Spelunking Gun???

[Patriot]

http://www.gunblast.com/RKCampbell_Modelo1927.htm

My first 1927 was an attractive enough handgun, with a passing fair blue finish. The plastic grips have a brown tone and seem to be new production. The pistol was supplied with an eight round magazine with a buffer pad on the bottom. The trigger was heavy but clean at just over six and one half pounds. Heavy even for a GI gun, but I have seen worse.

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The second and third 1927 were much the same, with similar accuracy. I adopted the best version as a truck and spelunking gun, as it proved to have a nice five pound trigger.

Prior to this, I had never once heard of a 'spelunking' gun or even heard guns and spelunking mentioned in the same sentence.

The concept is kind of puzzling to me - sure, some people won't go anywhere without a firearm, but why spelunking? Firing a gun under such conditions seems like a great way to flashblind/disorient/deafen oneself. Gollum, dwarves, and vampire bats aside, I'm not sure caves rank very high in terms of predatory hazards.

Anyone else heard of something like this? Is it a unique instance? [I guess 'plinking' might have somehow ended up as 'spelunking' thanks to modern word processing.]

[-hanko]

Prior to this, I had never once heard of a 'spelunking' gun or even heard guns and spelunking mentioned in the same sentence.

The concept is kind of puzzling to me - sure, some people won't go anywhere without a firearm, but why spelunking? Firing a gun under such conditions seems like a great way to flashblind/disorient/deafen oneself. Gollum, dwarves, and vampire bats aside, I'm not sure caves rank very high in terms of predatory hazards.

You've obviously then never happened upon Dad & Mom Badger with a baby in tow

The once-a-year threads about guns for Grizzley defense pale in comparison.

-hanko

[socalguns]

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[Fjold]

It's the orcs that you have to watch out for!

[emc002]

Ran across a mountain lion skeleton once at an abandoned mine outside of El Dorado off of Old French Town Road.

[mike100]

You might run into a grizzled miner who is defending his claim to all the gold in his mine/cave err whatever.

[tonb]

You must not have seen The Descent

[Patriot]

Anyone who's read the Return of the King knows that orcs have no power over the great Spider:



Since no one seems to have heard of spelunking guns, I guess we'll go with the freak spell checker plinking --> spelunking hypothesis.

Actually, I saw The Descent. Always wondered what firearms would do to the monsters' hearing

[DedEye]

You must not have seen The Descent

You beat me to it!

[AS45-70]

hmmm

spelunking = The challenges of the sport depend on the cave being visited, but often include the negotiation of pitches, squeezes, and water.

While not common in spelunking, SCUBA gear is utilized to negotiate water or even purhaps a squeeze located underwater. While the equipment is the same as SCUBA diving the kit or rig set up is quite different.

If your short on air for two ppl to egress the cave system, one may want to shoot his partner with the spelunking gun in order to take his scuba cylinders and escape to the surface. sounds reasonable to me anyway

[.22guy]

You could use it to shoot yourself when you get lost, instead of starving to death.

[ARRRR-15]

Man tihs selpl cechk desno't wrok. Eheitr deos my bairn, busaece I can slitl raed tihs.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe

[Grouch]

Man tihs selpl cechk desno't wrok. Eheitr deos my bairn, busaece I can slitl raed tihs.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe

welcome to the internet.

[ARRRR-15]

welcome to the internet.

Thanks! But, I think you forgot to add this >

[Nodda Duma]

I did a lot of spelunking back in Missouri. That state has more caves than any other place in the country (3000+ last I heard).


A spelunking gun is useful if you forget the following spelunking advice:

Spelunking advice #32: Turn back when you come across fresh animal poop.
Spelunking advice #33 is closely related: Turn back quickly when you see eye reflections and/or hear a growl.

If the cave is too small to actually turn around, you'll need to perform a reverse shimmy.

Seriously though, we always had to be careful near or in caverns which made ideal homes for wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, etc. The type of animals that don't like to be cornered in the back of their cave. I could see how having a spelunking gun would be useful.

-Jason