Your Obscure Pistols (Pics)

wow I love that C96!

Remington model 51 .380. Not all that obscure or rare, but the only autoloading pistol Remington ever made for the civilian market.



H&R Trapper model .22. It's a 9 shot DA with no loading gate. I can only assume it was meant to be pointed downward when firing, as the cartridges will back out and bind the cylinder when held horizontally.



Meriden .38 S&W, a DAO 5-shot revolver with a spur hammer



Le Francais officer's model .25, DAO stiker fired. I can't grasp the glass-smooth slide firmly enough to retract it, and I'm no weakling. I can only assume it is meant to always be loaded via the tip-up barrel.

MachIVshooter said:

Le Francais officer's model .25, DAO stiker fired. I can't grasp the glass-smooth slide firmly enough to retract it, and I'm no weakling. I can only assume it is meant to always be loaded via the tip-up barrel.

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Yes, this old gun (1914) is to be load via the tip-up barrel only.
An ingenious system, used many years after by Beretta.
The big drawback of this gun : an heavy DAO trigger.

A Whitney Wolverine. We used to call it the space gun. Not totally rare, I'm told, but definitely among the obscure in my collection!

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Real sweet gun....How would you like to trade a ..........

Not completely obscure but you don't see them that often S&W 39-2 ASP Custom with guttersnipe sights.

Ah, a melt-job.

Ash

Anyone have or like Astra 400's, 600's, 300's? They are kind of weird. I have 2x 600's and 2x 400's.

chipperi: You are now the target for my eternal envy....I've wanted an ASP since reading Gardner's James Bond novels....

Wolverine

A Whitney Wolverine. We used to call it the space gun. Not totally rare, I'm told, but definitely among the obscure in my collection!

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Real sweet gun....How would you like to trade a ..........

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Thanks. I haven't fired it for years, but it is the first pistol I ever shot. The exposed hammer on a .22 is unique, and it has interesting controls-the safety is the reverse of a 1911, and the rear sight is basically folded spring steel. My Dad bought it at Wards in the early 1960s.

I don't mean to wander off topic, but does anyone have experience with the Olympic Arms reproduction of the Wolverine-I have heard very mixed reviews. Thanks, and this is a great forum!

A little different category, but here is a pic of a Deringer I bought not long ago.

Jim

Here are a couple of oddballs, but I don't own either of them:

A Zulaica automatic revolver


and an upside-down MTs-3 "Rekord" Olympic target pistol, that was only used for one Olympics before it was prohibited as giving shooters an unfair advantage.

2 French Mle 1873 and one Belgian A. Drissen revolver:

All the three of them still shoot fine.

Where the hell is that auto revolver from?

The Zulaica was made in Spain, but few were made and it's one of the very few "automatic revolvers" ever made (the others being the Mateba and the Webley-Fosbery)

SEDCO SP-22
Not the most unusual looking gun, but a little obscure. The company was only in business for 3 months. Mine shoots pretty well.
George Jennings and Bruce Jennings sued SEDCO for design infringement and closed John Davis's company down. John was Jim Davis' brother, Jim owned David Industries and was George Jennings son-in-law. Complex intrigue and industrial espionage back then in the Southern California ZAMAK world. Jack

Don Lu: Is that a super shorty Sterling?

Anyone have or like Astra 400's, 600's, 300's? They are kind of weird. I have 2x 600's and 2x 400's.

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I used to have these... I had a lot of the 9mm Largo stuff. Always wanted the Bergman-Bayard 1910. Next to the Jo-Lo-Ar, it's the Holy Grail of the Largos.

I've always wanted a Liberator, anybody got one of those?

I've handled one that was for sale. I wasn't sure if it was NFA or not, and it was in pretty rough shape, so I passed.

Ash

Yeah, I always wondered the legalities of owning one due to smoothbore barrel. Barman, I assume you reload for those 1873 revolvers or is ammo available in France?

The Liberator was taken off the NFA due to its status as a collector's item.

See list here.

Hi Moonclip,

Yes I do reload for them. In the picture, you can see the H&C box kit that I use for that prupose.

Barman,

Could you open show/explain the H & C kit for reloading? I for one have never heard of it.


Cat

Hi Cat,

You can check their webpage at the following address:

http://www.hc-collection.com/

Their stuff is like a lee loader, but specially adapted to 11mm73. It works great.

Another 30s/40s French produced pistol (this one in .32ACP):



It's an Audax, that's all the name that's on it.