what is the rarist gun youve ever shot?

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bookemdano

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Probably my Great Uncle's Ithica 10 ga double barrel black powder
shotgun. It used brass shell casings he would load himself. When he
died, I tried to buy it but one of his son-in-law's claimed it and I
never saw it again.
Dano
 

cpt-t

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When I was young, I got to shoot a for real ((( IRON FRAMED HENRY ))) quite often. The Gun belonged to one of my Grandfathers best friends and shooting buddies. The Gun had belonged to either this mans Father or Grandfather. And he used in the Civil War. And brought it home with him after the Civil War was over. The ammo for the old Lever Gun was a rim fire cartridge and was called a 44 Flat. And the only place they could get ammo for it was at a Hardware / Gun store in Tulsa Oklahoma. Every time I got to shoot this rifle, I can remember my Grandpa telling me to be very careful with it. For it was a very special and expense rifle.
ken
 

KIR

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Not necessarily rare, but I own a Winchester .30 WCF Sporting Rifle with a nickel steel 26" octagon barrel and crescent butt plate, manufactured in 1908. Only fired it three times to see if it would shoot. It had previously been altered and I re-did the stock, so not a collector's piece.
In the '60's-70's I had a Springfield Model 10 or 15? Single shot .22 Originally mfg. in 1935. My mother's lying bf said it had been with Pancho Villa. Sold cheaply when I was desperate for $$
 

anachronism

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1905 Colt, the "pre-1911" design. It was chambered in 45 ACP, originally known as "automatic cartridge pistol" before Colt bought the rights to it. Lets see, 1941 Johnson (great rifle), a late Nazi era G43 Sniper rifle- all original, and a couple of original late war K98 Sniper rifles. We were trying to figure out making ammo for a Volcanic, but somebody bought it before we finished working out the priming arrangement. I would have fired a Gyrojet, but the primers in all the ammo we had were bad.
 

Rum River

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Thompson M1A1, was way heavier than I expected.

Apparently all those years ago I spent too much time watching 'Rat Patrol' where Christopher George had no problem swinging it all over the place with one hand.
 

mollydodger

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note i didnt say owned. i said shot.
sometimes groups or fund raising promotions allow paying guests a chance to shoot some history. (a john wayne gun, full auto, etc)

i guess id have to say it was a parker A1 owned by the governor of maryland.

how about you?
Bill Rugers engraved Creedmoor No.1 in 45-70. It was featured in the 1969 Gun Digest. Beautiful rifle engraved by my uncle.
 

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contender

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I've had the good fortune to having handled & shot many firearms over my life. Some were rare or unusual.
As Cholo mentioned,, the curved stocked .22 that Amanda brought here long ago,, as well as her Dad's (Bob) early Colt SAA.

I was allowed to be among a few of us who were allowed to shoot a 1927, overstamped 1928 LEO Thompson in full auto. The guy how had that one was the second owner. He'd gotten it directly from the LEO agency. Still had the LEO Agency brass plate on the stock.
And I've managed to fire several odd & older military full auto machine guns when attending a machine gun shoot. Reising, MG42, Sten, & others there.
Then there was the one time I was allowed to shoot a Pedersolli shotgun, that was a "one of" custom.

These are but a few I can recall off the top of my head.
 

pwrwgn

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1874 45-70 Gatling Gun. It was at End of Trail last year (Cowboy Action shoot). No one was in line behind me to shoot and I asked a question about how it fired (the engineer in me jumped into the conversation) and the owner started opening accesses and showing me how it all worked. Worth 20 bucks for 10 rounds all day!
 
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Not rare but unusual for me. Went to the Police Range with the Sheriff's Dept. and a bunch of kids from our church. The officers brought out several duty weapons and we all got to shoot a little of whatever we wanted. I did have fun with the full auto M14 and a couple mags. The range went out to 400 yds but I had targets at 50, 100 and 150. Trying to stay with 3 round bursts was challenging.
 

BearBiologist

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Welcome!

1. Likely my 1901 Colt Bisley in 41 long Colt. lettered to Mexico City. Remnants of gold wash. Carved ivory grips with ruby eyes. Later engraved by a "cottage" craftsman with a Native American motiff.

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2. An early Velo Dog by Flobert. Shot it ONCE with a 22 CB cap.
3. An early 1940's 1911A1 Colt marked US Government=reportedly from Iwo Jima=Had blood-pitting on the barrel near the muzzle.
4. A 1902 Colt Army "Philippine Model" in 45 Colt=Used low power Cowboy Loads.

Oh, I forgot! I had an M-1 Garand that was a NM (including "star" barrel and marked "1967 Rifle Championship, 7th Fleet". It was a 30-06 and NOT a 308. All glass bedded.
 
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I have shot lots of guns. Other than some custom odd calibers, I don't think I've ever shot a "one of one" or "one of 50" type of rare gun before. I mean, although of the many low production variants, a 10/22 is just a 10/22, Single-Six is just a Single Six, etc.

The rarest gun that I have probably owned and shot is the the Gwinn Bushmaster Arm Pistol. This 5.56 bull pup pistol predates the Bushmaster Company proper that everyone has come to know thoughout the years, and is possibly in which the name of the Bushmaster became to be.

Besides being a little fickle at times, it was a pretty neat little (large) pistol, although extremely loud. Wish I still had it, should have never sold that one.
 
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