What is your most unusual/oddball handgun?

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This was my go to ankle piece carry for awhile, until it got sold. As far as AMT reputation goes, this one wasn't a bad shooter. Not a big fan of hollow points so it was a steady FMJ only diet. Great story to go with this gun is I found a tooth underneath the internal hammer when I detail cleaned it the first time. Many factors lead to selling it: swearing off 380, grip safety pinched my hand a bit too much, PITA to take apart, and dense are the biggest reasons.
 

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I have a 5.5mm Velo Dog revolver made in France but I have no idea of the age. Apparently these small revolvers were made for bicyclists to fend off attacking dogs, hence the name. The weird thing about this revolver is it has a folding trigger and to fire it you pull the trigger back but it won't fire until you allow the trigger to move slightly forward. I have never fired it and would never attempt to even if I could find the ammo.
 
I have a 5.5mm Velo Dog revolver made in France but I have no idea of the age. Apparently these small revolvers were made for bicyclists to fend off attacking dogs, hence the name. The weird thing about this revolver is it has a folding trigger and to fire it you pull the trigger back but it won't fire until you allow the trigger to move slightly forward. I have never fired it and would never attempt to even if I could find the ammo.

Never heard of such a firearm or cartridge. Did find a site selling ammo at $5 each. Maybe this would be the round to try loading yourself?
https://shop.ammo-one1.com/575-Velo...OBSOLETE-no-returns-P57VeloDogFiocchi1FMJ.htm
 
I have a 5.5mm Velo Dog revolver made in France but I have no idea of the age. Apparently these small revolvers were made for bicyclists to fend off attacking dogs, hence the name. The weird thing about this revolver is it has a folding trigger and to fire it you pull the trigger back but it won't fire until you allow the trigger to move slightly forward. I have never fired it and would never attempt to even if I could find the ammo.

Pretty sure Ian at Forgotten Weapons has done a video on one...
 
A Dreyse 1907 pistol that I bought from a member on here. Second is an FN 1900 that I bought from the same gentleman.
 
hemiram - I have one that looks just like yours but has "Cohai" stamped on the side. I believe that means it was used in a military affiliated shooting club. Mine is extremely accurate. Doubtless yours is, too. The Tanfoglio CZ75 copies are very nice pistols, IMHO.

I have the one in my avatar too, a "Combat Cohai". Not nearly as accurate as the "Mossad" for some reason, but it's not bad. It's just not as in good of condition as the Mossad gun is, but cost a lot more. The grips are in much better shape for sure. If the gun was as in nice as shape as the Mossad and was as accurate, I would probably have the slide NP3'd or something like it done to it, as the blue is pretty fragile.
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And then there is my other Mossad gun:
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Is that essentially a licensed CZ-75 design?

I don't think they bothered to license it at all, they just copied it, as it was created in Communist Chezchoslovakia and not patented, if I remember corectly. Someone here will know exactly what the deal is on the Tanfoglio copies.
 
Hemiram - I should have noticed it in your avatar. :)

I have read two different things about the Tanfoglio CZ75's. I've read that they were simply copied, and I've read that they were made with an agreement in place with the Czechs ("under license", in other words). I don't know which is true.
 
Come to think about it and I guess I have a bit of an unusual handgun with my Manurhin P1. Now having a P1 is not all that strange or unusual but this particular one was once with the West Berlin Police Department!

Seems the police there couldn't have any German made guns (due to some post-wartime restrictions), but these P1s were made in France and and as most German police officers were probably already familiar with the Walther P38, everything worked out quite nicely for everyone involved!

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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!
I also had an AMT Backup... It is the only handgun I have ever sold... I sold it very much for the same reasons you state...
 
I also had an AMT Backup... It is the only handgun I have ever sold... I sold it very much for the same reasons you state...

Back in the day it was one of the few really small- concealed hammer carry options commonly available, so lots of police and ccw people bought them. No one I know who had one liked them either, but they were flat so a bit easier to conceal than the J frame sized revolvers they competed with.

Now that we have the Kel-Tec/LCP types that are much better to carry and shoot these AMTs are more like retro-relics that show how far we have come. :)

Stay safe!
 
My franken-1911 might be a bit of an Oddball. The P7 PSP is a bit uncommon as well...

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This one. Made it myself out of bits and pieces and a .38 Special barrel blank Les gave me. Its a semi-rolling block. It is a 38 Special but I proofed it with a box of 357 factory loads. My computer is psychotic. Again. Sorry about the upside-down pic.
 

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