Most impractical gun you own?

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Home built 1919A4
This thing is a money pit and it eats alot.
Although it is pretty cool looking in my gunroom on its tripod- Art
 
1895 Nagant revolver.

- Chambered in a very anemic round.
- Ammo's too expensive to shoot on any kind of regular basis.
- Also afraid of serious repetitive motion injury to my index finger from repeated squeezing of 20# trigger.
 
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Goes through 9mm like grass through a goose. It's an incredible rush to shoot though. :D
 
I have a Clerke First in .32 S&W Long. Total POS! The only reason I have it is because a friend of mine didnt want it (he bought it years ago for almost nothing) and was going to get rid of it. I bought it from him for a double vanilla latte at Starbucks. To give you an idea of what a POS it is, I argued with him that it was not worth the extra shot of esspresso in his latte! Shot it once and I couldnt hit a man size target at ten yards with it due to the lack of rifleing in the barrel. Its a pretty good conversation piece though!
 
I'd have to say my most expensive. A $1500.00 Performance Center S&W 952-2. Far to expensive for the range and it really doesn't qualify for competition use since it's SAO and the mag holds nine rounds, not to mention accessories for that model are rare.
 
I have 3. (1) My S&W 357 magnum because it is expensive to shoot. Maybe one of these days I'll get into reloading 38 special/357 magnum cartridges so it won't be quite as expensive to play with. (2&3) My NAA 22LR miniature revolver and my Cobra double barrell 32 derringer. I just bought these 2 mouseguns because I like derringers and thought they were cool. Probably will never shoot either of them. Will I buy more sh*t like this? Absolutely! But who in hell said this hobby was practical? You can play with great toys that go bang bang and it is a helluva lot more fun than playing golf! :D :neener: Also a fabulous stress reliever at the end of a grueling day to go to the range. :banghead: :D
 
I have an Inglis Browning Hi-Power with the original shoulder stock. It was made in Canada for the Chinese during WWII but was never delivered. The shoulder stock was so impractical that the Canadian military rejected it. I keep it because it's a rarity. Apparently only about 1100 of the original shoulder stocks were ever actually manufactured ...
 
I suppose it depends on your definition of "practical".

I've got an Uberti Winchester 1866 in .44-40 that's never been fired. Also a 3rd Gen Peacemaker in .44-40. What do you do with a .44-40??

Also have an 1885 Creedmore in .45-90. Nothing "practical" about shooting steel at 600-1,000 yards
 
Thompson 1927. Almost three and a half feet long, almost 15 lbs loaded, crappy sights, the drum rattles, .45 is expensive, despite being heavy and chambered in a low-pressure cartridge, it has a weird recoil IMO, and its not really southpaw friendly (I'm left-handed with longarms).

But I still like mine. I actually like both of mine...

Then there's also the AMT hardballer I own. All it does is collect dust. I'm rebuilding it into a rimfire though. But its taking me long enough to do so.
 
Ditto Legionnaire's pick. My NAA .22LR (even less useful than his .22Mag) was irresistibly cute, and was my token carry gun at my wedding, and strikes me as the most useless gun I've got:
- .22LR out of a 1.125" barrel can't do enough damage to be anywhere close to useful
- inaccurate
- slow to cock/aim/fire
- to small to operate & aim well.
For the basic rule "have a gun" I won't even carry that. As Cooper noted "if carrying one comforts you, do so - but do not load it, for if you load it you may fire it, and if you fire it you may hit someone, and if you hit someone you will give them cause to do you great harm."

Next in line is the extreme opposite end of the pistol spectrum: a Mossberg 590 AOW - a pistol-grip-only shotgun with 14" barrel. A must-have raspberry for anyone living in NY (the look on the county clerk's face when registering a 12 gauge pistol is priceless, and the sheriff had never in 13 years had someone ask him to sign NFA paperwork), but aside from the legal novelty it's too big to carry, too much kick to safely aim properly, and generally not useful for anything other than extremely close combat bordering on contact distances.
 
I have a couple, but just got rid of probably the least practical one, a SKS.
I did good though, Sunday I traded a Russian SKS for a older Marlin 39 straight across. The SKS was a99% refurb, and the 39 has seen some use but it still shoots great. I felt like I came out way ahead, and am quite happy about it.
Had not shot the SKS in about 10 years or more and didn't really have any use for it and I will shoot the 39 plenty.

I gotta disagree with you guys on the little NAA's. I have one in .22 with the shortest barrel and it has shot several snakes, a cat at 40 or 50 feet, and a couple of deer and one elk between the ears when the animal was still breathing when I got to it, plus killed one 150 LB or so dog. I can shoot mine Ok but you do need to watch out and not shoot your own finger as I think a guy could pretty easy. CCI Stingers from one work good for me.
 
Old Smith Model 10 .38 special my grandfather traded a Colt .45 Bisley to my grandmothers brother who was a Texas Border Patrol back in the early teens. My great uncle said the .38 would not put them down like a 45.
Grandfather carried the smith with real pearl grips in a inside the waistband Myres holster with a metal clip worn at about a 4oclock position all his life until 1957 when he passed away. Grandfather and pals used to drink whiskey and shoot pistols every sunday while the women folk and kids were at church.
Another oddball I have is the Bushmaster Carbon 15 model 97s cal. 223 pistol. I consider it a playtoy since the short barrel makes for a huge fireball everytime it's fired. It scares most people close by. Range officers and law enforcement always have questions about it. Not of any real use for anything.
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Surprized no one's mentioned the 40-watt phased plasma rifle yet. Geeky looking. Can't be used for hunting; vaporizes organic matter. Expensive. Doubles electric bill when charging capacitors,etc. Still...love that purple glow. And anything beats my jam-o-matic Calico M-100.
 
That would have to be my P17 sporterized and redone as a safari rifle. There aren't any elephants in Florida so there really is no use for me to have a .375 H&H. Oh well, I'll take it on my Buffalo hunt in a couple years.
 
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