https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/04/19/iowa-officers-seize-weapon-dubbed-smith-and-meth-son/pic/1037950/

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https://www.runjeetsingh.com/inventory/278/revolving_matchlock_musket

I am looking around on lemmy.world for reenactment communities but I can't seem to find any. I am interested in anything but Civil War. Do you guys know of any?

When Germany occupied Belgium in the summer of 1940, the took over the FN factory complex and ordered production of the High Power pistol to continue. It was put into German service as the Pistole 640(b), and nearly 325,000 of them were made between 1940 and 1944. The first ones were simply assembled from finished Belgian contact parts, and included all the features like shoulder stock slots and 500m tangent rear sights. As the war continued, however, production was simplified. The stock slots disappeared first, then the tangent sights, then the wooden grips (replaced by bakelite) and eventually even the magazine safety was omitted. Resistance among Belgian factory workers increased as well, with deliberate sabotage in the form of incorrect heat treating, errors in fine tolerance parts, and sometimes even spending lots of time to give a very fine surface finish instead of making more pistols.

These are a particularly popular subject of collecting, and there are a lot of nuances of the production and inspection marks that are worth understanding if you want to take them seriously. I highly recommend Anthony Vanderlinden’s 2-volume book “FN Browning Pistols” for very good detail on these, as well as other FN handguns: amzn.to/42Bc541

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https://www.bonhams.com/auction/30398/lot/41/a-rare-gold-koftgari-steel-combination-percussion-pistol-push-dagger-katar-india-19th-century/

Sadly, I don't have a ton of information on this model. I stumbled across it on a Small Arms Illustrated page and poked around online.

The most complete information I could find was a photo of a snippet from a book:

Text from the photo:

Left side closeup of the final 7.62x39mm Finnish prototype, produced for trials in 1960, showing the unique features that it and only it embodied. This one-off was produced from a standard lower receiver with a modified magazine well, cut through the middle of the existing standard manufacturer's markings and retrofitted with a magazine guide behind the new, curved magazine.

The charging handle extension lever was reversible from the right to the left side, based on shooter preference. Note the flat-topped carrying handle, rounded at the rear to protect the rear sight, fitted with a range scale modified to fit the trajectory of the ballistically inefficient [🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸] Soviet round.

All of the remaining parts of the rifle, except for the chamber and actual bore diameter were identical to those of the standard Second Transitional carbine.

Tag on sign: "English-made Kerr revolver. Many of these were smuggled through the Federal naval blockade aboard Confederate blockade runners."

Smithsonian website description of the Kerr:

The five-shot .44 caliber Kerr revolver was manufactured in England by the London Armoury Company and could be fired either single or double-action. Nearly all Kerr revolvers imported during the Civil War were purchased by the Confederacy and were preferred by many Confederate cavalrymen.

Patentee: Kerr, JamesMaker: London Armoury Company Place Made: United Kingdom: England, London

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http://zbiory.mnk.pl/pl/katalog/310563

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27110308

https://zbiory.mnk.pl/en/catalog/267374

Description excerpt:

The V3 London gun was designed as revenge weapon by Germany and designed to be permanently aimed at London 100 miles away. If fully built this would have been the longest gun in history. With a barrel over 440 feet long, that could hurl projectiles at speeds in excess of Mach 4. The Germans were built a huge underground complex in Northern France that was designed to house 25 of these guns to ensure a continuous bombardment of London.

My freezer is getting low, so it was time to refill it - and I chose to do that this year at one of Outdoor Solutions' "Field to Table" classes. Set up with hunting outfitters around the country, this is a class where a professional chef who is also a hunter is brought in to teach a group of about 6 students the fundamentals of cleaning, butchering, and preparing wild game. It's intended for folks who have never hunted and aren't sure how to get into it as well as long-time hunters who have never done any meat processing and would like to learn that skill. This event was hosted by Legend Waterfowl in Talon, Oklahoma for deer and hog.

I was hoping to have a chance to get some insight into the performance of subsonic 8.6 Blackout on hogs, but alas I only saw one pig during the whole trip. I did take a whitetail deer though, and it has now been added to my freezer!

Maybe this one deserved to be forgotten