We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:04:04 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Here's a teaser for an upcoming series of posts I'm working on. Another multi-day fest of Gun Pr0n! Anybody besides JMH and Neffi (c'mon guys, it's not like it's a challenge for you - this would be like having a pro player on a high school team) want to hazard a guess as to what this is? For? Etc? You two can respond email so you can still count your coup points... I'll give you something I usually leave out - scale. This is a little larger than life size. Update: Here's a really obtuse hint. Just cuz' SWWBO's gone... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html Mon, 21 Feb 2005 06:52:45 -0600 If it's not a Vickers MG lock, it's a Maxim MG lock that got misplaced in your Vickers kit. Right? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15584 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15584 Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:58:39 -0600 Scratch that...it's the biocanooten valve off the Johnson Rod... ...or it's the stabilizer joint from a Belgian waffle maker... It's a toughie. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15562 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15562 Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:55:40 -0600 ...feedpawl? *don't laugh too hard plz* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15551 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15551 Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:52:31 -0600 Ow!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15538 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15538 Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:56:05 -0600 pft. Bill- you broke out the tequila at 5AM! And didn't invite me, Cass, Barb OR Cricket? I would have brought limes and salt, and Cricket has been working so hard on her Mexican menu. hmpf. I thought we were friends..... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15533 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15533 Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:32:31 -0600 always do that on tequila...).]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15520 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15520 Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:01:41 -0600 I see the drugs are kicking in, Bill. You've got to keep an eye on those dogs... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15517 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15517 Tue, 22 Feb 2005 05:47:06 -0600 No wonder the scruples keep getting out--you took the trandimensional sub-quantum heavy-left router off their cage! I will not be responsequence for the consibles to any etaoinshrdlu... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15516 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15516 Tue, 22 Feb 2005 05:29:30 -0600 http://cowboyblob.blogspot.com/2005/02/where-is-it.html]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15510 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15510 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:38:10 -0600 Well, ok- but a magazine is just an enclosed box containing cartridges to be fed to the mech of the gun, independent of a seperate source (ie ammo box). The saddle drum for the MG34 is kinda a hybrid, eh? Belt feed within a magazine... hmmmmmm mebbe you could say a true belt gun has a feed pawl, while a mag gun relies on springs within the magazine to force the cartridges into play. So the MG34 (sans feed tray cover) will accept a magazine, but is still belt-fed for all that... my head hurts, I'm going beddies... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15508 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15508 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:42:44 -0600 MG Lock? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15507 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15507 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:39:38 -0600 I'd argue that point. You could argue they were just round boxes for the belts. No springs were involved, you couldn't just load 'em with bullets sansabelt (heh) and expect 'em to fire... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15505 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15505 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:26:43 -0600 ooh ooh MG34... used drum mags in the AA role... [pant pant] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15504 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15504 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:24:11 -0600 No, wait...not magazine, it's not the aircraft version. My final guess, part of the trigger mechanism. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15502 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15502 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:21:43 -0600 And Blob... since when do belt-feds have magazines? Let's see who jumps that comment first... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15500 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15500 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:08:06 -0600 Blob - go look at the Maxim folder... or the Maxim posts in the Machine Gun/Gun Porn archives... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15498 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15498 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:02:27 -0600 Magazine release, perhaps? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15497 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15497 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:01:18 -0600 Well, it's a Vickers part because it's in the Vickers folder...and the post's subject line is "gun pics / machine guns" but damned if I can tell what it is, perhaps the rear sight? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15496 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15496 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:47:02 -0600 OK I would say it is from a vickers as it has more parts and see,s to have a higher level of fit and finish than one would see on a Maxim made in russia like yours. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15494 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15494 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:09:43 -0600 Blob - Heh. I hate to break it to ya, son. I have a Mark I and a Mark II. Someone hasn't been paying attention on the Castle tours... All - make sure you check the updates. There's new pics up there - and no, Blob, that ain't a barrel release. To get the barrels out of either of those guns you had to unload 'em, pull off the backplates, remove the recoil plates with the barrel secured in them by the trunnions. And then ya hadda repack your asbestos seals. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15493 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15493 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:09:04 -0600 Is it a barrel release for a Vickers/Maxim, then? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15492 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15492 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:59:35 -0600 Dang, you have a Bren, too? I'm olive-drab with envy. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15490 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15490 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:56:54 -0600 breech assembly/disassembly tools http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15485 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15485 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:26:00 -0600 ...ruptured case extracter for da Vickie?? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15484 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15484 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:20:05 -0600 I am indeed a Redleg, and I own about eight or nine - I'd have to go count - different aiming circles... but this ain't one of 'em! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15481 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15481 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:02:27 -0600 I wish I had about 10 of them for my 08/15--the only one I see for sale is $550 retail. The lock is the heart of the gun. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15480 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15480 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:02:12 -0600 Since you are a red leg and I see what I think is an optic I'd say the head assembly for a primitive (antique) aiming circle http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15478 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15478 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:57:29 -0600 Hmmmm. Blob, that's so out in left field I'm tempted to trot downstairs and take a picture of the barrel release of a Bren... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15477 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15477 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:47:31 -0600 It's the barrel release mechanism for a Bren gun. Either that or a cigarette lighter. