What's the most obscure handgun you've ever carried?

[Rexzila]

When I was young and dumb I carried a Sterling .22 Model 302. It worked and was viable with Stingers. But, was a poor choice since it is striker fired with no firing pin safety.
I also did the Grendel P-10 thing, I had it for about two weeks. The most frustrating thing I ever owned. It would always stove-top on the last round every time. Grendels were a novelty when they came out being one of the first "plastic guns". Glocks were not established back then. The Grendels had horrible trigger pulls and loaded via stripper clips having a fixed magazine. I think of them like I think of Pontiac Asteks...odd and defective.

 

[unspellable]

Unusual handgun for social purposes

It wasn't a CCW situation but I did use a Webley Mk VI for a couple of social occasions. Very under rated revolver here in the US. Not pretty in some people's eyes but maybe the best service revolver ever made.

 

[Model520Fan]

Mauser Broomhandle (Standard Wartime Commercial, Neue Sicherung), fully loaded with a round in the chamber, hammer down, safety on. Carried it in the small of my back without a holster, one time, in the woods at night. Probably carried it some number of times in the daytime in a portfolio.

 

[Model520Fan]

Didn't post this before because I didn't think it would count as unusual, but in my more foolish days, I certainly carried an Astra Firecat (.25ACP) plenty of times, including in a homemade wallet holster with a couple dozen spare rounds.

And I once owned a Dakota (Uberti?) derringer in .45 Colt, but I can't remember whether I ever carried it on-body.

 

[TonyB]

Once carried my grandfather's 1914 Mauser in .32....waaaay too heavy for a 32.....ended up selling to a collector and got a j frame....

 

[oweno]

Steyr GB (plenty of rounds without reloading...)

 

[SMLE]

Webley MKV with 4" Bbl. in .455, loaded with Fiocchi LRN ammo. Got pulled over for a broken tail light one night. Being the law abiding citizen that I am, I politely told the Officer that I had a handgun in the car. He asked where it was, then had me step out of the car. He took charge of the revolver for the duration of the stop. He handed me a "fixit-ticket" , the revolver, and 6 rounds of ammo. After he left, I loaded the old revolver and had a mental image of the Officer breaking the action, having all the ammo fall out in the floor of his car and then feeling around in dark for all 6 rounds.

At over $30.00 a box, I would have INSISTED he find them all too.

 

[NMshooter]

Umm, Grendel P-30.

 

[JackStraw]

Star PD .45ACP

 

[Ala Dan]

Does This Qualify?

A 6" S&W model 19 in a Bianchi swivel holster.

Of course I was in uniform performing LEO duties.

Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member

 

[106rr]

An early model of the Colt Frontier Scout in 22lr. I was poor and desperate, living in a high crime neighborhood. I still own it with it's imitation wood grain cardboard box, factory brochure and cleaning rod.
serial#14XXXXF

 

[sgtb]

FEG SMC 380, very nice gun and small.

CZ-PCR

 

[LASur5r]

French

I am sorry to admit, but I actually bought a Maab once....nice shooter with a rotary barrel, but so heavy it would drag my pants down all the time....at least it got a laugh or two when I tried to carry it concealed....wouldn't make it to my car from my bedroom.

It'd hurt a little, because it was always my wife laughing.

 

[gbelleh]

I've carried this thing once or twice (as a BUG) just for fun.

Cobray Pocket Pal .22/.380

 

[QuarterBoreGunner]

'read manual'

Right on the trigger...

That kills me. HA!

That's a Cobray?...right? The funky internal revolver IIRC?

 

[Sam]

A 1910 Bergman.
Sort of a turn of the century space gun.
A significantly downsized broomhandle mauser with real grips.

Great shooter too.

Sam

 

[gbelleh]

Yeah, it's a Cobray Pocket Pal. Here's a web site I made about it...

Pocket Pal

The funny thing is the manual is just a sheet of 8.5x11 paper with the instructions copied (crooked) onto it. It's a very crude gun.

 

[goste]

Savage 1907 .32 way underated.

1891 S.W/ #3 .44 Russian.

 

[Strings]

Sam... got a link to a pic? Please?!?!?

 

[sadp40]

welll i don't know if its odd

1906 colt new police......32 s&w not long mind you .32 short colt as its known. 4 inch tube, kinda like a baby bisley and very accurate 15 yds minute of fist d/a firing fast. small rounds and weak but the surgeon will have a time patching up that hole..

 

[Garand'06]

Zander writes:

A neat little Galesi .25 that slipped easily into a pocket. Worked just fine after I found out how to field-strip the little bugger.

Thought I was the only one who had carried one of these.

Not bad in the accuracy dept. either when I can actually see the sights!

Tim

 

[carpettbaggerr]

Bergman Model 1910/21

http://www.collectorsfirearms.com/modernhandguns.htm#Pre-War_Pistols_&_Revolvers

 

[Strings]

SWEET! Too bad they're so expensive...

 

[roscoe]

Savage 1907 .32 way underated

I think those are the coolest guns - would look right at home in the handbag of any one of Raymond Chandler's femme fatales.

 

[fastball]

Long, boring story, please ignore

A Jennings J22--This is a copy of an email I sent to K Frame. Feel free to yawn.
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K Frame--always wanted to tell this story. Bought a J.22 at a gun show. Would not get through 3 rounds with out a jam. Called the "dealer", a home based FFL. He said tough luck, send it to the company. I called Jennings and asked to speak to the owner. It was Janet Jennings (or Janis). Told her if I wanted a single shot, I would have bought a derringer. She told me to send the .22 back and her repair foreman would repair. Back then you could ship UPS for about $7. When I got "a" gun back, it was not "the" gun I sent in. The little black beauty with a different serial # must have been his pet pistol as it was and still is a jewel. I would shoot rapid fire strings at the range and people would come up and ask what I was shooting. And walk away in disbelief. It would spit .22s out as fast as you could pull the trigger and ,with care, hold the black of a bullseye target at 15 yards round after round. I had MANY friends that ask for me to sell it to them if "ever". Not going to happen. I am a Smith collector of J and K frames,(SWCA#1506) and carry a Mod 38 , protect my abode with 2 Mod 13s and my truck with a Mod of 1905 made in 1917. But when I put that Jennings in a jeans pocket with Stingers (empty chamber), I don't sweat it.--------thanks for the read.-----Tom soutter