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Post by bounce on Mar 22, 2006 8:24:58 GMT -5
Jack I have a 1871 parler rifle [muzzel loader] that is .177 cal and just uses #11 cap to shoot a pellet and will kill pigions in side a barn or building, never tried #9 shot & a wad on top? Maybe jabba could make a Traditional zip gun to do the same thing for him?
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Post by Jack on Mar 22, 2006 11:46:53 GMT -5
Bounce, there were a lot of those parlor rifles around once upon a time. Another name for them was Flobert. Many of them were breechloading single shots. At least some of them were chambered for 22 CB caps- no powder in the case, just primer compound pushing a round ball. Same as that Aguila Colibri I mentioned. The Colibri is so low powered ya wanna check to make sure the ball exited the barrel before you fire another one- they've been known to slow down and stop inside a long rifle barrel.
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Post by bounce on Mar 22, 2006 12:22:16 GMT -5
Jack I have a Flobert like that, It was a 5mm but I just asumed it was a .22 & the cb caps would stick in the barrel, I thought it was cause the Barrel was ruff. Finaly I took it to Two Moons and asked him to put a new liner in it, thats when he found out it was a 5mm-CB. Well now it is a .22 and I enjoy it offten. Did you know Reminton avertised & sold them? $2 or $3 for the one I was just talking about and I think $4 or $5 for a diferant one in .22 or .32 I allso have one of them that was in .32 I had Two moons line it in .22 Both shoot very good I gave $40 for both and a .38 bulldog pistol with ivory grips at an auction in 1990 allso bought my Ballard pacific 38-55 at that sale for $240.00 I wish I could find a sale like that again!! Yes their was a huge croud their as well and over 300 guns. I now think everyone had a goodday at that sale.
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Post by Jack on Mar 22, 2006 23:44:16 GMT -5
Bounce, I didn't know Remington had made Floberts. Every one I've seen was made in Eurpoe- usually Belgium. I'd forgot they were 5mm, too
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Post by bounce on Mar 23, 2006 7:19:51 GMT -5
Jack, Remington did not make any Floberts but marketed them allso for a time, somewere in one of my books is a picture of one of the addvertisments by Remington that has Floberts offered for sale by them.
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Post by Bill on Mar 23, 2006 9:52:18 GMT -5
Remington made a lot of parlor guns themselves. They use to have throwers that threw glass balls and a lot of bars and pool halls used to have places out back to shoot. Some of the Rifles ? that they made were smoothbores and some of them even had what was called the Ruttledge barrels on them which were choked and shot a heck of a pattern with that crimped birdshot. Like Bounce said though. There were a lot of things that Remington marketed that you see very little written in books about. Mostly an accident when you find the info. Winchester might of been the oldest continuing guncompany in the US but now that they have closed the doors it will be interesting to see what happens with Remington. I myself find Remington to have just as many diverse and unusall items as Winchester did. Every now and then you will run across a Remington that has a threaded barrel muzzle with a cap on the end of it. This was used for installing the silencer that went with it so you could shoot the neighbors cat/dog without him knowing about it. ;D One thing you have to say about Bounce, he does like the unusall and differant. Plus he does have a lot of fun while he is doing it. ;D ;D
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Post by pinebark on Mar 30, 2006 10:09:51 GMT -5
Guys, I have to tell a story on myself that happened when I was kid living with my grandparents about 5 miles south of a little East Texas town. At the time livestock ran loose in Jasper County and my grandad loaded his Remy 41 Targetmaster (mine now) with a 22 shotshell. This ammo was used to run cattle out of the yard that were eating my grandmothers plants. One day after getting off the schoolbus and coming in for a snack, my grandmother ask me to run off a bull that was at the front gate eating on one of her plants. So I got the rifle and checked to see if it was loaded (could do that sort of thing when I was young) and seeing that it was stepped out to bust him in the butt. Well seeing his manhood swing under his tail I drew a bead on them and fired. At the report I knew that it was not a shotshell and after him getting back on his feet he lost no time getting out of the yard. Come to find out my grandad had switched out the shell the night before because something was trying to get in the henhouse. He did not reload when he came back in the house and as I was sleeping did not know about the change. To this day I do not know if that bull ever made any little bulls but he never came back in the yard. That rifle has had a lot of crimped shotshells shot thru it and to this day it is still one tack driving rifle.
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Post by jimh on Mar 30, 2006 10:18:49 GMT -5
oooouuuuch!!!!
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Post by klsm54 on Mar 30, 2006 18:36:52 GMT -5
........... but he never came back in the yard. Can't say as I blame him.... ;D
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Post by Bill on Mar 30, 2006 22:16:54 GMT -5
Boy that will make a good day go south in a hurry if your the Bull
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Post by deputydon on Mar 31, 2006 9:05:51 GMT -5
Damn..........I wouldn't come back either!!!!!!!
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Post by calsibley on Apr 28, 2006 22:03:26 GMT -5
I saw some CCI shotshell .22s this afternoon. I hadn't noticed them for some time and didn't really know they were still made. 15 yards sounds about right to me for the range, or maybe it's 15 feet. I've never actually used them. Best wishes.
Cal - Montreal
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