What is, in your opinion, the coolest gun youve handled

[CO_Kid]

Doesn't have to be one you owned or anything rare, just the one you think back as it being really neat to hold one.

Mine is my dad's recently acquired Springfield trapdoor infantry rifle dated to right about 1890. Its in really great shape with only a few things missing (cleaning rod, non original rear sight, etc)

 

[A10]

The perfect thread for me to brag again....I had the opportunity, several years ago, to handle one of the6 prototype Colt Paterson revolvers that were made. Just to have in my hands a piece of history like that blew me away! I still smile when I think about having something in my hands that was held by the Colonel himself!

The second coolest was the 1911 that belonged to Elmer Keith. I couldn't wipe the grin off my face for a week! It belongs to a member here, BTW....

 

[824tsv]

The highlight for me was shooting a Thompson SMG in full auto.

 

[Arik]

There have been a few. All different but all cool in their own way. My falling block Enfield Martini in 303. A Broom handle Mauser, a Thompson SMG and a M60 SMG are 4 that I can remember

 

[NYlakesider]

The highlight for me was shooting a Thompson SMG in full auto.

Yes that is a lot of fun, I have done it a few times when I visited Florida on Vacation.

With that said I have to believe that the .458 Winchester Magnum in a Competitor pistol that I shot was the coolest and quite possibly the most impractical gun I ever handled. ( A while back I made a post about shooting that gun.) Shot it only once and now much smarter will never fire it again.

 

[Mexican Kerry]

Thompson, paid the fee and shot a few mags in Vegas. Close second was an M3A1.

Those were fantasy guns for me, had to do it once. For everything else, probably my first 1914 Gov't Model. First batch bought by the Canadian gov't for the war, original owner's name engraved on it.

 

[Muss Muggins]

I really, really miss my MP5 . . .

 

[4330Inroute]

A co worker had a thing for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. series. He had a gunsmith build him a P38k with an M16/AR15 caged flash suppressor on the end of the cut down barrel. When I shot it the P38 had a defective sear and it went full auto. It did three shot bursts. Was a hoot to shoot but I had him disassemble it into pieces to take to the gunsmith so he wouldn't get into trouble having an unregistered machine pistol. I never was able to talk him out of it.
A Thompson is a second and a Ruger AC 5.56 folding stock is third.

When I was in High School I was invited to hunt pigs by a classmate when I stopped by their house on a Saturday morning. They were leaving when I arrived and I didn't have time to go home and pick up my rifle. His Dad said he would loan me one of his. He took me into a room that had wall to wall rifle racks two deep. He collected pre 64 Model 70's. I selected one with a Unertl scope on it and a heavy barrel so he said take it. It was in .257 Roberts. He handed me two boxes of ammunition and off we went. I never saw a pig but it was a blast at shooting ground squirrels. I didn't have any money to buy anything so didn't ask if he'd sell it to me but it kind of hurt to have to give it back. He did let me clean it which I thought was pretty nice of him. After graduation they moved away.

 

[505Gibbs]

When Jaqua's was in its original building in downtown Findlay, Ohio you could walk in and go around the counter and handle numerous double rifles and nobody would blink their eye. Some of these were well in to 5 figures.
It was a VERY user friendly hands on experience only wish that I had done it more than once.

 

[loeman]

The highlight for me was shooting a Thompson SMG in full auto.

Yes, I agree, that would be me too! The one I shot was from ca. 1920. The owner told me it had been made for law enforcement to help control labor issues in the West Virginia coal mines.

Coolest handgun? A tie between a vintage Sig P210 and the HK P7. Both are in my safe.

 

[mauser9]

An 1873 Colt Cavalry with 7 1/2 barrel I believe. That was at a gun show a few years back. Seller was asking $7000 and thought it was decent of him to let me handle it even though I did not have the funds. Quite a thrill just to hold it!

 

[Big Cholla]

Like 'Muss", I too really like the MP 5. It is a very reliable and accurate sub. On single shot, it is amazingly accurate further out than one would believe. I would like to own one today, but the $35,000 to $40,000 cost prevents that. I was an MP 5 Instructor and Armor. Never had much to do in the 'Armor' capacity.

 

[Iggy]

Got to shoot an original Hawken rifle at a ronyvoo at Ft. Bridger WY.

I've got a dang fine reproduction I was shooting at a raw egg on a string. A feller came up and complimented me on my rifle.

I said, "Thankee Sir, that's a fine one you're packin' there too."
He said, "Yeah, it's a original Hawken, do you want to shoot it?"

Dumbest question I was ever asked.

PS: I hit the egg! That's important cause if you missed, you ate that raw egg. There was more than a little risk shootin' a strange rifle but there was no way I was gonna pass up shootin' a real Jake Hawken rifle, and that's plumb center.

 

[Stephanie B]

Bloopergun. I got to shoot one, once.

 

[CS45Fan]

For me it was when I shot an H&K MP5 SMG.

Cheers!

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Going back to my buddy's Colt Flattop Bisley Targets.
He had a pair given to him by a family member in a gin-u-wine Mexican Buscadero rig.
As I posted before, I was green with envy!
Why didn't I have kin folks like that?
Also really liked the Civilian Thompson with drum mags, it belonged to the Carlsbad, NM Police Dept.

 

[jmace57]

I held a friends Colt SAA in 44 Russian that was NIB from 1921. He had inherited it, and thought it might be worth $600. I told him a bit more. It sold at auction for $25,000.

 

[Darkenfast]

Local gun shop recently had a .44 Auto Mag. Nine-inch barrel (no rib), magna-ported, came with a leather flap holster with mag pouch and some other stuff. $4600. Handling it was all I could afford to do!

 

[625-10scc]

X-M21 original and complete

 

[trapshooter870]

Shot a Barrett 82A1 50BMG at a Wounded Warrior event in Vegas a few years ago. Loved it !!!!