Rarest/strangest firearm you've handled or shot?

ballman6711 said:
I've never seen or even knew they made a wood stock Calico. I do however own three of them, the .22lr in pistol and rifle, and the 9mm in pistol. I never found a 9mm rifle at a price I was willing to pay.

Here's another odd one I own, although I don't know if it qualifies as rare.

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It's a PKP (Powell Knife Pistol) in 38spcl. Picked it up many years ago for $400. I've never seen another one although I've seen pictures of them in different calibers.

chris
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Cool! They quality looks pretty good for the price you paid, though the practically of it is questionable of course, lol. I guess you could load it with shotshells to make a handy anti-snake weapon.
 
Certainly not practical, and the accuracy is non existent. I bought it as a curiosity and have only ever put a few rounds through it. It's a neat piece, and worth more now than I paid for it all those years ago, but I wouldn't buy another. The quality is decent, and the blade does hold a good edge but again no real practical use.

chris
 
I've shot all sorts of guns some very nice and others not so much. A early model Parker shotgun that was shaped like baseball bat;
Montgomery Ward Model 31 pump 12 gauge which is a Moses Browning invented Stevens 12 gauge. A S&W .22 that the Post Office used to train their employees that rode the rails as security with train mail. A Win. Mod. 12 with 34 inch fixed full choke Nichel barrel with vent rib. M-1 Garand with a Danish military stock & barrel and some Beretta parts too. And of course a Brown Bess and a 1855 Harpers Ferry rifle/musket. I couldn't literally hit the broad side of a barn, with the Brown Bess over 30 yards.
 
hso said:
My wife has the two wood stocked versions.
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Are those 9x19?

Bazoo said:
A browning 1919A4, semi-automatic.
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I got into the sort-of 'fad' of building "sideplate" SA 1919A4s from parts kits in the 90s.
Always caused a stir at the range bringing it out.
I lucked into an inexpensive tripod, before those prices went sky-high. Ditto on the belt loading machine, too. Turns out to be kind of boring shooting a 50-60# (w/ tripod) 30-06 :)
 
Lahti. A coworker owned one legally as well as a few other transferrable toys but I never went to play. I did however run across another Lahti and the owner was trying to work out some issues with the sled acting strange under recoil but he couldn’t shoot AND watch so I fired 3 rounds for him. Felt it was the least I could do. Also, a m240b that was destroyed, rewelded, made to kinda work and then was permanently destroyed by chop saw.

As for owning, I have had some wierd ones. A couple were questionable because they wanted to jump and run FA, especially an AK74 I had for a while that left me with a new trigger installed that was clearly not intentionally compromised.
My favorite weirdo is a 357 single action army clone with a 15” barrel which when measured against the breech face per atf rules could be a revolving rifle if I ever convert it. There’s also a Miroku 38 snub in my safe. Externally it’s a colt DS clone. Internally it’s almost a k frame smith. There’s also the colt new line 22 which is due for a whole bunch of work to get it back to operation. I have fired 1 round in it just to say I have shot it.
 
When I worked at the LGS I had a guy bring in what appeared to be an original blunderbuss. He wanted $800 for it IIRC. We had zero idea what it was worth so we passed
 
Jeff olson

Love the Krag Carbine! Always wanted one but never could afford one.

As for rare guns I have come across many years ago there was a pawn shop that had a very extensive gun department. There I found two like new handguns: a Swedish made Lahti and a FN Model 1903. I remember the FN had a matte blued finish on it that gave it a very distinctive look to the gun. Both guns had period correct holsters with them as well.
 
bannockburn said:
Jeff olson

Love the Krag Carbine! Always wanted one but never could afford one.

As for rare guns I have come across many years ago there was a pawn shop that had a very extensive gun department. There I found two like new handguns: a Swedish made Lahti and a FN Model 1903. I remember the FN had a matte blued finish on it that gave it a very distinctive look to the gun. Both guns had period correct holsters with them as well.
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I got to play with a Finn Lahti a while back. It was neat, but they wanted a ridiculous amount for it.
 
ballman6711 said:
I've never seen or even knew they made a wood stock Calico. I do however own three of them, the .22lr in pistol and rifle, and the 9mm in pistol. I never found a 9mm rifle at a price I was willing to pay.

Here's another odd one I own, although I don't know if it qualifies as rare.

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It's a PKP (Powell Knife Pistol) in 38spcl. Picked it up many years ago for $400. I've never seen another one although I've seen pictures of them in different calibers.

chris
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I saw a guy use one of those in Tucson, (where they were made), for the CCW class in 1994. Only other one I have ever seen is a buddy of mine has one in 22lr.
Oddest one I have fired really isn't that odd, except it has never been available to normal people - an MP5/10, the MP5 in 10mm. FBI guy let me put a magazine through it on the range I was working on. Nifty gun.
Only rare thing in the family is my wife's P-10C White Nitride. While the P-10C is common and cheap, there was only about 400 of the White Nitride finished ones brought in before they discovered the finish wasn't as tough as they wanted it to be, and discontinued it. So, the White Knight watches over the wife, now. I've had a couple of people try to buy it from her and she said no, it was the first firearm I ever gave her.
 
Mauser re-intro Luger. In general, not rare, but this example happened to be number 19 out of the original pilot run of 50. Following number 50 there was a change in the outline of the receiver ring. A VERY serious collector in Europe bought it from me. The details of the rigmarole involved in getting it from here to there make a year long story.
 
Well, I counted the new make 1928 I got to shoot. A friend bought it in 1988 for $2500. Before the 1986 "closed registry" they were about $1250. Lots more now, of course.

The M1A1 was real USGI that came to another friend by a torturous route.
 
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