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The Whatziss, enlarged.

By The Armorer on August 13, 2007 | | Comments (5)

Since *some* people were all whiney about it.

Try again. It's probably not your first guess.

I'll help a bit. *Not* Warsaw Pact. Nor from any of the nations which comprised the Pact at any time during their turbulent histories.

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By heath on August 13, 2007 1:46 PM
looks like a trip for an aold trip flare? Heath
 
By KCSteve on August 13, 2007 1:52 PM
Ok, looks like it's a trigger mechanism. Pull the pin, squeeze the handle and something gets fired off. Guessing from the proportions that it's firing off something about 12-gauge shotgun shell sized so it's probably one of those things that uses a 12-ga 'blank' as the primer for something more interesting. Trying to think of things where you'd want to set off something serious enough to need this much kick but infrequently enough to use a gadget like this... Perhaps some sort of early ejection seat? That's the sort of thing you only set off once but when you do you really want to make sure it goes.
 
By heath on August 13, 2007 3:57 PM
All right, lets state the obvious, it's a striker assy for an old grenade, probably post ww1, but pre ww2 i would think. Heath
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 13, 2007 4:08 PM
Heath - if that's the case, some googling should pull it up...
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 14, 2007 8:05 AM
Gad, you guys are no fun on this one...
 
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