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Published: 2009-05-19 06:45:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 1038; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 17
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This is part of my collection.It is a one of a kind single shot bolt action handgun. The rounds it takes are also custom made. It shoots a 460 case that has been necked out to hold 50 BMG heads. Currently I have six shells for it, I have to get with my loader and have more made.
To give you an idea, if you know anything about guns, the shells below from right to left are...
9mm,45,308, an the custom for the gun(yeah the big one)
This thing is the psychotic idea of my Dad.
Think of a guy that is a cross between Burt from the movie 'Tremors' an Tim Allen from 'Home Improvement' an you'll have something close to the way my Dad was. He created this thing just because he could. Test firing was fun since he wasn't sure if it would blow up or not. Initially the recoil made it go from 3 to 12. After the barrel was ported Dad could hold it one handed an it only jumped 3 inches in recoil.
Unforunately I haven't found anywhere that will let me shoot the big bastard. On a side note, everyone that has seen this thing says 'hell no I won't shoot that thing'. I thought guys liked the more power thing.
Am I just crazy for wanting to shoot it? Eh, I think it is genetic.
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Well now, would you look at that, my hat is off to your fathers work. You can't go wrong with the Hornady A-MAXX, it's an excellent quality match bullet. I can appreciate the craftsmanship put into that pistol, I'd sure love to get some trigger time with something like that, thanks for sharing it.
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Thank you very much. Many people didn't appreciate the creativity my Dad had. Eventually once things settle down here at the new house I hope to get some time to play with this beastie myself. 
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You're very welcome! Cool, I'd like to see a picture of your .308 sometime.
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When I get it back out of storage along with all my others I'll post pics. I really miss them.
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I will gladly add this awesome piece of equipment to my photographic collection on my computer of great weapons
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Thanks. Dad was a bit of a nut case.
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haha! aww they're afraid of the homemade gun? ...well I wouldn't shoot it myself ^_^ but I'd love to see someone else do it.
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The sad thing is that it is men. I thought it was a genetic testosterone thing that guys liked everything bigger an more powerful. 
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haha 
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The gunsmith even turned down shooting it!
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hmm, that would actually worry me
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Naw, he just said the thing was too powerful for his tastes. I think the size scares most people.
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haha
I know I wouldn't be strong enough to handle something like that, especially with my right hand all fucked up.
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When I do shoot it I will be sitting down. I don't have the arm strength to hold that monster up. If you can believe it my Da used to shoot it one handed!
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I can believe that 
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He was strong but that brought him down as he got older. Stupidity in youth caused him to do things he shouldn't which blew out his back. 
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Yeah tell me about it
I used to have back problems but I jumped out of a second story window and it hasn't bothered me since
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Alrighty then. I doubt mine would be fixed in that manner. I got massive muscle tearing an some other crap I can't quite recall.
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yeah I wouldn't recommend that treatment to anyone else either 
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No way, I donna like the doctors much so avoid going. I was 21 when I got the news bout that crud. Hasn't gotten much better since then.
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:S that sucks. A lot.
try yoga?!
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As if I have time. Right now I'm lucky to get decent sleep time in. I'm taking the time on here cause I got most of my housework accomplished for the day since they cancelled my work shift for the day.
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oh
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Right now I'm lucky to have time for much of anything.
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Why? I mean I know you work a lot but I dunno your hours really.. and parenting takes up a lot of time too
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I work 2nd shift hours, 215 to 1015. My drive is an hour or just a bit over that one way. I have to leave early due to traffic cause I hate being late. By the time I get home most everyone is asleep so I wash dishes, do laundry etc until all odd hours of the morning.
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:S sounds like (not so much) fun. Yeah, that's life, I know... it doesn't mean I have to be happy about it
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Only if I ever become a full time writer. Yet that doesn't seem to be anything more than a fantastic dream right now. I just got my most recent turn down...again.
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Eventually I may resort to that, but right now I will continue to annoy them.
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I've yet to start down that road myself, I'm not sure which path I'll take. If I self-publish I'll have to pick a story I'm not particularly gung-ho about...
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I'll annoy the crap out of enough that eventually I'll find one who will take it.
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oh have you any ideas for cover art for the book!?
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vague ideas, but I'd like to get drachea to do the art if I could
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He did so well with my last set of characters that I think he could do them justice for cover art. Plus if it ever does happen an I do get him to do it that will be a way to get his name out there in a wider range than right now.
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Yeah
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I was positively thrilled at how they came out. I have descriptions wrote up for a few more that I want done. I just have to wait till I get some spare cash that isn't going towards my costume project.
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Sweetness
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Yes money is a factor. An it seems you never have enough to do much of anything you want to.
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yep ^_^ if you went to the center of the sun, you'd find it was full of MONEY cause not even the sun works for free. Doesn't get payed as well as Jack Nicholson though.
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well applause for creativity but I pity your wrists, I dont think I could handle anything bigger than a .454 casull or a .500 S&W so kudos
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My Dad was a bit nuts. When I go to fire it I'll be sitting down an likely leaning on a table or somesuch. I'm not entirely insane.
My Dad called it 'Bubba' for some reason.
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well it looks like hick artillery (no offense my uncle shoots a similar pistol in 7mm-08 and that's what we call it) so bubba fits it. and honestly I'd machine rest it anyway, probly give you a better idea of it's MOA too, I'd guess it's gonna be 1 or maybe .75 at about 150 years give or take a few minutes
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Eh, if I can *ever* find a place to let it off. No one even wants to be close, but my boyfriend did promise the local gunsmith to film me shooting it so he could see.
An Dad didn't get the chance to make it *pretty*. He was working on a nicer stock for it just before he died.
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awww sorry to hear he passed on. and the stocks not bad at all it just needs sanding on the forearm and a trigger guard looks pretty fine to me actualy. I was actualy talking about the calibre not the appearance X3 never seen a pistol that big outside a Pfeifer-Zaliska
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Huh, usually everyone gripes bout the stock. Dad made the thing on a whim just to see if it would work. That 'more power' thing was something he loved to play with. If I had more knowledge of machining an access to milling machine I'd likely try to make something myself.
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just use sandpaper to soften the edges and use some varnish or tongue oil to touch it up and then use needle nose pliers to bend a brass strip to the right shape and use a regular old drill to punch screw holes in it and there's a functional and decent looking guard
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Maybe one day I'll do something like that, but in a way I don't want to. It is the way my Dad left it an well its hard to change it. I still get the urge to ask his opinion on stuff then realize I can't. Might take me a few years to be able to do anything to it or any of the others I inherited.
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