Largest / Most Powerful gun you've fired

[rck281]

Freedom Arms 454 Casull
Kreighoff 500 Nitro Express Double Rifle
Armalite AR-50 50 BMG
Benelli 3 1/2" 12 ga

Worse recoil: 44 Mag Derringer, contender in 375 JDJ,

 

[jtcarm]

Eat your heart out!

This little sucker will take out a school bus at 11 miles.

It delivers a 200 lb. high explosive projectile.

Damn, it was fun!

It is an 8 inch, towed howitzer. It went into service during WWII and was used into the 60's. You pull it with a 10 ton prime mover truck, has a crew of eight (which you don't need. It can be shot with about four people.) It will deliver one round per minute.

You need to swab out the "chamber" with a wet mop after each round is fired in order to extinguish any burning powder fragments. If not...you are in for a surprise when you load the charge.

I was wondering who would pull that one out first.

My best friend, a Vietnam artilleryman, pulled the trigger on an 8” continuously for about 12 hours, laying down blocking fire for a patrol that got dumped in a hot LZ.

Now all we need is a Navy gunner who’s pulled the trigger on a 16”.

 

[TX-Dennis]

I'm not really a high powered kinda guy. For long guns 12 gauge 3 inch turkey load is it. For handguns the most powerful I own is .40.

I did fire a couple of rounds of .454 Casull from a big honkin' Taurus revolver (not mine) that must have weighed about 3 pounds. That was quite an experience for a guy who shoots mostly 9mm, .38 special, and .223.

 

[Mack_C85]

45/70 line gun. Actually shot blanks, but propelled a 45 cal brass rod about a foot long with an eye machined on the end. The string was tied through the eye and the rod was shot over the victim. This particular model had a medallion in the butt in honor of the U.S. Lifesaving Service, a forerunner of the Coast Guard. I "earned" the honor by accurately firing a .22 cal line gun after watching several others miss the target downwind, I figured in the windage......

I was handed the gun with the proviso, "Won't need any windage on this one"
You could have molded those medallions in my should for about ten days afterwards!!!!!


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[6GUNSONLY]

I shot a .500 BPE double rifle many years ago, 2 times. Heavy recoil but not sharp, a big push. Have shot a .375 H&H several times, not really unpleasant at all. Had a Ruger 77 in .338 Win Mag years ago that was a punisher with 275 grain bullets. That straight stock and fairly light weight - the bolt handle would rap my index finger knuckle sharply every time. I've always imagined the .340 and .378 Weatherbys were wicked in the recoil department but have never shot either. The hardest kicking thing I've shot is my Mossberg 835 pump with 3.5" turkey loads - 2 1/8 ozs of no. 5s will get your undivided attention.

 

[RGVshooter]

LONG GUN - A model 1766 Charleville musket. It's hard to imagine going into battle with this thing.

PISTOL - Ruger Red Hawk 44 magnum. 44 specials are fine but the magnums not so much.

MOST FUN - S&W Victory 22lr. pistol.