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Originally Posted by 45Wheelgun
Best Lounge thread in a long time. Well done.
I tried to get to look at the Fudd Gun last time I was at the NRA Museum. Sadly, Jim Supica had it with the traveling Movie Gun display. Maybe next time. I heard the stock had been cut to fit Fudd's smaller stature.
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Elmer cut the stock real short to carry under his coat and called it a "Rippit". He could "rip it out" fast. But when he said it, and he is Elmer fudd after all, it came out "Whippit". That's where the term came from for cut down shotguns as used by Clyde Barrow and Porter Rockwell.