Here's one you don't see very often:
Attachment 246985
Here's one you don't see very often:
Attachment 246985
The ENEMY is listening.
HE wants to know what YOU know.
Keep it to yourself.
Very neat! That would be a cool piece to have!
~ Chris
Casting, reloading, shooting, collecting, restoring, smithing, etc, I love it all but most importantly, God, Family, The United States Constitution and Freedom...
God Bless our Troops, Veterans and First Responders!
Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas
Accuracy, Power & Speed
Even nicer with the Airweight S&W to go with it.
Attachment 246988
The ENEMY is listening.
HE wants to know what YOU know.
Keep it to yourself.
That's cool.
Not sure exactly when, those were obsoleted out when the pen-flare came along in I think the mid. 60's or so.
I worked on aircrew survival gear 73-80, both on helos and jets, and I've only heard of those, and not seen one.
the pen-flare shot a bigger flare, and the crew didn't have to use a handgun to fire it.
And it did away with all the hassle of keeping track of firearms in the ready room or flight line shack.
The pen flare gun & screw on flares could be left inside the survival vest
and not turned in & checked out like a .38 revolver.
In school: We learn lessons, and are given tests.
In life: We are given tests, and learn lessons.
OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
The ENEMY is listening.
HE wants to know what YOU know.
Keep it to yourself.
[QUOTE=Outpost75; SV2 vest .[/QUOTE]
Thank you.
I was scratching my head trying to remember the designation for the vest.
As a new Parachute Rigger, my early introduction to the SV2 was fabricating
and sewing the SAR helo lift strap on the top edge of about a hundred of them.
In school: We learn lessons, and are given tests.
In life: We are given tests, and learn lessons.
OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
The day/night flares have probably gone bad. I tried mine back in the 90's, they'd duded out and wouldn't light.
The pen flares had the steel cap on the front,
inside was a plastic cup with a compound in it sort of like a old fireworks Roman Candle.
There is no gun powder. The launching charge is just a common #209 shot gun primer---
that can probably be changed when ya reload the empty tube.
We changed out the ones in vests when they got to be so many months old.
We'd use the expired ones for demonstrations, 4th of July, or pull out the flare and shoot paper wads with them.
I never reloaded a 209 primer in any, but you should be able to.
In school: We learn lessons, and are given tests.
In life: We are given tests, and learn lessons.
OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
Yes, they reload fine with a 209 primer. I reloaded several with powdered CN and sealed with Duco cement over the top. Primer alone was not enough to get good dispersal of the CN powder, so after initial trials I put a booster of 8 grains 4Fg Goex in the bottom, inserting a small cylinder of cigarette rolling paper, filling it with CN, closing the end and sealing with Duco.
The ENEMY is listening.
HE wants to know what YOU know.
Keep it to yourself.
Loaded 1/2 dozen of those some CS for an army friend. Said they worked all right at close range. The 209 worked out all right. Kinda worried about the pressure but it wasn't a problem with no powder. Then he started wanting to make a zip gun for .38s and I dropped out of the project./beagle
diplomacy is being able to say, "nice doggie" until you find a big rock.....
Yes! Those are pretty rare guns! Im a big S&W fan so I would love to have one of those in my collection. I think they were called the "Aircrewman" if memory serves me right and they had a special cartridge developed for them that was specifically low-pressure. Then they got worried about someone putting conventional .38 Special in them and blowing the cylinder out so they were recalled and destroyed. Its the granddaddy of the modern Airweight.
~ Chris
Casting, reloading, shooting, collecting, restoring, smithing, etc, I love it all but most importantly, God, Family, The United States Constitution and Freedom...
God Bless our Troops, Veterans and First Responders!
Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas
Accuracy, Power & Speed
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |