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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Lovable odd ball guns (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 2/6/2015 8:27:26 PM EDT
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Other than the AR's, Remingtons, Mossbergs, and AK's, what other odd/rare guns do you have in your collection that you love. I pulled out some of my non-typical guns tonight and would say these are not the normal guns everyone has.
Steyr SPP Mossberg 500 Bullpup Spas-12 a Pair of Daewoo DR-200's a Pair of Bushmaster M17s and an original Kel Tec Sub-9 metal model. I know these aren't "that" odd or rare as what you guys probably have, but I never see these in gun shops around here. So what do you guys have I need to add to the collection? Here are a couple I took out of the safe today. Working on the 2 preban AR pistol lowers with sig braces. 
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| Those have always interested me. Aren't they similar to the old Remington semi's? I would love one for deer hunting but which caliber for deer that is somewhat easy to find? I didn't include my hunting guns but my Lamber 12 DB, Marlin 39D's, Ithaca 37's and 280 (made by skb) would make the list. |
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<a href="http://s825.photobucket.com/user/LesSnyder/media/DSC00358.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz180/LesSnyder/DSC00358.jpg</a> Those takedown 22s are nice; got to shoot a buddies a while back. Very fuddly, but nice rifle. |
My Browning Hi-Power. My father says it is one of a few Hitler had made for his hi ranking officers but I have been told that's not true. That it is just one produced by FN in Belgium under German occupation bearing German inspection and acceptance marks, or Waffenamts, that was nickeled later. Still a nice looking gun. |
| zx12rider... thanks.. I shot the Chevy Truck Sportsman's Team Challenge for 5 years, and the M41 worked great to open the 4" verticals... as a kid, I could not afford the Browning take down (a friend had one), and always lusted after one... found one for $300 early last year... still looking for a brass framed Bearcat at the right price |
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I've got a S&W N frame fixed sight .357 magnum. Looks funny with those tiny "service" grips and no rear sight sticking up.
I've got a Browning BDM. Sort of looks like a slicked up HiPower. But it's not. It can be SA/DA or DA only with a twist of the screw on the slide. |
| lasnyder I know the feeling. I had an old copy of the boy scout manual from when my dad was a kid in the 50's. It had the Browning take down and 52 ads in the back and I drooled over them for years. I think I'll grab one this year. I've always wanted the 41 also but my Browning Buckmark has filled that void... |
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Semi auto sten pistol. With the grip and barrel off of it, sometimes people at the range dont even recognize it as a firearm 
http://i60.tinypic.com/wmed6c.jpg That my friend is simply frickin awesome! now why didn't I ever think to do that?!?! *rushes off to buy sten kit* |
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Quoted: Valintino my father's deer rifle has always been the Model 88, and I bought him a model 100 to match, that I use when I go home during deer season. Took my biggest deer ever with it.. The 88 is great, but I hate how the lever can "bite" you when you try to work it.  I work the actions by having the palm on the outside of the loop, wrap my fingers through it, grip it, and yank it open and closed. I can't do it the other way or the action won't have enough force to cycle a new round. I gotta smoothen the action by sending it off to a gunsmith. Might need to get another barrel and action depending on how bad the rust got to it. (My grandfather kept it in storage for years without cleaning it and I just got it recently) |
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Not my pictures, but I own them.
Savage Model 99 http://picturearchive.gunauction.com/2484914/11340038/savage99scope01.jpg_thumbnail0.jpg Winchester Model 88 http://www.nadeausauction.com/auctiondata/1066/images/260_1.JPG The model 88 reminds me of my father's model 100 semi-auto. It's also an oddity. He believes it shipped with the wrong sights, since it he couldn't adjust the elevation to get it to print on paper. He ended up installing a Weaver 4x with tiip-off mounts. |
BDM. It's just so compact and slick for what it could have been. In the end, it was a casualty of Browning's clueless handgun marketing curse. And the safety worked the wrong way.
Lately I've been shooting the Steyr L9A1 quite a bit. It's quickly becoming one of my new favorites. 
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Quoted: I'm not sure if lovable is quite the right word for it, but it certainly is odd.  http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/71/0e/b6/710eb6e303d0b6c38974b6a35dc4b653.jpg Belongings in of dumpster! Comrade Kalashnikov rolls in grave and spits on you! Back on topic; looks quite the oddball. Funny thing is that in the second GI Joe movie, Cobra's forces were actually using Bullpup AKs.  
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Springfield 87M "M1 Garand trainer". Supposedly less than 700 of these around. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/AEnemaBay/TwentyTwo/IMG_6661%20Large_zpsynyeoaja.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/AEnemaBay/TwentyTwo/IMG_6662%20Large_zpshcfondlu.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/AEnemaBay/TwentyTwo/IMG_6666%20Large_zps6iifmn9m.jpg Okay, that looks cool. One I was recently made aware of, but hadn't seen such good images of an example before seeing yours. Just because of the similarity, have you seen this yet? http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/01/20/kingston-armory-m1-garand-m14-1022-rifles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss |
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I have my Franchi family, all gen 2 SPAS-12, LAW-12 and SAS-12. There my pride and joy. I'm always looking for cool, oddball guns, there the best ones. Who wants to have the same stuff as everyone else? You need one of these! The SAS-12 is fairly common here, but I couldn't find a LAW-12 to really finish the collection. 
