Heh. This was advertised as "the boomstick", so how could I resist?

GatorFarmer · Mar 15, 2009

Cost me 70 bucks and a knife in trade. Have no fear, it's over the legal limit for both bbl length and over all length so as not to require a tax stamp. The previous owner did an okay (but not great job) on the barrel chop, but did a rather nice job on working the homemade pistolgrip style buttstock. These "whippet" guns usually go for over a C note on the auctions, and - as often observed - are the kind of gun that hurts on both ends.

With some Winchester AA trap loads, it would make a fine rat killing gun.

GatorFarmer · Mar 15, 2009

Cost me 70 bucks and a knife in trade. Have no fear, it's over the legal limit for both bbl length and over all length so as not to require a tax stamp. The previous owner did an okay (but not great job) on the barrel chop, but did a rather nice job on working the homemade pistolgrip style buttstock. These "whippet" guns usually go for over a C note on the auctions, and - as often observed - are the kind of gun that hurts on both ends.

With some Winchester AA trap loads, it would make a fine rat killing gun.

feldspar13 · Mar 15, 2009

thats nice, I like H&R/New England shotguns

NCTexan · Mar 15, 2009

Thanks for expanding my horizons.... I had never heard of a whippet gun.

I've owned whippet dogs for years but had never heard the gun term.

There were whippet tanks in WWI and whippet cars in the 50's and 60's....

Now a whippet gun is something that has captured my interest.

GatorFarmer · Mar 15, 2009

Originally posted by NCTexan:
Thanks for expanding my horizons.... I had never heard of a whippet gun.

I've owned whippet dogs for years but had never heard the gun term.

There were whippet tanks in WWI and whippet cars in the 50's and 60's....

Now a whippet gun is something that has captured my interest.

The term seems to date back to the 1920s/30s, sometimes confused or interchanged with "whippit" gun to the point that both references turn up. Apparently there used to be a popular expression along the lines of "quick as a whippet" - in reference to the dog. Thus a shortened rifle or shotgun, meant to be handy and quick, became a "whippet" gun.

Of course one could "whip it" out..."

There was also a series of shotguns and rifles sold for the hardware store trade under the "Whippet" brand name and sometimes ended up being cut down by users, offering yet another possible source for the term.

Bob R · Mar 15, 2009

Shop smart......Shop S Mart.

How could you resist?

bob

rimfired · Mar 15, 2009

Just for everyones edification and enlightenment the minimum OA length for a shortened shotgun is 26". Measured by placing the butt on the floor and having the barrels perpendicular to the wall, measure from the base of the floor against the wall to the tip of the barrels. If you're over 26", you're good as long as the barrels are 18" and over. Just an FYI.

Spotteddog · Mar 16, 2009

FYI- Whippet's are basically a 3/4 scale Greyhound, and fast as Hell! IIRC, back in that day I was told by my Dad that Greyhounds as well as Whippet's were raced at sanctioned dog tracks.

slowburninsteve · Mar 16, 2009

Gat, watch your front teeth when it recoils!!!

Duke426 · Mar 16, 2009

Originally posted by Spotteddog:
FYI- Whippet's are basically a 3/4 scale Greyhound, and fast as Hell! IIRC, back in that day I was told by my Dad that Greyhounds as well as Whippet's were raced at sanctioned dog tracks.

If your dog was bad would you whippet?

I know, it was lame, very lame...

ServiceGun · Mar 16, 2009

Everyone knows a proper boomstick is a SXS double.

truckemup97 · Mar 16, 2009

Originally posted by Duke426:

If your dog was bad would you whippet?

Whip it, whip it good.

Nice little find, Gator. I've got a wall hanger I could do that with. I need to look into that. BTW, do you have a CCW holster for it yet?

Frizzman · Mar 16, 2009

I have seen such guns in the form of a 20ga double with short barrels and pistol grip. I think some in LE as well as on the other side liked them for cary under a long topcoat.

silvercorvette · Mar 16, 2009

Originally posted by GatorFarmer:

Originally posted by NCTexan:
Thanks for expanding my horizons.... I had never heard of a whippet gun.

I've owned whippet dogs for years but had never heard the gun term.

There were whippet tanks in WWI and whippet cars in the 50's and 60's....

Now a whippet gun is something that has captured my interest.

Click to expand...

The term seems to date back to the 1920s/30s, sometimes confused or interchanged with "whippit" gun to the point that both references turn up. Apparently there used to be a popular expression along the lines of "quick as a whippet" - in reference to the dog. Thus a shortened rifle or shotgun, meant to be handy and quick, became a "whippet" gun.

Of course one could "whip it" out..."

There was also a series of shotguns and rifles sold for the hardware store trade under the "Whippet" brand name and sometimes ended up being cut down by users, offering yet another possible source for the term.

I believe Clyde Barrow invented the term for the cut down BAR he carried

PS I still am having computer problems, my Toshiba notebook is DOA. I am using my cheap slow desk top, that I loaned to someone that need one. I'll let them borrow it again when the Mac comes in [mar 20-25]. I have been reading most of the stuff on this forum with my cell phone but I could't post with the cell. It is frustrating reading stuff that you can't respond to

Heh. This was advertised as "the boomstick", so how could I resist?

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