Knife guns

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Elgatodeacero

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i have always been fascinated by knife guns, and I may find a reputable knife/gun smithy to make me a blackpowder flint or percussion knife gun someday. Does anyone know someone who could do this?

Combining a knife with a gun just makes sense, for So many obvious and very good reasons.

Here is one of the oldest knife guns I have ever come across, from the 1500’s. It is a large chopper blade with a wheellock gun - just incredible.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/21963

I am aware of a few more recent knife guns like the GRAD, but if anyone out there has a traditional knife gun please post them!
 
There are several very talented bladesmiths who frequent this board who make guns and the occasional gun knife. A search should get you a good response.
 
Did that show last night inspire this? Its a cool conversation piece but I can't imagine the practicality of one. Good luck though.
 
Michael Morris does one :thumbsup:

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JAck Black, thanks for that picture.

Boxer .45 said:
Did that show last night inspire this? Its a cool conversation piece but I can't imagine the practicality of one. Good luck though.
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What show?

And just for the record, if you are ever faced with pirates boarding your vessel then you will see the folly of your words!
 
Elgatodeacero said:
i have always been fascinated by knife guns, and I may find a reputable knife/gun smithy to make me a blackpowder flint or percussion knife gun someday.
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I've only saw pictures of these never had one in hand but always thought they were very cool.
 
I love watching someone shoot a flintlock for the first time, whenever that first explosion happens right in there face they'll flinch like crazy, and I'm no exception lol. And the time it takes from trigger break until felt recoil, snap,pop/whoosh!,bang/kick! Asking everyone else "Did I (cough cough) hit it!?"
 
Misplaced Hillbilly said:
I love watching someone shoot a flintlock for the first time, whenever that first explosion happens right in there face they'll flinch like crazy, and I'm no exception lol. And the time it takes from trigger break until felt recoil, snap,pop/whoosh!,bang/kick! Asking everyone else "Did I (cough cough) hit it!?"
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Agree 100% MH!!:D
But I'll tell ya, shootin a lock sure improved my modern rifle shooting....you learn how to hold thru the shot! ;)
One of my favorite pass times is shootin gophers in the spring with a flinter, learn patients and stability thru the shot.

Dave
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I've only gotten to shoot a flint a handful of times, a friends Dad had one. It was great fun. Still cool to see modern makers putting their spin on the gun/knife idea
 
I’m proud to say Tom Pike knew me. Tom had a museum in a reconstructed trade fort he built in Ohio. He and his wife were champion black powder shooters, winning hundreds of competitions. I remember him shooting an original flintlock long rifle at ground hogs across the State highway. It was bored down around .30 and I was more interested in Hawkins and Henry’s (Alex. Henry) back then. He had hundreds of old,original, rifles from the first half of the 1800’s.

To this day I regret I was in Europe when he died and couldn’t get something to remember him by. Still, he sold me my first pistol, an Italian made replica of an 1860 Colt. I was 13.

Times were different.
 
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