The threaded barrel was for a wooden bullet shredder.
“wooden bullet shredder”
Didn’t Lee Harvey Peckerwood use a 1915 Carl Gustav Mauser with a wooden bullet shredder to assassinate Italy’s King Peter Pinocchio ...
OK, so then the one-legged woman turned on her bar stool to the man with a left eye made of hickory (and he was terribly sensitive of it), considered his proposal asking if she might like to leave the bar and walk along the beach with him, located his live eye and exclaimed, “Wouldn’t I!” and he angrily replied,
“Peg leg!”