A little campy silliness...

[cougar]

Hey, it's so quiet on this site lately, how about something funny for a change? I was doing a Google image search for High Standard shotguns and I came across this site....http://www.megomuseum.com/eagleforce/series2badguys.html

It appears that Megomuseum.com is about action figure toys, mostly from the 1970's and 1980's. That subject isn't of great interest to me but I did get a kick out of the "bad guys (and gal)" featured on the page listed above. It's "Ruby" who is armed with the High Standard shotgun, described as the " Butch Biker. wears boots, gloves, levis, t-shirt, and a leather vest with loops for shotgun ammo. Marlon Brando hat. Everything has studs. Chain over her shoulder. Carries the high standard M-10b shotgun."
The High Standard M-10 shotgun was a semiauto 12 gauge mounted in a bullpup housing. FYI for those unfamiliar with bulllpup guns: instead of a normal butt stock as on most rifles and shotguns, a bullpup has a special housing with the butt pad directly on the rear of the receiver, and a relocated trigger and modified fore end. This configuration makes the rifle or shotgun shorter in overall length, though it tends to put the ejection port just centimeters away from the users face. Modern examples include the Steyr AUG and a model of Barrett's 50 BMG rifle.
Yeah, and on the same page, check out "Ivan"......"Russian Cossack Giant, likes to wrestle. Carries Soviet RPD light machine gun." Nice chest fur!........Cougar........... ;D

[StonerStudent]

Thanks Cougar...this place could use a little camp

I had a HS model 10B shotgun a few years back, actually it's a neat shotgun.

[Buckshot]

Till you get hold of one that has been used and used up and you try to keep it working anyway.

Then it is not a "neat shogtun" its just a PITA!

Buckshot

[StonerStudent]

Not a fan of the Model 10 there Buckshot ?

[Buckshot]

SS,

Never got my hands on one that was in that good shape so that I could take it out and put some rounds through it.

Had the same one in 4 or 5 times, different broken or worn out part every time. Make a part, or try to rehab some worn out, used "replacement parts" and make it work, get it going and it shows back up later with something new trashed.

Not like it was used on duty or something like that, either. Just worn out and trashed again out "playing", having fun with something that should have been put up as a collectable instead of being used and beat to death any more.

I finally just told them I could not fix it the last time they brought it back. I probably could have gotten it going again if it was to be put up, it was not worth the loss of time and effort (no one ever will pay what that kind of work is really worth, you probably bill for 1/10th of the time you really put in) to have it trashed again in a month or two out shooting dirt clods or cans.

Buckshot

[StonerStudent]

The model 10B that I had worked like a champ......except it like to eat my fingers when I reloaded it. I'm looking for another one if you run across one.

[Buckshot]

SS,

No problem at all, though the last I heard they had kind of reached "clut" status and were rising in price quickly!

The one I kept getting back to work on had belonged to a major PD, then was passed to a small PD then surplused off to an individual. They liked the "cool" bullpup configuration, but they were out of production with no parts available from the factory. Places like Numrich arms were getting parts by buying junkers and taking them apart for parts.

Someone had a Mossberg Bullpup kit to convert the Mossberg 500 before the AWB went into effect, don't know if they are still around or if the AWB killed it off by now.

Buckshot