Welcome to at present’s Photograph of the Day! Right here we’ve a type of issues that makes me actually take pleasure in doing Photograph of the Day. I by no means knew that this was a factor. These single-shot shotguns are Winchester Wingo “Ice Palace” Single Shot Shotguns. There have been solely ever round 20 of those made and for the oddest cause, you may consider. They have been invented and used for an indoor taking pictures sport that concerned ice balls and huge rimfire proprietary shotshells. These lever motion shotguns used a 5mm shotshell ( image a a lot bigger brass crimped 22 birdshot). A literal ice ball could be launched towards the shooter and so they must shoot and shatter it. Sounds fairly terrifying, no marvel it didn’t work out.
“Wingo was an experimental indoor wing taking pictures occasion developed within the early Seventies by the Winchester-Western division of Olin Corp. the one Wingo facility constructed was in 1971 in San Diego, California and operated for lower than a 12 months. Wingo was a recreation the place opposing groups would shoot at launched 4 inch diameter ice balls fired from 5 ports in the direction of the firing crew, the non-firing crew might management which port the ball fired from, and even the velocity of the ball as much as a reported 30 MPH. The weapons have been tethered to the taking pictures bench and wired for an inner microphone that will register when it was fired (needed for automated scoring). These weapons are Martini model single shot lever actions firing a proprietary 5 mm shot shell. Each weapons have the stays of the wire beneath the barrel, “WINGO” markings on either side of the receiver and left facet bases for the Winchester Kwik-Level scope for fast and straightforward goal recognizing. Easy forearm and inventory with serrated buttplate. It’s estimated that lower than 20 Wingo weapons have been manufactured.”
Lot 3251: Lot of Two Uncommon Winchester Wingo ‘Ice Palace’ Shotguns. (n.d.). Rock Island Public sale Firm. {photograph}. Retrieved September 22, 2022, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/element/71/3251/lot-of-two-rare-winchester-wingo-ice-palace-shotguns.
