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    Quote Originally Posted by ptdunk View Post
    Yikes…
    Looks like maybe someone was trying to fashion an early M16 style muzzle brake?

    What rifle is it from?

    Matt.
    No idea what rifle it is from

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    Does this help?


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    Similar to a HW35 but the breech block isn't just quite right...maybe a HW35 Barakuda....that would explain the attempt at making the flash suppressor ??? The gun used a charge of ether from a separate tube alongside the maintube that boosted the velocity of the pellets.!
    Known as the Barakuda EL54, the ether ignited giving velocities over 1,000 fps, but it had the effect of blowing the lead pellets apart in the barrel...so they started using steel ball shot....petty dangerous I guess in an air rifle maintube and barrel ?.....that's my best guess anyway.Rgds C
    Last edited by rapidshot; 12-10-2021 at 07:41 PM.

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    Its a Round Tuit.

    Ive been meaning to get one for years.
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    Is it what happens when the old brass screw and toothpaste diy muzzle re-crowning trick goes a bit wrong?
    Morally flawed

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    Could the rifle have been fired at high velocity with the barrel blocked, causing the end of it to split like that?

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    I'm a little confused Peter. You state it's a .177 and yet the label on the bottom barrel in your picture states it's a .22? ( top barrel appears to be a Webley MkII) Which calibre is it, or could it be something slightly different? have you tried a pellet in it?

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