Drice air rifle super rare??????
anyone have info on a Drice air rifle? appears to be a pump operated action like a pump 22..cal 24 = #4 buck lead shot made in los angeles cali..pat. pending has threaded hole in bottom of rec for an air nipple/airline, air can? looks like a pump 22..some time i will figure how to get pics here[B)]
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no experts?? i did find a patent for a some what simular one from 1941 0 -
Without seeing the thing, or better description it would be tough to even guess at what this thing really is.
On pure speculation, a couple of things come to mind.
From your description it might be a device used in earlier slaughterhouses to instantly kill cattle. I understand slaughter houses today use an air powered device that "shoots" a steel rod and then retracts the rod for the next "shot". But you say that this thing "fires" a lead ball of approximately 6 milimeters in diameter via air supplied by a hose screwed into the bottom of it.
If it is actually configured as a rifle, it could also be some kind of carnival gun used in those traveling shooting galleries. You don't specifically say, but it sounds like it has a resevoir to hold multiple lead balls. Like a bb gun, pumping the gun could cycle a lead ball into place internally to be shot out by a blast of air released by the trigger mechanism.0 -
it would be more on a carnival rifle ..i suspect made when 22 cartridges were scarce during the war.has a tube that feeds the shot on the side and directs it into the chamber area when the forarm is shucked..if you first saw it you would think just another pump 22..i suspect it did not make the grade since the feltman tommygun shoot the star guns that ran on compress air and were full auto came out then.. 0
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