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Guessing Game gun Barrel

misstmisst Member Posts: 707 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2011 in General Discussion
No Prize but let's see who knows what this is. truthfully, I'm stumped.

8 3/4" long. Rifled. chambered 45acp. No sights. 1-12.jpg
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  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,969
    edited November -1
    Adapter for a 20 or 12ga. barrel.
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  • redneckandyredneckandy Member Posts: 9,684 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dcs shooters
    Adapter for a 20 or 12ga. barrel.

    Yep
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  • misstmisst Member Posts: 707 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    well, you learn soemthing new everyday. Thing weighs a ton and I would have never guessed that's what it is. thnaks guys. Now the big question: Why in the hell would anybody want this thing?
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  • misstmisst Member Posts: 707 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, tried it in a 12g, way too big. maybe for a 10g. I measured the smaller end that would go up the barrel and it's almost exactly 1" in diameter. I thught the bore diameter of a 10 g was like .77something. Hmmmm.
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  • givettegivette Member Posts: 10,886 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by misst
    Well, tried it in a 12g, way too big. maybe for a 10g. I measured the smaller end that would go up the barrel and it's almost exactly 1" in diameter. I thught the bore diameter of a 10 g was like .77something. Hmmmm.

    'Fired from a test barrel'.

    That [statement above] was in many an old reloading manual.
    Perhaps the barrel was meant to be inserted into a 'firing stand'
    to test/work up loads?

    Perhaps an old Dupont, or Hodgdon, [or other] laboratory fixture?

    Best I could do, using my 'gut'. Joe
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  • misstmisst Member Posts: 707 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm guessing now that it's an insert for a 26.5mm flare gun. Would be crazy, but dimensions are right. Know they make them in other calibers, never heard of a 45acp. Just going to put it up on a penny auction and let soemone else figure it out.
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  • LesWVaLesWVa Member Posts: 10,490 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Could it be from some small scale Gatlin type gun?
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