Holy Smoke - Scary Indian Muskets!!!

[Muskeg Stomper]

OK, this may seem like fanning the flames but holy smokes! I own one Indian-built musket but it definately wasn't from these folks. Just check out the quality materials that they are bragging that they build these from!
NV Sikligar
NV Sikligar is the brand name of these fine pieces (O.S.). :hmm: :stir: :stir: :stir:

 

[flintlock75]

Holy cow, what a website, english not first language or second. I always wondered what these guns were made of, :rotf: now i know, old oil cans :youcrazy:

 

[Muskeg Stomper]

Yep, still want to shoot next to me while I have my musket on the firing line? :rotf:

 

[juancho]

probably the oil will keep them from getting rusted, did you see how shiny they are? shiny is good!
The wood is from old shelvings where the oil cans used to be. :rotf:

 

[wattlebuster]

I think I will stick with my Caywood :hmm: :hmm:

 

[Va.Manuf.06]

Thanks for the link Muskeg Stomper, all I can say is :shocked2:

 

[Robby]

If you call them with C/C information, are you referred to an operator in the U.S.? :grin:
Robby

 

[Rifleman1776]

The butchered English alone on their site would scare me away. I don't want to appear bigoted but, fact is, I have never seen any product produced in India that I would call quality. However, there must be a big market for this type of item as the number of U.S. vendors and factories in India is growing. I sure wouldn't want to shoot one or be near one being shot. Very scary stuff. :shocked2:

 

[Jason Lewis]

i wonder what their IT support is like? :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

[Muskeg Stomper]

I stumbled across Sikligar when I was researching Indian smoothbore Jaeger "rifles" that have recently come out on the market. Middlesex Village Trading Company imported a couple of examples to see if they were worth importing for the U.S. retail market...Pete wisely decided that the quality was not up to MVTC standards.

NV Sikligar was bought out by Narayan Sports Pvt. Ltd. (Maybe Narayan is sinking money into "factory" improvements!)I found them on Facebook were they recently posted links to several short videos on YouTube showing their gun making processes. Rather than trying to link all of the videos to this thread, I recommend checking out Narayan Sports through Facebook and then clicking on each video link. Worth a look...old time gun making. I didn't see a single oil can!

Incidentally, I think that the gun barrels are not really made from oil cans...something was probably lost in translation and what they really recycle is the DOM tubing from oil storage facilities if that makes any of you feel better about buying a gun from them. :haha:

 

[Va.Manuf.06]

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Incidentally, I think that the gun barrels are not really made from oil cans...something was probably lost in translation and what they really recycle is the DOM tubing from oil storage facilities if that makes any of you feel better about buying a gun from them. :haha:

Yeah, it doesn't but thanks for letting us know. :thumbsup:

 

[ken.clements]

probably some typ of translation programm...maybe like babbelfish....which can translate some funny stuff

 

[Stumpkiller]

I used to work at the camera counter of a department store and some of the manuals of the "discount brand" Japanese and other imports were hilarious.

"Steel oil can with pump" probably started as "Oil quenched extruded steel" or some such.

 

[Rifleman1776]

I used to work at the camera counter of a department store and some of the manuals of the "discount brand" Japanese and other imports were hilarious.

"Steel oil can with pump" probably started as "Oil quenched extruded steel" or some such.

Don't be so sure. I remember when Japanese optics were made from used soda and beer cans turned inside out.

 

[hanshi]

Ooooh, I gotta have one! :shocked2:

 

[Birdman]

weeeellll I wouldn't be to quick to knock these guns around. Those backwoods gun maker over there n throughout the region have used scrap n throw away stuff to make guns for a LONG LONG time. If ya think about it they ran out the russians, British n just about everybody else useing old throw away junk before they became more well armed. they maynot be pretty or up to our standards of manufacture but I'll lay odds they will last a long time if taken care of. --just some thoughts YMHS Birdman

 

[Skychief]

I may pick one of these up. :thumbsup:

For my mother-in-law. :wink:

Skychief

 

[wy0mn]

LOL. You should see some of the safety decals up Mitsubishi wind turbines!
I may post a pic of our funnier ones tomorrow.

 

[juancho]

We had this machine at work with a big sticker on the electrical cabinet that reads "Lock power before conservation" :rotf: :rotf:

 

[Stumpkiller]

I recall (what may be an urban legend) Coca-Cola had an ad in China that translated to "Coca-Cola revives your dead ancestors". No one wanted to buy it.

Remember: "Coke Adds Life"?