I have no idea where I found this- Pic of a hard photo I found in my house, which is 126 years old. Would YOU shoot it?
Anyone Old Enough To Remember This Garbage?
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"Would YOU shoot it?'
In my hands? OH He!! NO.
Thirty or forty years ago, I saw some home made 12 ga 'trap or set guns' at a flea market. Supposedly meant for booby traps or warning tools when loaded with blank charges but obviously deadly when loaded with a real shell.
In my hands? OH He!! NO.
Thirty or forty years ago, I saw some home made 12 ga 'trap or set guns' at a flea market. Supposedly meant for booby traps or warning tools when loaded with blank charges but obviously deadly when loaded with a real shell.
Technically it is a bolt action.
it's a ghost gun
It does look spooky
reuben_j_cogburn
Buckeye
I know a guy... (well.. he passed on a few years ago...), that blew off his hand with a homemade 12 gauge zip gun that he built for bears.....
It wasn't the gun that killed him......
It wasn't the gun that killed him......
hey, they worked and I was NOT the one getting the car antennas to use 
Terry Morgan
Single-Sixer
Is this why car antennas were outlawed? LOLhey, they worked and I was NOT the one getting the car antennas to use
Pretty sure it’s outlawed in New Jersey!
Such fine craftsmanship... It's stunning in a primitive way. Wanna buy a bridge??
Yep. Car antennas worked. Do not ask how I know. I do remember that the hammer was a screen door lock hook.hey, they worked and I was NOT the one getting the car antennas to use
stonebuster
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I wood not shoot it. If I'm not mistaken that's an early Rube Goldberg design.
Larryburford
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That's a new one on me
Well at least it has a wood stock.
The Raven model of Zip-Guns 
protoolman
Service-Sixer
I think office max sells a spring kit for that model. 250 to a bag all different weights.
OP
A VERY badly constructed old school .22 zip gun.
Over the last 20 years of gunsmithing, I have had beneficiaries drop off amateur attempts to create suppressors, firearms, and a detonator case full of assorted ammunition and empty Weatherby ammo boxes.
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We’ve come so far.
Imagine back then you could buy a gun and have it sent to your house no problem. Yet some people had to build zip guns.
Now guns are heavily regulated. People that would have built zip guns back then have Glocks with switches!
Imagine back then you could buy a gun and have it sent to your house no problem. Yet some people had to build zip guns.
Now guns are heavily regulated. People that would have built zip guns back then have Glocks with switches!
Yea Yea ,,,if you people to believe that. Really, true confession. Do you ever get an antenna from a 1970 Plymouth dusterhey, they worked and I was NOT the one getting the car antennas to use
Paul B
Hunter
I dunno? ack in the day I made a few that were a lot cruder and they worked just fine other than being very slow to reload. Barrel was a brass tube with one end heated up and bent to form a seal of sorts. A hole of sufficient size was done on the top of the barrel and the whole thing mounted on a pistol like stock So that it could be held like a regular handgun. Charge was a firecracker with the fuse pulled out of the hole in the top of the barrel and a tablespoon of number 7 bird shot held in place by a wad of TP. Fuse was lit by a match or preferably a lit cigaret. Muzzle blast was quite loud and the shot flew fairly true. It was also rather lethal on a duck that got too close in a local park. I somehow got it home and my grandmother cooked it up for Sunday dinner. The year was right around 1955 give or take and I think I was about 12 years old at the time. After that duck, I never shot it again. The barrel went down into a sewer and the pistol grip was broken into several pieces and disposed of in garbage cans..
Paul B.
Paul B.
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A zip SHOTGUN? I mean, I have done similar out of a pipe with BBs as a kid, but never in a gun style. Wow.
....ah, the "mothers of invention"...... were we not????
....and THEN, they let us become Boy Scouts..........
....and THEN, they let us become Boy Scouts..........
OP
And gave us sheath knives.... Still have mine.....ah, the "mothers of invention"...... were we not????
....and THEN, they let us become Boy Scouts..........
