Rarest/strangest firearm you've handled or shot?

NIGHTLORD40K said:
Wow, that is the Holy Grail of Martinis! I was searching high and low for a Providence gun years ago (before Gunbroker) and got kinda close- found one that had been cut down and rechambered (to .300 Savage of all things), but it was in rough condition and the guy wanted way too much for it.
Supposedly there are a few out there that the Turks had redone in .303 Brit as well.
Very, very nice. Lemme know if you ever want to get rid of it. :thumbup:
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I would likely part with it. I have little interest in going through the motions of trying to find or make ammo for it. It is in really nice shape for 150 years old.
 
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The "rarest" or most "strange/unique" firearms I have shot were a few full automatic weapons that I rented at Knob Creek machine gun shoot a few years ago.
I shot a BAR, a Thomson submachine gun, an MP 38, a belt fed .30cal machine gun and a few more that I can't recall at the moment.

Most unique of my own is my Dan Wesson .375SuperMag.
 
Speedo66 said:
What is the recoil like on that?
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Blooper? Stout but not unmanageable.
M-79 uses the short Hi-Lo 40mm grenades.
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Initial, HP, charge goes off in the heavy "pocket" at the base. This bursts out through some vents at a lower, measured, pressure, to expand behind the rounded base of the actual grenade (thus hi/lo). Per the theory, the gas keeps expanding until just before the round reaches the muzzle, so the velocity keeps increasing the whole time.
Very much bloops out there like a rainboaw--unlike the more modern, longer 40mm grenades.

I have some time with the Mk 18, a hand-cranked way of popping the short 40s out there
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One of those things I'd love to do is get some time with the Mk 19, which chugs out the bigger 40s.
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This is said to only kick "about like a Ma Deuce" (they use nearly identical field tripods).
 
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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Like these? The "1903" is actually a husqvarna 1907. 20230711_184120.jpg
 
CapnMac said:
Blooper? Stout but not unmanageable.
M-79 uses the short Hi-Lo 40mm grenades.
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Initial, HP, charge goes off in the heavy "pocket" at the base. This bursts out through some vents at a lower, measured, pressure, to expand behind the rounded base of the actual grenade (thus hi/lo). Per the theory, the gas keeps expanding until just before the round reaches the muzzle, so the velocity keeps increasing the whole time.
Very much bloops out there like a rainboaw--unlike the more modern, longer 40mm grenades.

I have some time with the Mk 18, a hand-cranked way of popping the short 40s out there
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One of those things I'd love to do is get some time with the Mk 19, which chugs out the bigger 40s.
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This is said to only kick "about like a Ma Deuce" (they use nearly identical field tripods).
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Yeah… what he said…LOL. This was in 1978/1979. I think I fired like 2 or 3 rounds tops. I was at my best physically shape and really do not remember any recoil at all.
 
My rarest I owned was a savage 22lr single shot pistol that looks like a revolver, but the barrel and fake cylinder rock to the left to load, very much like a double action s&w cylinder crane. It was very accurate.

Also owned the only self disassembling 1911 I've ever seen. First time I fired it 95% of it's parts came off. I was kinda impressed, and very unhappy...

I also had a Norinco SKS with a four digits serial number. I'm not sure if it was rare, but even the import marks only had the four numbers.

I "HAD" an amt automag 50 ae longslide 1911 too for a year or so. It mechanically separated the barrel. I loved that gun, but that exploded barrel scared me off amt guns.
 
I guess that would be my model 1905 Mannlicher Schoenauer in 9x56 ms. I have never seen another either in the field, on the range or in any gun store.
 
Jeff olson
Like these? The "1903" is actually a husqvarna 1907.
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Yep, that's them!

Beautiful gun making craftsmanship from a time long past!

Thanks for sharing Jeff.
 
Some very cool pieces in this thread. Alas, my experience has been pretty mundane. I’ve handled some nice WWII bring backs including a couple of Lugers and Walthers but didn’t have opportunity to shoot them. Nothing odd or rare in my safe, except maybe the Walker replica.

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adcoch1 said:
My rarest I owned was a savage 22lr single shot pistol that looks like a revolver, but the barrel and fake cylinder rock to the left to load, very much like a double action s&w cylinder crane. It was very accurate
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I had one of those for about 3 hours back years ago. Don't have a clue what the model # was.
 
Howland937 said:
I had one of those for about 3 hours back years ago. Don't have a clue what the model # was.
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That was the Model 101, a rather cruddy Zamak love child of an Ruger Single Six and a Colt Camp Perry Model-
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I don't know what possessed them on this one. Ive seen maybe 2 in the flesh, one was LNIB and the guy wanted $500 for it! :what:
 
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Still not sure how rare the P72 is. I can't find accurate numbers anywhere. Not common though. 20230712_220933.jpg
 
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