What is your most unusual/oddball handgun?

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About the most unusual handgun I have is a nickel plated top break Webley .455 /476 that somebody converted to .45Colt.

I saw it in a gun shop years ago and thought about buying but walked away. Maybe a year or two later it reappeared in the same gun shop. This time I bought it after the gunsmith assured me it was safe to fire with factory level .45Colt rounds.
It is wildly inaccurate but a fun range gun to shoot once in a while.
 
AZAndy said:
That is extremely cool! I had no idea such a thing existed.
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the cool thing is it folds in half to fire... it has a safety and a trigger pops down when folded. I bought the first one I ever saw.Its not very accurate at long range :p
 
I have two, a CZ52 roller-locked pistol and a Nagant gas seal revolver. Both were ridiculously cheap. Sorry, no pictures.
 
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I have an AMT Backup.380 that is my most unusual / oddball.

Extremely common cartridge, nothing odd here. But...

It’s extremely miserable to carry or shoot, which was its purpose: heavy weight-for-size, it’s practically sightless, lots of sharp edges (especially the finger-hooked magazine and the slide where it meets the web of your hand), it is unreliable with JHP ammo and has a trigger pull best measured in metric tonnes.

This gun sits lonely in the rear of the safe since I have better carry options and I rarely, if ever, take it out to shoot for “fun.”

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Stay safe!
 
A Bacon Mfg .38 Rimfire Revolver. The cylinder comes apart - apparently it was an attempt to circumvent Smith & Wessen patents?

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This Mauser Model 1914 is in 32acp. It's striker fired and kind of annoying to field strip. It was made in 1915-16 and was accepted into German Imperial service, according to the markings. Maybe it was issued to a postmaster or something like that, or maybe was unissued, but it has no actual military markings. It's a pretty good shooter and I take it to the range every once in a while. One of its unusual aspects is that the slide isn't symmetrical: it's thicker on one side.

I also have a Model 1910, the 25acp version. It's a very good shooter for a 25acp, since it has a 3" barrel and decent sights. IIRC, this is what Hitler's niece supposedly shot herself with.

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Right now my Gen III Glock 20 10mm Auto is my only handgun. Used to be finding a 10mm was almost like finding a unicorn. Now that the 10mm has experienced a bit of a resurgence, I have to treat 10mms more like red heads and acknowledge they exist while also committing myself to ignoring them to the degree possible when I see one because my infatuation with them gets me in trouble.
 
BE744A87-6ED8-4A63-B769-259D58344277.jpeg My Ruger LCRX 3”, there’s something different about injection molded polymers with steel inserts.
 
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