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Post by topgun13 on Oct 8, 2007 15:48:57 GMT -5
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Post by wade on Oct 8, 2007 15:57:32 GMT -5
That's pretty ingenious. Kudos to whoever did that.
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Post by Guinness on Oct 8, 2007 16:02:57 GMT -5
Wow!
That's pretty amazingly cool!
He took a gawd-awful incorrect tokarev wanna-be and turned into a pretty darned correct replica of a gawd-awful Liberator!
It's amazing the ingenuity and creativity this sport brings out in folks- Off hand I can't think of another hobby that does this at this level.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Oct 8, 2007 17:07:42 GMT -5
I wonder if you need to cock it by pushing a wooden dowel through the barrel. On the real guns that's how you eject the shell to load another round assuming you ever get to load and fire another round.
I have handled a real one and was invited to fire it from someone who wanted to see it fire but didn't want to be the one to do it. I concurred with his apprehansion and decided it was best left unfired. Of the million dropped in Europe it is uncertain how many actual were used. The intent obviously was to use it to kill an unwarey German soldier and then "liberate" his weapon or weapons.
This fellow has done a clever job. At 125 FPS with 12 gram it's probably pretty representative on the firepower scale. As suggested elsewhere paint it a light antracite mettalizer paint, age it a bit and it would look quite good. The actual Liberator however is a pretty large pistol so I doubt the scale is correct.
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Post by Guinness on Oct 8, 2007 17:19:22 GMT -5
Yeah, They were .45's right 2ndBat? and not the 7.62 of the Tokarev and I would assume whatever that springer is supposed to represent.
Still very imaginative and cool work!
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Post by 2nd Bat on Oct 8, 2007 21:45:54 GMT -5
They were in effect a .45 bullet with a cheap (somewhere around a dollar a piece to produce ) shell intended to fire that bullet. There was no premise of accuracy or build quality it was simple, stamped steel with what in effect worked out to about a 3 inch barrel (not even rifled I don't believe) I think it was intended to be a John Wilkes Booth type attack weapon and nothing more. They were dropped with some spare bullets in the handle and a simple one page graphic illustrated instruction sheet. Quite comical really although the intent was quite serious. I suspect their discover by the Germans had greater phsychological effect then actual results.
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Post by binarypunisher on Oct 11, 2007 20:53:22 GMT -5
Anyone want to repost the thread? Im kinda sorta maybe banned there :\
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Post by p51 on Oct 11, 2007 21:16:12 GMT -5
They were in effect a .45 bullet with a cheap (somewhere around a dollar a piece to produce ) shell intended to fire that bullet. There was no premise of accuracy or build quality it was simple, stamped steel with what in effect worked out to about a 3 inch barrel (not even rifled I don't believe) I think it was intended to be a John Wilkes Booth type attack weapon and nothing more. They were dropped with some spare bullets in the handle and a simple one page graphic illustrated instruction sheet. Quite comical really although the intent was quite serious. I suspect their discover by the Germans had greater phsychological effect then actual results. I've shot a real one, kicks like a SOB as it weighs nothing. Yeah, I recall it being smoothbore. They were dropped with three bullets and the instruction sheet I think in a cardboard box with the dowel. The main idea was this was what you could use to off someone who had a real gun that you could then use once you capped that guy... That explains why so few exist today, I'd guess.
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Post by Guinness on Oct 11, 2007 21:29:09 GMT -5
Anyone want to repost the thread? Im kinda sorta maybe banned there :\ Repost from ASR and credit to 'Brokennose2'Banned eh? .....I got my eye on you Wazowsky
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Post by binarypunisher on Oct 11, 2007 21:51:01 GMT -5
Banned eh? .....I got my eye on you Wazowsky Eh, people stink. No regrets Thanks for the pictures. Heres a real one: Ugly little lollipops !
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Post by savoy6 on Nov 5, 2007 3:55:22 GMT -5
damn that is ugly....it would make a cool back up ....in 8mm....
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Post by FP45 on Nov 10, 2007 20:58:16 GMT -5
...it's pretty ugly, saw one in the spy museum in Washington DC.
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Post by vanhalen213tx on Nov 10, 2007 20:59:17 GMT -5
Same, Dad had a business conference so I went.
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Post by savoy6 on Nov 13, 2007 19:45:42 GMT -5
i had blueprints for this thing at some point....let me rumage around in my back-ups.... found the page i got it from.... www.biggerhammer.net/manuals/
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Post by airsoftaddict on Nov 17, 2007 1:08:48 GMT -5
umm they wont let me view the blueprints
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Post by savoy6 on Nov 17, 2007 10:00:05 GMT -5
follow the login instruction..... username-manuals password-chipin
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Post by schmitty on Nov 20, 2007 14:16:30 GMT -5
Very innovative idea. would make for a good hidden weapon in case you get captured. Schmitty
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Post by ksimo on Sept 19, 2009 21:21:52 GMT -5
Sorry for digging this up but has anyone thought of using one of those tiny gas pocket colts to make this?
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