Posted on 08/20/2014 3:04:59 PM PDT by smokingfrog
In the 1950s, with the airwaves filling with the sounds of rock 'n' roll, America was changing into a "transistor" nation. Deciding to capitalize on the popularity of radio, Winchester designated a prototype .308 Model 70 with a built-in radio in 1955. A speaker was set into the right side of the stock with a series of holes — carved in the trademark "W" outline — allowing the sound to be heard. Presented as a glittering show gun, the new Winchester soon proved a hard sell.
“Something I’d never heard about before. I just can’t figure why this never caught-on ....”
Maybe they forgot to put in a headphone connection?
I can see it would blow the stealth Hunting plan.
Still cool though.
Plink!
O.K.- I just know one of Y’All got one of these.
I’m somewhat of a tinkerer (check out my bio) and I’ve been thinking of a smart phone in the stock of a rifle so that you can text (keypad on the forend) and talk (earbuds attached to gun) while out stalking and sniping. If we are truly a connected society then by golly let’s take the next step forward.
Just stay home, turn out the lights, and snort pine scent or something if all that crap is so important.
Yes, I can see the merit of getting weather alerts in the boonies (although we were taught to watch the sky at an early age).
It's tough to do that hunched over a smartphone, and you can't hear thunder so well with those earbud thingies going full tilt...
All right, that is cool. If you could put a transistor radio on a Picatinny rail it’d do great today. What the heck, I already have at least one friend who’s turned his 6-lb AR into a 20-lb Swiss Army Rifle...
Thanks for posting, this is the first thread I have read today that hasn’t made me grind my teeth out of anger.
I have a Swiss Army rifle & it doesn’t weigh 20 lbs.
This would have been a great item to go with my Two-Speed* Yellow Columbia Bicycle that had a radio built-in the crossbar, which looked like a gas tank on a small motorcycle, headlight and whitewall tires, of course.
* Slow, and Really Really Slow.
You don't have the can opener attachment. The one you plug in. Or the coffee grinder. Or the tripod for your bipod. ;-)
I’d be happy with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time.
I’m sure they’d have no problem selling it now.
KEWL!
No. But it does have a wicked looking bayonet.
It’s perhaps because it was the end of the Big Band era and American music became so bad and not worth listening to.
“I’m somewhat of a tinkerer (check out my bio) and I’ve been thinking of a smart phone in the stock of a rifle so that you can text (keypad on the forend) and talk (earbuds attached to gun) while out stalking and sniping. If we are truly a connected society then by golly let’s take the next step forward.”
GoCam mounted front and rear to record shots and shooter’s reactions.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.