Inventive Weaponry

 

1. Thanks Drew and Thanks Rich. I also liked the video. Never knew about these guns.
   Neat stuff.

   Posted by peiper       02/10/2011  at  11:31 AM  



2. They are rarer than hen’s teeth, except for the Savage rifle. And Savage hasn’t made that rifle in ... 25 years or thereabouts? So it has faded out of general awareness.

   Pump shotguns are still pretty common though, although they are rather overshadowed these days by the other styles. Folks who want fast handling for trap, skeet, or little bird hunting go for O/U and S/S double guns, folks who want to blast geese and turkeys go for the automatics. That leaves pump guns in a bit of a hole, but they still get used by the military and police because of their very robust design.

   Personally I love the mechanisms of all of them. Unlike microcircuits and chips, they are machines that I can understand.

   Posted by Drew458       02/10/2011  at  09:25 PM  



3. I have 2 Mossberg Naval model 500 Security 6 Stainless (Marinecote) pump military types I have battered, dropped, brought out in the rain and put untold numbers of shells through and I would trust them for many more years. Easy to maintain and you could probably hammer a nail in with it (I wouldn’t) and fire it another 10,000 times.
   I love military decommission sales!

   Posted by Doctor DETH       02/11/2011  at  12:55 AM  

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