Picture of the Day - Unusual Guns

[CountryGent]

Vietnam-era AAI Quiet Special Purpose Revolver. Highly modified N Frame using silent, piston type ammunition.




Russian OTs-38 Stechkin silent revolver, which employs a similar mechanism.

 

[CountryGent]

Anderson Wheeler Mark VII in .357 Magnum.

 

[CountryGent]

Yugoslavian Self-Suppressed Unit (SSU). A modified flare gun designed to be fired under water or at short ranges on land.

 

[The Heretic]

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[bradsteen]

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That's pretty neat. Would be interesting to see a PDW with that kind of mechanism. A rimless cartridge would probably work very well.

Edit to include:

Here's a link to the product page:

Ounce Pistol

Home of the Ounce™ Pistol, the world's most compact, concealable, fully featured semi-automatic pistol.

www.ounceoz.com

 

[ilikegunspdx]

That's pretty neat. Would be interesting to see a PDW with that kind of mechanism. A rimless cartridge would probably work very well.

Edit to include:

Here's a link to the product page:

Ounce Pistol

Home of the Ounce™ Pistol, the world's most compact, concealable, fully featured semi-automatic pistol.

www.ounceoz.com

That has to be the most fragile looking "gun" I've ever seen. You couldn't even give me one of those. Especially when there are so many robust and reliable quality .22s out there, including tiny ones.

 

[bradsteen]

That has to be the most fragile looking "gun" I've ever seen. You couldn't even give me one of those. Especially when there are so many robust and reliable quality .22s out there, including tiny ones.

Yeah, and the $900 price point is insanely high for a plastic semi auto 22, regardless of how innovative the concept is.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Yeah, and the $900 price point is insanely high for a semi auto 22, regardless of how innovative the concept is.

Wtf? $900? For that? It looks like it would break into pieces if you set it down on the table too hard.

You can buy a cz shadow 2 for $900. That's complete idiocy on their part. Just to pick a few 22s at random, you could buy all three of these 22s combined for less than the cost of that cracker box prize POS.

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[bradsteen]

Wtf? $900? For that? It looks like it would break into pieces if you set it down on the table too hard.

You can buy a cz shadow 2 for $900. That's complete idiocy on their part.

Looks like it's a lot of custom manufacturing, so not entirely surprised at the cost. It looks fragile, but would need to get hands on it to tell for sure. I am kinda disappointed in the caliber choice and the fixed mag design, though. A detachable mag would greatly increase the appeal to a lot of people, and chambering in a more potent center-fire caliber (i.e. .32 ACP) would make this a much more viable option for personal defense IMO. It would also make the price tag less crazy-sounding. $900 for a .22 seems like a lot, whereas $900 for a gun in a centerfire cartridge is not as shocking.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Looks like it's a lot of custom manufacturing, so not entirely surprised at the cost. It looks fragile, but would need to get hands on it to tell for sure. I am kinda disappointed in the caliber choice and the fixed mag design, though. A detachable mag would greatly increase the appeal to a lot of people, and chambering in a more potent center-fire caliber (i.e. .32 ACP) would make this a much more viable option for personal defense IMO. It would also make the price tag less crazy-sounding. $900 for a .22 seems like a lot, whereas $900 for a gun in a centerfire cartridge is not as shocking.

.32 acp would blow that fragile piece of thin plastic garbage into a thousand pieces I think. Looks like same plastic that squirt guns are made from.

 

[bradsteen]

.32 acp would blow that fragile piece of thin plastic garbage into a thousand pieces I think.

Oh yeah, it would need to be beefed up. But it would be doable without increasing the weight too much. The KelTec p32 was only 6.6oz.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Here you go @Andy54Hawken

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Oh yeah...that is just what I wasn't looking for...
Funny picture...thank you for posting it.
Andy

 

[CountryGent]

Pair of double-barrel flintlock pistols.

 

[CountryGent]

Well, not really a "gun". A chronophotographic gun, which is one of the ancestors of the movie camera.

 

[CountryGent]

Belgian-made, transitional pepperbox.

 

[orygun]

Belgian-made, transitional pepperbox.

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Andy probably has one carried in his sash!

 

[CountryGent]

Side hammer, double-barrel, muzzle-loading rifle.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Andy probably has one carried in his sash!

Got a knife there....no pistol...
Andy

 

[orygun]

That would be a cool pistol, though.

 

[CountryGent]

Cobray Pocket Pal. Converts between 5-shot .22 LR and 3-shot .380 ACP by swapping cylinders.