Oddest/Most Interesting/Weirdest Gun Purchase You've Made

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indy1919a4 said:
I live for Odd Ball. Two I had built were

1/2 Scale volley gun in 50 caliber

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And a 1/2 scale 75 caliber Hotchkiss revolving Cannon with a naval mount

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The genius of the Hotchkiss gun is that there are 2 moving parts, 3 if you count the spring. Also because the crank is set up like a Bull Dog the rate of fire is very very very fast
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Hang on just a dad blamed minute... what’s that hiding behind the hotchkiss?
 
I have a Knight TK2000 12 gauge inline with a jug choke.

Very strange gun but shoots very tight patterns. Never searched for additional chokes but its set up for turkey. Need a improved for doves.

For sale too :)
 
MosinT53Hunter said:
I have seen a fair amount of them on Gunbroker, like the Super B in standard 9mm Luger. A little higher price wise, but I believe to be well worth it. I will never sell mine.
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Yeah I know. But every time I focus on one of those, some other shiny shiny new bobble catches my eye and I flitter away... :(
For now I will have to live vicariously through you on this.
 
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AMraider said:
June of 2008 I put a bid on a Sestroryetsk M91 barreled action, bolt and trigger housing and then left for the weekend. Upon returning I found out that I had won it. Little did I know how difficult it would be to find a stock for it. I tried a few bids on auction sites but they went for well over $100 with no handguard, bands or buttplate. Searching online produced nothing. I figured that a 91/30 stock was going to have to work. But, April 2010 on another forums "For sale" section someone ran an add for a M91 stock $40 shipped. With buttplate, cleaning rod and shims. It took me all of 2 seconds to just post an "I'll take it!" as opposed to asking questions or requesting pics which others had. Even if it turned out to be a 91/30 stock I can make it work. What I got amazed me to say the least. An actual one piece M91 stock, handguard, bands, cleaning rod and a Sestroryetsk buttplate. The whole project came in at just under $200.

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It was around the time I bought mine. Got the stock on Gun Broker in a package with two 91/30 stocks. Still have one of them in the rafters, it's pretty beat up. Gave one to a friend and fellow forum member for a project of his. Got the three of them for $125. I'd have paid that for just the M91 stock.
 
Mines a Hamilton double barrel that spent its life hanging in a barn until the barn burned. Completely rusted shut and burned black. Nice for a fireplace prop.
 
I had an acquaintance who hung out all night in clubs and was quite shady, not sure what he really did for a living. I bought a 3” .357 magnum in “Coltguard” finish from him. He always carried.

Might have been a King Cobra that I got. The frame bent when I was firing it at the range. Made the gun completely useless. I still have it somewhere. Kind of a silly gun, not concealable really, very heavy, and ultimately not reliable.
 
I pucked up a Squires Bingham 22 semiauto rifle at a local flea mkt for $20. It had no stock and no magazine. A call to Numrich, and I had a magazine and nice walnut stock for an additional $60. No target gun, but a fun plinker.
 
Don't think I own anything that would classify as "odd" or "weird." Some pretty cool pieces in this thread, though.
 
I've had a few project guns, some good, some bad.
A complete rust bucket colt army special in .38 spcl that needed a new part, whatever its called that connected the cylinder release to the cylinder bolt..paid $99 for the gun and $5 for the part off numrichs. Despite its poor finish the bore is decent and it shoots well.

I won a bid $5 for a relatively obscure imported .22lr barreled action intending to piggyback its shipping and transfer fees onto another purchase...the other purchase didn't happen and I ended up paying $70 to have it shipped and transferred. Stupid whim, complete 100% waste of money as I can't find all the parts and the parts that I can find cost a fortune. I could have bought the guncomplete for $200 new, but to put the rifle together from a barreled action will cost well over double that, not to mention gunsmith fees for having to headspace a bolt, etc...
 
M2628(2).JPG I don't know just how weird or interesting this would be to most people. I bought a converted bolt action Mauser "Geha" 12ga almost identical to this one back in the early 90's. Of all the guns I ever had, and I've owned about five 12 gauges through the years, none ever came anywhere as close to literally knocking me over as this did while firing full sized slugs. You only get two shots. I sold it less than a year later to buy my first Enfield.
 
MosinT53Hunter said:
I would say one of my more interesting purchases has been buying my Star Super in 9mm Largo. I just love the way with a simple turn of a lever, the slide slips off like butter. It has always fascinated me how simple and strong it is. Back in the "way back machine" Sarcoinc had quite a lot of Star pistols. This one just spoke to me, and after getting input from my brother in law, his father, an uncle, and a few friends who told me not to get it, I bought it. :) Yes, 9mm Largo doesn't grow on trees, but Starline has some great reloading brass, and I scored a few boxes of 9mm Largo from a limited run that Blazer made at a gunshow. Still is my favorite pistol, my pistol of no regret. Best $135 well spent.

