Very interesting piece of German engineering. Keep an eye out at your next local " gun buy back". :-)
To: Jed Eckert
2 posted on
12/01/2015 8:32:26 AM PST by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Jed Eckert
Check out youtube channel ForgottenWeapons...he does great vintage gun reviews and recently did this weapon.
3 posted on
12/01/2015 8:35:00 AM PST by
gwgn02
To: Jed Eckert
Gee, and all this time I thought it was invented by golfers.
4 posted on
12/01/2015 8:36:34 AM PST by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Jed Eckert
Considering what was used as a tench, I'm stunned at how more people weren't killed by a weapon like that. It really is brilliant.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sanctuary-wood
The Perfectly Preserved World War I Trench
5 posted on
12/01/2015 8:37:14 AM PST by
VanDeKoik
To: Jed Eckert; Chode; Squantos; SgtBob
PING!!!
Saw Pawn Stars buy a 1903 with a simalar setup.
IIRC they bought it for $25,000
6 posted on
12/01/2015 8:40:42 AM PST by
mabarker1
(Progress- the opposite of congress)
To: Jed Eckert
The Germans, they make great stuff
To: Jed Eckert
Indeed, necessity is the mother of invention.
8 posted on
12/01/2015 8:51:49 AM PST by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: Jed Eckert
Periscope weapons were (weapons dev was) derided as cowardly by Allies through WWII.
9 posted on
12/01/2015 9:39:21 AM PST by
golux
To: Jed Eckert; Lurker
Not to be outdone, the Lee Enfield had their own version.
And somewhere there must be a photo of the US Springfield 03 with a similar apparatus.
12 posted on
12/01/2015 3:24:35 PM PST by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled-...by liars who passing refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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