RevDisk · July 13, 2005, 08:07 PM

Very sophisticated weapon for its time. Does anyone make a repo?

Harry Tuttle · July 13, 2005, 10:48 PM

Beeman has the original
http://www.beemans.net/lewis%20assault%20rifle.htm

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=72187

MechAg94 · July 13, 2005, 11:11 PM

The History Channel's shows have mentioned that before, but I hadn't seen pictures. Thanks.

50 Shooter · July 13, 2005, 11:20 PM

Harry,
Sorry I didn't see your thread before, hard to imagine that someone had made an air rifle in that era.

One of the guys I shoot with had a friend come out to the range with an air rifle that used a scuba tank. It was very accurate and deadly to paper targets at 100 yards. Can't imagine what it would cost for someone to make a copy of one of those.

RevDisk · July 14, 2005, 12:16 AM

Quote:

One of the guys I shoot with had a friend come out to the range with an air rifle that used a scuba tank. It was very accurate and deadly to paper targets at 100 yards. Can't imagine what it would cost for someone to make a copy of one of those.

Any decent metal fabrication shop could make copies by the hundreds.

50 Shooter · July 14, 2005, 01:41 AM

Sorry, I meant the Lewis & Clarke rifle.

ckyllo · July 14, 2005, 12:40 PM

IIRC the L&C air rifle had roughly the same amount of energy as a hot load .357 mag. it was mentioned it dave kopel's "a world without guns", a good read if you havent read it.

http://www.martin.mesanetworks.net/wrldnoguns.html

Harry Tuttle · July 14, 2005, 05:56 PM

i think a CNC and carbonfiber wrapped tank Girandoni would be very cool

July 13, 2005, 06:52 PM	#1
50 Shooter Member Join Date: December 24, 2002 Location: SoCal PRK Posts: 1,790	I learned something new today. Lewis and Clarke carried an air rifle with them on their expedition. http://www4.vmi.edu/museum/air_rifle.html Some good reading, follow the other links for more info. __________________ Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of death's construction In the fields the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

July 13, 2005, 07:09 PM	#2
ZeroX Member Join Date: May 30, 2004 Location: Bloomington, IN Posts: 888	That's one heck of a BB gun. __________________ ZeroX: The Gunless Wonder! "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill

July 13, 2005, 08:07 PM	#4
RevDisk Member Join Date: April 27, 2004 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 1,738	Very sophisticated weapon for its time. Does anyone make a repo? __________________ ---- We see what we want to see, We hear what we wish to hear, We believe what we desire to believe. Airplane Pictures

July 13, 2005, 10:48 PM	#5
Harry Tuttle Member Join Date: November 14, 2003 Posts: 3,093	Beeman has the original http://www.beemans.net/lewis%20assault%20rifle.htm http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=72187 __________________ "Enjoy every sandwich"

July 13, 2005, 11:11 PM	#6
MechAg94 Member Join Date: April 18, 2005 Location: Texas Gulf Coast Posts: 4,438	The History Channel's shows have mentioned that before, but I hadn't seen pictures. Thanks. __________________ "No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people." "The world is not going to be saved by legislation." William Howard Taft

July 13, 2005, 07:57 PM	#3
taliv Moderator Join Date: October 23, 2004 Posts: 8,155	holy crap. i would never have guessed they had the ability to make a seal that tight.

July 13, 2005, 11:20 PM	#7
50 Shooter Member Join Date: December 24, 2002 Location: SoCal PRK Posts: 1,790	Harry, Sorry I didn't see your thread before, hard to imagine that someone had made an air rifle in that era. One of the guys I shoot with had a friend come out to the range with an air rifle that used a scuba tank. It was very accurate and deadly to paper targets at 100 yards. Can't imagine what it would cost for someone to make a copy of one of those. __________________ Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of death's construction In the fields the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

July 14, 2005, 01:41 AM	#9
50 Shooter Member Join Date: December 24, 2002 Location: SoCal PRK Posts: 1,790	Sorry, I meant the Lewis & Clarke rifle. __________________ Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of death's construction In the fields the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

July 14, 2005, 12:40 PM	#10
ckyllo Member Join Date: April 19, 2004 Location: Minnesota Posts: 333	IIRC the L&C air rifle had roughly the same amount of energy as a hot load .357 mag. it was mentioned it dave kopel's "a world without guns", a good read if you havent read it. http://www.martin.mesanetworks.net/wrldnoguns.html __________________ "They say you can't use a rifle or shotgun indoors because a bad guy will grab the barrel. Yeah? Well, he better hang on, 'cause I'm gonna light him up and it will definitely be an "E" ticket ride." "Make (your attacker) advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but hes gonna have to beat me to death with it, 'cause it's going to be empty." Clint Smith, Thunder Ranch

July 14, 2005, 05:56 PM	#11
Harry Tuttle Member Join Date: November 14, 2003 Posts: 3,093	i think a CNC and carbonfiber wrapped tank Girandoni would be very cool __________________ "Enjoy every sandwich"

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