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Let us start a new Whatziss!

By The Armorer on October 30, 2011 | | Comments (18)
I don't know how this one will go. I was pretty sure that "Possible Portuguese Fencing Musket" was obscure enough that it was going to run for a while. This one... might not. Or it might. I'm certainly going to try to make it run for a while. That's a lot easier than actually blogging or anything.

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No embiggenation needed, cat hair thoughtfully provided for scale. Let's get started, shall we?

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By 11B40 on October 30, 2011 11:52 AM
Greetings:

Is that the thing Khadaffy Duck's fellow muslims were trying to stick up his rectum ??? 
 
By Rivrdog on October 30, 2011 12:25 PM
Oho! So I'm not the only one with parts left over after re-assembling a complex mechanical device.
OK, here's my try. A battle rifle, old or third-world manufacture (lack of precise milling), the part is an ejector.
 
By jim b on October 30, 2011 1:26 PM
I don't know what it is, but there is a good chance it was built before WWI
 
By Rod Thorsen on October 30, 2011 2:26 PM
That looks real familiar.  One of the parts that goes with the pieces inside some obscure mechanism I believe.
 
By John of Argghhh! on October 30, 2011 4:10 PM
11B40 - tacky.  Show some respect for the newly dead.  Celebrate, don't denigrate!

And Rod leads the pack with an incisive bit of analysis that clearly was modeled after one of the Dem's economic think tank products.

Sounds good, hard to argue with since there's no specifics, and ultimately useless.
 
By og on October 30, 2011 4:18 PM
Looks like a striker from a striker fired auto rifle, but i can't place the manufacture.
 
By Skip on October 30, 2011 4:20 PM
Tater masher.
Whatdidiwin?
 
By Joe in N Calif on October 30, 2011 5:12 PM
Rear sight insert for a Flit gun.
 
By jim b on October 30, 2011 5:51 PM
I hope that the rumor that h-e-doublehockeysticks for armors is not true. You know the one where devils sneak into the arms room take everything apart ... throw all the parts in several baskets ... stir them with a stick, then watch as they try to figure out what goes where ... for eternity.

Of course to John that wouldn't be hell it would be heaven.
 
By Navig8r on October 30, 2011 6:09 PM
I'll go with the rear sight theory.  No clue as to what weapon it is for.
 
By Old Fat Sailor on October 30, 2011 7:24 PM
That looks like a depriming tool my great uncle had for a big round like a .45-70 or .577
 
By John (Not The Armorer) on October 30, 2011 7:53 PM
Maybe some sort of follower in a double stack magazine?
 
By Gary on October 30, 2011 8:28 PM
I believe it is a magazine restrictor for an old Enfield,  stick it down in there to so those riflemen can't waste the kings ammo.

Or it is a shift fork for a 1941 jeep...
 
By Elroy Jetson on October 30, 2011 9:01 PM
I think it's some part of an extractor assembly-you can see the brass outline of the head of a cartridge and it appears the primer is already dished in when struck by the face of the whatsiss.  The hole might be where the (not shown) hooked part goes through to hook over the lip of the cartridge case to flip it out.
 
By jim b on October 30, 2011 10:25 PM
It's a manual pressure release button thingie for a home made still.
 
By Argent on October 30, 2011 10:30 PM
Handle, pull it and something exciting happens.
 
By Colin on October 31, 2011 2:18 PM
It looks a lot like a part off my Mauser Broomhandle, but not part I recall looks like that. But i suspect it's from the same era.
 
By John of Argghhh! on November 1, 2011 10:18 AM
Argent, yer naughty.  But you're sorta correct, too.  It all depends on your defintion of exciting and why it might be exciting.