What is your most unusual/oddball handgun?

For me it would have to be this: an Armi San Marcos Colt-Walker reproduction converted to fire a bespoke center-fire cartridge- .44-55 Walker.

 

^^ That is cool!

I don't own any unusual handguns. All are pretty common and can all be found on Bud's Gun Shop website for sale.

 

Well dang, Mr. Pearce, I can't touch that. Black powder .38S&W is as weird as it gets in my house, and those were really common once upon a time. I guess it's time to whip up a 7.62x54R pistol so I'll have something to post.

 

Hi...
About the most unusual handgun I have is a nickel plated top break Webley .455 /476 that somebody converted to .45Colt.

I saw it in a gun shop years ago and thought about buying but walked away. Maybe a year or two later it reappeared in the same gun shop. This time I bought it after the gunsmith assured me it was safe to fire with factory level .45Colt rounds.
It is wildly inaccurate but a fun range gun to shoot once in a while.

 

one of these... I used to have my own picts until the photobucket fiasco

 

That is extremely cool! I had no idea such a thing existed.

 

the cool thing is it folds in half to fire... it has a safety and a trigger pops down when folded. I bought the first one I ever saw.Its not very accurate at long range

 

NAA Black Widow. Interesting but utterly worthless.

 

I guess mine would be an early Boberg....

BOARHUNTER

 

Top, S&W "K" frame, 25/20 Winchester. Bottom, S&W "K" frame, 44 special



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I have two, a CZ52 roller-locked pistol and a Nagant gas seal revolver. Both were ridiculously cheap. Sorry, no pictures.

 

I'd have to say it's my 500 S&W Bone Collector.
I bought it because...well just because.
That's a 500 S&W cartridge next to a .45 ACP cartridge.
Shooting it is to say the least, interesting.

 

This.

1860's Belgian pin fire by 460Shooter posted Oct 20, 2016 at 8:21 PM

Then this due to ammo unavailability and a low powered cartridge.

French Ordinance 1892, 8mm Lebel. by 460Shooter posted Oct 20, 2016 at 8:24 PM

 

I have an AMT Backup.380 that is my most unusual / oddball.

Extremely common cartridge, nothing odd here. But...

It’s extremely miserable to carry or shoot, which was its purpose: heavy weight-for-size, it’s practically sightless, lots of sharp edges (especially the finger-hooked magazine and the slide where it meets the web of your hand), it is unreliable with JHP ammo and has a trigger pull best measured in metric tonnes.

This gun sits lonely in the rear of the safe since I have better carry options and I rarely, if ever, take it out to shoot for “fun.”



Stay safe!

 

Those are cool little bullpups!

 

A Bacon Mfg .38 Rimfire Revolver. The cylinder comes apart - apparently it was an attempt to circumvent Smith & Wessen patents?

 

Colt .38 rimfire

 

This Mauser Model 1914 is in 32acp. It's striker fired and kind of annoying to field strip. It was made in 1915-16 and was accepted into German Imperial service, according to the markings. Maybe it was issued to a postmaster or something like that, or maybe was unissued, but it has no actual military markings. It's a pretty good shooter and I take it to the range every once in a while. One of its unusual aspects is that the slide isn't symmetrical: it's thicker on one side.

I also have a Model 1910, the 25acp version. It's a very good shooter for a 25acp, since it has a 3" barrel and decent sights. IIRC, this is what Hitler's niece supposedly shot herself with.

Mauser 1914 by Tallball posted Jul 4, 2018 at 8:04 PM

Mauser1910 by Tallball posted Jul 4, 2018 at 8:04 PM

 

Right now my Gen III Glock 20 10mm Auto is my only handgun. Used to be finding a 10mm was almost like finding a unicorn. Now that the 10mm has experienced a bit of a resurgence, I have to treat 10mms more like red heads and acknowledge they exist while also committing myself to ignoring them to the degree possible when I see one because my infatuation with them gets me in trouble.

 

S&W .35 Auto (aka Model 1913)

 

what is this... any pictures/details?

 

A WW2 veteran, family member, gave me a Dreyse Model 1907 pistol in .32 acp caliber. I have that and the holster it came home in from Europe. The front sight is located low in a trench. You can see where the rear sight stick up at the top rear of the pistol.

 

I've been contemplating a .25-20 revolver. Nice!

 

My Ruger LCRX 3”, there’s something different about injection molded polymers with steel inserts.

 

Walther Olympia Schnellfeurer (Rapid Fire) in .22 Short Rim Fire. Aluminum slide.
The gun that dominated the 1930's Olympics.......