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Hey, a guy was throwing this out and I took it off his hands.
I was looking to off-load it as I am about to move to the country.
I'm not sure what to do with it as upon researching it - it might be illegal here in Australia??
Is there a way to tell if it is loaded with ammo before I tried that?If you pull the trigger and yank the spear out of it and then photograph the tail end of the shaft that would tell us more. Possibly the spear has a very long tail reaching way back from the wishbone notches, whereas normally those notches are much closer to the shaft tail.
It has been converted to use a rubber band, all the mechanism for chambering a blank cartridge has been totally removed, so it is now a simple trigger mechanism that drops a tooth out of a notch in the rear end of the spear. The stretched rubber band has a wishbone that hooks in those notches on the shaft and shoots the spear like a bow and arrow or a slingshot. The rubber band is missing, but my guess is in that form the gun was seldom if ever used. The muzzle is where the band was mounted, just like any other band powered speargun.Is there a way to tell if it is loaded with ammo before I tried that?
Thanks for the help mate!It has been converted to use a rubber band, all the mechanism for chambering a blank cartridge has been totally removed, so it is now a simple trigger mechanism that drops a tooth out of a notch in the rear end of the spear. The stretched rubber band has a wishbone that hooks in those notches on the shaft and shoots the spear like a bow and arrow or a slingshot. The rubber band is missing, but my guess is in that form the gun was seldom if ever used. The muzzle is where the band was mounted, just like any other band powered speargun.
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