I wonder if you would share them with us if you do. I like rare things. I like the stories behind them. I have tree items I'd classify as unicorns. They each have a story.

One of them is a Knights Armament CT suppressor. From what I've read and been told, KAC made less than 30. They were for a specific gov't contract involving a specific special force. The hearsay is that the op they were designed for happened before delivery so these were shelved. At some point KAC decided to release them into the wild. An announcement was made to that effect and then they all disappeared. Skip ahead a couple of years and I found one for sale. Snatched it up and it sits unfired in my safe.

It is pictured below at the bottom on my USPct clone. The other two are a Mark 23 and USP Tactical.



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What are your unicorns?

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I had a USP Tactical with the Knights can, matching serials. Not exactly a unicorn, but not common.

I have an AMT Automag III, uncommon but not exactly highly desirable.

I've got a nice Luger.

I've got a Swiss P210.

I've got one 60's era Python left.

Unicorns? Dunno, but nice.

As far as rare, my Springfield Armory SAR-4800 in 5.56mm. It's an Imbel FAL chambered in 5.56mm and takes AR-15 magazines. From brief research they were a civilian model of an early step in the Imbel assault rifle program. Reportedly ~200 in the country. There is not much demand for them.

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Originally posted by arcwelder76:
I had a USP Tactical with the Knights can, matching serials . Not exactly a unicorn, but not common.

I have an AMT Automag III, uncommon but not exactly highly desirable.

I've got a nice Luger.

I've got a Swiss P210.

I've got one 60's era Python left.

Unicorns? Dunno, but nice.

That might be more of a unicorn than at first glance. I remember back in 03 my dealer said for an extra cost, KAC would engrave the serial number to match the host. I declined, but now not only will Knights not do it, but no one who answers the phone remembers Knights ever having offered that option. So there you have it. Maybe a unicorn in disguise.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

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Originally posted by arcwelder76:
I had a USP Tactical with the Knights can, matching serials . Not exactly a unicorn, but not common.

I have an AMT Automag III, uncommon but not exactly highly desirable.

I've got a nice Luger.

I've got a Swiss P210.

I've got one 60's era Python left.

Unicorns? Dunno, but nice.

That might be more of a unicorn than at first glance. I remember back in 03 my dealer said for an extra cost, KAC would engrave the serial number to match the host. I declined, but now not only will Knights not do it, but no one who answers the phone remembers Knights ever having offered that option. So there you have it. Maybe a unicorn in disguise.

I moved back to MA, where suppressors are not OK, so sold it as a set.

If rifles are in the mix, I have one of the earliest examples of a commercial semiautomatic M14, offered by Maunz, and only available to National Match competitors. This is during the development of what became the M1A.

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...935/m/7570054914/p/1

Btw, please resize your pics, man. I can see them from orbit.

Apologies for the pic size. Semms my hosting site does not resize them. Will work on it when I can...

the gun might not be a Unicorn, but I have an unfired 4" Python with the little round four bladed colt marked keychain tool. The tool might be a Unicorn by now. The Python is a '76

Have a set of CS-1 Smith 686's that were built for the Customs Service. Have a 3" and a 4". Both with original boxes.

Have a Combat Magnum (pre M-19) made the first week or so of production in 1955. The 25th gun built in the model run.

Forget the numbers, but have a Stainless 617 that is one of 116 I think built, before they added the heavy barrel underlug. So it's one of only 116 stainless M-17 , K-22's. Also have it's 4" Sister, I think they built 130 of those? Again...not sure of the numbers but it wasn't more than 200.

Have a pair of consecutively serial numbered 4" M-29's. You see very few consecutively numbered Smiths for some unknown reason.

Probably my P38. All numbers match. Not crazy rare but I enjoy it.

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My "Suisse Montage" P225 with Euro mag release I consider to be unicorn-ish since I have not seen another with those markings, including the Swiss Canton mark.
Probably not rare, though.

I have a few scarce guns, but the only real "unicorn" I think I have is... A Remington 870.
It's a Wingmaster, and is so labeled, but also marked "PIMC COMBAT". It's in great shape to this day; parkerized to that old military green color with a 20 inch barrel with IC choke and rifle sights, and extended 8 round magazine. I got it when it came in on trade at the gun shop I was managing in 1994 for the princely sum of... wait for it... $45.
It was shipped to Pacific International Merchandising Corporation in 1981 per Remington, and I have never seen another one, nor can I find one like it online. Wish I had pics… sorry.

Does the Die Hard AUG qualify as a unicorn?

Several unicorns. Beretta 92 Billennium, 92 Combat, 92 Stock, Vektor SP1, just to list a few. The Combat is by far the most rare globally.

a fun thread. I didn't think I had any. Maybe some odd very low production stuff from SIG and HK, but nothing I would consider a unicorn. Now according to another thread a BDA .38 super is one of 752 in the US. Is that a unicorn. Or does it need to be even rarer?

I don't think there really is a standard definition of a unicorn gun. I suppose we just know it when we see it. I think even an uncommon characteristic in a common gun could qualify. Recently Jim Schatz's NAVSPECWAR HK USPct went up for auction. That for sure is a unicorn if by no other measure than whose it was (may he rest in peace).

One of my other unicorns belongs to this gun below.


The LAR Grizzly is a very nice gun, but not a unicorn. What IS the unicorn is a particular caliber conversion kit. This gun was offered with 45 win mag, 357/45 GWM, 357 rem mag, 10mm and/or 45acp conversion kits at extra cost. Under development but not offered in production was a 9mm win mag kit. While speaking with the designer/engineer a while back, he mentioned the existence of the one 9mm win mag kit that made it into the wild. Told me where they sent it for review. I contacted the man and he sold it to me. So now I have that unicorn as well as the other conversion kits mentioned above.

My 3" Smith 66 is probably the most uncommon handgun I own.

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My 3" Smith 66 is probably the most uncommon handgun I own.

They are cool, aren't they??

This one might qualify.... original factory Sterling Mk. VI semi auto. Only 1600 were made. I can't find out how many made it to the US, and it's likely a number of those have been SBR'd. So likely not a lot of originals left.

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I got one of those too. -3 version. The S&W.