I hope it's engraved with a crawfish because if you are down to that to save your life you need to be backing up fast.
Does a 7 round .30 caliber gas seal revolver with a 20# trigger pull count as odd? and it might be 18# in single action.
@VisuTrac, That's a winner! It gets extra points for looking like it was designed by Dr Seuss! The firing pin is laughable, although required by the forward moving cylinder. The whole gas seal system, intended to squeeze out a but more power, also makes it possible to use a suppressor on this revolver. The ONLY revolver that can claim that. The round itself is unique for reloaders since it's an unusually small semi-rimmed case with the bullet seated below the neck and then the case slightly crimped. Yes indeed, the Nagant revolver is an odd duck.
I had a nagant with over 1000 rds ammo and somebody wanted more than i did,a little over $1000.00. I took the money and got a smith Wesson ..44 special,a sucker is born every minute. Now I have two smith Wesson .44 specials,so I guess they will count as odd guns,as there are not many out there and very little ammo.
Reising M65. This was the USMC trainer for the Reising M50. Same controls, and pretty close to the same weight. The action is cycled via a rod that's accessible inside a large slot in the forend.
......only production revolver, Knight's Armament (for sure) and Tim laFranche (maybe) did modifications on a couple of different Ruger revolvers (GP100 was the first in the late 80s or early 90s and more recently Redhawks) to suppress them. The Target/Commercial versions of the Nagant were very popular here in the 80s.
Nice catch Andy. A better mouse trap! Uncle Sam also modified a few S&W Model 10's and 29's in the 1960's but they were dismal failures. Perhaps the word first would be better. With the forward moving cylinder and gas seal production ammunition the Nagant design was suppressor ready right off the drawing board. I've seen the target Nagant's. Very nice. My production model isn't bad, but I have an ammunition issue. My reloads with case converted .223 Remington brass shoot smaller groups than the same load in Fiocchi brass. I never want to do that case conversion again, but I now have to solve the mystery of why it is more accurate. (I suspect case capacity, and/or wall thickness is the answer)
I wouldn't really count this, but it's the best I can do. Rossi Tuffy Overall length: 29.5" Barrel: 18.5" Weight: 3 lbs. Caliber: .410 For a single shot, break open "shotgun", I could see a use for this as a pistol in a Red Dawn scenario with minor (albeit illegal) alteration. More likely, used as an excellent backpack survival shotgun. Light weight, simple, affordable.
This is a Ted William's Model 100 in .30-30 Win. They were manufactured by Winchester for sale in retailers like Western Auto, etc. I recently had the metal ceracoated because most of it wouldn't take blueing since the barrel was about the only visible steel. I refinished the wood on it. It looks pretty good for a low buck rehab.
Well I have another,a smith Wesson model 16-4 .32 hr mag. You can shoot .32sw and .32swl in the same gun along with .32 hr mag . I might reem it out to .327 mag and then shoot .32 sw,.32 swl and .32 hr mag.
I only owned one odd Gun and it wasnt really that odd. I had an old 30-40 Krag side loader for years. Sold it and went with a Thomson center Icon.
Pics of the Colt please. I don't know who sold the Ted William's guns, maybe Sears? I rescued it just for sentimental reasons, I like oddball guns and everyone should have a lever gun, they're as American as apple pie.
