Sometimes I am attracted to oddball guns. I have bought a few over the years. Most were later sold with little or no regrets. Fun for a while but eh, no real attachment to them.

A couple have managed to hang around for a while longer.

This CZ52. Built like a tank (just as heavy and just as roughly finished) the ammo is pretty hot, like 1,400 FPS. I bet that small diameter, pointed nose FMJ at that velocity would play hell with a vest.




My wife bought me this around 1990. Pretty reliable with HV ammo. Never imagined that in 2001 I would move to Little Rock just a couple miles from Jacksonville AR where the gun was manufactured.




Guy sold me this at a show for $100 because the action was frozen. Worked fine after I poured some solvent through it and removed the hardened grease. Keyholes with .357" bullets so I just bought some .361" slugs to try in it.




This Spanish made Star Rolling Block in 30-30 is truly tiny. Barely legal length with a 16" barrel. Wouldn't be a bad backpacking rifle given its compact size and low weight combined with a serious rifle caliber. But to me it's just for fun.




Bought this at a police auction in the late 1980s. Needed one crucial part replaced (breech block) and I added the sights, refinished the wood and reblued the metal myself. Total investment including purchase price and parts is $23.




This Hungarian military rifle requires an odd .329" bullet. Cases are available but I have to resize larger bullets to the proper diameter. Lee makes a press to do it. The straight pull bolt is strange to use. I think I paid $79 for it and it was either new or in arsenal refinished condition.

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Not a bad group of oddballs.

Takes one to know one.

Nice assortment. I particularly like the Star. I am partial to rolling blocks (actually, any single shots) but have never heard of, let alone seen, that one.

Bob

What is the Revolver thing? The Pic is not marked.

Revolver is a 1941 dated Enfield. British service revolver.

red9- From what I gather the Star Rolling Blocks were imported in 1960s before the GCA 68 and were available in 30-30 and 45-70. Don't ask me why those two calibers were made. I bet the 45/70 was brutal on recoil.

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I like the .30-30 one. That would make a great truck gun.......

CZ52 was my first gun (along with a vz. 50 that came with it). It is indeed a snappy round, a lot of fun to shoot.

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Saxon Pig:
As you probably already know, that safety on the CZ 52 also functions as a hammer drop, but in many pistols, including mien, when it drops he hammer, it also fires the round. Very unsafe. Mine may be due to a replaced firing pin.

That Hungarian Model 95 carbine in 8X56 requires a clip to function as a repeater. The clip drops out the bottom of the mgazine when the last round is fired.