Originally Posted by
ccdjg
Strike-pump guns (I can't say that I like phrase, but it seems to be here to stay) are normal spring piston airguns, using compressed air to propel the projectile. There was a discussion about the origins of the phrase here
https://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread...ht=strike+pump
Over here we would call guns that use direct contact between a spring and the missile simply 'spring guns', whereas on the other side off the pond they would be called 'catapult guns'. To us Brits a catapult gun would be interpreted as a gun propelled by stretched rubber. Over the pond 'stretched rubbers' would conjure up an image of something more colourful. Who says we speak the same language?
The oddest spring piston gallery gun l know of is the Lippert gallery pistol, which was in the Robert Beeman collection. I thought the Kuchenreuter pistol was a uniquely odd spring piston airgun, in that it used a hammer to cock an external V-spring, but the Lippert beats it for weirdness Its main spring is the trigger guard, which is compressed by a winding mechanism!
Apparently there was some confusion over Black Dyke Mills Band when they went to the States. In proper Yorkshire fashion they insisted that was their name not United Woollens. There might have been disappointment among the ticket buyers, too.
ATB, Mick
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