pictures of pksu's shotgun/PROOF MARKS! English
i offered to post the pictures of his shotgun for him, looks like a long 8-10 gauge probaly, i dont know anything about it but he couldn't get the pics to work so here they are, can anyone help him? anybody have any guesses as to what it is?
looks interesting none the less[:)]
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edit-pksu these are all the pics you sent me, if you have one that has text go ahead and send it and ill add it
looks interesting none the less[:)]
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edit-pksu these are all the pics you sent me, if you have one that has text go ahead and send it and ill add it
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Wow, that thing looks like a thumper! [:0] 0 -
This design looks like a culmination of someone that had access to powerful mushrooms and had a lot of time on his hands. Quite a unique design. I wonder if WalMart carries the do hickies that lock on the breach after the shells are inserted? Wild!
I am certainly not critizing the firearm or the maker. I really appreciate the effort and devotion something like this demands. This is a real good example of thinking outside the box. Sort of a Chinese Darne design but different. It is probably the most unique shotgun design I ever looked at.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Robin
This design looks like a culmination of someone that had access to powerful mushrooms and had a lot of time on his hands. Quite a unique design. I wonder if WalMart carries the do hickies that lock on the breach after the shells are inserted? Wild!
2nd and 5th photo shows exactly that. Home-made, or at least, cottage industry production. Best if pksu measures bore/breech diameter. Don't think he's in the position to do a casting.
Value? $30 US. Considerably more if no one in his district has one, and is allowed to use them.0 -
I guess inferior workmanship and design has been passed down through the generations. 0 -
Punt gun. 0 -
If there is an inclination to criticize this piece, it is worthwhile noting that it may be a single step in someone's effort to develop something. It is the nature of prototypes to be somewhat crude, when the 'idea' to be proved out is more important than what it looks like in its present form. In the end this may not have been a good idea or design and maybe this piece proved that.
I had one of John Browning's prototype pieces in my shop that was just horrendous if compared with what the final product was when it reached production. Even so, as-is, it was a piece of history.0 -
Is there anyone directly told me that,which country made this gun? what is its age, its Relate history.
the other photos different with the above pictures.
http://tinypic.com/useralbum.php?ua=E7loMrZNi6ETaX7TbGWmhw==0 -
Hello I have been watching this post as I am sure a good number of other people have. I expect no one has seen a gun like yours and that is why no one has said exactly what you have. Through out the history of firearms there have been Craftsmen that were Not Gunsmiths that have built simple fire arms . I think this is what you have. The ONLY thing that may identify yours is the plate with the number 20:61 and the design . This design reminds me of some I saw in VIET NAM in the 1960's but could be from any country. The system to lock the cartridge into the back of the barrel looks to be strong enough to hold a low pressure shotgun shell at best with no way to keep from having gun to fire even with out being completely closed. [:(] This would make for a gun that I for one would not want to fire It also shows no way of extracting the fired shell . I would take a number of different "FIRED" EMPTY shotgun shells of standard Gages 10/12/16 and see if with the bolt removed they would fit the end of the open chamber this might at least tell you what it shot. Again I don't suggest you ever load a live round in this gun and NEVER attempt to fire it other then that It looks like your mystery may go unsolved because we don't have enough knowledge to tell you where or how this firearm came to be. It would take some skill to put those two long barrels together but the design itself does not look to be the safest [:(] Value would be to someone that liked ODD guns but not for someone to use and most gun collectors buy NAME BRAND firearms not one of a kind. 0 -
More pics, along with loading/firing instructions are on GD
http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3916000 -
Are these proofmarks?: 0 -
It's interesting that we have the word "Xinhua" stamped on the receiver. "Xinhua" is the name of the official news agency of the Peoples Republic of China. Of course, that's the English translation of the Chinese characters
well, I can't show you because I don't have the Chinese alphabet font installed on my computer. In any case, I would say the shotgun was probably made in China.
Further, I would guess that it was made in Shansei during the early 1900's. Until WWII, there was a cottage firearms industry in that province, often making crude copies of Western firearms. Based on the fractured English instruction plate, I believe that this is a special order gun made for a wealthy tourist or diplomat. It does appear to be a copy of a "punt gun", intended to kill large numbers of ducks/geese for sale at market.
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