Your top five (or 10, or...) *most interesting* guns.
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Rittmeister - post 13
" ...the Garand of course requiring ejection of the partially-spent clip to be replaced with a full one."
This is a common misconception, but this video shows how to do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--NbefyN0-M
" ...the Garand of course requiring ejection of the partially-spent clip to be replaced with a full one."
This is a common misconception, but this video shows how to do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--NbefyN0-M
oneounceload
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If you check out the other pics at his site, there's one of the barrels at the muzzle covered by a US dime.
IIRC, the barrels are on the order of 22 or 23 - but I'm not positive.
He, and Philip Ollendorf make some incredible guns
It is new - he has pics of one in the white as well:
http://www.hoferwaffen.com/hofer_52.php?lang=en
Scroll down to SxS rifles for them.
22-rimfire
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Colt Python
Thompson Machine Gun
Top break revolvers
Colt Lightning rifle
Winchester 1873
Henry Rifle
Colt Single Actions
M1 Garand
AK 47
AR 15
KY Long Rifle
Thompson Machine Gun
Top break revolvers
Colt Lightning rifle
Winchester 1873
Henry Rifle
Colt Single Actions
M1 Garand
AK 47
AR 15
KY Long Rifle
Rittmeister
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Travlin - never knew that before. Very interesting. Most of what I know of the Garand comes from my granddad, who carried one in France in WWII and then had responsibility for the blank-adapted rifles used in military funerals in his locality (during my lifetime). He showed me how to load/unload etc but never that. I wonder if he knew...
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Not interesting at all, just 'fun':
Rossi pump .22rf Youth Model
Marlin 39A
Nylon 66
Ruger Super Single Six .22rf/.22Mag convertable
RG pot metal .22Short revolver
K-.22
Honorable mention, no longer owned but fun:
Colt SAA New Frontier .44Spcl and .357
'17 Enfield Custom .264
salty
Rossi pump .22rf Youth Model
Marlin 39A
Nylon 66
Ruger Super Single Six .22rf/.22Mag convertable
RG pot metal .22Short revolver
K-.22
Honorable mention, no longer owned but fun:
Colt SAA New Frontier .44Spcl and .357
'17 Enfield Custom .264
salty
essayons21
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My 2 most interesting ones have family history
First is a Savage M720, a contract built Browning Auto-5 during WWII. These were used to train B-17 and B-24 bomber gunners in aerial gunnery. They essentially sat on the back of a flatbed truck as it drove down the road and shot skeet with them. My grandfather, a B-24 pilot, somehow acquired one, chopped the barrel and put a cutts compensator on it to use as a dove hunting gun. It was rode hard and put away wet, which accounts for the loss of blue on the reciever. Since it has no collectors value I had it professionally reblued and use it for skeet and dove hunting still.
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After
Next is a 1918 Erfurt Luger, that was picked up by my other grandfather at some point during his time in France and Germany. All matching except the magazine, I still shoot it on occasion.
Next is a 1849 Colt Pocket model given to me by my soon-to-be FIL. I knew I started dating that girl for a reason
Then the usual, a CMP Garand and a pre-64 Winchester 1894, my dad's takedown Marlin 39A, my mom's (yes my mom) Stevens rolling-block .22LR.
I think the most interesting is still in my father's collection, a 17th century bronze barreled naval blunderbuss. Lock still works, but he won't shoot it
First is a Savage M720, a contract built Browning Auto-5 during WWII. These were used to train B-17 and B-24 bomber gunners in aerial gunnery. They essentially sat on the back of a flatbed truck as it drove down the road and shot skeet with them. My grandfather, a B-24 pilot, somehow acquired one, chopped the barrel and put a cutts compensator on it to use as a dove hunting gun. It was rode hard and put away wet, which accounts for the loss of blue on the reciever. Since it has no collectors value I had it professionally reblued and use it for skeet and dove hunting still.
Before
After
Next is a 1918 Erfurt Luger, that was picked up by my other grandfather at some point during his time in France and Germany. All matching except the magazine, I still shoot it on occasion.
Next is a 1849 Colt Pocket model given to me by my soon-to-be FIL. I knew I started dating that girl for a reason
Then the usual, a CMP Garand and a pre-64 Winchester 1894, my dad's takedown Marlin 39A, my mom's (yes my mom
) Stevens rolling-block .22LR.I think the most interesting is still in my father's collection, a 17th century bronze barreled naval blunderbuss. Lock still works, but he won't shoot it
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Legionnaire
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That Luger is "way cool interesting," IMHO. May have to spring for one some day.
RonBernert
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I'm going to have to say (in no particular order) my favorite guns I have are:
Iver Johnson .410 bore, Iver Johnson 16Ga, Remington 870 w/pistol grip, Ruger 22/45, Ruger single six convertable, Colt model 1903, Norinco model J15 .22LR, S&W "lemon squeezer" .32, Harrington and Richardson model 925, Iver Johnson Cattleman and a newly aquired (but not yet functional) Hopkins & Allen Range Model .32. But if I had to pick one gun for CCW and two for the range, they'd be my trusty S&W 442 airweight and the Ruger .22's. If you have not owned a Super Single Six Convertable, you should! It will take you 3 days to go through a box of 500 rounds of 22LR, but it is time well spent!
Iver Johnson .410 bore, Iver Johnson 16Ga, Remington 870 w/pistol grip, Ruger 22/45, Ruger single six convertable, Colt model 1903, Norinco model J15 .22LR, S&W "lemon squeezer" .32, Harrington and Richardson model 925, Iver Johnson Cattleman and a newly aquired (but not yet functional) Hopkins & Allen Range Model .32. But if I had to pick one gun for CCW and two for the range, they'd be my trusty S&W 442 airweight and the Ruger .22's. If you have not owned a Super Single Six Convertable, you should! It will take you 3 days to go through a box of 500 rounds of 22LR, but it is time well spent!
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