Curios and Relics
Perhaps this gun made some sort of sense when new, but I can't for the life of me think what it was.
Not your normal combination of features on a .22 rifle!
Rook-and-Rabbit rifles were popular before the introduction of high-velocity .22 LR ammunition, and they have a lot to recommend them even today.
Tiny pistols firing tiny, low-power cartridges have been around as long as metallic rimfire cartridges have. In recent years they have fallen out of favor, but they are still around.
This was a sub-caliber adapter for training used by the British, and it's a pretty interesting device.
As part of the Eastern Block during the Cold War the Czechs were supposed to use Soviet military gear. But they didn't like Soviet equipment so they made their own.
Bullseye competition was a very big deal in the 20th C., and this is one of Colt's finest competition pistols from the period.
Adopted by the British nave and never a great success, but an interesting pistol nonetheless.
Introduced simultaneously to large-caliber cartridge revolvers this was definitely the wrong gun at the wrong time.
one of the earliest5 of the modern high-power single shot sporting pistols, very cool and some real out-of-the-box thinking from Ruger.
An American take on the 9mm Flobert shotguns that were so popular in Europe. never caught on here, but it's pretty cool!
having a look at the odd and interesting mechanism of an early British Service revolver.
In the wake of WW2 the Army Ordinance Board were looking to replace the 1911a1 with something more modern and while there was never an official request made they did encourage several manufacturers to come up with something suitable. This was S&Ws attempt.
In the wake of the GCA 68 (The NRA supported this) which forbade the import of 'non-sporting firearms' caused some enterprising US manufacturers to try to fill the gap, and this was one of the more, um, humble offerings of that lot.
An interesting and unique old target pistol from Remington based on their rolling-block rifles and military pistols.
When surplus CZ52s started coming to the US a couple decades back people came up with some interesting modifications for them. by 'interesting I kind of mean bizarre...
