"Alarm and Starting Pistol"
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RevolvingGarbage
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I also have one of these type of “gun”. It’s marked “Made in Italy” “RTK” and “1947” on the barrel though I can’t believe that’s a date of manufacture. It’s designed to use some kind of .22 blank and the construction is “decent capgun” at best but it works.
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PLEASE do not try that as the nail gun blanks are a good deal hotter than a regular crimp blank.
Likely causing a blow up !.
It looks like the blast exits the acorn slots as the chambers are not bored through. I like the vapor phase S&W paper in the background. Another beautiful example of the "magnum" starter pistol. I have a tin of "Precise" crimped blanks and will research the re-ordering the same.View attachment 926807
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My grandmother has always been a bit of an odd duck. God love her, but she's a handful. When she was younger, she carried crappy little pimp gun in .25 acp. As she started to become a little less sharp, my late grandfather took the .25 away from her. She bought herself a blank pistol. Now, my grandmother goes nowhere and has no need to have a carry gun, but I asked her why she even wanted to bother carrying an overblown cap gun.
Her answer was, "If an 85 year old woman pulls a gun on you, you probably aren't going to check and see if its real. If they manage to take it away from me and shoot me, I'm just going to fall down like I'm dead." Some cringy self defense advice there, but this was some years ago. My grandpa is no longer with us, but my grandma has made it to 92 and a half years and hasn't had to play possum once. She still has the little pop gun somewhere. The .25 left the house when grandpa passed. Wouldn't want her getting confused as to what she was pulling on us on one of her less than lucid days
Her answer was, "If an 85 year old woman pulls a gun on you, you probably aren't going to check and see if its real. If they manage to take it away from me and shoot me, I'm just going to fall down like I'm dead." Some cringy self defense advice there, but this was some years ago. My grandpa is no longer with us, but my grandma has made it to 92 and a half years and hasn't had to play possum once. She still has the little pop gun somewhere. The .25 left the house when grandpa passed. Wouldn't want her getting confused as to what she was pulling on us on one of her less than lucid days
JTHunter
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JTHunter
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My grandmother has always been a bit of an odd duck. God love her, but she's a handful. When she was younger, she carried crappy little pimp gun in .25 acp. As she started to become a little less sharp, my late grandfather took the .25 away from her. She bought herself a blank pistol. Now, my grandmother goes nowhere and has no need to have a carry gun, but I asked her why she even wanted to bother carrying an overblown cap gun.
Her answer was, "If an 85 year old woman pulls a gun on you, you probably aren't going to check and see if its real. If they manage to take it away from me and shoot me, I'm just going to fall down like I'm dead." Some cringy self defense advice there, but this was some years ago. My grandpa is no longer with us, but my grandma has made it to 92 and a half years and hasn't had to play possum once. She still has the little pop gun somewhere. The .25 left the house when grandpa passed. Wouldn't want her getting confused as to what she was pulling on us on one of her less than lucid days
Hopefully, you kept that .25 "in the family".
I have a "relative" that is a year behind yours and they have both a Marlin Model 60 (.22LR) and a .38 Special. This relative shoots the "stinkpot" turtles that are digging into the dam on their lake when they are out sunning themselves.
hemiram
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My dad sold the type the OP posted the pics of.
When the city made the boneheaded move to "improve" downtown by removing the parking meters, the store went out of business. I got a ton of used starter pistols, semiauto and revolver style, most of them were easily fixed and I sold them to friends at school. $5.00 with a tin of blanks, they were gone in a couple of days. Another treasure trove, if I could go back in time was the 3 grocery bags full of Regency transistor radios, about half of them were the first commercial transistor radio, the TR-1, and the rest were it's replacement, the much much better TR-4(I think that was the model number). Almost all of them had simple things wrong with them, and I got about 90% of them working and sold them all for $2 each. I had some larger portables that I sold for $5 each. Great money for a 12 year old back then.
When the city made the boneheaded move to "improve" downtown by removing the parking meters, the store went out of business. I got a ton of used starter pistols, semiauto and revolver style, most of them were easily fixed and I sold them to friends at school. $5.00 with a tin of blanks, they were gone in a couple of days. Another treasure trove, if I could go back in time was the 3 grocery bags full of Regency transistor radios, about half of them were the first commercial transistor radio, the TR-1, and the rest were it's replacement, the much much better TR-4(I think that was the model number). Almost all of them had simple things wrong with them, and I got about 90% of them working and sold them all for $2 each. I had some larger portables that I sold for $5 each. Great money for a 12 year old back then.
Was it “Erscheinen de Todes” or “ Erscheinung des Todes”?
Scheintot.
kBob
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Pz Gren,
That looks right. I wonder if they were named that because after the guy you briefly frightened with one took it from you and used it to beat you into a Coma you had the appearance of death
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That looks right. I wonder if they were named that because after the guy you briefly frightened with one took it from you and used it to beat you into a Coma you had the appearance of death
-kBob
MedWheeler
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Does that one load from a side gate, like a single-action? Mine does.
Does that one load from a side gate, like a single-action? Mine does.
MedWheeler- yes it loads from a side gate. I had to go look at it to be sure. Now you have me wondering how to unload it. Looks like you shove the fired ones out with a nail.Can't get the cylinder pin out.
I have learned that the 6mm blanks and the 22 blanks seem to be interchangeable. Look at the ammo boxes and read. Learn something new every week.
I have learned that the 6mm blanks and the 22 blanks seem to be interchangeable. Look at the ammo boxes and read. Learn something new every week.
Sauron1959
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Wow, that brings back memories! Kind of prehistoric Kimber Pepper Blaster.
Had a couple of those while in high school in the mid-70s. Probably a mail-order out of the Shotgun News or something. Had the blanks and the tear gas rounds. Boys being boys, my friends and I tried them out on each other. Stick the gun in your friends open car window, try to do a mag dump and watch him drive off quickly. (lol)
The tear gas round resembled a 22 short cartridge with a waxy seal for the tear gas powder, and was incredibly anemic. Just a faint whiff and that was it.
I can't fathom how one of those would deter even a low grade criminal. But what the heck, we had fun with them.
Had a couple of those while in high school in the mid-70s. Probably a mail-order out of the Shotgun News or something. Had the blanks and the tear gas rounds. Boys being boys, my friends and I tried them out on each other. Stick the gun in your friends open car window, try to do a mag dump and watch him drive off quickly. (lol)
The tear gas round resembled a 22 short cartridge with a waxy seal for the tear gas powder, and was incredibly anemic. Just a faint whiff and that was it.
I can't fathom how one of those would deter even a low grade criminal. But what the heck, we had fun with them.
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