Largest / Most Powerful gun you've fired

[Lee in Quartzsite]

B.A.R. & M-60. Anyone shoot one of these??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckSYa0yJQqg

 

[KeithCarter]

.458 Winchester Magnum and 12ga slugs, both felt the same to me (the .458 was a lot heavier).

I used to sit on an old railroad tie and load my 6 cases with a little Lee .45LC loader. Even then factory would cost a buck and a half a round. I was plinking with a .458 for pennies.

Anyone for handloading???

 

[Gatofeo]

Largest civilian gun: .375 H&H Magnum.
Largest military gun: Once, as a civilian photographer, the grunts let me pull the lanyard on a 155mm artillery piece. Yowsah!
I had to wear a flak vest, Kevlar helmet, safety glasses, ear plugs and muff-type hearing protectors over those! Whew!

 

[roundgunner]

Ma Deuce M2 .50 Machine Gun but the M60 was way more fun to shoot.

For guns I own a 300 Weatherby. It’s a bit stiffer than a 30-06. Used to be the most powerful 30 cal. Is it still?
As for handguns, I got to shoot a 460 at a S&W demo. Surprisingly recoil was similar to a heavy 44 Mag.

 

[M29since14]

I never had the opportunity to shoot at Uncle Sam's expense. I did get to fire a .460 Weatherby one evening at a trap shoot - on my friend's nickel. I was allowed two rounds. It was the first and the last time I will shoot a gun that big with a telescope. The scope touched me both times, but did no damage. If I had been less careful, I am sure I would have had a permanent "Weatherby eyebrow."

The recoil was heavier than that of my .378, but did not seem nearly as quick.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

105MM howitzer in ROTC Advanced Camp.

 

[Muley Gil]

.25 ACP Raven.

All those .44s and .45s I post pictures of actually belong to tennexplorer.

 

[NCTexan]

USMC M110 Self Propelled 8" Howitzer.

Fire Direction Officer and Forward Observer... but the Gunny would let me yank the lanyard every once in a while.

Charge five white bag would shake your poop loose.

 

[Gutpile Charlie]

Originally posted by NCTexan:
USMC M110 Self Propelled 8" Howitzer.

Fire Direction Officer and Forward Observer... but the Gunny would let me yank the lanyard every once in a while.

Charge five white bag would shake your poop loose.

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"Charge Five...Fuse Quick"

"On the way...over"

"On the way...wait"

 

[Haku]

.557 T-REX

 

[benmcc]

m2, m60 and a 44mag

 

[Iggy]

That T-Rex shore does kick doesn't it. I haven't shot one but I have seen a video of a bunch of arabs getting beat up by one.

 

[2fingers]

Winchester .458 mag and a 45-70 T/C Contender 10" Now that was fun!

 

[m657]

In olden times (JFK era) the National Guard was actively soliciting my high school buddies.

We went out to the desert driving the tanks over the obstacle course, fired mortars, and I got a 100 round turn with Ma Deuce Herself on a tripod. It was good.

Thrown some heavy lead from 58 cal front stuffers; competed IHMSA with FL308 XP-100; developed some rather edgy 44 mag revolver rounds with Elmer Keith's recipe; high cap modern 12 gauge stuff; perhaps the heaviest handgun load I've handled was that double charged 38/45acp pistol my buddy had screwed up loading....

Did turn down an offer to shoot a guy's TC in 444 factory load. Shot & enjoyed the '41 mag super' or whatever they called it...325g "41 mag" long case at 1400+fps....think it was in a Dan Wesson revolver built to IMHSA specs. Downright accurate & pleasant besides.

One of the nastiest recoils I've ever encountered was a nice looking SxS 20 gauge Ithaca cut to 20"....lovely patina, great weathered stock, cowboy gun, appeared as if it had been laying in your great great uncle's buckboard since about 1930 or so...wretched recoil with standard loads.

 

[ChadW]

Originally posted by USAF385:
Largest and most powerful for me: 105 mm on a ac-130 gunship

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=333bBwivi2Y

Most fun.... .50 cal M2 (Hummer Mounted)

largest handgun.. .50 AE Desert Eagle

USAF385, I just watched the video

amazing.

 

[Waldo]

The most powerful handgun was a .44 Mag
The most powerful rifle was a single shot chambered for the .50 BMG
The rifle that kicked the worst was a .460 Weatherby Mag. The .50 single shot weighed around 40 or 50 pounds and did not kick near as bad as the .460 Weatherby Mag.
I have also fired a B.A.R.,a 1919 Browning Machine Gun in 30-06, an M-60, and a 50 caliber M-2 Machine Gun. They were all lots of fun.

 

[Climber]

105MM main gun on an M60 tank
M2 Browning .50 cal
3.5" Bazooka
M79 40MM grenade launcher

All of this at taxpayer expense when I was serving proudly in the Big Green Machine.

 

[therevjay]

Ah ya beat me to it. Also a 105mm on a M60A3. Although the 105 is bigger I think the 90MM on the old M48 series hurt the ears worse when it fired. (it seemed to make a sharper crack)

 

[Andy Griffith]

Isn't there someone on here that was one of the gunners on a battleship?!?!

As a kid, I had a poster of the USS North Carolina firing it's guns...

Ah, memories of a simpler time.

 

[Lee in Quartzsite]

Isn't there someone on here that was one of the gunners on a battleship?!?!

Something like this??

http://shock.military.com/Shoc...ontent=164747&page=2