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Re: What was the strangest firearm you owned?
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2012, 06:52:28 PM »
I had an Ithaca like that.

My dad currently has my late uncles's Ithaca .410 single shot. It was the first gun I went squirrel hunting with. It looked like a lever-action rifle without the magazine tube. The lever broke open the action.


**About a month after my uncle died (back in 2010), my dad went and got the gun from my aunt to use to kill squirrels in the pecan grove. When he pulled under his carport on his golf cart, the barrel was hanging over the edge of the seat and got caught on a column and bent around in a nice arc. I was sick to my stomach when he showed it to me. Luckily, one of our neighbors is a gunsmith and he had an an arbor and plate that was made to straighten barrels....when he was finished, it looked as good as new (I think I posted pics back then).



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Re: What was the strangest firearm you owned?
« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2012, 09:41:20 PM »
if exotic and expensive count.... my first "custom" pistol... a Rock Merrill single shot in 30-30, later a .357 mag barrel for IHMSA big bore standing

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Re: What was the strangest firearm you owned?
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2012, 08:33:40 PM »
A Smith Model 10 with a 2" barrel.  BIG grip, itty Bitty barrel. Still have it, but it doesn't leave the safe much anymore.


With my Israeli 1911 clone
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Re: What was the strangest firearm you owned?
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2012, 09:42:07 PM »
A Smith Model 10 with a 2" barrel.  BIG grip, itty Bitty barrel. Still have it, but it doesn't leave the safe much anymore.


With my Israeli 1911 clone

That reminds me.
Yesterdays news said Hebrew National food co. is getting sued because their wieners aren't Kosher.

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Re: What was the strangest firearm you owned?
« Reply #14 on: June 21, 2012, 02:46:40 AM »
A single shot Stevens .22 rifle.
It look just like a lever action , but the lever dropped a falling block.

Sounds like a .310 martini cadet a l/a which drops the block
I have 3 of those!
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Re: What was the strangest firearm you owned?
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Re: What was the strangest firearm you owned?
« Reply #15 on: June 21, 2012, 09:46:15 AM »
Back in the day the Martini was sold in the US chambered in .45/70.
I think they were trying for a Govt contract.

 

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