Obscure guns and variants that hold your interest

[1slow]

The Walch Navy revolver has always kicked my giggle box...

But that's probably just the Louis L'amour novellas of my childhood talking...

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Me too !

[RevolverRob]

Well I do call myself "Revolver"Rob. Obscure wheel guns are a genuine love 'n lust situation from me

I have always wanted a MKII-variant Le Mat (well let's be fair, a pair of them).
Russian Nagants are "quasi" obscure guns that I need another couple of. Including a Russian and Swedish (Husqvarna) model - Would love to have a Chinese one too.
I'd really like to have one of the M10s that were made as first passes for Tunnel Rats - http://weaponsman.com/?p=25023
A Manurhin MR73 3"
One of those never existed Russian REXs (Revolver for EXport)
An Anderson Wheeler top-break Webley
A Merwin-Hulbert
And because I read "Flint" by Louis L'amour like 35 times too many, a pair of Smith No. 3s in .44.
Then a whole bunch of military revos - a Lebel 1873 and 1892, Webley Bulldog, Swiss 82/29 - etc.

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Then there's other obscura - a M712 Schnellfeuer, a Karl Gustav kg m/1921 - http://www.gotavapen.se/gota/artikla...wedish_kg2.htm - a Husqvarna 1907 (effectively a Colt 1903/1908 in 9mm long), a Roth-Steyr 1907 - I'm sure I can think of a couple of dozen others.

[1slow]

Bland Webley Pryse .577 DA revolver.

[farscott]

My LGS just got in a nice 544 at a reasonable price. I have no connection but pm me if you are interested.

Is it my imagination or did Marlin do a 336 version of the guide gun in 30-30 or 35 R.E.M. ?

Thanks for the lead on the M544. I bought my pair back in the 1990s when no one wanted them. I assume the price has risen a bit since then.

Yes, there was a Marlin Guide Gun (336D) in .35 Remington with an 18.5-inch barrel and stainless models (336LTD and 336SS) with twenty-inch barrels.

[BobM]

I like rifles with full length stocks. So far all I have is a 10/22 but eventually I'd like to have a Ruger 77 and/or a Number 1 International.

[TGS]

Primitive/craft made guns, like the Luby 9mm, VG2 and VG1-5.

Pretty much any of the toggle-locking/toggle-delayed interwar rifles. That whole interwar period is so ridiculously interesting, actually.

I'm also a fan of full stocked rifles. I've always wanted a vintage Mauser Type-M, as well as a new production Mauser M Stutzen. I'd say they're fairly obscure in the US, not so much for Europeans.

[dbateman]

Australian Automatic Arms 9mm.
They were made to compete with the MP5.
The Australian gobernment bought AAA out and destroyed the tooling.
There’s not many around.

[MK11]

Colt revolving rifles and shotguns. When I was a kid we knew someone with a fantastic gun collection and it was his Colt revolving shotguns and rifles from the 1800's that fascinated me. At the time I always wondered why anyone back then would have wanted anything else. Today I know they weren't the most reliable or capable arms but even a picture of one still makes me go, "Ooooh."

[Cecil Burch]

And because I read "Flint" by Louis L'amour like 35 times too many, a pair of Smith No. 3s in .44.
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"Flint" is hands down L'amour's best work. I re-read it at least once a year. Why someone never did a movie of it is beyond me. A slightly younger Sam Elliot would have killed it as Flint.

[RevolverRob]

"Flint" is hands down L'amour's best work. I re-read it at least once a year. Why someone never did a movie of it is beyond me. A slightly younger Sam Elliot would have killed it as Flint.

I always felt like a middle-aged Eastwood would have made a good Flint. But maybe Tom Hardy could do it today? He was so good in Bronson and Lawless, I think he could channel the reckless aspects of Flint well.

I've read virtually everything L'amour wrote and I tend to agree that Flint is one of his very best. Flint, Ferguson Rifle, and First Fast Draw are three of his very best...ironically they're all F-titles...I think I re-read each of those once every 18-months or so.