[Swordmaker]

WOW! I can’t recall the last time a 1 of 1000 Winchester was sold! There are only 133 known. I knew where the 134th was. A high school kid inherited one from his uncle back in 1975 and turned it into a floor lamp in his high school shop! His mom wouldn’t let him put it in her house so he brought it down to me when I was managing the Old Sacramento Armoury to see if I would be interested in buying it. I was sick when I saw what it was. He’d drilled right through the 1 of 1000 designation on the barrel to run the wire for the lamp attachment on the end of the muzzle! AAAARRRGGGHHHH!

This auction is overflowing with gun porn for collectors including a Gattling Gun!

[Pontiac]

Horse whipping would be too good for the kid.

[Eagles6]

AAARRGGHH! is right!

[Covenantor]

I'm impressed with Flanders offhand shooting at 400 yards given the ballistics table below with modern powders.

Did you explain to the shop student the destruction he wrought? Hope that hangs around his neck like the Ancient Mariner's albatross.

[Chainmail]

"He’d drilled right through the 1 of 1000 designation on the barrel to run the wire for the lamp attachment on the end of the muzzle"

Should have bought it: a proficient restorer would not have had a problem taking care of a hole in the barrel. I have seen many rare but damaged firearms re-done so well that they were exactly the way they should be. Costs money but it's worth it.

[Red in Blue PA]

Let me guess. A brain dead liberal.