Picture of the Day - Unusual Guns

[CountryGent]

Clandestinely built, .22LR machine-pistol, taken off a criminal in Finland.

 

[CountryGent]

Mitchell's Mausers PPS50/22

 

[Andy54Hawken]

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Mitchell's Mausers PPS50/22

Always thought those were cool....never seen one in the wild or shot one.
I did shoot the PPSH -41 it sorta models...that was fun....and it would have been a keeper 'cept for that felony thing...
Andy

 

[CountryGent]

Experimental 9㎜ Largo pistol made during the Spanish Civil war.

 

[bradsteen]

View: https://youtu.be/iMKwDHPkRLw?feature=shared

 

[CountryGent]

MPS machine-pistol. An early work of George Kellgren.

 

[CountryGent]

Hungarian Gepárd GM6 Lynx. Convertible between 12.7×108㎜ and .50 BMG.

 

[CamoDeafie]

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MPS machine-pistol. An early work of George Kellgren.

Kellgren as in Kel-Tec?

 

[CountryGent]

Kellgren as in Kel-Tec?

Yes. He designed arms in his native Sweden before coming to the States, so I suspect it was from that era.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Kellgren as in Kel-Tec?

Yep the same man who created the grendel and the intratec tec - 9. Two of the worst guns ever made. Grendel looks as bad as that abomination shown above. And how many peopel are actually happy with the quality of their sub-2000? John Browning he isn't.


Who in their right mind would design a gun that looks like this? It's just hideous. And that's before you get into it's unreliability. There is some comic value though in reading about all the different ways it breaks and so many different types of malfunctions such as slam firing when you rack the slide. Pure utter garbage.

 

[bradsteen]

Yep the same man who created the grendel and the intratec tec - 9. Two of the worst guns ever made. Grendel looks as bad as that abomination shown above. And how many peopel are actually happy with the quality of their sub-2000? John Browning he isn't.


Who in their right mind would design a gun that looks like this? It's just hideous. And that's before you get into it's unreliability. There is some comic value though in reading about all the different ways it breaks and so many different types of malfunctions such as slam firing when you rack the slide. Pure utter garbage.
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Depends on if you consider your gun a tool or a work of art. Tools don't need to be good looking, they just need to work. Maybe Grendels did suck - I don't know enough about them to comment - but I've owned a handful of KTs (P3AT, P11, Sub2k, SU16, PLR16, PMR30, & CMR30), and generally they worked fine. Had an FTE on occasion in the centerfire pistols, but not a single hiccup from either the SU16 or PLR16. The PMR and CMR were picky about ammo, but I still had fun shooting them, and most manufacturers have trouble with rimfire so I wouldn't call that entirely the fault of KT. I do wish they'd make a CMR in 9mm - that would sell like crazy. Looking at their current offerings I think their design aesthetics have definitely improved markedly since their beginning.

 

[CountryGent]

Speaking of Kellgren and weirdness, the stripper-clip fed P10.

 

[Lazyfaire]

Yep the same man who created the grendel and the intratec tec - 9. Two of the worst guns ever made. Grendel looks as bad as that abomination shown above. And how many peopel are actually happy with the quality of their sub-2000? John Browning he isn't.


Who in their right mind would design a gun that looks like this? It's just hideous. And that's before you get into it's unreliability. There is some comic value though in reading about all the different ways it breaks and so many different types of malfunctions such as slam firing when you rack the slide. Pure utter garbage.
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One learns by doing

 

[CountryGent]

Polish Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle in 7.92×107㎜ DS.


The cartridge for said.

 

[CountryGent]

Landstad 1900 Automatic Revolver. Two-round cylinder fed by a box magazine. Weird-o-rama.

 

[bradsteen]

Also posted in the semi auto rifle section, but it definitely counts as "unusual".

View: https://youtu.be/anuGYDAhyNI?feature=shared

 

[The Heretic]

Maybe Grendels did suck

Most did - I can attest to the Grendel P10 being the worst pistol I ever shot.

Now the Grendel bolt action rifle was probably ok. But then, it was a Sako action, so at least the action was ok since it was made by someone else. Not impressed by the rest of the rifle though - cheap and poorly implemented as the rest of Grendel/KelTec guns are.

 

[The Heretic]

Always thought those were cool....never seen one in the wild or shot one.
I did shoot the PPSH -41 it sorta models...that was fun....and it would have been a keeper 'cept for that felony thing...
Andy

88 PPSH-41 submachine guns in the bomb bay of a Soviet Tu-2 bomber. Known as the "Hedgehog", it was to fly over formations of enemies and unleash all 88 PPSH-41s simultaneously. This system had a theoretical rate of fire of 79,000 rounds per minute. https://militaryhistoria.com/ppsh-41-over-six-million.../

 

[CountryGent]

88 PPSH-41 submachine guns in the bomb bay of a Soviet Tu-2 bomber. Known as the "Hedgehog", it was to fly over formations of enemies and unleash all 88 PPSH-41s simultaneously. This system had a theoretical rate of fire of 79,000 rounds per minute. https://militaryhistoria.com/ppsh-41-over-six-million.../

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Mark Felton did a video this, should it be of interest:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sZ5rPR14MA

 

[CountryGent]

Experimental British Hallé 1904 automatic chambered in .455 Webley.