Crooked deal in the EE

[Casull]

Action is very good, it is not pinned. It's a model 75. I am thinking of rebarreling to .257/.577 NE Ultra Mag. I need someone with a bigger hammer to reseat new barrel.

 

[Levi Garrett]

A Nitro , Should get some pointers from the fella that wanted to build a 50 BMG , pump action

 

[GrantR]

What is that, an old BRNO of some description?

If I'm not mistaken, it is one of two versions of the Cooey Model 78 Target Rifle (on which the Cooey Model 82 Training Rifle was based, I believe) ....

 

[Casull]

Grant, it sure looks like the 1939 M78 you list. This one says Model 75 on it. Just like your picture but no apreture sight on the back.

 

[RobP]

Ro

I think you have a rare variety of rifle there!!! A real collectible. Obviously a design copied by the Germans in WW II with their Krummlauf variant of the Sturmgewehr 44 seen below(to shoot around corners....BTW a REAL design variant).

 

[Mudpuppy]

Don't let him fool ya guys .............It comes with a mirror and is the premier, urban warfare, weapon of the "CBLA".

They used it for shooting around corners during the fabled seige of North Sydney .

Yes it was designed for the seige but it was quickly discovered that no one in North Sydney could actually build a corner, so it was never used

 

[Calum]

Some Cold War Russian tanks had Vertical mounted MGs, with curved barrels.

 

[dorm]

Rob, that's a handloading only proposition. PM me - I've got a stash of bullets for it.

That's a bullet? I thought the Tinman had a date with Lorena Bobbitt!

 

[agilent_one]

Don't worry about the cosmetics, it'll make a nice treestand rifle.

 

[Salty]

Jus getcher big bar 'n the vice and straten er out - shud shute fine

 

[Steiner]

The Germans also had a 30 degree bent barrrel version that was a more reasonable/workable design :
http://collections.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.988


Let's not forget the contemporary Israeli version, which doesn't use a bent barrel, but nevertheless was meant to tackle the problem of shooting around corners:
http://www.combatvids.com/showvideo.php?id=1880
http://www.cornershot.com/

 

[popcan]

When you get the new barrel on her, what do you use to bend it with, and how do you get just the right angle again?

 

[Ahsan Ahmed]

Well, the Germans had already tried that

 

[dizzy dan 1]

I think I saw this rifle before.DAN>>>

 

[MadDog]

Everytime I see this thread I wanna lock it cause I think it'll go bad but then I start reading and I laugh my ass off.

 

[dizzy dan 1]

Can't be a crooked deal when it was FREE. DAN>>>
Something for Rob to practice on.

 

[Beater]

hell Rob, id shoot it for the hell of it. gona have to have a way-high rear site though

 

[josquin]

Ro

I think you have a rare variety of rifle there!!! A real collectible. Obviously a design copied by the Germans in WW II with their Krummlauf variant of the Sturmgewehr 44 seen below (to shoot around corners....BTW a REAL design variant).

Wasn't there a similar fitting for the US .30 M1 carbine?

Stuart

 

[Silverado]

Just take a hacksaw and chop it down, then sell it as a 'tactical' bush rifle LOL