I agree that the coolest gun I own is my H&K P7M8 RTB Import pistol. Great history and a flawlessly functioning pistol, not to mention a great southpaw piece . . . (I still really really miss my MP5 . . . )
What is, in your opinion, the coolest gun youve handled
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I agree that the coolest gun I own is my H&K P7M8 RTB Import pistol. Great history and a flawlessly functioning pistol, not to mention a great southpaw piece . . . (I still really really miss my MP5 . . . )
petemacmahon
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Being one interested in World War II history, I never got to hold it but still it was a thrill for me to stand a foot or two from it (it was displayed at approximately eye-level) and get a good, close look at General Patton's Colt .45 and think of all the places that pistol had been - and remember that it nearly went into the drink from the Augusta without ever having the chance to go all of those places.
From a WWII historical perspective, over the last dozen years, I've got to hold/handle most of the important guns. We have a local WWII re-enactment every year. The "actors" are mostly all nice folks and will let you hold their real guns. The German MG34 & MG42 are cool. One guy told me he had well over 50K into his MG34, with extra barrels and all. This, as we stood in the pouring rain after he just got done slogging through the mud in one of the fake battles. These guys take there reenacting very seriously, as I don't think I would have my 50K investment out in the mud!!
Recent hardware: Checked out a Sig Saur MPX 9mm the other day. Was mighty impressed, but don't have $1495 laying around
16"on a Battleship.
Bill Bates
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After the last pheasant hunt of the 2015/16 season my hunting buddy and co-worker uncased his Belgian 4 Gauge double for members of our hunting party to shoot. I can't say it is the coolest gun I've handled but it is near the top.
Posing for this photo my only thought was...hurry and take the picture. This thing is heavy
Posing for this photo my only thought was...hurry and take the picture. This thing is heavy
RobertJ.
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5"/54 Mk. 42 Mod 10
It was the aft gun on the USS Cochrane DDG 21, and my GQ station was the one man control at the top of the gun. I was on that boat for 10 months, and got to "pull the trigger" a total of 11 times. Pretty big stuff for a 22 year-old kid!
Second to that would be the Ma Deuce, the Browning M2 .50 Cal.
Thirdly, a select-fire M-14 on full auto.
It was the aft gun on the USS Cochrane DDG 21, and my GQ station was the one man control at the top of the gun. I was on that boat for 10 months, and got to "pull the trigger" a total of 11 times. Pretty big stuff for a 22 year-old kid!
Second to that would be the Ma Deuce, the Browning M2 .50 Cal.
Thirdly, a select-fire M-14 on full auto.
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I suppose I'm odd, crazy, or just unusual.
The coolest gun I ever shot or handled is the Parker
Bros Trojan Model 20 gauge my Great Uncle bought
in 1916. I killed my first Bobwhite with it in 1961, and
a good many more quail after that. It is still in my safe.
I fire a few low-pressure 2.5 inch shells in it every few
years.
A close second and third place is a US Property Govt
Model I gave to my nephew, and my S&W Combat
Masterpiece from 1953.
When you get right down to it, what could possibly be
more cool than vintage Parker shotguns, Colt pistols,
or S&W revolvers?
The coolest gun I ever shot or handled is the Parker
Bros Trojan Model 20 gauge my Great Uncle bought
in 1916. I killed my first Bobwhite with it in 1961, and
a good many more quail after that. It is still in my safe.
I fire a few low-pressure 2.5 inch shells in it every few
years.
A close second and third place is a US Property Govt
Model I gave to my nephew, and my S&W Combat
Masterpiece from 1953.
When you get right down to it, what could possibly be
more cool than vintage Parker shotguns, Colt pistols,
or S&W revolvers?
A friend of my Dad showed me a Pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Bull Gun, in .30-06. It was used in the Olympics, or at least the trials, sometime in the 1950s or early 60s. I remember he had a card with it, that had the pet load for it.
When I was working in our city warehouse, we got a box delivered by UPS. I signed for it, but had no clue what was in it, since it wasn't something I ordered. I cut the tape on the top, and looked at the packing slip. Colt Industries, 3 M-16A4 submachine guns, with 11" barrel. It didn't take me long to get one of those out and look it over. This was on a Friday, and the PD wouldn't come get them until Monday. I asked my boss if I could take one home for the weekend. Nope.
When I was working in our city warehouse, we got a box delivered by UPS. I signed for it, but had no clue what was in it, since it wasn't something I ordered. I cut the tape on the top, and looked at the packing slip. Colt Industries, 3 M-16A4 submachine guns, with 11" barrel. It didn't take me long to get one of those out and look it over. This was on a Friday, and the PD wouldn't come get them until Monday. I asked my boss if I could take one home for the weekend. Nope.
Spookypeanut1
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Ernest Hemingway's double rifle. A friend bought it at auction in, I think Main a few years ago. He collects old English double rifles. At my last count he had 42. Really cool guns.
RJJ 1971
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SweetMK
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Power,,,
You gotta love a Delta,, or you never shot one,, the GC just makes it great!!
Beauty,,,
Some guns were just meant to be stared at,,,
Pocket gun,,,
That is all I got,,,
You gotta love a Delta,, or you never shot one,, the GC just makes it great!!
