kBob
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Ha! Got ya!
Today THE BOY and I were out riding around, looking for a Upick grape place and doing some "yarding" and ended up in a little town 20 miles away before heading back. I showed him the airfield where some of the guys that went on the Doolittel Tokyo raid were training when they got picked and talked about the dispersal pads and the .50 BMG rated backstop my club uses that was made to zero B-25 cheek guns. We watch some barrel racing. Pulled out the Gazzeteer map book and he ploted a back roads adventure which too us to a gun shop I had not known about.
Looked at a relic boot pistol of about .36 cal, single shot bag handle, and half octigon barrel. COuld not see any markings at all and all the non hardened ferous parts were gone. Really not recoverable I think but neat none the less.
We were on the way out when I saw in one corner with a consignment tag on it what I thought to be some half stock hawken, but noticing it looked a bit short of stock pull and having the almost 12 year old in tow I figured why not look at it. It turned out to ba a Spanish made 28 gauge shot gun with a pistol sized flintlock. I believe it was one of those "trade guns" Century sold back in the late 1960's or so. Had some frekels and needed some TLC but it still had that ridiculously thin steel ram rod undr it and a tiny wedge of flint in the jaws. It came very close to fitting THE BOY in the elbow to trigger finger test. Not having planned on gun cruising I did not have my bore light so I could not get a look inside beyond what I could see from the florecent lights in the ceiling. I did not buy it but did ask the store owner to contact "the old guy that left it and it hasn't moved in months" to see if he would back off any. It was marked for just under $100 and I was loath (skinflint that I am) to risk buying a pipe bomb for that much.
I know those things have absolutely no historical value, but I have to wonder how many smoke pole shooters got their start with one.
Would you shoot one? Would you let your kids shoot one?
ALso today looked at three .45-70 trap doors one of which was an 1884 with ramrod bayonet and a slightly sporterized Remington Rolling block which was unfortunately in that nasty smokeless 7mm Mousy chambering.
ALso not BP but saw a Winchester 67 .22RF single shot with finger groove stock in a $100 grab bag bucket. rough shape finish wise, but nice looking bolt, though rear sight was smashed and front sight missing.....still one of those was my first real rifle. It is still there as well.
Not a bad day so far.
-kBob
Today THE BOY and I were out riding around, looking for a Upick grape place and doing some "yarding" and ended up in a little town 20 miles away before heading back. I showed him the airfield where some of the guys that went on the Doolittel Tokyo raid were training when they got picked and talked about the dispersal pads and the .50 BMG rated backstop my club uses that was made to zero B-25 cheek guns. We watch some barrel racing. Pulled out the Gazzeteer map book and he ploted a back roads adventure which too us to a gun shop I had not known about.
Looked at a relic boot pistol of about .36 cal, single shot bag handle, and half octigon barrel. COuld not see any markings at all and all the non hardened ferous parts were gone. Really not recoverable I think but neat none the less.
We were on the way out when I saw in one corner with a consignment tag on it what I thought to be some half stock hawken, but noticing it looked a bit short of stock pull and having the almost 12 year old in tow I figured why not look at it. It turned out to ba a Spanish made 28 gauge shot gun with a pistol sized flintlock. I believe it was one of those "trade guns" Century sold back in the late 1960's or so. Had some frekels and needed some TLC but it still had that ridiculously thin steel ram rod undr it and a tiny wedge of flint in the jaws. It came very close to fitting THE BOY in the elbow to trigger finger test. Not having planned on gun cruising I did not have my bore light so I could not get a look inside beyond what I could see from the florecent lights in the ceiling. I did not buy it but did ask the store owner to contact "the old guy that left it and it hasn't moved in months" to see if he would back off any. It was marked for just under $100 and I was loath (skinflint that I am) to risk buying a pipe bomb for that much.
I know those things have absolutely no historical value, but I have to wonder how many smoke pole shooters got their start with one.
Would you shoot one? Would you let your kids shoot one?
ALso today looked at three .45-70 trap doors one of which was an 1884 with ramrod bayonet and a slightly sporterized Remington Rolling block which was unfortunately in that nasty smokeless 7mm Mousy chambering.
ALso not BP but saw a Winchester 67 .22RF single shot with finger groove stock in a $100 grab bag bucket. rough shape finish wise, but nice looking bolt, though rear sight was smashed and front sight missing.....still one of those was my first real rifle. It is still there as well.
Not a bad day so far.
-kBob
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