Weird/odd/unusually chambered guns

[natman]

If you want weird:
Greener Cattle Killer
It looks like a piece of pipe with brass knobs on the ends, but it unfolds and is assembled into a single shot "pistol" with a very specialized use. Uses a cartridge that's like a shortened 310 Cadet, but even rarer.

 

[12Bravo20]

I was issued and shot quite a few M3 and M3A1 SMG's while in the Army, but I have never seen a 9mm version. I know a few were made for the European theater.

The Enfield 410 Musket with its original chamber is a bit rare too. Most of them that were imported into the US had the chambers reamed to fit a standard 3" 410 shell. I saw quite a few different foreign weapons in the arms rooms of certain units while I was in, but I don't remember what all of them were.

 

[codytrucker]

Ruger single actions in 10MM/40 S&W convertible , but not 38-40 ?

The Buffalo Bill museum in Cody Wy has a model 1894 Winchester in .22 Savage high power , I think it may be the only one ever made .

One of the original chamberings of the Winchester model 70 was 7.65 x 53 Argentine Mauser , I'd like to see one of those .

 

[unspellable]

Just ran across a write up for a one off double rifle in 25 ACP.
I have a Ruger P89 and a Hi power, both in 30 Luger.
I have a 22 conversion for a Luger.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Colt 1911 National Match Target in .38 Special Wadcutter.

Colt 1911 in .30 Luger.

FN Hi-Power in .30 Luger.

S&W Model 39 in .30 Luger.

Colt 1911 in 9mm. Steyr.

The SIG P210 was offered in .30 Luger and .22lr as well.

 

[bannockburn]

NIGHTLORD40k

I couldn't find anything definitely for sure, but I seem to recall that SIG made a small number of the P220 and the Browning BDA in .30 Luger as well.

 

[bannockburn]

Ruger and S&W made revolvers, like the Service Six and Model 49, in .38 S&W for the Indian government.

 

[Dain Bramage]

How about the American Derringer LM5? It's a small pistol in ".32 Magnum", which may be:

1. .32 H&R Magnum
2. A proprietary cartridge that was never produced.
3. Vaporware. While some LM5 in .25 Auto appear to have been made, the .32 chambering might never have left the factory.

So little is known about this gun, that they could do an episode of Ghost Hunters on it.

 

[tark]

I was issued and shot quite a few M3 and M3A1 SMG's while in the Army, but I have never seen a 9mm version. I know a few were made for the European theater.

More than a few! They were delivered to resistance fighters in several countries, so those fighters could use captured German 9mm ammo. A thousand were delivered to the OSS. These guns were modified to use STEN magazines.

 

[12Bravo20]

More than a few! They were delivered to resistance fighters in several countries, so those fighters could use captured German 9mm ammo. A thousand were delivered to the OSS. These guns were modified to use STEN magazines.

I never saw exact numbers on the M3 9mm versions, just like I have never seen an actual M3 or M3A1 chambered in 9mm. This actually surprised me. I worked with SF units and foreign material intelligence units and both had all kinds of odd/weird/obsolete weapons.

 

[DadOfThree]

I have a 13mm Gyrojet made by MBAssociates. Is that weird enough

 

[tark]

I have a 13mm Gyrojet made by MBAssociates. Is that weird enough

It is in my book!

 

[tark]

I never saw exact numbers on the M3 9mm versions, just like I have never seen an actual M3 or M3A1 chambered in 9mm. This actually surprised me. I worked with SF units and foreign material intelligence units and both had all kinds of odd/weird/obsolete weapons.

I doubt that very many survived for long after the war. Most were probably collected and either destroyed immediately of put in storage only to be destroyed later, when the country developed their own, better gun. The M-3 was designed to be an expendable item, to be disposed of when no longer serviceable. They were still in use in the M-60 tanks in 1970.

 

[CapnMac]

Browning BDA 38 Super

Had to turn down one of those, new in box, for not having the cash. Such is life.

Now for weird probably everything chambered for one of the "Bee" calibers probably counts.

 

[Appalachiannative]

Most likely what you saw was an Astra 9mm Largo that would accept .38 Auto (Best to not shoot .38 Super in these old Spanish guns.) and might function on 9mm P if the stars aligned. They sold a lot of Astra 400s with advertising as "Any 9mm" because you couldn't readily get the 9mm Largo they were made for. My Dad saw a dealer "demonstrating" this to a customer but succeeding only in putting a bullet in the floor between the customer's feet.

I distinctly remember seeing .38 Super written on the side of it. It was the first time I'd ever heard of that cartridge

 

[WestKentucky]

Marlin Model 62 Lever action "Levermatics" in 256 Winchester and .30 Carbine.

Have one of each. Great fun, but they bring silly money for what they are. I may sell my 30 carbine.

 

[WestKentucky]

Heizer pocket AR and Pocket AK in 5.56 nato and 7.62x39.


As wierd as these rifle cal pistols and pistol cal carbines are, they ain’t got nothin on the revolving shotgun “street sweeper”, the Gyrojet, or the newfangled abomination known as a thunderstruck.

 

[WestKentucky]

My personal favorite weirdness

 

[12Bravo20]

I doubt that very many survived for long after the war. Most were probably collected and either destroyed immediately of put in storage only to be destroyed later, when the country developed their own, better gun. The M-3 was designed to be an expendable item, to be disposed of when no longer serviceable. They were still in use in the M-60 tanks in 1970.

The M3A1 was still in use with some units in 1992-1993. I was assigned to 40th Engineer Bn, 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Baumholder Germany from Jan 92 to Dec 94. We didn't turn our 1911's and M3's in for the M9 until late 1992 or early 1993.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

NIGHTLORD40k

I couldn't find anything definitely for sure, but I seem to recall that SIG made a small number of the P220 and the Browning BDA in .30 Luger as well.

I coulda sworn Id seen the same thing in literature at the time, but cant find any reference to it now.

 

[armedwalleye]

The COP 4 shot .357 derringer would be an odd one in my book.

 

[desmobob]

I always thought it was weird when manufacturers chambered carbines or lever guns in long range, precision shooting cartridges... like the Remington 600 Mohawk carbine in .222 or the BLR I saw at my FFL the other day in 22-250.

 

[StrawHat]

Coonan .357 "1911"

…Springfield M1922 .22 Hornet conversion…

I have one of those.

Kevin

 

[StrawHat]

A couple of S&W oddities.

For the Army trials of 1907, S&W supplied about a dozen of the New Century Model (aka TripleLock) chambered in 45 S&W Special. Two are known to have survived.

In WWII, S&W chambered several of the N frames in 30 Carbine. They were tested by the Army and found to be so loud, they greatly bothered the soldiers testing them!


Either at the end of WWII or just after, S&W chambered some N frames in 9x19 mm. They did not go past the experimental stage.


Kevin

 

[Savage30L]

I have a friend with a pre-64 Winchester model 70 chambered for the .22 Hornet. I didn't know they were made in that caliber.