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I saw it but it makes no sense to me unless you are some serious collector that wants it.  What good is a gun that does not shoot?

Did you know that DW made a 22LR Rifle?  I saw one on a website the other day they were asking about 1K for it, had no idea they had made a rifle.

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Why does it need to ship to an FFL? It has no firing pin or even a place for one, it's no moe a gun than an airsoft pistol, even less than that since it won' fire anything.  Interesting piece but I don' need any non functional items in the collection.  Would like to hear the history on this one though.

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DA....64 said
I saw it but it makes no sense to me unless you are some serious collector that wants it.  What good is a gun that does not shoot?

Did you know that DW made a 22LR Rifle?  I saw one on a website the other day they were asking about 1K for it, had no idea they had made a rifle.  

Maybe this was called the "Coyote"?

Yes, there was a "Dan Wesson" .22 lr rifle

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Up here deactivated guns demand a premium, they are necessary to teach the firearms licencing course and a bit of a nuisance to get them verified as permanently 'non-working'.  I was handling a friend's deactivated Tommy gun the other day and man I would love to send a few mags down wind with a real one - though it is a heavy beast.

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I never got the appeal of non firing replica guns. It would be like having a non driving /running replica car...what's the use.

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I don't get it either...especially since it's from Norwich, it's not like a Norwich 744 is a "ground breaking" special gun at the time. screwy 

However, since I doubt a similar one like this will cross our paths any time in the next decade, I am posting the important pics from this ad here for posterity...

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You might see it as useless...you might think of it as a paperweight...but, what's that old saying about beauty in the eye of the beholder?

It's always going to be a wonderful example of DW craftsmanship...a larger amount of effort went into this than an operational pistol. And...just think of the rarity! Some might consider this the keystone to a DW collection.

And, by the way...it looks like it's on the way to a good home somewhere.

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I see it as a quite interesting rarity that will have an appeal to the serious Dan Wesson collector. Appealing in a similar way that factory brochures, ads and fliers are etc. I do not understand why it needs to go through an FFL though. The auction description looks like the seller copies and pastes a lot of it, as if it is used in all his auctions.

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Anybody see what it sold for?  I missed getting it in my watch list.

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That' odd, it didn' show up when I searched earlier.   Have to try again.

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"The lion and the tiger may be more powerful, but the Wolf does not perform in the circus"

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DA....64 said
  What good is a gun that does not shoot?

  

Obviously, these were made for Democrats!!

 If you're going to drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. 

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I feel the same about fixed barrels. Why not get the real McCoy. 

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