Do you own any "replica" (non-firing) guns?

[BaltimoreBoy]

My friends and I had a couple of replicas in the '70s. This was before we could own legally.
I learned how to take down a Naval model P'08 Luger from these.
I still have in my possession a 1911 replica.
They were useful for learning how things went together.

 

[230RN]

^ That's why there are red tips on most of them, for what those are worth.

I'll bet Lonestar49 doesn't have any squirrels in his yard! That's a beautiful piece! Did a violin case come with it?

 

[Ian]

FWIW, here's my favorite. It doesn't look like much anymore, but it's sure got provenance.

 

[Chevelle SS]

^ What is that?

 

[Green Lantern]

I never really felt much interest in replicas till I saw a replica Webley revolver in a recent Atlanta Cutlery Corp catalog. Given that the option of going out and buying a real one isn't quite a simple as a trip to the gunstore (unless said gunstore happens to have an assortment of old Webleys in stock), I filed it away in my "don't remotely need but keep in mind if I have some spare "want money" category.

Still, as an earlier post said, I'm hard-pressed to put out any kind of money on a replica, that I could be putting towards the real thing.

Now....I'd buy a replica ASP 9mm in a heartbeat, if such a thing were made. As the odds of me finding one, and being able to afford it, are slim at best.

 

[The Man With No Name]

I've seen a few over the years I wanted but as someone else has already said the really nice ones cost too much vs. just putting money towards an air soft replica that I can have more fun with than just looking at or a real gun. If it wasn't for that I would own guite a few.

 

[2DREZQ]

You would be better off with two real crossed Mosin Nagants than a fake Thompson. Specially a Thompson. Usually real trumps fake.

I'm a little lost as to how a couple of russian milsurps would be better than a Tommy gun in a display setting? I really think they look like drek.

 

[Dr.Rob]

I am guilty of owning a few realistic capguns and airsoft/spring guns for use as props.

One oh my odder finds was a dart gun that looked like a VP-70 made by Imperial.

This stuff stays locked up in a case in my 'costume dock'.

I've never forked over the money for a pot meal 'non-gun' but the idea of picking up a C-96 has appealed to me.. you occasionally see them at gun shows for half the price of Atlanta Cutlery etc.

 

[Ian]

^ What is that?

It's the remains of a Volkssturm Gustloffwerke, aka a VG1-5. I found it at a militaria show in Belgium and brought it home in my suitcase.

 

[230RN]

Forgive the moderate thread drift...

Dr.Rob remarked: "One of my odder finds was a dart gun that looked like a VP-70 made by Imperial."

A real gun? Is that similar in purpose to the dart gun(s) tried out by the OSS in WWII which were based on the 1911 .45 and other platforms? Or is it just a kid's toy?

A correspondent and myself could not figure out what the OSS had in mind when it developed those. Some were powered by CO2, others by specialized powder cartridges (as in the 1911 modification.) The only thing we could come up with was they were to puncture tankage.

I have pix, but they may be covered by copyright or need personal permission.

Terry, 230RN

ETA PS: Ian, was that "correspondent" you?

 

[stupidme]

Used to dabble with a replica types and BB gun type shooters before moving to more firearm friendly states. I can still have fun with airsoft to save money.

 

[Ian]

Yep, I believe that was me. I have a video on the OSS 1911 modification: http://www.forgottenweapons.com/other-handguns/oss-bigot-pistol/

 

[230RN]

Ian: OK, thanks. I thought so. Thanks for the video. I hadn't seen that latest one that you linked to above. Very well done. I note your cat likes guns! Or at least, dart guns.

Terry

 

[Dr.Rob]

A real gun? Is that similar in purpose to the dart gun(s) tried out by the OSS in WWII which were based on the 1911 .45 and other platforms? Or is it just a kid's toy?

Conmpletely a plastic toy.. rubber darts. Used it on an "ALIAS" themed photoshoot years ago.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I have one non-firing replica gun: a dummy Sten II with sollid aluminum receiver. Don't plan on adding any, but it was too cool to let pass.

 

[Nickel Plated]

Some of the Air-Soft models look believably real until you pick them up.

Heh mine even feels and operates believably real until you squeeze the trigger.

Here's a linky if anyone wants to see
http://www.gasguns.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=8584&p=63179#p63179

Living in NYC I don't have an awful lot of use for a real gun since it's more trouble than it's worth, can't have any of the ones I would actually want, and there's nowhere I could shoot them anyway.

Airsoft is a good option though. No silly regulations about NFA, AWB to follow, can just shoot right in your house whenever you get bored and it's just an hour's drive to Upstate, Long Island or NJ to go to a game and have more fun than you ever would at a range.

If you want full auto fun without tax stamps. Forget the electric sewing machines and go for a gas blowback rifle. (the gas ones do get pricy though, lots of maintenance and whatnot. Still new technology)

 

[leadcounsel]

I have a glass bottle of liquor shaped like an AK47.

Oddly enough it's not vodka, it's whiskey.

 

[gym]

No interest on my part. I would never spend money on a non functioning gun, when I could put it twoards a real one. Spending even a hundred dollars would be one hundred less for my next weapon. As far as displaying them goes. there is no way my wife would not shoot me if I started hanging guns on the walls. Even when I was single, "50 years worth", I never would hang a gun on the wall. It's more acepted in the deep South, or Midwest but try it in NY, and someone will cause you a problem somehow. Also you would become a target for a break in.
Florida also has a lot of nosey people who would ask a million questions upon seeing a machine gun on your wall. It's not worth the possible outcome. Just buy a real gun, or if you are in a Nazi state, a shotgun or rifle. Or even an airsoft or paintball gun, at least you can have some fun with it. What can you really do with a fake gun, other than look at it.

 

[9mmfan]

Closest I would prolly come to that would be a red or blue training gun for drawing practice for my CC G19. Been thinking about it, but figure with EXTRA caution, I could just use the real UNLOADED thing. I rather like Clint Smith's "DON'T DIE STUPID" box for mags and all ammo one might have on their person, to be kept in another room during practice.

I wouldn't mind having a decent looking Garand for my D-Day Paratrooper uniform.

Just in case you didn't know about it, the Civilian Marksmanship Program is a wonderful place to pick up an M1. Just a couple o' requirements and some patience is all it takes. And some dough. It's cheaper, as well as less of a crapshoot, than at a gunshow. http://www.odcmp.com

 

[9mmfan]

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[230RN]

Does anyone have one of those WW II "Cadet" rifles anymore? These were scaled-down imitation '03s, with a functioning bolt which had a powdered-brass-painted wooden cartridge stuck on the bolt face.

You opened the bolt and there was the "cartridge." I was very fascinated with this.

I remember having one from when I was in the Naval Cadets in the late 40's for drill purposes and they let you bring them home for practice.

Just wondering.

 

[Erik M]

My brother has a gunsmith (bubba'd) deactivated 1911 from the Korean war era. No idea of its origin, I know its just painful to pick that gun up and look at where the top of the chamber was cut out with a torch. It looks like the firing pin was 'manually removed' with a drill press.