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Old 10-11-2017, 06:01 PM
Maple Trapper Maple Trapper is offline
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It's likely not a good idea, but when I was 14 I found an old 12 ga. single shot shotgun in my grand parents barn. It had no firing pin. I made one out of a 16 penny nail, using a file. I first tested it on an empty hull to be sure the pin was long enough without being too long. Then I tested it by strapping it to a stake, put a string on the trigger and from about 25' back I pulled the trigger. It shot. I repeated it a few times and it fired every time. I then held it at waist height at my side and fired once more. At the crack of the shot I felt a big pain, the action opening lever had gotten rammed into the web of my thumb. I don't think I ever shot it again and after mom died in 2015 (dad died 12 years earlier) I found that gun still in the homemade gun rack in my old bedroom. It was really worth nothing and I destroyed it, then threw it in the scrap bin, the wood was burned and the barrel was badly bent (on purpose).
It has since been used in a wealding project.
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