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15476 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15476 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:40:13 -0600 Chris - you are close - but they aren't the same thing. There is a significant difference between the Vickers-Maxim and the Vickers. Between any Maxim and a Vickers. So, to keep it from being just a guess... if you think that's what it is - which is it, and why? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15475 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15475 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:37:50 -0600 Corkscrew. I'm tellin' ya- it's a corkscrew. Even has a cute little foilcutter and a re-corker. Very convenient. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15472 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15472 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:25:27 -0600 It is the lock from a Maxim or Vickers machinegun, which are the same thing only with different names because Vikers was just the first company licensed to produce the Maim designed gun. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15471 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15471 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:17:19 -0600 I'm going with the Fingerspitzengefuehl. Degtyarev lockwork. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15470 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15470 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:01:36 -0600 Just so it's clear... it's a firearm component... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15469 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15469 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:01:09 -0600 Looks like a Shock Puller. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15468 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15468 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:52:59 -0600 Thanks, AFSis! No breakage here, wouldn't waste a nice wine. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15467 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15467 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:29:34 -0600 Jack... that's a good guess in some respects. Completely wrong, but understandable. A lotta you guys have never *seen* an armored vehicle jack up close, have you. I did say the pic was slightly larger than 1:1... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15464 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15464 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:52:47 -0600 And it turns an M-5 Stewart tank into a lowrider, right? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15463 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15463 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:45:38 -0600 A Jack or some other type of hoisting equipment. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15462 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15462 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:39:02 -0600 Barb- catch. And don't spill. No party fouls allowed at work- gets the boss really angry. See John? I HAVE been paying attention to your lessons in weaponry. spd rdr confirmed my suspicion that this is, in fact, a thingamajig. And here you thought I'd been goofing off in Tech Terms 101! Of course, everyone else is claiming this is a part to a gun thingy, but I'm sticking to the corkscrew theory. Yellow Tail, anyone??? *hic* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15460 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15460 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:37:34 -0600 Or a mounting attachment for a Boys Antitank Rifle? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15459 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15459 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:33:53 -0600 Blech...I can't get either of your hints to open in either IE or MF. But it's obviously the hatch release handle on a Panzerkampfwagen Mk IIc. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15458 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15458 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:29:39 -0600 The hints are so-o-o helpful, thanks! Could you pass the bottle over here next, AFSis? I'm at work, but I need something to drink anyway. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15455 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15455 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:12:52 -0600 It's part of one of those thingamajigs. You know, the kind that go BANG really loud and wake up the neighbors? Like guns. That's it. Kinda like guns. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15448 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15448 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:22:57 -0600 I'm with Barb on this one (although I do work for a financial company and am off work today- LOL!). Looks like some fandangled (technical term, ranks up there with "whatchamacallit", "thingy" and "thingamajig") corkscrew to me. Pass me the wine, willya, Sanger? You bottle hog! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15447 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15447 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:21:18 -0600 Yet another piece of equipment to chuck down the TC's hatch to see if the gunner and loader are on their toes... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15441 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15441 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:10:48 -0600 Nope. I've provided another hint. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15439 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15439 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:00:53 -0600 A cannon lock. Is that round smooth part on the left where you tie the lanyard? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15437 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15437 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:32:07 -0600 My comment was on visitors, not commenters! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15436 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15436 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:11:12 -0600 Consider the topic, John! I have no idea what the first pic is, and the 'obtuse hint' was not terribly helpful ;-) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15399 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15399 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:15:37 -0600 Government Issue automatic nose picker. (For those really hard to get loogies.) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15397 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15397 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:12:09 -0600 Hmmm, about 60% of normal weekday traffic at this point... which indicates an awful lot of readers are gov't/bankers surfing from work! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15396 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15396 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:06:18 -0600 Ivan? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15395 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15395 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:00:30 -0600 ...errrr.. that would be Ivan, natch http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15394 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15394 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:48:35 -0600 Ian Hogg's favorite paperweight! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15393 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15393 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:44:56 -0600 Wuz looking at that and came to the same conclusion... It'd be difficult to elevate the weapon... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15392 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15392 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:36:49 -0600 All three are *not* correct. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15391 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15391 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:22:50 -0600 Belt buckle pistol from WWII? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15390 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15390 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:19:05 -0600 Pintle, machinegun... M60 series? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15389 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15389 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:17:23 -0600 Hammer, Ordnance, Armourer for the use of, MK1* too easy.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15388 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/02/teaser.html#comment-15388 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:02:11 -0600