This antique isn't common enough to be an everyday item, even though they have been used in many forms for centuries and newer versions are still in use today, but everybody has heard of them. Most current models are made of orange plastic.
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Mr. Ricklin. Except for the "small" part, you were closer than you know with your first guess. :cry
It's a WWI Van Karner VK-M12 flare pistol, and it's HUGE! It's full length is 13-3/4 inches, and the beast weighs about five pounds. Bore is 37mm, so trying to load a 12 gauge shell into it would be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway. From what I've read, adapters for loading 12 gauge shells were available at one time. Don't ask me what they look like or how they work, though, because I have no clue.
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"Every guy has to have one weakness - and it might as well be a good one." - Shell Scott: Dance With the Dead by Richard S. Prather
Don Ricklin - Gear: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, was Pentax K7
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Hemlock/pines needles in a boot/shoe cleaner, the kind you run you feet back and forth thru to get the dirt off your shoes?
Bingo!!!clap
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Too easy?
I explored three of the assignments before making several outings with camera in hand. This seemed to have some more recent posts than #1 (which I also did), so I am contributing something here as well.
Note: I have only read the early and later posts in this thread, so hope I am not duplicating an earlier image here. And boy, was the needles in the boot/shoe cleaner a hard one to guess!
I explored three of the assignments before making several outings with camera in hand. This seemed to have some more recent posts than #1 (which I also did), so I am contributing something here as well.
Note: I have only read the early and later posts in this thread, so hope I am not duplicating an earlier image here. And boy, was the needles in the boot/shoe cleaner a hard one to guess!
folding shovel?
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If you'd like to keep guessing, here's another image.
If you'd rather see what it is, click here.
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Edit: My guess was based on the first photo. The second clearly shows its not a hinge! Nice challenge.
Mr. Ricklin. Except for the "small" part, you were closer than you know with your first guess. :cry
It's a WWI Van Karner VK-M12 flare pistol, and it's HUGE! It's full length is 13-3/4 inches, and the beast weighs about five pounds. Bore is 37mm, so trying to load a 12 gauge shell into it would be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway. From what I've read, adapters for loading 12 gauge shells were available at one time. Don't ask me what they look like or how they work, though, because I have no clue.
Good guessing, Drin!
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its about a 1.3 second exosure ISO 100 f-13 16mm
the size is about 20 ft:D
your probably a detective or a doctor...lol
Anyone care to guess what this is?
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rotating brushes in a vacuum cleaner of sorts????
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i would have to say pine needles in the groove of an outdoor door matt
Close, but it's not a doormat, although it serves a similar purpose
(that should give it away)
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Hemlock/pines needles in a boot/shoe cleaner, the kind you run you feet back and forth thru to get the dirt off your shoes?
"If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event...what kind of film would you use?" - Anonymous
Bingo!!!
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I explored three of the assignments before making several outings with camera in hand. This seemed to have some more recent posts than #1 (which I also did), so I am contributing something here as well.
Note: I have only read the early and later posts in this thread, so hope I am not duplicating an earlier image here. And boy, was the needles in the boot/shoe cleaner a hard one to guess!
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Good guess, but not a folding shovel....
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Lemme guess: shot through the bottom of a glass/plastic bowl/bottle?