Weirdest autoloaders...

[Hand_Rifle_Guy]

Oddities...

I collect oddities, BECAUSE they're odd.

Examples:

The Steyr GB, and the afore-mentioned Steyr-Hahn. AND the Roth-Steyr.

The Campo-Giro, and it's offspring, the Astra 400 and 600. Full-power BLOWBACK service guns.

The cheap P-7 wannabe, the Heritage Stealth. A gas-delayed blowback like the Steyr GB.

Nambus.

Lahtis.

Anyone remember Wolff Ultramatics?

That nightmarish Japanese WW-II service auto with the external sear bar.

The CZ-52.

The Vector CP-1.

The 1910 Bergmann-Bayard.

The Remington M-51.

The Broomhandle Mauser, the Walther P-38, and by extension Beretta 92's are non-Browning tilt-barrel designs.

The Walther P-5.

The Berreta Cougar, and the Mauser M-2 both have a rotating barrel a la the Steyr-Hahn. (Berreta advertising claimed "a new action design". Hah!)

Borschardt's are mighty weird, but they WERE the first ones...

That's about all I can dredge up offf the top of my head. I'm sure I missed a few.

 

[Badger Arms]

Haven't heard the CZ 38 mentioned... funny. It was a double-action-only blowback 380 that was HUGE by comparrison to other guns in that caliber. Barrel tilted up. An all-out monstrosity, but strangely fun to shoot. A bit of Trivia, the double-action-only system lives on virtually unchanged from its CZ 36 (smaller) father in today's NAA Guardian and SeeCamp pistols.

Note: Serial numbers digitally concealed.