Show us your Curios & Relics

[ZoidMeister]

This thread is about celebrating the truly amazing and unusual guns in your collection. Whether it is an old obsolete caliber, vintage military firearm (particularly foreign), or just a design that never gained popular acceptance, post them up for all to see. I'm sure there are a lot of guns that I've never heard of before.

To start, here is one made by a famous Swedish chainsaw manufacturer.

My Husqvarna M1907, chambered in .380 ACP.

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[ZoidMeister]

Well the old Husqvarna didn't stimulate any responses, how about a four barrel .357 Magnum pepper box derringer . . . . ?

The COP .38 SPL / .357 Derringer

 

[wildcat455]

Hmmm... curios and relics... I half expected some wise acre to post a pic of his wife in here... 'course... most of those guys are probably dead or divorced by now...

 

[ZoidMeister]

Hmmm... curios and relics... I half expected some wise acre to post a pic of his wife in here... 'course... most of those guys are probably dead or divorced by now...

Okay, I'm game. Post them up . . . .

 

[wildcat455]

That 4 barrel is pretty Effin cool!!

 

[11Charlie]

Okay, I'm game. Post them up . . . .

You guys would just be jealous

 

[ZoidMeister]

You guys would just be jealous

That's why we keep coming back. Intentional self disappointment is chronic . . . . .

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Here is one of "mine"...actually my daughter owns it now...
A Marlin 36 in .30-30 from 1947
Andy

 

[MountainBear]

Most of my collection is C&R. I don't have all of these anymore, and have added others...

 

[WillyB]

I will play. Here is my SIG P210's grandfather: a SACM 1935A.

In 1937, Switzerland's Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft purchased a license from SACM for the 1935A, which became the basis for the development by SIG Sauer of the SIG P210.

Pistolet automatique modèle 1935A - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I had ammo (7.65 Long) made for the 1935A and it is a really sweet shooter.

Here are (top) the 1935A and (bottom) the grandson: the 2017 SIG P210.

 

[Ura-Ki]

1855 Pattern Colt MK-IV Revolving Carbine in .44!

Matched Pair of Colts, both in .44 but the second is a Frontiers Big Game Hunter!

 

[ma96782]

Buying just one would be boring. So, I bought the case.


Russian M91/30 Mosin Nagant. Caliber 7.62x54r

Aloha, Mark

 

[ZoidMeister]

1855 Pattern Colt MK-IV Revolving Carbine in .44!
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Matched Pair of Colts, both in .44 but the second is a Frontiers Big Game Hunter!
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Now those ARE unusual . . . .

 

[ZoidMeister]

This one may be both a curio AND relic . . . .

I call him "Deadpool". 1918 M1911, finish by "mother nature" . . . .

















And yes, it shoots . . . . . .


Z

 

[nvshooter]

Would a Model 1894 in .32 WinSpcl be a curio? Or a relic? The serial number dates it to 1910 or 1911.

 

[Ura-Ki]

YUP!

 

[nvshooter]

YUP!

The rifle functions-- and quite well, too. My dad bought it in 1946; paid $30 for it. He was sixteen years of age. Took him eighteen months to earn the money. He gave it to me in late June of 1975 as my dad, my brother and I drove across country on our way to Italy, but I never saw it again until Christmas of 2001. It was at my uncle's place in Minnesota all those years while our family was in Italy and then in Virginia. It was mailed to our home in Virginia and I was presented with it on Christmas morning of 2001. I was so happy to finally get it, the tears rolled from my eyes.

Took me over twenty-six years to get that gun. It's now securely stored in a proper firearms safe in another State, and I'm happy with that. I'm in poor health. I expect to wake-up dead one of these days. I'd rather that rifle be where it is, than to have the coroner's crew come in to take care of my dead body, peek into my closet, see a brace of firearms and have those firearms make their way into the bedroom closets of the coroner's crew before my lifeless carcass makes it to the morgue.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Here's hoping you don't wake up dead one day soon, That would suck!
Take care Brother, ain't no reason to make dead yet!
What ever you gotta Do, DO IT!

 

[nvshooter]

Whatever you gotta do, DO IT!

Lose 100 pounds and get my cholesterol down to a less-than-insane level. That would lower my blood pressure, too. I am so very happy I never married and never had any kids. I'd not want to leave them in the lurch when I keel-over and check-out...

 

[11Charlie]

I will play. Here is my SIG P210's grandfather: a SACM 1935A.

Pistolet automatique modèle 1935A - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I had ammo (7.65 Long) made for the 1935A and it is a really sweet shooter.

Here are (top) the 1935A and (bottom) the grandson: the 2017 SIG P210.

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Not to be rude but shouldn't you take your booger picker off the bang switch before you take the picture?