Oddest fire arm you ever fired or owned

[tombogan03884]

KPR has been stimulating conversation with his questions about favorite rifles and pistols. The thought crossed my mind that considering the people replying it would be fun to ask what is the STRANGEST "gun" you ever actually fired or owned, from handde gonne's to Cruise missiles,
 For me it would be the M198 155mm Howitzer, and M 2 and M60 machine guns, everything else has been pretty common.
How about the rest of you ?

[Michael Bane]

WW2-vintage flame thrower...yeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ha!!!!

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[Walter45Auto]

Oddest I ever saw fired was one of those Ares Defence .410 Flashlights. I would love to try out one of those......
Oddest I've ever fired were an Integrally Supressed Ruger MKII and an M60.
As far as owned, never anything really odd. Unless you count the AMT Backup I have, which has a groove on top for a sight. Some may count my SKS that takes AK47 mags as odd. Oh and there's my Mossberg 590 that has a bayonet lug and a laser sight built into the pump. {Takes expensive batteries BTW.}

[Walter45Auto]

WW2-vintage flame thrower...yeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ha!!!!

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Dude, I am sooo jealous..... Can I like come work for you? I'll even be the mag loader......

[Kid Shelleen]

You,ve seen this odd little .357 Magnum wrist breaker before and here it is again. It makes a S&W Model 500 seem like an easy shooter.

[Sponsor]

[Walter45Auto]

I don't care how  ;Dmany times I see it, I like that gun.......

[rojawe]

a sharps and a old lever action 45 70

[Pathfinder]

WW2-vintage flame thrower...yeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ha!!!!

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Beats anything I got. But here goes.

I bought an antique shotgun at a ranch auction, cool looking gun in an ugly sort of way I don't even recall the manufacturer, just that when I looked it up later, they got bought out by Ithaca ca. 1923. The receiver was a big blocky shaped thing, but the coolest part of all was the Damascus steel barrel. Absolutely gorgeous metal - and completely unshootable, and not just for the Damascus steel barrel. The shotgun had been left in a shed or something, and although the wood was in better than OK shape, there were dead weeds in the receiver!

I got it for playing with, doing some gunsmitthing on as well, just to have a conversation starter and a wall-hanger. I had not walked 10 steps after securing the win at the auction, and a guy offered me $40 more than I had paid for it. So I said yes. I owned it for all of 30 seconds?

[CDR]

WW2-vintage flame thrower...yeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ha!!!!

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I hear Bloomberg is considering banning those in NYC.

[twyacht]

Ward's Western Field .410 bolt-action, that is longer than most full size rifles, threaded barrel, with Mossberg chokes that screw on the end of the barrel.

I own that one still.

Strangest, Ugliest one I've shot, was an old butt ugly "Tokarev Pistol", some tall Merchant Marine fella brought down here recently.

 

Strangest was a flintlock mini blunderbuss pistol. No sights, only shot it once, loaded the old fashioned way, (by the owner).

Watermelon at 15ft. was torn apart. He was one of those Revolutionary War re-enactors, did some Civil War stuff also, had some "strange" guns in his house. He said they all worked. But they were not supposed too.

 

Can't beat the flame-thrower,....Just WD-40 and Bic lighter, is all I got,....