My great grandfather was World War One veteran who fought in the British Army for the entire war, Black and Tan Mercenary in the Irish Civil and then spent decades as a L.A. County Sheriffs deputy. Quite the badass. In any case it was the custom at the time in the LA County sheriffs dept. to confiscate and release and he had a very extensive gun and switchblade collection. When he died his cop buddies came and cleared his "collection" out before the family could. The weirdest thing he had that I remember firing in the hills around Los Angeles when I was about 12 years old was a Schnellfeuer Mauser. Yep. One of those little broomhandle machine pistols. He didnt have much ammo for it and I think I shot one mag full and couldnt hit anything . I had no idea at the time that no combination of laws would have made that thing legal. I like to think that some sheriff deputy's grandson has it stashed under the mattress and it didnt end up in a crusher..
What is the strangest gun youv'e ever fired?
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I may win this one, I have shot a Remington Master Blaster.
http://www.remington.com/product-families/ammunition/industrial/masterblaster-system.aspx
http://www.remington.com/product-families/ammunition/industrial/masterblaster-system.aspx
I think you are right.
chicharrones
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I need more info on that Master Blaster. What kind of ammo does it use? Is that a suppressor or heavy barrel? Also, how about a better description of how it is used?
chicharrones
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That sounds like awesome entertainment. I can't think of any firearm I've fired that thousands and thousands of other people haven't fired too.
Bushmaster arm pistol or the full auto USAS 12.
maxxhavoc
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Mine is pretty tame in comparison.
A 3" .410/.45 derringer. With 3" shells, the pattern was extremely wide
, and the plastic from the shell stuck out of the barrel after firing.
Yes, I know, shooting 3" shells out of it is not recommended. But my shooting buddy loaded it, and HE got a laugh out of it. With friends like these.....
A 3" .410/.45 derringer. With 3" shells, the pattern was extremely wide
, and the plastic from the shell stuck out of the barrel after firing.Yes, I know, shooting 3" shells out of it is not recommended. But my shooting buddy loaded it, and HE got a laugh out of it. With friends like these.....
Ironicaintit
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Thats what I was going to say! Pretty unique, and IMO the most fun that can be had with a pistol.
My runner up is a Remington XP-100, .221 fireball.
DeepSouth
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The one we have at work is an 8 gauge and we shoot 3oz slugs in it, I think.
The barrel has what Remington calls a "muffler" on it, but yeah, it's just a massive suppressor. Ours doesn't sit on a mount like most do, it hangs from a overhead homemade bracket.
It has little to no recoil because it's heavy as all get out, it takes two men to hold it up to mount it, and it's bolted to I beams. The "trigger" is a pull cord, and it is a seriously heavy duty single shot breach loader.
We use it on our lime kiln to shoot large balls (2-4 ft diameter) of lime to bust them up, honestly it's pretty ineffective so we rarely ever use it.
ironworkerwill
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My Gramps was an ironworker(go figure) in the Birmingham area. He brought home an 8 gauge shotgun shell that shot a flat faced solid cylindrical projectile. He said it was to remove "klinker?" in steel mills. He described it to be built like the "Master Blaster".
Devonai
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The CZ-52 is a little strange, especially on the same day as a boring old Glock.
morcey2
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I got to shoot the same thing right out of high school. It was an 8-gauge that they called a swivel gun. They used it for "clinkers" from a lime kiln (not cement clinkers), but they didn't look like the coal clinkers that my grandpa used to fight with in his old coal furnace. (as in "A Christmas Story").
