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Forgotten Weapons
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This is a community dedicated to discussion around historical arms, mechanically unique arms, and Ian McCollum's Forgotten Weapons content. Posts requesting an identification of a particular gun (or other arm) are welcome.
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This powder horn was property of John Calfe a Captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Calfe was from New Hampshire but this horn was from his time serving in what today is Vermont. He was stationed at Mt Independence across the lake from Fort Ticonderoga until July of 1777.
It reads: "What I Contain Shall Freely Go: To Bring a Haughty Tyrant Low."
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GatDaily article section on this gun, written by Travis Pike:
The rarest of the .30 Cal Thompsons is a .30-06 rifle variant that looks like an actual Thompson. It looks like the creators stretched a standard Thompson SMG to fit a .30-06 cartridge and magazine. The gun did use BAR mags with an added oil pad. The extreme pressure of the operation required an oil pad and lubricated ammo.
Only one of these experimental Thompsons exists, and it was made in 1943. It appears to be the only one and is, or at least was, privately owned. An old VHS uploaded to YouTube shows the most we know about the gun. The presenter explains that it is a blowback-operated firearm and used a delayed blowback, but not the Blish lock.
From what I can understand from the video, it uses some form of plunger-delayed blowback system combined with a strongly tensioned recoil spring. The collector wisely will not fire it due to the fact no one’s sure what will happen if you do. Will it explode? Will someone be eating a recoil spring? It’s too valuable to risk.
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The rifle resembled a typical spring-air rifle, but the 2000° hot, high-pressure air served not only to propel the projectile but also to ignite the propellant on the back of the V/L cartridge. The rifle uses a small, unique, and well designed part called an Obturator (obturator/ignitor) to compress the air as it is pushed through a tiny hole. This air is heated as it is pushed through the small hole enough to ignite the powder of the caseless round.
The V/L guns and ammunition were discontinued in 1969 after the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ruled that they constituted a firearm, and Daisy, which was not licensed to manufacture firearms, decided to discontinue manufacture rather than become a firearms manufacturer. About 23,000 of the rifles were made before production ceased.
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