Misfits?

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Last night I watched Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer with the grandkids. I am not sure who gets more of a kick out those old shows, me or them. Anyway, this is a gun forum and topics have to be gun related.

In that movie they have "The Island of Misfit Toys", It had toys that were built in such a way they were pretty useless.

We all have to agree their have been more than a few guns made that were useless, or pretty darn close to it. They usually languish on some gun shop's wall or in their case. Some might even make it to some table at a gun show or website auction.

Now, if there was an Island of Misfit Guns, what guns would you expect to find there? What guns would you nominate for that island?
 
Anything chambered for .45GAP

Colt 2000

AR-18 (the Armalite family's little brother who never got the respect he deserved):p
 
The Dardick. The solution for a problem that has yet to be positively discerned. (Conventional shells are just too... round? :rolleyes: ;) )

The Ram-Line Exactor, just the pistol for folks who believe that popular .22 target pistols from Ruger, Browning, Colt, High Standard, etc. are just too sleek and pretty to be taken seriously.

The Winchester Model 55- the 1950's .22, not the 1930's entry-level Model 94 variant. The Model 55 is seemingly an oxymoron: a semi-automatic single-shot. It is fed one round at a time through a little spring-loaded plastic trapdoor on top of the barrel. It fires from an open bolt, ejecting the shell downwards through a hole in the stock and recocking itself, waiting for the shooter to feed the next round. Winchester's marketing department supposedly thought that so-called "semi-automatic" operation and automatic shell ejection were selling features to boys, while parents would be comforted by the fact that Junior couldn't shoot too fast. Very few parents took the bait. (I actually want one, just as a conversation piece, but I let the only one I've ever seen slip through my fingers. :( )

The HK HK4. If being able to switch between two calibers is good, then perhaps the ability to switch between FOUR calibers is even better! Too bad this feature was offered in somewhat of a warmed-over and overpriced Mauser HSc copy that only fires seriously underpowered (.22LR & .25 ACP), somewhat underpowered (.32 ACP), or slightly underpowered (.380 ACP) ammo. Few shooters were sufficiently impressed to pay the high asking price.

The S&W SW9M. S&W's most notorious attempt to use their positive brand image to peddle cheap junk. The handgun equivalent of the Cadillac Cimmaron.

Finally, the Davis-Warner Infallible, perhaps the most self-contradictory gun name of the 20th century, given the pistol's (a) tendency to spontaneously come apart on firing if assembled incorrectly, which was easy to do, and (b) its tendency to shake itself apart during extended firing even if assembled correctly [IIRC it relies on a couple of screws that tend to work themselves loose]. And it's ugly. REALLY ugly.
 
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Daisy VL4, anything in 5MM Remington Magnum, anything in any rimfire larger than 22LR, the Remington Etronx.
 
I'd expect to find the COP.

Oversize 4 barrel "derringer" in .357Mag that felt heavier than a Kframe...

never did find out if the three men and a boy it took to pull the trigger was intended to come with it, or an aftermarket option...:rolleyes:
 
The Ross Mark III rifle. A combat rifle that was too sensitive to mud and muck and that had a bolt that could be re-inserted incorrectly and was then unsafe to fire.
 
The Ugly Misfit

One of those Mossberg 30-30 Tactical lever Rifles.:confused:
I don't know if they are still made but the designer should also be on the Island
 
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Here's my list:

Pederson device, any "judge" or .410 revolver, the current crop of "mare's leg"levers, , any AK/AR "pistol", the multi mag Kel tec pump 12 ga, the uber 9mm "pistols" like the MAC family, the Win 94 .410,

Gotta argue the 5mm rimfire, but don't want to hijack.
 
Bren Ten with no magazine?
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Funny thing: I still have a coupon for a magazine, whenever they may be available. It was printed in 1984.

The Chauchat certainly deserves consideration. Among modern guns, the Chiappa Rhino and the Circuit Judge carbines.
 
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