Even with earplugs and muffs, my ears were ringing. It was inside a big metal building so the sound just reverberated 30 seconds. It wasn't as fancy as the master blaster and the one that they use now is suppressed, I believe. That woulda been nice. The one I shot was something like 50 years old when I shot it many years ago. I don't know what the loads were, but they were probably slugs of some sort. Apparently one of the welders there fabricated a mount for the bed of his truck and they took it out on the desert for some fun. I doubt that was legal and that was years before I got there. (only worked there for 3 months getting money for college)
Second weirdest was some old single-shot 22 rifle that was a rotating action as best I can describe. Instead of breaking open on a hinge, the barrel rotated to the left of the receiver block on a pin parallel to the barrel. I don't remember seeing any markings on it and it was horribly inaccurate. I think it may have been a homebrew gun from days gone by because, even though I was only 12 or so, it looked like the metal had been filed to shape and the fit was really loose. I've never seen anything like it before or since.
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I didn't get to fire it, but 15 years or so ago, my dad and I were at a range here in CT when we noticed a gentleman next to us shooting a very strange looking rifle.
We moseyed on over and struck up a conversation with the guy about his rifle. I can't recall what it was, but it was a very old muzzle loading target rifle with an octagonal barrel that was extremely thick- somewhere around 2". The whole thing was ornately engraved and I think he said it weighed around 15-20 pounds. Very intricate sighting system as well. He'd spend a good five minutes methodically loading it. Great person to talk with to boot.
We moseyed on over and struck up a conversation with the guy about his rifle. I can't recall what it was, but it was a very old muzzle loading target rifle with an octagonal barrel that was extremely thick- somewhere around 2". The whole thing was ornately engraved and I think he said it weighed around 15-20 pounds. Very intricate sighting system as well. He'd spend a good five minutes methodically loading it. Great person to talk with to boot.
bikemutt
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Full-auto GM Grease gun, at a rental range in Vegas. What a blast that was!
Legionnaire
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I haven't shot anything really "out there," but I enjoyed:
H&K P7 (gotta love the squeeze cock; would like to own one someday)
1847 Walker replica (gotta love the holy black; liked it so much I got one)
Gun I WISH I had had opportunity to fire was an LFI classmate's full auto Browning Hi-Power!
H&K P7 (gotta love the squeeze cock; would like to own one someday)
1847 Walker replica (gotta love the holy black; liked it so much I got one)
Gun I WISH I had had opportunity to fire was an LFI classmate's full auto Browning Hi-Power!
bonza
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"Second weirdest was some old single-shot 22 rifle that was a rotating action as best I can describe. Instead of breaking open on a hinge, the barrel rotated to the left of the receiver block on a pin parallel to the barrel."
Sounds similar to the old Garcia Bronco .22 single shot, they also made them as a .410g & as a .22/.410g combo.
My own 'strangest gun' is the Norwegian Kammerlader, a c.1850s percussion breech loader shooting a 695gn .70 caliber conical bullet over 95gns of Fg black powder.
Sounds similar to the old Garcia Bronco .22 single shot, they also made them as a .410g & as a .22/.410g combo.
My own 'strangest gun' is the Norwegian Kammerlader, a c.1850s percussion breech loader shooting a 695gn .70 caliber conical bullet over 95gns of Fg black powder.
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KansasSasquatch
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Strangest/coolest that I've fired is a .50BMG barreled upper on an AR-15 lower receiver. Showed up at the range one day and an older guy was laying in the prone position firing it. Once me and a couple buddies got setup we started talking to him about it and he offered to let us each fire a round. No way I could pass that up. We offered to pay for the ammo but he refused. I know that uppers like that are somewhat common these days but this was years ago when there was only 1 or 2 semi-custom shops making them.
zb338
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I had an 8 Gauge double barreled muzzle loader. I would shoot
16, 000 buck in front of a pile of FFG. Used it for deer hunting
but never shot a deer with it.
Zeke
16, 000 buck in front of a pile of FFG. Used it for deer hunting
but never shot a deer with it.
Zeke
Jackal
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Mauser Geha shotgun.
EIB0879
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Outside of the military, the strangest is probably the M-11 Ingram with suppressor.
Liberty1776
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I used to have a High Standard Model 10 B - NOT a fun gun to shoot...I also shot a Kimble (Kimbal?) semi-auto pistol that shoots the .30 M1 Carbine round...
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