Interesting rifle displays?

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joeranger

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I got "taken" by a family member who needed money. I bought his custom Austrian Mauser sporting conversion. He asked me to sell it for him, but the old mauser was never meant to handle the very powerful 7mm rem mag. I just kept it and gave him the money. My wife would have given it to him anyway;)
The bullets came out sideways after rattling around in the stretched out chamber. My gunsmith said to never fire it again...ever!

Has anyone deactivated a rifle and displayed it as a lamp or something lighthearted. It is a beautiful rifle and a reminder about buying used guns:)
 
Yes, I have,,,

Has anyone deactivated a rifle and displayed it as a lamp or something lighthearted.
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I made a lamp using an old S&W pump shotgun,,,
A piece of rail broke off inside the frame,,,
Way too expensive and iffy to fix it.

So I completely disabled it,,,
Mounted a lamp "harp" from Wal Mart in the barrel,,,
And made a base to hold it upright for use as a table lamp,,,
I tried to make the trigger turn the lamp on and off but gave up.

It's sitting in my nephews Man Cave right now.

I also had an old beat up .22 snubbie,,,
One of those el-cheapo spanish imports from the 60's.

I filled the action and barrel with molten solder,,,
Then mounted it in a shadow box with a 45 RPM of "Saturday Night Special".

Gave that to my musician brother to hang in his studio.

My Dad buys all of the old dead double and single barrel shotguns he can find if he can get them for under $20.00,,,
He makes a stand for them and turns them into lamps like in the movie "The Great Outdoors".

There are lots of crafty (and profitable) uses for old dead guns.

Aarond
 
There are lots of crafty (and profitable) uses for old dead guns.
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Yep, exactly what I am looking for. Some fun ideas. Please post some pics if you have them.

I did create a "In case of Zombies, break glass" with a broken Airsoft pistol.
 

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In a bar on Drummond Island in Michigan,,,

There was an old double-barreled shotgun mounted on a nice board,,,
It was painted glossy white with a sign that read,,,

"For Weddings Only"

Sorry joeranger,,,
I don't have any pics of the lamps,,,
I bought my Dad a digital camera but he forgets he owns it. :rolleyes:

Aarond
 
hey, are you certain that it can't be rebarreled into a low power cartridge, say a 250 savage or something? It's a shame to waste what sounds like a nice rifle. But, as was said, if you can't do anything with it, you can effectivly disable it by boring a couple holes through chamber and barrel with a drill press and table vise with a cobalt bit. You could disable it by drilling out the front of the bolt face and firing pin hole, then peening it shut. Plenty of ways to disable it.

A short story here, one of my ancestors was a POW in andersonville. his artillery position was overrun, and he was captured while spiking the artillery. It was done by punching big "spikes" into the fuse hole and jamming a ball down the barrel with no charge. The battery was retaken, guns returned to functionality, and put back to use while he was taken away as a prisoner.

I was always kinda surprised at the idea that a spiked cannon could be returned to service so easily.
 
My brother does refurbishment and restoration of old equipment at a military museum. I'm not sure it applies to something as small as a rifle, but to deactivate something like a an artillery gun they have to cut a hole in the barrel at least as big as the breech and then weld the cut out plug back and grind it down smooth. That way if it is ever fired it will blow apart. Maybe just drilling a hole into the chamber to install the switch would do the trick.

My brother has worked on a lot of stuff, like AA guns and turretts from bombers. His most interesting story was when they got an old fast boat of Viet Nam vintage that the SEALs had used. A couple of months later an EOD team showed up asking if anything had been done with it. It seems that the roughly four pound self-destruct charge of C-4 had never been removed prior to releasing the boat....
 
I' with Briandg here. It would at least be worth a look see by a smith to determine what the cost would be to rebarrel the rifle to something more appropriate. 7mm Mauser and 6.5 Swede come to mind. What is the donor action on this thing? What Mauser do you have.
 
Well, it's not exactly a gun, but I took an old animal trap, heated the spring with a torch until no tension remained, then mounted it on the outside wall beside my front door, apparently loaded and ready to spring, with an elaborate little sign saying,

"Door bell...Please push button",

the button of course, being the trap trigger. Helps hold unwanted visitors to a minimum (although, having a missing finger {trap accident,don't want to talk about it} makes it more difficult for me to type and play saxophone).
 
The thing that really sucks is here in the Phoenix area there was one of those gun buyback programs the police put on this last weekend. It chaps my hide that they just melt them all down. There could be some really cool lamps, chair legs, what nots out of them.
 
"The thing that really sucks is here in the Phoenix area there was one of those gun buyback programs the police put on this last weekend. It chaps my hide that they just melt them all down. There could be some really cool lamps, chair legs, what nots out of them.

Pauly, from Saiga-12 forums, lives up in the northwest (I think). Anyhow, their city (Seattle?), set up a gun buy back, burn and melt program.

But they missed a little detail in their ordinance or law. So, Pauly and company set up about 50 feet from the buy back center, set up and held up signs saying something along the lines of "Let us buy your guns, instead of giving them away to be destroyed".

Apparently, they bought several, at really, really good prices. The police weren't 'anti' about it at all, and more or less laughed at their ingenuity.

I mean, after all, if you're going to give away your gun, why not get a few bucks for it?

Where there's a will, there's a way.

Sahagan
 
I too am wondering if the action could at least be salvaged and rebarreled to a more approriate cartridge. If not, however, I'd grind off the tip of the firing pin so that the rifle couldn't fire, fill the chamber and firing pin hole with JB Weld (leaving enough empty chamber to still be able to close the bolt), and turn the rifle into some sort of display piece.
 
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