Can you identify these?

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A few friends and I play a game where we send each other a close up picture of a part of a gun to see if we can accurately identify it. It is a useful exercise in that it encourages us to pay attention to details.

Can you identify these guns?

1.
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
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6.
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7.
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8.
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9.
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10.
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11.
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I will post the make and model of these original eleven later.

Please feel free to add pictures of other guns as well!
 
Emm know a few of them

1 Sportized Mauser VZ33 was 8x57
2 Webley MK6 .455
3 Ruger No1
4 Colt Python ?
5 Mauser K98 ?
6 Colt 1911
7 AyA Shotgun ?
8 Luger P08
9 Westley Richards ?
10 Ruger Blackhawk ?
11 got me for now
 
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  1. Czech post-war mod 98 (though metal looks more pre-WWII ?)
  2. Webley
  3. Ruger no.1
  4. Colt Python
  5. Same Czech mod98 or other Mauser K98
  6. Colt 1911
  7. ??
  8. Luger
  9. ??
  10. Ruger BlackHawk
  11. Rigby Highland Stalker
 
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Either you guys are very smart, or it was too easy? Ill go with the former, since most of my friends don't get as many right! Here are the answers:
  1. BRNO vz. 24 Mauser
  2. Webley Mark VI (1941)
  3. Ruger No. 1 (1985)
  4. Colt Python 6” (1971)
  5. German Nazi Mauser K98 (1940)
  6. Colt 1911 (pre A-1) (1916)
  7. AyA No. 2 (1968)
  8. Luger Artillery (1917)
  9. Webley & Scott Model 700
  10. Freedom Arms Pre-Model 83 Premier Grade
  11. Rigby Highland Stalker (2017)
The only ones that stumped you gentlemen were numbers 9 and 10!
 
Yeah. #10 I did not think the rear sight matched Ruger but I had nothing else to suggest. What year is the VZ24? I forgot to call it that. After the war, the refurbished ones were just called model 98 I think unless they still had the VZ24 stampings.
 

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