What is your most unusual or rare guns?

[spencer rifle]

Top is an original 1859 Sharps & Hankins Navy carbine in 52 rimfire. Missing the leather cover and at one time set up for a post and globe sight.

Bottom is a Spencer rifle, also originally in 52 rimfire, now converted to centerfire (rimfire block is below the action). Metal is all original, wood is replacement. Serial number puts it in the middle of those issued to Wilder's Lightning Brigade, but no actual provenance.

 

[Ark]

They're not that unusual or rare, but probably my Polish P83 in 9mm Mak.

It's one of the later, and in my opinion better variants of the Mak design. The DA/SA trigger is nice, and the heel mag release is a nice rocker switch instead of the stiff, bent sheet metal of the regular Mak. Almost the ENTIRE gun is made of sheet metal. The slide is two pieces of stamped sheet metal nested inside each other, and the frame is two pieces of sheet metal welded together. You can see the seams and the welds of how it's built.

They were super cheap several years ago but then went extinct on the primary market.

 

[flyingsquirrel]

I have an Indiana blackpowder farm rifle 36 cal. Not shootable in its condition but I have a friend who is a gunsmith in a large shop that I am going to take it to and try to be straight faced when I ask them if he can turn it into an inline

 

[MrSmitty]

There is simply nothing like a nice lever gun!!

Actually there is .....2 lever guns!! just wish I had one in .357, I have a thuty-thuty.....

 

[calcot7]

I guess it would be a Sterling MK 6 9mm carbine made in Dagenham England.

 

[BigRed]

Actually there is .....2 lever guns!! just wish I had one in .357, I have a thuty-thuty.....

Do love a 30-30.

Got some 1894 Winchesters in 30-30......Not sure they are rare though...I think they made like a few thousand or so of them.....




LOL

 

[MrSmitty]

Do love a 30-30.

Got some 1894 Winchesters in 30-30......Not sure they are rare though...I think they made like a few thousand or so of them.....




LOL

I have a Marlin my FIL left me, someday hope to get a 94, just love the thought of having another gun designed by JM Browning.....Should have bought one when they were $100 in pawnshops in the 80's......

 

[BigRed]

I have a Marlin my FIL left me, someday hope to get a 94, just love the thought of having another gun designed by JM Browning.....Should have bought one when they were $100 in pawnshops in the 80's......

They will not get cheaper tomorrow....same as was said back then.

 

[1775usmarine]

S&W 3906 roughly 2500 made and a Marlin 98 22lr semi auto if I recall less than 1500 made.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I've got my maternal grandfather's Webley Mk IV in .38 S&W. Fun to shoot.

 

[Nazgul]

Original Marlin 1895 in 38-40 that was my Great grandfathers. Made in 1895. My father said he remembers them shooting large turtles in the creek with it and the bullets bounced off the shell.

Need to get it refurbed some day.

Don

 

[Tomc1947]

Beretta Roma, 32acp.

 

[Mongo59]

I have a Marlin my FIL left me, someday hope to get a 94, just love the thought of having another gun designed by JM Browning.....Should have bought one when they were $100 in pawnshops in the 80's......

Heck, in the late 70's they were $100 new in the stores...

 

[Hookeye]

Had a '67 factory checkered 10/22 sporter......as in fingergroove. They made about 535 of em like that.

Also had a '67 Ruger #1 in .280 rem, pre B model. They made 80 like that.

Current oddballs are a Ruger #3 that was rebarreled in .219 Donaldson Wasp, wears #1 wood and has a Canjar trigger.
A Kart 6" slide (.22 lr ) on again, a '67 Colt frame ( yes, 67 seems to be an odd deal.....had a '67 10/22 standard at one time LOL ).

Have a brass frame Ruger Superblackhawk ( Ruger frame, not aftermarket). It numbers as a '70.

 

[Hookeye]

Mine is a wincher model 94 in .375 h&h havent seen too many

Hmmm, maybe .375 winchester?
When the Big Bore 94 came out those used to gather dust on the shelves.

Now folks want em, and they ain't cheap LOL

 

[two70]

I once owned a Rasheed (7.62x39 chambered and scaled version of the Hakim or Ljungman) and that was probably the rarest gun I've every owned as only a few thousand were ever made and not all of them made it to the US.

Currently I have a Super Blackhawk Hunter in .41 mag(distributor's special and I'm not sure how many were made), a Prohunter in -25-06(I've only ever seen a handful for sale), and Tikka Battue in 9.3x62. I'd guess that the Tikka is the rarest of the bunch since the Battue model is fairly uncommon and the 9.3x62 chambering even more so but none of them are all that rare.

 

[bcannon]

My most unusual would be a 357 COP derringer. Cool but really not that fun to shoot.

 

[Mongo59]

Most of my rarer guns are High Standard.

I have a 'Light weight' 100 that shoots .22 short. The books describe it as 'very rare' and this one has an unusual factory grip.

I also have an HB short barreled, less than 2200 HBs were made and only a few short barreled.

Also a pre-war HB with a chrome finish, less than 2200 made, only one I can find in chrome, most collectors didn't think one existed. No records from all the changes in ownership of the company.

 

[Mongo59]

I've got my maternal grandfather's Webley Mk IV in .38 S&W. Fun to shoot.

The Brit's called them 'Party Poppers' after becoming use to the .455...

 

[Joniki]

I have a S&W Model 2 38 that my great-grandfather was issued in the late 1800's.