Trivia Wednesday Bit

[planeflyer21]

Ian in uniform and everything, for a bit of trivia on Trench Guns of WWI:

Wait for it...

[blue109]

Wednesday? Crap I'm late for work. 

 

ETA....do want WW1 trench shotgun w giant bayonet. 

Edited December 10, 2016 by blue109

[shepp]

7 minutes ago, blue109 said:

Wednesday? Crap I'm late for work. 

 

ETA....do want WW1 trench shotgun w giant bayonet. 

That's a damn sword!!!! You could shishkabob people with that thing!!

 

that video was cool short and sweet!! Does the shell eject out the bottom on that gun???

[planeflyer21]

/\/\/\/\ Nope, it's a side-slinger.

[shepp]

Did some reading

 

http://www.gundigest.com/article/winchesters-bad-boy-smoothbore-model-97-riot-gun

[planeflyer21]

IIRC, Norinco did a copy of the 1897 Riot Gun, maybe the Trench version too.

Right now the best combat shotty replica is Inland Manufacturing's M37.

[blue109]

Speaking of shottys...was reading some posts by the guy who owns battlefield vegas, the big machine gun rental range. He said the pump shotguns are the LEAST reliable weapons they have. Says the mossy 500s and the rem 870s last an average of 3 months before shearing off slide rails, and that they cost more to fix than replace. Said the benelli M4 is a tank and has been running since they got it. He makes some pretty good posts over on ar15.com. 

Edited December 10, 2016 by blue109

[planeflyer21]

Oh crap.  Blue's recommending arfdotcom. 

I'm curious what he has to say about the 590 and BPS.  If a person had zero experience with pumps and did a side by side comparison of the 500 to the 590, I believe most anyone would conclude the 500 was about to fall apart.

The 870s are another victim of Ceberus/Freedom Group IMO.  Like the Marlin owners, there are 870 buyers who will pay near vulgar amounts to get a pre-Freedom Group example.