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You don't need a Largo tree, MosinT53Hunter, just a small flat file to open up the breech face .

The largo round and the 38 Super are nearly identical. The only real difference is the semi-rim on the super. It measures .405". The Largo is .395", same as a 9X19. Make a safe side on one edge of the file and widen the breech face until the super's rim will enter. leave a tiny bit of extra wiggle room. The gun will now shoot both rounds.

Now, I know what you are thinking.....the Super might be a bit too hot to shoot in the Star. Not so. The Star Super also was made in 9X19. It is designed to handle any 9X19 round including +P, which is loaded to 38,500 PSI. The super is loaded to 36,500 PSI. These are SAMMI pressures. The Super A in 9mm Largo is the same gun as the "B" , just in a different chambering. My info comes straight from the book by Leonardo Antares, who is pretty much recognized as THE authority on Spanish pistols.

I have fired hundreds of super rounds in my Star. It never missed a beat.
 
tark said:
You don't need a Largo tree, MosinT53Hunter, just a small flat file to open up the breech face .

The largo round and the 38 Super are nearly identical. The only real difference is the semi-rim on the super. It measures .405". The Largo is .395", same as a 9X19. Make a safe side on one edge of the file and widen the breech face until the super's rim will enter. leave a tiny bit of extra wiggle room. The gun will now shoot both rounds.

Now, I know what you are thinking.....the Super might be a bit too hot to shoot in the Star. Not so. The Star Super also was made in 9X19. It is designed to handle any 9X19 round including +P, which is loaded to 38,500 PSI. The super is loaded to 36,500 PSI. These are SAMMI pressures. The Super A in 9mm Largo is the same gun as the "B" , just in a different chambering. My info comes straight from the book by Leonardo Antares, who is pretty much recognized as THE authority on Spanish pistols.

I have fired hundreds of super rounds in my Star. It never missed a beat.
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Thank you for the information. I have done a lot of research on the pistol, and on the ammo as well. She's an old girl, and I want to treat her nice and proper, so reloads is what I will stick with. My brother-in-law helps alot in the reloading dept. and its a fun shooting pistola. She is a fine old Spanish Lady, and that's fine by me.
 
Oldschool shooter said:
I pucked up a Squires Bingham 22 semiauto rifle at a local flea mkt for $20. It had no stock and no magazine. A call to Numrich, and I had a magazine and nice walnut stock for an additional $60. No target gun, but a fun plinker.
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I played with one of those at a LGS for awhile before putting it back on the shelf. I think they wanted $60, which seemed about $40 too much, lol.
 
WestKentucky said:
And that’s the thing that drives me bonkers. I play with them trying to figure out why it was ever made, and talk myself into figuring out what I can do with it.
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Ha, you would love this one then-

Theres a French MAS 36 at the same pawn shop right now, converted into a single shot with a heavy barrel chambered in, IIRC, 7mm Ackley!
 
Odd for me was a CZ-70 I bought recently. I have no need for this gun, and have no idea why I bought it. It’s an interesting gun, I guess, but the plastic grips gotta go. Yuk.
 
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Offhand McFlan said:
View attachment 924270 I don't know just how weird or interesting this would be to most people. I bought a converted bolt action Mauser "Geha" 12ga almost identical to this one back in the early 90's. Of all the guns I ever had, and I've owned about five 12 gauges through the years, none ever came anywhere as close to literally knocking me over as this did while firing full sized slugs. You only get two shots. I sold it less than a year later to buy my first Enfield.
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I have always loved those Geha's. Something is just so neat about surplus guns unwanted and in abundance being transformed into civilian commercial firearms..
 
many years ago I was in a shop, saw a rolling block rifle. i knew the owner well. He said it was an oddball and wanted to dump it for something like $60. He had no idea what caliber, or anything about it. I thought it was pretty cool, so i bought it.

Another dealer filled me in. Turns out it was a .43 Spanish made by Remington, IIRC. He told me I got screwed as ammo was scarce and these things were selling cheap. Maybe, but I'd never seen one. Anyway, I didn't have that much into it, so i was good.

So, just a few weeks later, Im talking to a guy and tell him I have it. He's about to wet himself.

"Do i want to sell it?"

"Naw, not really."

"I'll give you $350"

it was gone before the next day.
 
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