The $2 9mm ZIP gun

gunssavelife.com ^ | 27 January, 2013 | NA

[mnehring]

I almost bought a 45-70 revolver from a friend a few months ago. Wish I did. Few have that caliber so it isn’t sold out yet (not to mention very single-shot effective).

[nomad]

You like that, try this http://www.tacticalmachining.com spread the word and have at it you weekend warriors. (no pun intended)

[RedMDer]

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

In for a penny, in for a pound. How about a “Zip Claymore?”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Here is dilly made in a California prison about 44 years ago! Even the cartridges are handmade, case and all!

And another prison manufactured beauty.

[marktwain]

In for a penny, in for a pound. How about a “Zip Claymore?”

Actually, much easier.

Take any short, relatively large diameter steel pipe and a cap for the end. If you can weld, simply weld an end plate on.

Drill a hole in the end cap or plate. I think a 15/64ths drill is the right size. Tap it for 1/4 X32 threads.

Buy some model airplane spark plugs. screw one into the hole.

Apply a load of black powder to the inside of the pipe. The amount will depend on the pipe size. Add wadding. Add ball bearings, nuts, buckshot or other items for the projectiles.

Point toward enemy.

Apply 6 volts from ordinary batteries to the glow plug to fire.

Ignition takes about .15 seconds.

Everything is perfectly legal. You have simply made a muzzle loading blackpowder cannon.

It works much like a claymore. A zip claymore is a good appellation.

[crusty old prospector]

I ordered two 550’s of .22 LR about three weeks ago from Bass Pro Shops. They shipped on Thursday. I don’t know if the back order lag is still the same. It may now be longer. East Texas is totally sold out. I did get three boxes of 9 mm at at gun shop out on Lake Palestine about three weeks ago.

[marktwain]

Oops.. wrote model airplane spark plugs. Should be model airplane glow plugs...

[WKUHilltopper]

For later view.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I was making stuff like that before I got to high school. We didn't have TV until I was about 12, but I grew up in a family of tool users. If we thought of something the next logical step was to make it.

Parents are also responsible if their kids grow up to be rutabagas.

[panaxanax]

“I ordered two 550’s of .22 LR about three weeks ago from Bass Pro Shops.”

Hope you get them soon!

Check this out:

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=327287007

[Lancey Howard]

I remember back in the ‘60s and ‘70s homemade zip guns being pretty popular in the concetrated Democrat parasite nests (”cities”). They used to make them with short lengths of metal pipe.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

A strand of wire from a pad of steel wool strung between 2 contacts is all you need.

[crusty old prospector]

It says they shipped out of KC on Thursday. Unless, of course, they become “lost” in transit to DHS or some other guv’ment cabal.

[preacher]

ping

[S.O.S121.500]

Shades of Clarence the Martian hunter.

[S.O.S121.500]

Shades of Clarence the Martian slayer/hunter.

[Clump]

Pfl

[The Cajun]

Some folks with a decently well equipped home workshop (drill press, drill press vice important, also machinist bits) could probably design and build a single action revolver fairly easily in a week, even with rifling groves cut into the barrel, .22 or .38 flavor, not magnum flavor for sure.
Welding machine for tacks and torch for case hardening,tempering and brazing might be handy also...............Just saying.