For the birds....

DrawbarFlats

zorba

Wow.

No electronics either!

Bigslug

Damn!

Kinda spurs a whole lot of "How did you do that? . . . .. . .WHY did you do that???"

Got my brain spinning a little on alternative history "what ifs".  Steampunk visions of moon rockets running on navigational computers using that kind of tech, no doubt lubricated with whale oil. . .

orchidman

Do they whistle 'Dixie'.............?

Gene L

There must have been a Covid 19 Lockdown in the early 19th century.

earlyagain

I can't help but wonder how many similar objects existed before WWII.. And what kind of reductive toll the war took on such things?

DrawbarFlats

orchidman said:

Do they whistle 'Dixie'.............?

No, but it was reported that Det. Harry Callahan, who was nearing retirement, had his S&W Model 29 replaced with a brace of these pistols as a joke by someone in Frisco Homicide Division. Unfortunately, the prankster from Homicide forgot about it and Callahan was then called on an emergency murder case. News reports later state that Callahan was shipped off to a mental institution after he pulled the singing bird pistols on the perp....