Top 5 Guns With Strange WTF Features

Some firearms are straight-up bizarre, but some are relatively conventional yet employ an odd feature or two. In this episode of TFBTV, we take a look at 5 firearms that incorporate a bizarre feature that isn’t generally found on other guns.

IWI Gallil 5.56

The Galil is a family of Israeli small arms designed in the late 1960s and produced by Israel Military Industries Ltd (now Israel Weapon Industries Ltd). The rifle design borrows heavily from the AK-47 and has a modified gas diversion system similar to the AK-47 to reduce the recoil of the rifle making it easier to fire especially in automatic mode.
The Galil series of weapons is in use with military and police forces in over 25 countries and come with two very strange features, one of them is a built-in bottle opener!

Mauser G-41M

By 1940, it became apparent that some form of a semi-automatic rifle, with a higher rate of fire than existing bolt-action rifle models, was necessary to improve the infantry’s combat efficiency. The Wehrmacht issued a specification to various manufacturers, and Mauser and Walther submitted prototypes that were very similar.
This lead to the G41(M), a bolt-action semi-automomatic rifle, unfortunately for Mauser, their design failed. Only 6,673 were produced before production was halted, and of these, 1,673 were returned as unusable.

Arisaka Type 99

The Flip-up Anti-aircraft rear sights of a Type 99 rifle. The calipers on the sides are to determine the speed of the targeted aircraft.

The Japanese Type 99 was produced in four versions, the regular issue Type 99 Short Rifle, the Type 99 Long Rifle (a limited production variant) and takedown Type 2 Paratroop Rifle and the Sniper Rifle Type 99. The standard rifle also came with a wire monopod and an anti-aircraft sighting device. The Type 99 was the first mass-produced infantry rifle to have a chrome lined bore to ease cleaning.
The strangest feature of this gun (and it has many) is the anti-aircraft rear sight for volley fire at low flying airplanes!

Valmet Rk 62

The Rk 62 assault rifle was designed in 1962 and is based on the Polish licensed version of the Soviet AK-47 design.  Between 1965 and 1994 350,000 M62 rifles were produced jointly by Valmet and Sako.
The Rk 62 has a three-pronged flash suppressor, and a groove for a specially designed knife bayonet, which can be used alone as a combat knife. The Rk 95 Tp is a more modern, improved version of the Rk 62.
One of the most distinctive features of the Valmet rifles, including the M62 and all subsequent variations, is the open-ended, three prong flash suppressor with a bayonet lug on its lower side. In addition to the flash suppression, the end can quickly cut barbed wire by pushing the muzzle onto a strand of wire and firing a round – noisy but effective.

Calico M960

The Calico M960 is a 9×19mm caliber semi-automatic carbine. Its features include its high-capacity, cylindrical, helical-feed magazine and retractable stock. This method allows magazine capacities of 50 and 100 rounds in a relatively small space.
The weird feature on this gun is that you need to twist the magazine 23 times after loading!