Your most "tacticool" vs most old school guns

shouldazagged · Sep 21, 2014

My 640, 10-5, Marlin 39A and Stevens SXS 12 gauge sawed to 20 inches could all be used PRN in situations calling for tactics. "Cool" is a whole other question. I quit trying to be cool some years ago when young co-workers began calling me "Mister Mike".

Marshwheeling · Sep 21, 2014

I just have steel handguns. Nothing particularly old, all made, and for the most part designed within my lifetime. Some revolvers, some semis. Some with wood stocks, some with plastic. That's it.

Ranger514 · Sep 21, 2014

My most Tacticool would have to be my RRA Operator, fitted with a Leupold VXII 1X4 scope and offset illuminator. Compared to how others trick out their black guns, mine is minimalistic. I also keep a Gen4 G19 with a rail illuminator at my bedside. My Old School cool gun would have to be the Winchester Model 94 my dad gave me when I was 12.

Cyrano · Sep 21, 2014

Photo 1. I don't really dig tactikool; here's my only candidate; a Colt M4 carbine, with a few, small modifications, carrying an Eotech sight. Very accurate, incidently. However that muzzle brake directs tremendous blast out to the side, and backwards. It really clears the bench if you're firing off that, and it's like a slap on the forehead.

Photo 2. My candidates for blued steel and walnut, although in this case it's goncalo alves. I'm not really a S&W revolver collector; I much prefer the Model 39 autos, but I can't resist '5 screws'. A K 22, ca 1948, a K 38 ca 1950 and a M&P, 2" barrel, ca 1948-52.

Rick_A · Sep 21, 2014

A.O. said:
While I absolutely HATE the whole "tactical" "tacticool" wordage fad.. I'll actually avoid products with the word "tactical" on the packaging for another with out!! (off the soapbox now)Here's mine.

My Scar 16S with an Eotech and a magnifier...

And a Savage 24 30/30 over a 20 gage (the original stock was cracked but after a year of looking I found one so its back to a stock stock)

What's with the Armslist ad photo?

Rick_A · Sep 21, 2014

ChattanoogaPhil said:
Well... Since my Savage FV-SR has a Boyd's stock that is named "Tacticool" I guess it would qualify. It also represents a crazy amount of money spent on a .22lr recreational plinker that could be replaced with a $200 10-22, so that should double tacticool qualify. It's one of the most fun guns to shoot of any I own... makes it a triple tacticool, right?

Not bad. I sunk a bunch of money into a 10/22 over several years.

My kid can shoot it with the collapsible and it shoots much better in the aluminum stock than it did in wood or polymer.

20130927_132119 by Slick_Rick77, on Flickr
After 18 years of use it started giving me trouble recently. It'll be getting new springs shortly.

derek45auto · Sep 21, 2014

top carbine is 6.8mmSPC

My Grandfather was a Combat Engineer in World War One.
He carried this 1911, it saved his ***.
I grew up shooting with My father.

he also brought back a Luger.

BigBill · Sep 22, 2014

Tactical cool?

First I don't like rails on any gun. I don't like fancy guns. I like the plain jane, no frills, no bells or whistles guns. I don't like women who wear make up, because in the morning it can be scary, surprises aren't for me. So plain Jane's are ok. I like the natural beauty lines.

A USGI 1911a1 WW 2 clone is about as good as it gets. Cool looking maybe, tactical not really, practical you bet.

rwsmith · Sep 22, 2014

It has to be....

I don't do tacticool at all, but mine has to be my 3rd gen 9mm because I have a 15 round mag. Probably the least tacticool is my Savage bolt gun with the recoil pad duct taped to it.

My revolver would have been tacticool before 1900 and my Browning A5 was state of the art in 1929. The only place the rusty antique double barrel would be tacticool would have been on a farm somewhere or up in the hills for weddings.

CH47gunner · Sep 22, 2014

This is about as tactical as I get -
Savage 10FP, in .308 (target/bench) vs. Sako Finnbear AIII, in .30-06 (hunting/field)

Savage 10FP

Sako Finnbear AIII

BearBio · Sep 22, 2014

these are about as "cool" as I've got (Traded the Taurus a few months ago):

First time I fired this, I remembered why I HATED them. Got rid of it right away!

Here's what I have now:

Native American Assault Rifle:

Home defense:

Marine24 · Sep 22, 2014

A.O. · Sep 22, 2014

Rick_A said:
What's with the Armslist ad photo?

HA!! I didn't even notice that.. that's a pic I had from when I bought it a few years ago.. off armslist..

Here is a todays pic so you don't think its just a pic off of armslist.

And you will notice it has the good stock on it and the carpet in the pic matches the carpet in the pic of my Scar!

revho · Sep 22, 2014

I guess as tacticool as I get is a Ruger Charger, its the only red dot sight I have. Sure is fun at 30 yards.

Wraith_K · Sep 22, 2014

My most tactikewl is my tactical spork with AR attachement.

wheelyfun66 · Sep 22, 2014

vs....

vonn · Sep 22, 2014

Really interesting choices from all. AR copy of M16A1 and Sharps in 45-70 for me. I go for WW 2 battle rifles for both categories.

-db- · Sep 22, 2014

This is about as "tactical" as it gets for me:

Pretty much everything else I have is old-school. Including that "tactical" one, now that I think about it.

bushmaster1313 · Sep 22, 2014

New School:

Old School:

Tactile cool:

kingfhb · Sep 24, 2014

What if they're one in the same? My heavily modified Mosin Nagant 91/30.

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