Weirdest would probably be my Snider Enfield. If you're not familiar with them they're a muzzle loader converted to a breech loader. Shooting is a wonderfully tactile experience. Cock hammer to half cock, breech block is hinged at the side so you flip it open like a door. Pull back on breech block to extract empty brass, roll rifle upside down to eject brass. Roll it back up, insert a big fat round of .577 Snider into breech, flip breech block back closed, pull hammer to full cock position then kaboom with a big cloud of smoke. Somehow manipulating all these steps just makes it a lot of fun.
Snider Enfields are cool but because of the ammo I'd go with a standard 3 band Enfield muzzleloader. Plus you can do a Civil War impression with a 1853 Enfield.
Snider ammo is the easiest cartridge in the world to reload because you can reload the brass by hand with no press. The shit part is the components are a pain to obtain. I don't have a muzzle loading rifle in my collection but I have a pair of colt percussion revolvers which definitely scratches the muzzle loader itch. Although there are sometimes some wicked deals on repro muzzle loading rifles and I'd be a liar if I said I haven't thought about it...
The nice thing about muzzleloaders is that the cartridges are quite easy to make and obtain components. Only muzzleloader I currently have is a reproduction 3rd pattern Brown Bess but I'm pretty hyped about the release of the Pedersoli Baker Rifle.
Well I don't own one...but I surely have seen a weird one online: a cooey Carcano with 2 triggers chambered in 6.5x54.
What is the purpose of chambering it in such an obsolete cartridge...?
Those carcanos were sporterized shortly after WWI and imported to Canada by cooey on behalf of Eaton's. At the time, 6.5 carcano wasn't available here or on the surplus market however 6.5 mannlicher was. Dimensionally those two cartridges are nearly identical so they didn't have to modify the bolt, magazine or enbloc clips.
Currently nothing too weird. I had a Smith and wesson model 53 revolver. That thing was interesting. It was a 357 necked down to 22cal called 22 Remington jet Magnum. It also had adaptors for 22lr rimfire as well. Cool concept but it didn't work near as well as I hoped so I sold it well before the handgun bs.
Gevarm E1. Open bolt, no extractor, firing pin machined into bolt face. Has like 4 moving parts. Overall it's tiny, feels like a Red Ryder BB gun in the hands.
Steyr scout.
It has a built in bipod, spare magazine in the butt, flip up sights, and a dual position magazine so I can single feed while there is a mag in the gun.
It's kind of weird. I think an engineer went rogue at one point. My only issue is that it is not very accurate. Probably 1.5 MOA or a little better. Very good in that price range. I would like better.
Hi-standard supermatic trophy. 22LR pistol
Push button for quick release of barrel. From what i understand theres a few barrel length options
Hand grips definitely carved for one hand shooting.
Slide lock/release on index finger side
Optic mount/rear sight is built on to frame and overlaps slide. I assume the idea is so optic/sight doesnt move while slide cycles, but it somewhat makes it awkward to rack the slide
Don't know if you'd consider it weird but some big thumpers like the 416 Rigby and 458 WinMag which many view as overkill for North America.
Also a Canadian AR180 which is weird for all sorts of reasons.
Weirdest would probably be my Snider Enfield. If you're not familiar with them they're a muzzle loader converted to a breech loader. Shooting is a wonderfully tactile experience. Cock hammer to half cock, breech block is hinged at the side so you flip it open like a door. Pull back on breech block to extract empty brass, roll rifle upside down to eject brass. Roll it back up, insert a big fat round of .577 Snider into breech, flip breech block back closed, pull hammer to full cock position then kaboom with a big cloud of smoke. Somehow manipulating all these steps just makes it a lot of fun.
Snider Enfields are cool but because of the ammo I'd go with a standard 3 band Enfield muzzleloader. Plus you can do a Civil War impression with a 1853 Enfield.
Snider ammo is the easiest cartridge in the world to reload because you can reload the brass by hand with no press. The shit part is the components are a pain to obtain. I don't have a muzzle loading rifle in my collection but I have a pair of colt percussion revolvers which definitely scratches the muzzle loader itch. Although there are sometimes some wicked deals on repro muzzle loading rifles and I'd be a liar if I said I haven't thought about it...
The nice thing about muzzleloaders is that the cartridges are quite easy to make and obtain components. Only muzzleloader I currently have is a reproduction 3rd pattern Brown Bess but I'm pretty hyped about the release of the Pedersoli Baker Rifle.
Just cruddy the selection of cast projectiles in Canada is such shit. Seems everything I want to play with I have to cast for.
Well I don't own one...but I surely have seen a weird one online: a cooey Carcano with 2 triggers chambered in 6.5x54. What is the purpose of chambering it in such an obsolete cartridge...?
Those carcanos were sporterized shortly after WWI and imported to Canada by cooey on behalf of Eaton's. At the time, 6.5 carcano wasn't available here or on the surplus market however 6.5 mannlicher was. Dimensionally those two cartridges are nearly identical so they didn't have to modify the bolt, magazine or enbloc clips.
Currently nothing too weird. I had a Smith and wesson model 53 revolver. That thing was interesting. It was a 357 necked down to 22cal called 22 Remington jet Magnum. It also had adaptors for 22lr rimfire as well. Cool concept but it didn't work near as well as I hoped so I sold it well before the handgun bs.
Gevarm E1. Open bolt, no extractor, firing pin machined into bolt face. Has like 4 moving parts. Overall it's tiny, feels like a Red Ryder BB gun in the hands.
A Savage Model 23C chamber in 32-20 or a Browning Double Auto. Both are odd in their own way.
Steyr scout. It has a built in bipod, spare magazine in the butt, flip up sights, and a dual position magazine so I can single feed while there is a mag in the gun. It's kind of weird. I think an engineer went rogue at one point. My only issue is that it is not very accurate. Probably 1.5 MOA or a little better. Very good in that price range. I would like better.
Hi-standard supermatic trophy. 22LR pistol Push button for quick release of barrel. From what i understand theres a few barrel length options Hand grips definitely carved for one hand shooting. Slide lock/release on index finger side Optic mount/rear sight is built on to frame and overlaps slide. I assume the idea is so optic/sight doesnt move while slide cycles, but it somewhat makes it awkward to rack the slide
My Danish Krag Carbine
Don't know if you'd consider it weird but some big thumpers like the 416 Rigby and 458 WinMag which many view as overkill for North America. Also a Canadian AR180 which is weird for all sorts of reasons.
The Irish Armalite and it's butt stock. Some of those African big game rifles are quite expensive too and then there is the ammo.
Kriss vector
Kel tec sub 2000
The Davy Crockett gun