While a 1917 Browning is a tad late the fellow who sold me the gas gun parts for my build emailed me some pix of his latest build, a Potato Digger which is very correct for the Krag. Thought you would enjoy. Full auto, no atf and you don’t have to reload a thing but you do have to get your tanks refilled.

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That's pretty neat 'Baltimoreed', but, please explain what a "gas gun" does?

Mock Firing Simulator?

I'm 'clueless'.

That would be correct, uses propane and air mixed in a combustion chamber/barrel [1/2 in pipe] and a bit of electronics to open and close the 2 valves and make a spark to ignite the mix. The flame and report exits the barrel. Rate of ‘fire’ is controlled by adjusting the gas mix and ignition. A re-enactors toy. Figure it would be a neat prop at WB shoots. They usually use demilled weapons for these builds. Many years ago I saw a semi 1917a1 at the Raleigh gunshow for 5000.00, i wish I had bought it now.

Wow!

Looks like you could really cut the cheese with that gas gun!

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Wonder if a gas gun could be used to toast mosquitoes on the wing? There is water standing in the grass around my irrigation reservoir. A couple evenings ago I had to walk past the area, could hear the mosquitos several hundred yards before I got there, intensely loud when I got closer, almost ran to get away from there.

Thanks for explaining.

I do like the mock Model 1895 Colt.

Here's the best way to get rid of mosquitoes:

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Picture above reminded me of this story from 2016:

A sharpshooter killed a top ISIS executioner and three other jihadists with a single bullet from nearly a mile away -- just seconds before the fiend was set to burn 12 hostages alive with a flamethrower, according to a new report.

The British Special Air Service marksman turned one of the most hated terrorists in Syria into a fireball by using a Barett .50-caliber rifle to strike a fuel tank affixed to the jihadi’s back, the UK’s Daily Star reported Sunday.


The pack exploded, killing the sadistic terrorist and three of his flunkies, who were supposed to film the execution, last month, the paper said.

The ISIS butcher -- who reportedly delighted in burning hostages alive -- had been on a US “kill list” for several months, sources told the paper, which did not identify the sniper or the executioner.

Whig wrote on Apr 7^th, 2020 at 2:12pm:

Here's the best way to get rid of mosquitoes:

What's not to like toasted mosquitoes and a suit to keep them from sneaking up from behind.

Do the Mosquitoes get large in Texas?

I thought they were big and bad in Michigan, but, last Summer in California's San Joachim Valley, I got a lesson!

The little 'buggers' took Liberal amounts of blood. I wasn't immune to their enzymes and the bites broke out into red welts. The bites cleared up in a couple hours, but, the itch was maddening, while it lasted!

Mosquitoes that size in Michigan are immature and can't bite. I gained respect for California rural areas and learned, that with Mosquitoes, Size Doesn't Matter!

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You got me beat there, nowhere near that big. Sometimes they make some pretty big blood spots when you swat them. Hard to compare size when you have not been every where.
Last week there were a lot of them. Last night (10:00PM) I was pumping water out of that low spot and went out to turn off the pump, did not hear any mosquitoes but lots of frogs. The water early in the day looked like it was boiling, must have been tadpoles. Not sure if the mosquitoes had already gone to bed or the frogs and tadpoles had done them in.
Next time I am out there at dusk I will find out.

This is how my grip and trigger assembly turned out. In case there’s a problem with the switch I didn’t want it to be inaccessible with everything welded like I’m planning so I did it this way. There’s a piece of brass piano hinge between the vertical and horizontal plates. My first design had 8 screws, nuts and angle steel to hold the endplate on but nothing was welded. I will use one screw on the top to hold the end plate ‘door’ closed. Still waiting for an aluminum 2.5x24 inch plate to arrive that my gas controls will be mounted on. The recvr and water jacket will slide over it.

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