here's one for ya.
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Winchester_73
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How bizarre. I have no idea what the story on those is but I am interested to find out.
Jim Watson
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Disregard, thoughts based on wrong picture, see below.
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Mike Irwin
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Absolutely! Please post a picture of the headstamp!
I've been collecting cartridges for 30 years now and I have NEVER heard of this one.
If you find another one in that box of cartridges, PM me and we'll talk money.
I've been collecting cartridges for 30 years now and I have NEVER heard of this one.
If you find another one in that box of cartridges, PM me and we'll talk money.
Nah.
I think that we can forget this one as curious as it is. I am posting a picture but, upon close examination, the numbers are a different font and struck differently.
This cartridge and some others came the estate of an old gentleman who passed away a couple of years ago. He was a master machinist, an inventor and tinkerer with four patents to his name. I know that he made other cartridges and the guns to fire them. This may have been one of his other efforts.The bullet is lead.
I wish that I knew if he'd made a gun for this but those things were sold off shortly after his death in 2009.
Pic (not a great pic either):
Pete
I think that we can forget this one as curious as it is. I am posting a picture but, upon close examination, the numbers are a different font and struck differently.
This cartridge and some others came the estate of an old gentleman who passed away a couple of years ago. He was a master machinist, an inventor and tinkerer with four patents to his name. I know that he made other cartridges and the guns to fire them. This may have been one of his other efforts.The bullet is lead.
I wish that I knew if he'd made a gun for this but those things were sold off shortly after his death in 2009.
Pic (not a great pic either):
Pete
Jim Watson
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In the 1960s there was a wildcat that looked a lot like that, the .22 Goldstein Luger. Jerry Goldstein necked down some 9mm and/or .30 Luger to .22 and put a barrel for it on a P08. I never saw but the one magazine article and did not think it had gone any farther.
I do not recall him editing headstamps but he might have.
Or this might be a factory product with an improvised headstamp bunter giving the differences you describe. (I can't see the headstamp in the picture well enough to read.)
I do not recall him editing headstamps but he might have.
Or this might be a factory product with an improvised headstamp bunter giving the differences you describe. (I can't see the headstamp in the picture well enough to read.)
What a kick in the old memory bank! I hadn't thought of that .22 Luger for years, though I now recall the article. Those "concept" guns get made or maybe mocked up, written up in some gunzine, and disappear. The idea of a bottleneck high power small bore pistol round is not a bad one (anyone thinking Five seveN here?) but using a dead end and finicky platform like the Luger would, IMHO, be pointless.
Jim
Jim