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Valsdad, don't think there was ever any chance of putting out an eye. Worse thing was the chinaberry wars that ended up with chinaberries everywhere...Probably be considered the nerf gun of the day...They were fun for a Kid and made by a Grandfather, so they were special.
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[.... It would shoot the first one out with a pop and leave the second in the barrel ready for the next berry to be loaded behind it.
That would be a semi-"auto loader" - is this legal in all states?
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Crap, and the one i broke worked so well chirping on slate. Crap.
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Chinaberries must not have existed in my part of the woods growing up.
Can you put someone's eye out with it.
If so, then it's a cool toy! Looks more dangerous than running with scissors. 😎
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It’s a pop gun. I have one that my grandfather made for my father. You put a Chinaberry into the tapered bore and push it a couple of inches down the bore. Then you take another chinaberry, put it in the bore and the you quickly push the plunger down the bore and, with a pop, it sends the first chinaberry at your “enemy”.
The barrel of mine is octagonal and made of oak and was probably made around 1925 +/-. Somewhere along the way, the plunger has been lost. Chinaberry gun! You nailed it! My Grandfather made it for me probably about 1955. Twin Brother 348srfun had one too. We stayed in trouble with these things. The bore is polished like a mirror and has a choke at one end. I made the replacement plunger this afternoon and it still works....Got to find some chinaberries.... Not only did I not know it was a Chinaberry gun, I'd never even heard of Chinaberries. Though, looking at a picture of them, I might have run across them in my youth without even knowing they made for good projectiles.
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We made them from reeds. Sure way to get a whipping in Mrs Best's 5th grade.
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Most popguns around here were probably made from elder. The chinaberry guns have to have a polished bore with a choke at the muzzle, so they were made with some kind of hardwood.
Most farmers in this area had their land broken up into small fields with fence rows and chinaberry trees came up on the fence rows acting as wind breaks. Chinaberry trees were everywhere. The fence rows have been cleared and the fields are huge now. You don't see many chinaberry trees anymore except around some of the old homesites.
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It’s a pop gun. I have one that my grandfather made for my father. You put a Chinaberry into the tapered bore and push it a couple of inches down the bore. Then you take another chinaberry, put it in the bore and the you quickly push the plunger down the bore and, with a pop, it sends the first chinaberry at your “enemy”.
The barrel of mine is octagonal and made of oak and was probably made around 1925 +/-. Somewhere along the way, the plunger has been lost. Chinaberry gun! You nailed it! My Grandfather made it for me probably about 1955. Twin Brother 348srfun had one too. We stayed in trouble with these things. The bore is polished like a mirror and has a choke at one end. I made the replacement plunger this afternoon and it still works....Got to find some chinaberries.... Not only did I not know it was a Chinaberry gun, I'd never even heard of Chinaberries. Though, looking at a picture of them, I might have run across them in my youth without even knowing they made for good projectiles. we use to have chinaberry wars when we were kids had two big trees in the yard, but we used sling shots.
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It’s a pop gun. I have one that my grandfather made for my father. You put a Chinaberry into the tapered bore and push it a couple of inches down the bore. Then you take another chinaberry, put it in the bore and the you quickly push the plunger down the bore and, with a pop, it sends the first chinaberry at your “enemy”.
The barrel of mine is octagonal and made of oak and was probably made around 1925 +/-. Somewhere along the way, the plunger has been lost. Chinaberry gun! You nailed it! My Grandfather made it for me probably about 1955. Twin Brother 348srfun had one too. We stayed in trouble with these things. The bore is polished like a mirror and has a choke at one end. I made the replacement plunger this afternoon and it still works....Got to find some chinaberries.... Not only did I not know it was a Chinaberry gun, I'd never even heard of Chinaberries. Though, looking at a picture of them, I might have run across them in my youth without even knowing they made for good projectiles. we use to have chinaberry wars when we were kids had two big trees in the yard, but we used sling shots. My thought was slingshot ammo too, but here they didn't call em slingshots back then
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I thought it mighta been some sorta dug out pinch hitter. But it's a berry shooter. 
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Small green crabapples were better out of a slingshot. Those things were hard as a rock.
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