Picture of the Day - Unusual Guns

[Andy54Hawken]

J.Henry Trade Rifle Circa 1840's

• Andy54Hawken
• Monday at 9:19 AM

J.Henry Flintlock Trade Rifle ....circa 1840's.
Well so what...?

Carving on rifle stock

• Andy54Hawken
• Monday at 9:19 AM

Interesting carving here.
Now I know who the mountain man Bill Williams was....not sure just who Bill Willyums was.....
Andy

 

[CountryGent]

Lorenzoni Flintlock Repeater

 

[dleifgnirps]

Got this from my grandfather's estate. No idea what it is, but it's dated to 129 years old! Condition is pretty good considering. An Austrian friend said the engraving means "officer's shooting prize." The felt lined oak case, complete with leather handle and skeleton key lock, seems to have everything to manufacture and load your own rounds.
The primer pockets aren't needle fire nor are the primers "anvil/cup" type. I've thought about sending some of the old fire formed cases to a custom manufacturer and get brass made to take standard small pistol primers.
I wouldn't know where to start on load data though.
Any way it goes it's a cool piece of European craftsmanship.
Any information y'all might have would be welcomed.

 

[Lilhigbee]

Very similar;
https://www.gunsinternational.com/g...ned-f-koerner-ca-1870-s-.cfm?gun_id=100762730

 

[Mark Victor]

Lucky but I only have one question.
Why was his gun in the holster in a gun fight.

Great question! Maybe that was his first clue it was a gun fight.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Got this from my grandfather's estate. No idea what it is, but it's dated to 129 years old! Condition is pretty good considering. An Austrian friend said the engraving means "officer's shooting prize." The felt lined oak case, complete with leather handle and skeleton key lock, seems to have everything to manufacture and load your own rounds.
The primer pockets aren't needle fire nor are the primers "anvil/cup" type. I've thought about sending some of the old fire formed cases to a custom manufacturer and get brass made to take standard small pistol primers.
I wouldn't know where to start on load data though.
Any way it goes it's a cool piece of European craftsmanship.
Any information y'all might have would be welcomed.

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Very cool pistol for sure.
The action looks a bit like a small scale Dreyse Needle Gun.
Andy

 

[bradsteen]

Royal Armouries Millennium Rifle - 2 Bore falling block

View: https://youtu.be/rKsO3FBrkjM?feature=shared

 

[CountryGent]

Gebrüder-Merkel Model 210, with Two Barrel Set: 16-gauge/16-gauge and 16-gauge/8χ57㎜ℝ

 

[CountryGent]

Early Colt Paterson No. 2.

 

[CountryGent]

Austro-Hungarian Steyr M.12/P16, Doppelpistole. Double machine-pistol. Oh dear ... wackiness overload!

 

[Mike_M57]

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Austro-Hungarian Steyr M.12/P16, Doppelpistole. Double machine-pistol. Oh dear ... wackiness overload!

"...and if you stand in the middle, it's just like being there in person."
--- Maxwell Smart

 

[The Heretic]

View: https://youtu.be/s2lx0EZ7GDo?si=nQVNMT50FxUgpWwa

 

[CountryGent]

View: https://youtu.be/s2lx0EZ7GDo?si=nQVNMT50FxUgpWwa

I watched that picture through a second time during a bout of insomnia / nerve pain when family was gone. Fired it up for some noise whilst handling some technical work that I figured I might as well punch out. Though normally I'm not a fan of Costner, I enjoyed the film. And the guns? Oh my ... big bore revolvers, steel'n'wood submachine-guns, sawed off shotguns, et al, be still my beating heart.

 

[CountryGent]

Vaclav Holek ZB47 submachine-gun

 

[CountryGent]

South African Techno Arms M7 Dual Riot. Bottom is a shorty version of the Mag-7 that feeds the shorter 60㎜ 12-gauge cartridge. Top is a 37/38㎜ "less lethal" cartridge launcher.

I've always found the standard Mag-7 interesting,* but the lack of ammunition supply here stopped me from acquiring. I've seen mixed report as to if the Águila mini-shells out of México run in them.

*

 

[CountryGent]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-dt42HmrY


Kludged, pump-action, Romanian AK?

 

[The Heretic]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/1fa9d8o/degtyaryov_machine_gun_found_in_a_ukrainian_trench

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/1fa9d8o/degtyaryov_machine_gun_found_in_a_ukrainian_trench/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

 

[lucusloc]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/1fa9d8o/degtyaryov_machine_gun_found_in_a_ukrainian_trench

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/1fa9d8o/degtyaryov_machine_gun_found_in_a_ukrainian_trench/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

awww, already gone.

 

[CountryGent]

Błyskawica submachine-gun. Made and employed by the Polish Home Army resistance to Nazi occupation.

 

[CountryGent]

Colt 1911 with A. F. Stoeger .22LR Conversion Unit.