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Trigger is not great, my coharie mp5 sbr clone had a far better trigger, but I kept the tp9
<a href="http://s199.photobucket.com/user/takapaha/media/C496E78A-175C-459A-818D-F9FE015D9C7C.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/takapaha/C496E78A-175C-459A-818D-F9FE015D9C7C.jpg</a> Quoted:
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How do you like the trigger on the tp9?Have you ever compared your SBR to an MP5K type SBR? If so, what did you think? Trigger is not great, my coharie mp5 sbr clone had a far better trigger, but I kept the tp9
<a href="http://s199.photobucket.com/user/takapaha/media/C496E78A-175C-459A-818D-F9FE015D9C7C.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/takapaha/C496E78A-175C-459A-818D-F9FE015D9C7C.jpg</a> Probably an incredibly silly question, but what is the upper on that middle rifle? |
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With respect, most of the hunting rifles depicted in this thread are not "odd ball" to us hunters. Old, yes. "odd ball" perhaps not. We see most of them all the time in the field, and the ones that have been cared for are still providing good service. I really love the Savage 99 and the Win 88. I bought a Win 100 as a gift for a graduating relative and he still uses it for deer hunting. Triggers in the Win 88 and 100 had something lacking, but could be fixed.
Here is my "oddest" firearm. It has a bit of history. It is perhaps the history that makes it odd. This is a WWII era Dusek Duo pocket pistol. That company today is CZ. This is a knock off of the much better finished FN version on the Browning "Baby Colt" patent. The one in the photo was made close to the end of the war after the Germans had taken over the Czech manufacturer and turned it into making military weapons. The poor quality of the metal is typical of how the Germans had to cut corners toward the end of the war. What makes this one truly "odd" is that my dad retreived it in Okinawa off of the body of a Japanese officer! Proof positive of cooperation between the Axis to at lease some degree. It is chambered for the pip squeak .25 Auto and would have been used as a last ditch weapon. Obviously, the Japanese officer never got to it. 
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You need one of these! The SAS-12 is fairly common here, but I couldn't find a LAW-12 to really finish the collection. <a href="https://imageshack.com/i/exofvCyLj" target="_blank">http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/537/ofvCyL.jpg</a> <a href="https://imageshack.com/i/f08s7C8gj" target="_blank">http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/540/8s7C8g.jpg</a> Quoted:
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I have my Franchi family, all gen 2 SPAS-12, LAW-12 and SAS-12. There my pride and joy. I'm always looking for cool, oddball guns, there the best ones. Who wants to have the same stuff as everyone else? You need one of these! The SAS-12 is fairly common here, but I couldn't find a LAW-12 to really finish the collection. <a href="https://imageshack.com/i/exofvCyLj" target="_blank">http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/537/ofvCyL.jpg</a> <a href="https://imageshack.com/i/f08s7C8gj" target="_blank">http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/540/8s7C8g.jpg</a> That would cost more than my daily driver lol. I would love to have one if im ever able to find and afford one... |
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Probably an incredibly silly question, but what is the upper on that middle rifle? Quoted:
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How do you like the trigger on the tp9?Have you ever compared your SBR to an MP5K type SBR? If so, what did you think? Trigger is not great, my coharie mp5 sbr clone had a far better trigger, but I kept the tp9
<a href="http://s199.photobucket.com/user/takapaha/media/C496E78A-175C-459A-818D-F9FE015D9C7C.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/takapaha/C496E78A-175C-459A-818D-F9FE015D9C7C.jpg</a> Probably an incredibly silly question, but what is the upper on that middle rifle? That's a Robinson arms XCR. Not an AR upper. The Faxon ARAK-21 is probably the closest thing to an AR upper with XCR features |
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That's a Robinson arms XCR. Not an AR upper. The Faxon ARAK-21 is probably the closest thing to an AR upper with XCR features Quoted:
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How do you like the trigger on the tp9?Have you ever compared your SBR to an MP5K type SBR? If so, what did you think? Trigger is not great, my coharie mp5 sbr clone had a far better trigger, but I kept the tp9
<a href="http://s199.photobucket.com/user/takapaha/media/C496E78A-175C-459A-818D-F9FE015D9C7C.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/takapaha/C496E78A-175C-459A-818D-F9FE015D9C7C.jpg</a> Probably an incredibly silly question, but what is the upper on that middle rifle? That's a Robinson arms XCR. Not an AR upper. The Faxon ARAK-21 is probably the closest thing to an AR upper with XCR features Thanks! |
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Quoted: With respect, most of the hunting rifles depicted in this thread are not "odd ball" to us hunters. Old, yes. "odd ball" perhaps not. We see most of them all the time in the field, and the ones that have been cared for are still providing good service. I really love the Savage 99 and the Win 88. I bought a Win 100 as a gift for a graduating relative and he still uses it for deer hunting. Triggers in the Win 88 and 100 had something lacking, but could be fixed. Here is my "oddest" firearm. It has a bit of history. It is perhaps the history that makes it odd. This is a WWII era Dusek Duo pocket pistol. That company today is CZ. This is a knock off of the much better finished FN version on the Browning "Baby Colt" patent. The one in the photo was made close to the end of the war after the Germans had taken over the Czech manufacturer and turned it into making military weapons. The poor quality of the metal is typical of how the Germans had to cut corners toward the end of the war. What makes this one truly "odd" is that my dad retreived it in Okinawa off of the body of a Japanese officer! Proof positive of cooperation between the Axis to at lease some degree. It is chambered for the pip squeak .25 Auto and would have been used as a last ditch weapon. Obviously, the Japanese officer never got to it. http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r772/gbloss/7AE190AA-8BD9-4F7F-A5FF-641A1AF6FE0C_zpscpfcrgn0.jpg http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r772/gbloss/D2254684-5566-4009-99EB-D2DFB6B1DA1B_zps1vddsxtf.jpg Are you sure that's not some kind of early prototype PWS  |
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