Dear all,
This is my first posting on the forum, so thank you for letting me become a member.
I have joined as I have an old working spud gun which I am selling. It’s one I acquired a while back, had some fun with but now looking to move on. I did have it on , with one bid on it in less than 24 hours! That was until the powers that be at deleted the add as they considered this spud gun an offence weapon under their Policy's...
I am not 100% sure of when it was made, buts it was manufactured in of West Germany, so it could of been made anytime between the late forties or until the Germany was unified? But looking at the patina of the metalwork I am sure it was manufactured between the late 50’s to mid 60’s.
I know if I have suggested the wrong dates, then there will hopefully be someone who will reads this posting that will put me right.
The Spud gun has “ORIGINAL” stamped on what would the breach of an air gun. To ‘Prime it with air ’ you break the barrel in a similar way to an air rifle.
It’s approximately 785mm in length, structurally sound and even has the original sights, which line up pretty well.
If anybody has come across this type of spud gun before or knows the best place to sell it or would like to buy it for themselves, then please reply to this posting.
Many thanks,
Best to get some pictures so we have a better idea of what we are looking at.
Charles
P.S. Welcome to the forum
There is one,so described,at Amazon.com......$16 plus free shipping.
Hi and welcome, l think you have an airgun not a spud gun,if you could put some photos up we would be able to tell you for sure.
[QUOTE=trevor1;6844872]There is one,so described,at Amazon.com......$16 plus free shipping.[/QUOTE
Hi trevor1,
I had a look on Amazon, but could find it. As you have qouted the price in $ this would be in the USA?
i have seen a pic and it's an original tin plate air rifle.
Hi Larrylamppost,
Thanks for the reply.
I am not doubting your correct, but in all my years I have never seen an air rifle like this and have seen quite a few - albeit traditional ones, break barrels and under lever type.
Would you be able to advice what calibre this might be and how you would load a pellet into, it as it doesn't have any way of doing this when you break open the breech?
Is your gun something like this?... http://www.network54.com/Forum/66282...ted+%281923%29
if so, think the barrel is removed to load it.
blah blah
Hi DCL Dave,
Thank you for the reply and yes it is! but it doesnt say Diana but "Original" on the breech. It was made in West Germany though.
By joining this forum I have gained some new knowledge and anyway who says old dogs can't learn new tricks....
Hopefully soon, I may be given permission by the moderators to upload some images, get a valuation on it. Once I have that, then maybe somebody might be interested in it taking of my hands.
Thanks again for the information, most appreciated.
If you upload the photos to a hosting service such Flickr or similar you can just post a link straight away to your pictures...
However if the barrels had soggy spuds shoved up there, then it might be a tad rusty in the bore