Let’s play the “What is it?” game!

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VZ.27

CZ27?

Both right.

Vz is an abbreviation of the Czech (as well as Slovak) term "vzor" meaning "model".

So, It's a Czezh vz. (model) 27.


A war time model it looks like, due to the rough metalwork prior to bluing it.

cmshoot, you said it first. You're up.

 

[cmshoot]

 

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[cmshoot]

It’s a shotgun.

 

[EMC45]

It’s a shotgun.

We have a winner!

 

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It's another honored guest from the Cody Firearms Museum, in Wyoming.
A PROTOTYPE toggle-action shotgun.

From the FirearmBlog.Com,
the writer says: .

" I believe this to be a prototype semiautomatic shotgun developed by William Mason between 1900 and 1905, based on a system developed by John Browning before his termination at Winchester in 1903."

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Link:

Firearm Showcase: Early 1900s Mason (and Browning?) Automatic Shotgun at the Cody Firearms Museum – HIGH RES PICS! -

In January, just before the 2017 SHOT Show, I got the opportunity to travel to Cody Wyoming to visit the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, to see some of their rare firearms and bring photos of them to our readers. Over the past two weeks, we’ve been taking a … Read...

www.thefirearmblog.com

 

[EMC45]

I was gonna say Browning due to the hump back and the barrel band, but I never saw one like that.

Looks like a Luger and an A5 fooled around.

 

[cmshoot]

It's another honored guest from the Cody Firearms Museum, in Wyoming.
A PROTOTYPE toggle-action shotgun.

From the FirearmBlog.Com,
the writer says: .

" I believe this to be a prototype semiautomatic shotgun developed by William Mason between 1900 and 1905, based on a system developed by John Browning before his termination at Winchester in 1903."

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Link:

Firearm Showcase: Early 1900s Mason (and Browning?) Automatic Shotgun at the Cody Firearms Museum – HIGH RES PICS! -

In January, just before the 2017 SHOT Show, I got the opportunity to travel to Cody Wyoming to visit the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, to see some of their rare firearms and bring photos of them to our readers. Over the past two weeks, we’ve been taking a … Read...

www.thefirearmblog.com

That’s it. A prototype for the first semi-auto shotgun.

 

[cmshoot]

I was gonna say Browning due to the hump back and the barrel band, but I never saw one like that.

Looks like a Luger and an A5 fooled around.

It’s interesting, in that it has a Luger-like toggle action, and was possibly intended to be blowback operated.

 

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This one's pretty old despite its futuristic styling.