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It is a billy to be used by the "picker-uppers" on game that is found crippled after a shoot.
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Its a thing used to frighten the life out of poachers - somewhere in there is a mechanism that goes bang, or boom.
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As an earlier poster stated it is a tampion inserted in the muzzles to keep out the rain and moisture. Used in military muzzle loaders.
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Wild guess, but from your hints, I'll say it is a separated shell extractor tool inside an outer sleeve.
A tompion is a good guess, but a tompion has a shoulder or taper to keep it from falling down the barrel.
I liked Tom C's entry for a rolling pin for a one armed baker though.
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My Grampa had something very similar. He took it along to his Teamster meetings in the 1930s.
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What do you say to a one legged hitch-hiker? Hop in!
ROTFLMAO !!  I agree with Bill, it's a "game dispatcher", a priest of sorts. SRH
Last edited by Stan; 05/25/15 04:23 PM.
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First impression was to agree it is a priest but it seems to be wrapped with paper or cardboard with a seam. Huh?
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The "Handle" seems like there is a joint going round it,up where its egg shaped...also the main cylinder seems to have a joint line straight down the length, unless its `a very straight crack.
Does that handle turn, by any chance...or the cylinder open in two??,... though for what use i doona ken
franc
I just think it winds, open or moves somehow n does something odd
Anything to do with cigars, or some other vice????
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Being from Somerset, it must be to do with keeping something from getting wet...or to keep warm? But Im buggered if I know what...I keep thinking smoking material....yea! its a wooden Bong, lol  franc
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Now I think you pull the main handle,as there seems to be a seam just after the area where the handle turns to cylinder.
Some kinda game calling thingie?
franc
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