Tell us about your 'oddball' shotguns

One Mossy 183D-C .410

Not entirely sure of it's history, but she's very pretty and an excellent bird gun. My father taught my mum to shoot on this thing at the camp. It was her bear gun... not for hunting bears, but to use should she have to get one out of the yard.

She never had to use it, and I'm sure she's relieved with that.

Also got me an archaic Cooey 840 single-shot 12 gauge. Grandfather's meat gun, this thing has survived hell and high water... The barrel mark says it's "full choke" but we actually had to saw 2 inches off the muzzle because some of that hell caught up with it and cracked the barrel about an inch. So she has no bead or choke.

Technically my first shotgun, as it was in my name, though I most often used my dad's Remmy for hunting whenever I could, using this thing with the juiced up steel shot is not a very fun experience... Right after you fire, the barrel automatically pops open and ejects the shell over your head. An interesting if unnerving trick...

Still... my dad uses it whenever he can and one-shots geese and ducks with her... no matter how fast they're flying.
 
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I have a system sjogren, a real weird one, I have used peugots and darnes but this auto has them beat, Not a pretty sight nothing like the damascus spencer pump I once used but wierd all the same. its not working correctly but still ok for some down the line. Everyone stops to watch it!
The whole reciever slides back to your face!
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I have a little Verney Carron .410 (aka the "Snake Charmer") that gets absolutely no respect from my buddies.

The stock is too short to mount in the shoulder so we shoot it like a pistol or just hold it with outstretched arms. Needless to say, it looks pretty ridiculous.

It really feels like a toy but I'd say its probably the most fun of all the guns I own. The best is trowing up pop cans and trying to hit them "from the hip" with trap loads. What a hoot.:D

But it packs a punch with slugs and holds extra shells in the stock, so as a canoe trip/camping gun its great. It even fits inside my backpack.

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Stevens 124c

I used to have a Stevens model 124c that had a large round knob on the side for the manual action. It worked like a bolt action but instead of lift and pull back you pulled the knob out to the right and then straight back. It came with the "then new" wood grain plastic stock and an under barrel mag like any other pump or auto. It is easily mistaken for an auto. I once came across another hunter in the woods and at a distance of 20 feet I identified his shotgun as a model 124, he thought I was some kind of weird "gun nut" to identify such an obscure gun.

270 totheend
 
Still have my old Smith & Wesson Model 1000 semi, it's never let me down but I haven't used it in 6 years.
Seems to get pushed further back everytime something new follows me home.
 
I've been looking amongst my collection and there dont seem to be any I did earlier. Both cameras seem pooped out and its not christmas yet!
I'll see what I can do. the light is fading but maybe tomorrow am!
 
Grouse Man said:
Can you get us some detailed pics of that sjogren? Fascinating . . .
Well here you go, I bought a new camera:
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Basic gun action closed and cocked but safety on.

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Action at full recoil case ejected and picking up a nnew one from the mag tube.

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Close up on the breech block from the left looking back when action is open.

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Action underside whilst action to the rear. feed ramp/flap visible.

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Action from rear closed up and safety The big lever on!
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Action in recoil halfway back viewed from rear.

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All the way back

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guns up and action open. Actually a reasonably pointable gun.
 
Cool! That's easily the most bizarre action I've ever seen.

Now if only you could figure out how to work that new camera . . .

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I have an old Davenport 12 Gauge single shot manufactured in 1908 It is in very good shape......found it while cleaning out the attic of an old farm house......need a rear stock for it so if anybody has one PM me .....

I also have a 20 GAuge H&R
12 gauge CIL pump action with custom carved and burnt stock
A Single shot 12 Gauge by the Armory Gun Comp.
A .410 Cooey model 82 (I think)
I got an old double barrel 8 GAuge as well....Only shot it once .....Both barrels fire at once....too painfull and you just cant get the shells anymore
 
Any pics lads, I've never heard of these and I would love to see some of them. Here in the realm of dodgy shotguns we often encounter old Belgian trade guns, usually double trigger side by sides. Most were close but cheap copies of the UK trade at the time and usually marked up by ironmongers that retailed them. A bit of history tracing who sold guns and cartridges back then. Here you need a license to collect live rifle and pistol ammo but not for shotgun ammo so there is quite a large group and occaissionally some nice paper cartridges turn up. All muzzleloaders are antiqueand exempt hence there is usually one in every farmhouse over the door or fireplace!
One pub I was told about had a huge collection of side by side hammer guns from most of the great names but sadly they were all deactivated.
 
I have a grade 2 (damascus twist) Remington model 1899 side by side. Locks up very tight - loaded up some brass shells with blackpowder, but haven't fired her yet.
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12g German Guild gun made July 1919. She's nitro proofed, but I think I'm going to stick to blackpowder only in her.
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What else - Stevens model 335 side by side still with nice case color on the reciever (they stopped making them in 1930 I believe) although a gentleman named T. Edgett owned it at one point, and he owned a set of punches. :rolleyes:
12g Geha Mauser with a 20" barrel - don't think I've fired this one yet either.
That's about it for oddball shotguns for me.
 
tis a pity when instaed of defaacing the gun with diy punches a nice little silver plate inlaid into the butt would do!
 
TimC said:
tis a pity when instaed of defaacing the gun with diy punches a nice little silver plate inlaid into the butt would do!

Amen. And he did it twice (once on the rib, and again on the bottom of the receiver).
 
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