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WTH???

toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,008 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2011 in General Discussion
Should be illegal. [xx(]


http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=299994946
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  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,008 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have seen long barrels for 1911's, but DANG!! What application could this possible serve??(other than novelty, of course)
    http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=202368353
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  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,008 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Recieved an...interesting...piece of spam today.

    It had a colorful link to some sort of Japanese clothing store, then the following text.

    "Now and then, living with ruffian recognize cowboy about food stamp about, omphalos defined by, and traffic light about cowboy are what made America great! He called her Willa (or was it Willa?). When you see bride inside, it means that grizzly bear of stalactite strokes. Indeed, for burglar pour freezing cold water on about tripod defined by tabloid try to seduce near parking lot, and living with mirror write a love letter to over hydrogen atom. Watch gagging rasp cicadas auberge courtyard!"

    Am I missing something here?[?]
    "Our finest tribute to our fallen dead would be to convince their sons that we were not Rambo and neither are they. -Gus Hasford
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  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,008 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can't decide whether this is really stupid, odd, idiotic or what. Probably a mix of all of them but I can't come up with the word. If for some reason this is collectable I've never seen one of em. Very very confused [?][?]

    http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=253079448
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  • cpermdcpermd Member Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Collectible if factory.

    CP
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  • bambambambambambam Member Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never heard of a lever action with a silencer.

    Is it more likely that it had some sort of sighting divice screwed onto the barrel?
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,159 ******
    edited November -1
    ...I wanna hear from Bert,,,,
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  • DRP-AZDRP-AZ Member Posts: 2,318 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes Virginia, people did have gunsmithing done early last century.

    Maxim silencers were hardware store items before the stupid NFA 1934.

    I think it's cool. Is a lever gun worth (currently) 700 bucks to me? No friggin' way.
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  • TANK78ZTANK78Z Member Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i went to Teddy Roosevelt's home at Sagamore Hill , in Oyster Bay, Long Island ,NY a few years back, in his gun rack was a Winchester lever action with the Maxim silencer attached.
    Dont know if it's still there.
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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bambambam
    Never heard of a lever action with a silencer.

    Is it more likely that it had some sort of sighting divice screwed onto the barrel?


    Maxim did make silencers for lever action guns as well as for other type actions. The silencers were attached using primarily two different methods. One method involved a coupling that was driven onto the barrel. The coupling had a threaded end to which the silencer would fit. The other method was to thread the barrel and screw the silencer directly to it.
    What's next?
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  • jeffb1911jeffb1911 Member Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Guess that was their "tacticool" gun of the time!
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    I think whats driving the price up is the fact that its a sporting rifle. I dont know what the threaded barrel does to the value, but I dont see how it can help it.
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  • Bert H.Bert H. Member Posts: 11,281 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That particular Model 1894 was not factory equipped with a silencer. The threaded barrel and cap are after-market alterations.

    Winchester did indeed (on special order only prior to the NFA of 1934) factory equip Winchester rifles (including lever-actions) with a Maxim Silencer.

    The alteration made to that rifle reduces its value.

    WACA Historian & Life Member

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  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,008 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am sure that you could thru email, however I have no interest in the gun other than it's history[:)]quote:Originally posted by eboydell
    quote:Very very confused

    The rifle is fairly common. But if "we" are to believe that little one inch screw thing is a "maxime silencer", we are either gun ignorant, or that guy is pulling a fast one.
    Modern silencers are larger than that and screw over the OUTSIDE of the barrel. That looks like a choke for a shotgun.
    Can you contact him?
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by eboydell
    quote:Very very confused

    The rifle is fairly common. But if "we" are to believe that little one inch screw thing is a "maxime silencer", we are either gun ignorant, or that guy is pulling a fast one.
    Modern silencers are larger than that and screw over the OUTSIDE of the barrel. That looks like a choke for a shotgun.[:D] [:D]

    Uh, you were joking....right?
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  • sandwarriorsandwarrior Member Posts: 5,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by eboydell
    quote:Very very confused

    The rifle is fairly common. But if "we" are to believe that little one inch screw thing is a "maxime silencer", we are either gun ignorant, or that guy is pulling a fast one.
    Modern silencers are larger than that and screw over the OUTSIDE of the barrel. That looks like a choke for a shotgun.
    Can you contact him?


    It states in the auctions description, it's a thread protector cap.
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