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Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe #6564604
06/29/19 07:10 AM
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YIKES! You would either have to be completely desperate, ignorant, have a real set of stones or all of the above to make and fire one of these!


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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Finster] #6564608
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The long one needs a new crown cut but other then that ye are good to go grin


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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Scuba1] #6564634
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Originally Posted by Scuba1
The long one needs a new crown cut but other then that ye are good to go grin



lol. good to go boom! lol


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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Finster] #6564650
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I appreciate their industrialism and vigor. So many more men are just sitting aooind wiating for a bowl of rice and demasculating themselves. At least he tried.

Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Finster] #6564664
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U.S. residents had some unusual guns back in the day as well.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/punt-gun-1910-1920/


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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Pike River] #6564669
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Originally Posted by Pike River
I appreciate their industrialism and vigor. So many more men are just sitting aooind wiating for a bowl of rice and demasculating themselves. At least he tried.

You do realize these are modern day poachers …..right?


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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Pike River] #6564676
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Originally Posted by Pike River
I appreciate their industrialism and vigor. So many more men are just sitting aooind wiating for a bowl of rice and demasculating themselves. At least he tried.

True


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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Finster] #6564695
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Originally Posted by Finster
Originally Posted by Pike River
I appreciate their industrialism and vigor. So many more men are just sitting aooind wiating for a bowl of rice and demasculating themselves. At least he tried.

You do realize these are modern day poachers …..right?

And? Rather be a poacher than waiting for a hand out. To put that much time and work into such a contraption shows these ain't poachers just for trophies. Probably have mouths to feed and have too much dignity to rely on the government.

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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Gary Benson] #6564697
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Originally Posted by Gary Benson
U.S. residents had some unusual guns back in the day as well.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/punt-gun-1910-1920/

Cool!

Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Pike River] #6564718
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Originally Posted by Pike River

And? Rather be a poacher than waiting for a hand out. To put that much time and work into such a contraption shows these ain't poachers just for trophies. Probably have mouths to feed and have too much dignity to rely on the government.

With that convoluted logic, you could maybe be a drug dealer, a mafia hit man, a thief, a con man or a variety of other occupations when you have "to much dignity" for legal work. Illegal activities and dignity don't really belong in the same sentence. Dignity would involve making an honest living. Illegal activity is nothing more than a shortcut to wealth be it poaching or the other aforementioned criminal acts.

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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Finster] #6564730
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Naw. I see what he’s saying.


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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Finster] #6564768
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Wow! Hand-smithing parts is difficult.. I'm amazed that they function (albeit dangerously LOL).. wouldn't shoot one myself, but they'd be cool to hang up on a wall!

Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Finster] #6564773
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Originally Posted by Finster
Originally Posted by Pike River

And? Rather be a poacher than waiting for a hand out. To put that much time and work into such a contraption shows these ain't poachers just for trophies. Probably have mouths to feed and have too much dignity to rely on the government.

With that convoluted logic, you could maybe be a drug dealer, a mafia hit man, a thief, a con man or a variety of other occupations when you have "to much dignity" for legal work. Illegal activities and dignity don't really belong in the same sentence. Dignity would involve making an honest living. Illegal activity is nothing more than a shortcut to wealth be it poaching or the other aforementioned criminal acts.


Poaching of endangered species; rhinos and elephants and such, is terrible. They absolutely should find honorable work. But then again, how much honorable work is their in the bush in Africa? I'd assume not much. Either way, they're really cool guns.

Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Finster] #6564796
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Who gets to decide who is a poacher? The guy living off the land the way his people have done for thousands of years or the guy making his living wringing his hands whining about subsistence living in an office while begging money from other ignorant whiners


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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Finster] #6564800
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Isnt it the same people saying elephants and rhinos are threatened that are saying bobcats and coyotes are endangered?


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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: danny clifton] #6564801
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Originally Posted by danny clifton
Isnt it the same people saying elephants and rhinos are threatened that are saying bobcats and coyotes are endangered?

Javan rhino 69
Sumatran rhino <80
Black rhino Between 5,366 and 5,627
Greater one-horned rhino 3,500+
White rhino Between 17,212 and 18,915

There aren't many rhinos left especially of some species, there's a real risk of killing them all. Those poachers would kill the last one on earth just to saw it's horn off and sell it to some rich Chinese business man that can't get an erection or has a hangover if they got the chance. Whether or not it matters if we have rhinos is debatable, I guess.

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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Finster] #6564806
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Save the coyote. Evil trappers are killing them for money in a real attempt to exterminate them


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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: danny clifton] #6564811
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Originally Posted by danny clifton
Save the coyote. Evil trappers are killing them for money in a real attempt to exterminate them

There's a slight difference between a population of millions upon millions upon millions of coyotes, and a population of 80 rhinos for one species.

That being said, I don't know that I would miss rhinos. They don't live in Nebraska that I'm aware of grin

Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Finster] #6564812
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Save the bears. The illegal marketing of gall bladder is wiping them out


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Re: Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe [Re: Finster] #6564839
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Danny, I'm not sure what you're getting at. Are you saying that rhinos aren't really going extinct?

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