The Real Mad Max Shotgun

[Scar2783]

Yeah...it is pretty awesome. Charles Fender on here ( Last V8 owner ) has a semi-auto Barrett .50. THAT's an even more awesome weapon! Got to love it. It's the largest caliber that we can possess without getting a federal tax stamp for the bigger stuff.





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[MadErik]

I have a really nice side by side 16 gauge field grade LC Smith that I have always thought looks like Max's. I would never saw this one off because it is worth to much money but i have thought about finding a cheaper side by side and possibly doing just for the novelty of it. Was Max's gun a 16 gauge or was it 12? I would think that in a post nuclear future 16 gauge shells would be much harder to com by.


~Erik

[OverheadCam]

they're pretty hard to come by now!

[OverheadCam]

I feel the side by side is a lot more prettier design than U/O


not as clumsy or random as a pump action,...an elegant weapon,..from a more civilized age!


would love to own an old double rifle..like a .450 nitro express...or .505 Gibbs or even an old 4 Bore...but they're sooo expensive, impractical and the actions are all flogged out by now!

[Foxtrot X-Ray]

Any factory made ammunition would get scarce in those conditions.





I'd think that 12 guage and .410 would be the most commonly found Shotgun shells.





I think Black Powder (Cap & Ball, Flintlock and Matchlock) firearms would become more and more common as the factory made ammo dwindled.





Which makes sense.. Sulfur, charcoal and Saltpeter aren't terribly difficult to come by, neither is lead.





Huh.. Maybe that's the reason for the difference in Max's Sawed-off?


Maybe the new one is a cap fired Black Powder?

[rockatansky4073]

Off the subject, but not for nothin' - i have WARRIOR WOMANS Bow, ofcourse it ain't the actual bow, but its the identical make and model, - a PHASER compound Bow, with the quiver attached to the side of the bow, even has the same camberflarged paint job.

[Biker]

Me too Rocka!


I made myself a bow mounted quiver for it which hold 12 arrows. Got the bow after doing a paint job of a logo on the back of a car years ago. Fair trade I thought.


My Bow's made by PSE with a leaf type cammo pattern on it. Pretty good bow too, draw wieght of 45lbs reducing to 25lbs at full stretch.


Haven't convinced anyone yet to let me shoot an apple off their head but I have slpit another arrow with mine (insert Robin Hood theme here)


While bakc in the UK I attended a indoor firing range for archery and since I didn't have acar at the time I would take my bow mounted on the front and side of my GPz I felt very Mad Max like while riding slowly through traffic just so eveyone would know what a badass I really was.... No one gave a thought of how'd you'd actually ride the bike AND shoot the damned bow! That would be comical to the extreme! LOL!


Biker

[rockatansky4073]

My bow was my dads, his brother in King Island sent it to him, sometime in the early 80's, the quiver was already on it, think it holds up to 8 arrows. i haven't used it in years, not since i was a kid, all the arrows were misplaced, buggered if i know where he put him, before he carked it, and i've searched everywhere at mums, he had all kinds of different ones, mean arse razor sharp hunting arrows and those pointy target arrows.


Not sure of its performance nowadays, it needs restringing, but when i was about 6, dad fired it at the incinerator in our backyard (AUSSIE's will be farmiliar with the 'incinerator' back in the real early 80's, you were allowed to burn your garbage right in your backyard, ruining your neighbours wet washing on the line next door - basically a giant 44 gallon drum, sh*t i think it was bigger than a 44.) and the damn arrow went right through and stuck in the fence behind it

[Madmaxing]

I have some experience with replicating movie guns. Here's a couple links to Han Solo's (DL-44) and a Stormtrooper Blaster (E-11) . The Han Solo Blaster was made from a replica (diecast) C96 Mauser. I machined everything that is attached to it except for the scope rings and scope.


http://www.printroom.com/ViewAlbumPhoto ... image_id=1


The Stormtrooper blaster was made from a real Sterling Mark IV L2A3 submachine gun that was demilled. I reassembled it including machining a small piece that was left discarded from the receiver by the supplier and also an "insert" to assemble all the parts on. I have done extensive detriments to the gun to render it inoperable and uncovertable to a functional state so that it is not considered a gun. It is basically scrap metal, but boy is it pretty!


http://www.printroom.com/ViewAlbumPhoto ... image_id=1


The stock is not open in the movie but this picture was to demonstrate how all the geometry for the stock to function was maintained.


http://www.printroom.com/ViewAlbumPhoto ... image_id=3


http://www.printroom.com/ViewAlbumPhoto ... image_id=6


It even has an accurate WW II tank scope like in the movie. Here is a picture of how it came, cut into pieces.


http://www.printroom.com/ViewAlbumPhoto ... mage_id=13





I've looked at gunshows for a shotgun to use for a replica. I am looking for one that is not the best, possibly doesn't even work. I will be making sure it is not usable so it will be legal no matter what. There aren't too many regulations on scrap metal. I would not ruin a perfectly good gun though.


I've got a lot of screen captures for reference on the MM 1 gun. In my research I have found it can be one of about 50 guns as it is if a fairly generic design. I think it will be nearly impossible to find THE exact model so I am going to have to settle for "very close".

[OverheadCam]

The Sterling is a nice looking little SMG..but Sgt. Benton blazed away at Daleks with one for years..and got nowhere,...nada...not a sausage!


That C96 Mauser, looks like the gun Max hands over at the Gates of Bartertown! (along with a few other items)