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usfa new 22lr semi that uses 10-22 clips....got a new on a week ago and and quite disppointed...really neat engineering...clever design mkes one wonder where they will go with it...BUT..started with aquila and worked down the fps curve till i finally got some plain lead 22s to fire five in a row without jamming...empty brassends up locked over ingoing brass at a right angle...need small needle nose pliers to get stuff out...and coking the thing by pushing aginst the chrging rods on the front is awkward...old fingers with arthritis are no good for this one...only in for $250 so i guess it will be filed away or sold
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He fooled his teacher for a while. Then his Dad found out and made him throw it down a sewer in NYC.
In todays schools this would be a big no no.
Just wondering how many of todays experts may have started like my old friend Herb loving guns with a humble beginning.
I was caught with it by the NYPD in the swamp back of the bandstand in Prospect Park in 1945.
About that time, I blew the latch off a Thames top break revolver with 38 Super ammo.
Don't know how I survived my youth.
I built one from a glider launching gun and a piece if copper tubing pressed into a piece of steel tubing.
I was caught with it by the NYPD in the swamp back of the bandstand in Prospect Park in 1945.
About that time, I blew the latch off a Thames top break revolver with 38 Super ammo.
Don't know how I survived my youth.
You must have been born under a luck star!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm
Common form of 50's was a .22 from a car antenae
The closest we came to zip guns was to take a shot length of electrical conduit, plug one end by jamming into the ground a few times, then drop a firecracker followed by a marble down the tube. It used to shoot that marble at least a hundred yards as we played "sniper" with each other around the neighborhood. [:D]
I know someone else who did that as a kid . . . [Looks down at ground, whistles). [;)] Marble would go right though a pine board. . .um. . .or so I've been told. [}:)]
You can get away with some pretty oddball things to hold a 22LR round, since the .22 is really an old black powder round that operates at relatively low pressures (ie only 24k psi).
The old standby in the 1950s was supposedly a car radio antenna or the percolator tube from a coffee machine.
I taped one to a homemade stock, transferred a shotgun charge into it
and lit powder at the touch hole. The gun was held to the side.
It went off with the charge going one way and the barrel going the other about 10 ft or so.
I may have used some firecracker powder to start it off.