What is, in your opinion, the coolest gun youve handled
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spdguns
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As a 30 year LEO/armorer/SWAT/sub gun instructor, I've shot just about everything with a go-fast switch. Zillionss of rounds out of an MP-5 but the two that stood out were the WWII grease gun and the Glock 18. Or maybe the STEYR TMP.
I brokered a deal for a buddy's H&K PSG-1 several years ago. It was up for sale again this last weekend at Wannamacher's in Tulsa.
And last, a hand me down Colt SAA that belonged to an Oklahoma Territorial Marshall. The gun was previously undiscovered until a descendant decided to sell it.
I brokered a deal for a buddy's H&K PSG-1 several years ago. It was up for sale again this last weekend at Wannamacher's in Tulsa.
And last, a hand me down Colt SAA that belonged to an Oklahoma Territorial Marshall. The gun was previously undiscovered until a descendant decided to sell it.
Dennis The B
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While visiting the Patton Museum at Fort Knox, I had the opportunity to hold General Patton's S&W Registered .357 Magnum. What a piece of history! It's certainly no "95%" revolver, and the ivory stocks weren't earlier cared for very well.
hangnoose
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GENERALY THE OLDER THE COOLER
Touching off a few 36 cal muzzleloader rounds with a beautifully crafted 300? year old flint lock/primer cap converted. The trigger was great, the wood & metal work amazing. No real way to date it. It did have a rifled bore. When younger I got to shoot Singer 1911, snuck back from WWll? & didn't realize what I had. The Germans made some way cool military rifles/pistols/sub machine guns/ tanks.... V2. I like the US stuff too.
Touching off a few 36 cal muzzleloader rounds with a beautifully crafted 300? year old flint lock/primer cap converted. The trigger was great, the wood & metal work amazing. No real way to date it. It did have a rifled bore. When younger I got to shoot Singer 1911, snuck back from WWll? & didn't realize what I had. The Germans made some way cool military rifles/pistols/sub machine guns/ tanks.... V2. I like the US stuff too.
armenius
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An extremely rare bird, a Luger in 45ACP with US and an Eagle on the barrel as I recall.It was one of the several made for procurement testing,loosing to the wonderful Colt 1911.
Didn't get to shoot it, but I wasn't too far from a 5"/54 during a NGFS exercise. The bang of the gun going off was a very flat WHAM. Hooray for hearing protection, because I then heard the shell departing. Hard to describe, it was almost like a rising tone. But unmistakable.
My favorite was the M60 Machine gun when I served in the US Army...or my 155SP & 8" Howitzers.
Really the M60 MG... When i as in W Germany we were doing training in Graf. 4 of us were the last to shoot the M60 course that day and the LT did not want to return any rounds so he let the 4 of us, in 2 teams, shoot about 5000 rounds. Maybe more, I am really not sure. We fired continuously for about 25-30 minutes. Changing barrels with the Nomex mitten (I think it was Nomex) that was provided with the 2 barrels. I was 21 years old and we were actually tired of shooting. The belt had the tracer rounds and it was dusk so it was even more fun to see the rounds following each other. This was in 1977 and I still think about that day occasionally.
It was also alot of fun firing the Howitzers too! Especially at night with that awesome muzzle blast.
Really the M60 MG... When i as in W Germany we were doing training in Graf. 4 of us were the last to shoot the M60 course that day and the LT did not want to return any rounds so he let the 4 of us, in 2 teams, shoot about 5000 rounds. Maybe more, I am really not sure. We fired continuously for about 25-30 minutes. Changing barrels with the Nomex mitten (I think it was Nomex) that was provided with the 2 barrels. I was 21 years old and we were actually tired of shooting. The belt had the tracer rounds and it was dusk so it was even more fun to see the rounds following each other. This was in 1977 and I still think about that day occasionally.
It was also alot of fun firing the Howitzers too! Especially at night with that awesome muzzle blast.
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Ross3914
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The coolest thing I've handled was a Gyrojet pistol. Interesting and unique.
Close runner up is a H&R T-48.
Coolest thing I've shot is my Father's M1941 Johnson rifle.
The coolest gun I've owned was a Thompson SMG. At MG shoots I have tried out many other full-auto. Personally, the MP-40 was the neatest SMG.
Ten years in the Army gave me the opportunity to shoot most of what was in the inventory at the time, and several things from other countries (FAL, G-3, AK/RPK, etc.).
The coolest though was the Gyrojet.
Close runner up is a H&R T-48.
Coolest thing I've shot is my Father's M1941 Johnson rifle.
The coolest gun I've owned was a Thompson SMG. At MG shoots I have tried out many other full-auto. Personally, the MP-40 was the neatest SMG.
Ten years in the Army gave me the opportunity to shoot most of what was in the inventory at the time, and several things from other countries (FAL, G-3, AK/RPK, etc.).
The coolest though was the Gyrojet.
Reading this thread made me come to the sad realization that I don't have a coolest gun ever. 
Perhaps I should go out and try to find one? 
But first let me say that just seeing or touching or holding a "cool" gun shouldn't count IMHO.
It should be one that you've at least shot for a time or been assigned responsibility for or actually owned in order to count. 
Quite the trouble maker, aren't I.
