Oddest fire arm you ever fired or owned

[PegLeg45]

Shot this one many times: Not super "odd', but not something often seen in these woods....... A good friend of mine has a Marlin 12ga. bolt action, magazine-fed, 'Goose Gun' with a 36" barrel. It will reach out and touch something. Is actually a good shooting gun for what it is, even if unwieldy.  



http://www.gunsamerica.com/955146719/Guns/Shotguns/Marlin-Shotguns/Marlin_M55_Goose_Gun_12ga_36_bbl.htm



Not 'odd', but also shot a 1928 Thompson full auto, a 'Grease Gun', and a Mitchell .22lr full auto AK-47 replica that a collector had at our local gun range once. Very cool......... and fun to boot.

[philw]

did not own it   however I got to shoot it

a Martini Action 12G  single shot

[BAC]

Does a LAW count?

[blackwolfe]

About the oddest "gun" I ever "shot" was a tennis ball cannon when in middle teens.  Today they are potatao guns and more refined.

We made them out of the old heavy duty steel pop cans.  The bottom can was more or less intact with a hole in the bottom edge to touch it off with a match.  The middle cans had tops and bottoms cut out and the top can had one end cut out and most of the other end cut out except for a ring around the edge to keep the tennis ball from falling all the way down.  Tape the whole thing together with electrical tape.  We would charge it with lighter fluid, shake it up a bit to vaporize it, load the ball and touch it off.  I had seen other do this, but when I made my own I was a little nervous to light it.  I placed it on the sidewalk and gingerly reached out to touch it off with a match.  Just then the wind tipped it over and I scored a direct hit on the electrical wire to the house.  Got lucky that night, as there was a bad storm that was blamed on the wire and meter box being ripped loose from the house and sagging down almost to the ground, but we still did have electric service.

From those crude early tennis ball cannons we refined them and came up with better designs and "powder" choices.  Starting fluid was the "powder" of choice, but I saw a few of those blow apart.  One kid ended up welding some one gallon cans together and vaporizing the fuel with an air hose.  Loaded it with rags for a patch and whatever was handy for projectiles.  Worked pretty good until one of the rags had been used with lacquer thinner and came out flaming and landed on a rack of used tires at the gas station next door.  The same kid went to vaporize the fuel with the air hose once and apparently there was still a residual flame in the cannon.  Ended up like a mini flame thrower with the air hose forcing the flames about 10 feet out the muzzle end of the tin can cannon.

We did some crazy stuff, but luckily no one was ever seriosly hurt. 

[Pathfinder]

I did forget the cannons we made as kids. We'd go to the city dump, old days, where they always had a fire burning unattended. we would find a piece of waste pipe, 4" or so in diameter, and stick one end into the fire. Then we'd scout around and rummage up some aerosol cans - hairspray and shaving cream always worked best - and drop them into the tubes ala a mortar, nozzle down. Got some nice arcs on them old cans.

[Sponsor]

[crusader rabbit]

Maybe this doesn't strictly follow the original question, but when I was a lad of 7 or 8 (I'm nearing 62 now) my Uncle Jake had a 10 ga. double-barrel that he had got from his old man.  Jake was probably about 60 at the time, so the gun was pre-1900 and could have gone all the way back to the mid-1800's.  It was an old black powder unit but used store-bought cartidges(I didn't know or care about such stuff at that age, just that it might go bang).  But my cousin Keith had been pestering Jake to let him shoot it, and Jake finally gave in.  There, out in the north 40, Jake instructed Keith on how to hold the gun just so.  Keith was nearly 10 at the time, so he was allowed to do things that I wasn't allowed to do.  Keith followed Jake's advice to the letter, pointed the big gun skyward, and pulled the right trigger.  Both Keith and the gun spun around several times, and they both hit the dirt side-by-side.  Keith was crying and holding his shoulder.  The gun just lay there quietly, smoking, content that it had taught a lesson.  I wanted to laugh, but I was afraid Jake might make me shoot the thing too, so I kept my trap shut. That experience killed my interest in firearms for the rest of that afternoon.  But, it taught me a good lesson.  I never asked Uncle Jake to let me shoot any of his guns.  But I did ask my other uncle, Uncle Jack, if I could shoot his .22.  I got to when I turned 9.  Nearly 50-years later when Uncle Jack passed away at 93, he left me that old .22.  I still have it and I treasure it for being the first gun I ever shot, and for all the memories it carries with it.

[CJS3]

Not really odd or strange, but in 77 I pulled the trigger on a Terrier surface to air missile.


The picture is not the shot I made, but was taken during the same missile shoot.

[PegLeg45]

Not really odd or strange, but in 77 I pulled the trigger on a Terrier surface to air missile.


The picture is not the shot I made, but was taken during the same missile shoot.

Ya got me beat.       

[kilopaparomeo]

I was going to answer tennis ball cannon but then saw that blackwolfe beat me to it...

I shot a .577 Nitro Express once at a range up in Wisconsin.  I fella traded me a shot of my .50 BMG for a shot with that.  I only shot one.  THAT is some recoil.  But if m'bogo was staring me down, I suppose I wouldn't feel it...

[kilopaparomeo]

Tennis ball cannon plans...

http://www.teamdandy.com/projects/cc73/