Does even have a turn line on cylinder Edit—when I die I hope my wife does not sale my guns for what I told her I paid for them. I think that is my only Colt,most of mine are Smiths
Due to your location, I have to ask, is that .44 Remington C.F., or .44 Magnum? Some of my fellow cartridge collectors have made surprising trades with Australian collectors. Some obsolete stuff in the U.S. is still common there. I like the Model 94. The real beauty of the lever guns for me is the variety of light, accurate, cast bullet loads I can dream up, without having to worry about them having sufficient power to cycle the action.
The oddest caliber I have ever owned has to be the 7.62 Nagant,you would have to see one to understand.
The 94 is getting converted to .44Rem Mag. 32 Win Special is hard and expensive to buy and I have a 30/30 (in a 94 Trapper). .44mag is available about anywhere. @oldman11 funnily enough the Nagant round use to be very very common here. Up till the early 90s it was a very common choice for precision centerfire match shooting here. Toz made a range of competition revolvers chambered for it. Gone a bit by the wayside now but I still see one on the range time to time.
.44 Rem. Magnum will probably be more fun to shoot too. For a .32 Win Special reloader, as long as .30-30 Winchester brass and bullets are available it's a simple case conversion to bump the neck diameter up with the .32 die and trim to length. Loaded commercial ammo in .32 Winchester Special is scarce here as well.
1907 Savage pistol in .380, .30 Mauser Broomhandle, 9mm Luger, .300 Savage Model 99, H&K VP-60Z 9mm (first "plastic" pistol in the US) Everything else is somewhat routine.
I for got I have another odd one,the .22tcm in a 1911 and also in a rifle. The .22tcm 1911 will change over to a 9mm 1911 by changing the barrel and recoil spring only. The .22tcm in the 1911 is a flat shooting son of a gun. The only problem with the .22tcm is the availability of ammo,I buy it by the thousand and also have a great friend that reloads. Factory price for the .22tcm on the low end runs 0.40 to 0.50 a round. The rifle will shoot into a inch at one hundred yards if you do your part. The .22 hornet,.22 tcm,Colt .32 Police,.32 smith Wesson short.32 smith Wesson long,.32 hr mag,.41 mag,.44-40 and the .45/70. My .45/70’s are a Springfield trapdoor carbine a springfield trapdoor rifle and a browning1885 hi-wall,so you can see most of my guns are odd. The one I’m looking for now is the .38-40,rifle or revolver.
I have a Daisy 22 LR bolt action take down repeater. I bought it new as a training rifle for kids decades ago when I was an instructor. I also installed a factory target trigger. It is all plastic with a lined barrel and adjustable stock.
I guess the oddest firearm I own is a CZ-52, 7.62x 25 m/m. Have a spare barrel for it in 9m/m Parabellum. Often wondered if it could be swapped out to .38 Sup. ACP.
Back when 9mm Largo was cheap and plentiful we were looking at reaming a 9mm barrel to take the .38 Super and the 9mm Largo. We found barrels, but not it time to acquire a large enough stock of 9mm Largo to make it worthwhile. It seems to me that there was some other hitch as well. I'll ask around tomorrow and see if anybody remembers.
Isold my 9mm largo to my brother in law thirty years ago. About four years ago he committed suicide with it,shot himself while sitting on his front porch. I asked about the gun last year and found out his daughter had it. The largo was a mighty find shooting gun and if I am not mistaken you can shoot more than one caliber in it.
In longer chamber semi-auto's, anything that's of the same diameter will chamber, and be held in something like correct headspace by the extractor. I have quite a selection of blown out cases that fired while held by an extractor. .40 S&W in .45 ACP, 9mm in .40 S&W, 9mm Luger in 7.62x25 These shooters were blessed. If I mixed up some ammo I'd be the guy who eats a slide.