The fact is that while I own quite a few interesting guns, there isn't a single one that I'd call uniquely "cool." And I've never shot a fully automatic weapon (unless you count the occasional malfunctioning semi-auto ) so I can't draw on that sort of experience. 
Does anyone have any suggestions for a legal, non-full-auto gun that's available today that is truly "cool"?
Maybe that's what I need to add to the collection next... for once, a truly "cool" gun!
Perhaps I should go out and try to find one? But first let me say that just seeing or touching or holding a "cool" gun shouldn't count IMHO.
It should be one that you've at least shot for a time or been assigned responsibility for or actually owned in order to count. Quite the trouble maker, aren't I.
The fact is that while I own quite a few interesting guns, there isn't a single one that I'd call uniquely "cool."
And I've never shot a fully automatic weapon (unless you count the occasional malfunctioning semi-auto ) so I can't draw on that sort of experience. Does anyone have any suggestions for a legal, non-full-auto gun that's available today that is truly "cool"?
Maybe that's what I need to add to the collection next... for once, a truly "cool" gun! 
Reading this thread made me come to the sad realization that I don't have a coolest gun ever.
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Does anyone have any suggestions for a legal, non-full-auto gun that's available today that is truly "cool"?
I'm afraid I don't have much sense of what's "cool" anymore, but the new manufacture semi-auto FG42s are interesting enough that I had to have one:
About the same size and weight as the 18" barreled SAGE stocked M1a but rather less "bulky".
Side loading magazines. (Would be particularly useful in it's original open-bolt full-auto role, along with an assistant to swap mags for the gunner. It functioned as a closed bolt semi-auto rifle as well, but emphasis in design was on burst fire.)
Not exactly the easiest thing to cycle (!!!), but otherwise fairly sophisticated for it's time. For example:
1) Folding iron sights
2) QD scope rail built integral to receiver
3) QD and recoil absorbing stock
4) Excellent muzzle brake
5) Integral bipod
6) Integral magazine well dust covers
Downsides:
1) No bolt hold open in semi-auto
2) No match trigger!
3) Hard to cycle bolt (on the semi-auto rifles at least)
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Ozark Marine
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M-79 Grenade launcher?. Leave it to the Coast Guard to come up with that.
Those were very cool.
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Sig P210, swiss made.
The owner of my LGS shows me all the cool guns that pass through his shop, and he let me handle a Sig P210 and experience the trigger. Very nice gun.
The owner of my LGS shows me all the cool guns that pass through his shop, and he let me handle a Sig P210 and experience the trigger. Very nice gun.
Stranglehold
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Quite a few years ago I was working the chronograph stage at a USPSA Area 5 match where I had the opportunity to handle the race guns of a good number of the top shooters in the country at the time, including Rob Leatham, Jerry Barnhart, and eventual match winner Todd Jarrett.
Pretty cool I suppose, but it doesn't hold a candle to handling and shooting my father's Remington Rand 1911 he carried during WWII.
Roe
Pretty cool I suppose, but it doesn't hold a candle to handling and shooting my father's Remington Rand 1911 he carried during WWII.
Roe
Spookypeanut1
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I'm guessing that you mean the US state of Maine, not down on Main St. in some town.
Seriously, do you recall the maker and the caliber?
Yes, I did mean the state of Maine. The caliber is a .577 nitro express. I do not remember who it was made by, except it was made in England. My wife has a bullet collection, and wanted one of his, do not remember the caliber but when she found out it was custom made and cost around $100.00 she thought better than to ask for one.
BearBio
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1. My 1943 1911A1 vet bring back from Iwo Jima.
2, An 1876 Winchester with British proof marks in 50-110 (?)
3. Thompson
4. My 1900's Bisley in 41 LC, engraved in a tribal motif, carved ivory grips with ruby eyes
2, An 1876 Winchester with British proof marks in 50-110 (?)
3. Thompson
4. My 1900's Bisley in 41 LC, engraved in a tribal motif, carved ivory grips with ruby eyes
Earliest- the Broomhandle my father brought back from occupied Japan after WW II.
Most poignant- the damaged revolver- model 60 maybe ? that a first responder carried into the World Trade Center, later found in the rubble and preserved at the NRA museum.
Most historic- a revolver, I think it was a Remington, attributed to Jesse James, also from the NRA museum. It had an original holster with it !
Various- a Singer .45 that a pharmacist invited me to see in his safe in the back of his store.
All the machine guns I've had the good fortune to shoot- Thompsons, Reisings, M60, Uzi, Mac-10 & 11, MG-42, S&W model 76.
And this one-
My first Smith and Wesson, a birthday present when I was 16 from a mentor and friend.
Regards,
turnerriver
Most poignant- the damaged revolver- model 60 maybe ? that a first responder carried into the World Trade Center, later found in the rubble and preserved at the NRA museum.
Most historic- a revolver, I think it was a Remington, attributed to Jesse James, also from the NRA museum. It had an original holster with it !
Various- a Singer .45 that a pharmacist invited me to see in his safe in the back of his store.
All the machine guns I've had the good fortune to shoot- Thompsons, Reisings, M60, Uzi, Mac-10 & 11, MG-42, S&W model 76.
And this one-
My first Smith and Wesson, a birthday present when I was 16 from a mentor and friend.
Regards,
turnerriver
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