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Offline Justin Urbantas

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What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« on: March 06, 2020, 07:16:07 AM »
I saw this original Twigg gun for sale.
Who did this, and why?
I didn't think guns were actually made like this.  I would have like to have seen it in it's prime.





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Offline rich pierce

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Re: What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2020, 07:25:36 AM »
It’s a flintlock trumpet. Delivers quite a blast.
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Re: What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2020, 02:51:23 PM »
Hi,
It looks like someone mangled a nice 1780s Twigg fowler and made a cartoon blunderbus out of it.

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Offline Elnathan

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Re: What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2020, 02:52:45 PM »
Huh. Has an entry thimble, so presumably a ramrod hole drilled in it, but it would be difficult to use that ramrod.....

I'm going to guess that that is two different guns there, a Twigg minus its barrel, and a barrel minus its lock and stock. The blunderbuss must have had a standing breech too, for it to fit in The Twigg stock. At the back of my mind I'm remembering something, possibly from Peterson's Great Guns, about late Liege-made blunderbusses with very exaggerated flares - it is that and the (presumed) standing breech that makes me think it might have been on an actual gun at some point, and not just a prop barrel.
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Offline Robert Wolfe

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Re: What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2020, 05:12:05 PM »
Wonder if it was done for a movie prop years ago?
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Offline WadePatton

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Re: What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2020, 05:17:45 PM »
Coning gone far awry.   ;D
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Offline Pukka Bundook

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Re: What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2020, 06:14:01 PM »
It may be possible to cure it with another barrel...
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Offline Craig Wilcox

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Re: What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2020, 08:04:04 PM »
Specially designed to hunt wascally wabbits.
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Offline Avlrc

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Re: What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2020, 05:47:17 AM »
I like it, makes it real easy to pour the powder & shot in. Nothing like a built in funnel.  ;D  You could load it walking , talking shootin & drinkin.  Best improvement  I seen since they got rid of those old cardboard  oil cans.
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Offline WadePatton

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Re: What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2020, 07:40:03 AM »
Quote from: Avlrc on March 07, 2020, 05:47:17 AM
I like it, makes it real easy to pour the powder & shot in. Nothing like a built in funnel.  ;D  You could load it walking , talking shootin & drinkin.  Best improvement  I seen since they got rid of those old cardboard  oil cans.

I think a fella could load it slung on his back, at a trot.  :o

A grip-squeeze opener/funnel combo was handy with those oil cans. 
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Offline diamante

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Re: What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2020, 02:41:10 AM »
I think it was used by Spike Jones and his City Slickers band. lol 😂
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Re: What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2020, 09:35:38 PM »
Quote from: diamante on March 08, 2020, 02:41:10 AM
I think it was used by Spike Jones and his City Slickers band. lol 😂

SPIKE JONES!!
WHAT a blast from the past.He and his crew of nitwits could make a dog laugh.
I remember one of his songs that started out with"In some secluded rondevous,
overlooking the avenue" then total chaos ensued. ;D.It's been over 65 years since
I have even heard about him.

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Offline diamante

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Re: What in the name of Elmer Fudd is this????
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2020, 12:38:16 AM »
I stand corrected Mr. Roller. It was Bob “Bazooka” Burns. lol 😂
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