Im wondering what the two i circled are. BTW, do you have a pic of your vintage rifles?

Steyr 1911 Chilean Contract in 9 x 23mm Steyr and my rarest, a Webley & Scott Model 1910 in .38ACP.

Unfortunately I don't have a picture of all my long guns. It's a logistical problem - try taking a picture of 37 rifles and 2 shotguns, I don't have enough room in my house to display them all in one place.

Thought of an interesting challenge if anyone's up for it - there are 18 different calibers represented in that picture, anyone think they can name them all? To make it fair, here's a hint - first and foremost, I collect British service pistols, including foreign-made weapons.

lol Nyles you know nobody will be able to name all 18 calibers
Hitler carried a Smith & Wesson Revolver on a semi-permanent basis as well as as a child Hitler was fascinated with "Cowboys and Indians" and Revolvers had symbolism with that so it may have tied into that.

His S&W http://www.germaniainternational.com/images/image01.jpg

Christ, could he have picked an uglier gun? There are so many beautiful revolvers out their, many made by S&W, and he picks one of the ugliest ones. Not a big surprise though that Hitler would have bad taste. :eek:

Well from what I've read it is not certain how he obtained that revolver but that it was shipped to france.
It is suspected that Hitler may have taken it as a souvenir during his service in the Austro-Hungarian Army during WWI.

Interestingly enough this is the only firearm he was known to actually carry around on his person as he never actually carried his ornate Walther PP.

Well, I was planing on taking a break after my recent purchases, but I just made a deal I couldn't pass up. I met another old fellow getting rid of his collection on guns, this one is an antiques guy. He sold me a pair of Snider-Enfields, a three-band infantry rifle and a cavalry carbine, both Canadian marked, for $1000 all in. To put this in perspective, cavalry carbines usually go for about $1200, three-banders for about $800-1000. No decent pictures yet, but they'd have to be pretty beat up indeed to make this a bad deal.

1> .38 ACP
2> .455 Webley
3> 8 x 22 mm Nambu
4> 9 x 23 mm Steyr
5> 7.62 x 25 mm Tokarev
6> .45 ACP
7> 9 x 19 mm Parabellum
8> 7.65 x 20 mm Longue
9> 7.63 x 25 mm Mauser
10> 8 x 27mm SR
11> .38 Long Colt
12> 10.4mm Italian
13> 8mm Gasser
14> .455 Webley & Scott auto
15> .38 S&W
16> .380 ACP or .32 ACP
17>
18>

Nice job AdAstra, you got all but one, and juding from the fact that you got all the hard ones you're gonna kick yourself when you realise that you missed 7.62 x 38mm Nagant. It's .380 Auto, not .32 ACP - while the FN 1922 was made in both, the CZ-38 was only in .380. Incidentally .32 caliber pistols are prohibited in Canada, thank you very much Kim Campbell.

That covers it, there's actuall only 17. Mea culpa, I had .38 S&W on the list twice. I suppose if I was a real bastard I could say that the S&W Pre-Victory is in .38 S&W and the Enfields and Webley are in .38/200, but I'm not, it's just a different bullet.

!!!!crap, I was so focused on figuring out the obscure firearms in the photo that I completely overlooked the Nagant revolver.

BTW, what is the handgun on the top right?

That's a Finnish army issued CZ-38 in .380 - very unique gun, it's quite large but it's an unlocked breech .380, has a DAO trigger with an external hammer, heel mag release but no slide lock (and it's a bitch to pull out the mag when it's holding back the slide, let me tell you).

If you press the catch on the left of the frame you can lift the slide right off the frame - the barrel is hinged at the front and stays attached to the pistol and it has a captive mainspring - makes for a half second field strip. Here it is with my Finn Luger.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/P8240081.jpg