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Joe Kid
May 2, 2009 18:24:24 GMT -5
Post by longtrail on May 2, 2009 18:24:24 GMT -5
What the heck kind of gun is he carrying? K'mon BSB!
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Joe Kid
May 2, 2009 19:27:10 GMT -5
Post by GW on May 2, 2009 19:27:10 GMT -5
Hope that helps.......
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Post by Buckskin Billy on May 3, 2009 8:59:30 GMT -5
sorry i weren't there fer ya dlt. grey wolf gave you a better answer than i would have. them new fangled early 20th century guns i don't know as much about. i think red thunder posted a picture of a original remington keene rifle under firearms a while back.
joe kidd is a pretty good western movie, you get to see alot of old guns in that movie. not every body carried a colt or a winchester back in those days
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Joe Kid
May 3, 2009 11:14:41 GMT -5
Post by longtrail on May 3, 2009 11:14:41 GMT -5
Wow thanks for the rifle info! So nice to be in the presense of wise ones!!! But I was asking about his hand gun. The middle of it looks like a rifle, but the grip and barrel look like a hand gun. Or are they one in the same?
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Joe Kid
May 3, 2009 13:54:34 GMT -5
Post by Buckskin Billy on May 3, 2009 13:54:34 GMT -5
i'm not 100% positive on this, but i believe it was a mauser broom handle. some of that new fangled 20th century crap. it probadly had a detachable shoulder stock so it could be fire like a carbine. they called them broom handles cuz of the funny looking pistol grip they had. i held one in a pawn shop years ago they wanted 300 bucks for it. it was the ugliest thing i had ever saw next to grizz of course. ;D kind of wish i would had bought it now
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Post by GW on May 4, 2009 2:22:15 GMT -5
Billy's right, The pistol that Joe took of the dead guy and used is a C96 Mauser aka the Broom Handle, but it's a 19th Century gun not a 20th Century since it first came out in 1896. They came in various models including some with buttstocks (which doubled as a holster) and long barrels with forends which turned them into carbines. You can see the variations here: www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Mauser_C96It was actually in the last couple of decades of the 19th Century that many of the major changes in firearms were first instituted, including smokeless powder which was widely used by the European armies before the US adopted it in 1892 (the 30-40 Krag, still a great gun) and the 1898 Mauser Bolt actions rifles, which are still the standard by which all other bolt actions are judged by - bolt action rifles though go back to the late 1870's.
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Joe Kid
May 4, 2009 12:25:36 GMT -5
Post by longtrail on May 4, 2009 12:25:36 GMT -5
Wow, you guys are too cool! Your right about it being ugly. But it was also nice seeing different guns in the movies. Thanks for all the info, very interesting. Also the site was great too. Now that i get another look at them, they are nice looking guns in an odd sort of way.
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