Beauty,,,
Some guns were just meant to be stared at,,,
Pocket gun,,,
That is all I got,,,
TRE
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I've handled and even fired a lot of cool rifles in the last 30 years, full autos (a must shoot for any gun guy, no matter the cost), double rifles, fine shotguns and fine old handguns.
The most recent "cool" gun I got to handle was a Johnson semi-auto rifle (WWII vintage) that had been sporterized by a company in California (I believe) with a high gloss beautiful blue and very nice wood. It was not a one off either, according to the seller at the gun show backed up by paper work, this company made maybe 2500 of these after WWII from surplus guns, not sure on the number though.
Either way, it was a very "cool" gun. Very unusual and the first Johnson rifle I ever had the pleasure of handling.
TRE
The most recent "cool" gun I got to handle was a Johnson semi-auto rifle (WWII vintage) that had been sporterized by a company in California (I believe) with a high gloss beautiful blue and very nice wood. It was not a one off either, according to the seller at the gun show backed up by paper work, this company made maybe 2500 of these after WWII from surplus guns, not sure on the number though.
Either way, it was a very "cool" gun. Very unusual and the first Johnson rifle I ever had the pleasure of handling.
TRE
I was once offerd to buy a Valmet (like this one) 100 made
However i rememberd it to have silver birch stock like the case (could be wrong?)
and it had a chrome bayonet with scabbard
Unfortunatly it was fullauto (very NO GO here)
However i rememberd it to have silver birch stock like the case (could be wrong?)
and it had a chrome bayonet with scabbard
Unfortunatly it was fullauto (very NO GO here)
Towns
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To this day (and I'm 50 years old), the coolest gun I've handled was the 1911 my grandfather brought back from WWII. My Mom kept it in a kitchen drawer as a defensive gun, but don't think she ever fired it in her life. She trusted me not to take it out and hold it................ which is why I lock my guns up in a safe. I can still remember how it felt.
OK Hog Shooter
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I once had the opportunity to handle a Durs Egg musket at Collector's Firearms in Houston. Durs Egg (1748–1831) was a Swiss-born British gunmaker, noted for his flintlock pistols and for his company's production of the Ferguson rifle. Egg was apprenticed in Solothurn and Paris before establishing his own business in London in 1772. He was a contemporary of Joseph Manton, Jean Samuel Pauly, and the uncle of Joseph Egg.
I've had the honor to handle several original Hawkens, a Manton and other fine old flintlocks and percussion rifles and pistons.
As for modern era arms, I think my favorites would include a Thompson SMG, a HK MP5 and an M60.
I've had the honor to handle several original Hawkens, a Manton and other fine old flintlocks and percussion rifles and pistons.
As for modern era arms, I think my favorites would include a Thompson SMG, a HK MP5 and an M60.
When I was about eight or nine years old, ca 1952, we lived in a neighborhood that was built about 1910, all four-square and craftsman style houses. A few doors down the street from me lived Mr. & Mrs. R, who were about age 60-65, which seemed very old to me at the time. They were friendly, and we often spoke as I roamed about the neighborhood, playing and walking to and from school.
I was invited in one time, and was surprised to see Mr R's easy chair had a small bronze cannon just in front of it for a foot rest, facing the front door, and he had a pair of flintlock pistols on the table along side the chair. That was cool, but it got better. Mr. R was an antique arms collector. He showed me to the basement, which was very well lit, but unfurnished except for the boiler and a large table/workbench. Where the footer met the walls, there was a ledge about a foot off the floor and eight inches wide that went all around the perimeter of the ~25x40' room.
There were long guns of every description sitting on their butt plates on this ledge, leaning against the wall, completely around the room. These were the "old guns" he told me. His "new guns" were hundreds of civil war era percussion rifles, tied in bundles of ten or twelve, stacked horizontally on the floor like bundles of kindling. He told me he had "about" 2000 long guns in that room. He took me on a tour, taking down one from the ledge here and there and telling me about it. I remember a matchlock, a wheellock, a blunderbuss, some middle eastern arms with fancy wood carving and unusual curves to my cowboy movie educated eye, some long, graceful Kentucky rifles and flintlocks forever.
The gun that sticks in my mind the most was a wall gun, the biggest thing in his collection. It was matchlock, taller than me, had a barrel that seemed about the diameter of my wrist, and was so heavy I could hardly manipulate it. I remember thinking "It must take a really big strong man to shoulder and fire this thing" and Mr. R. explained what it was and showed me the Y shaped support that went into a hole in the top of the wall. He told me it weighed 37 lbs and could hit a man at 500 yards.
Shortly after that, we moved away, and Mr. R died a couple years later. I wonder to this day what became of his collection. Other than a major museum, I've never seen so many muzzle loading guns in one place in all my life.
I was invited in one time, and was surprised to see Mr R's easy chair had a small bronze cannon just in front of it for a foot rest, facing the front door, and he had a pair of flintlock pistols on the table along side the chair. That was cool, but it got better. Mr. R was an antique arms collector. He showed me to the basement, which was very well lit, but unfurnished except for the boiler and a large table/workbench. Where the footer met the walls, there was a ledge about a foot off the floor and eight inches wide that went all around the perimeter of the ~25x40' room.
There were long guns of every description sitting on their butt plates on this ledge, leaning against the wall, completely around the room. These were the "old guns" he told me. His "new guns" were hundreds of civil war era percussion rifles, tied in bundles of ten or twelve, stacked horizontally on the floor like bundles of kindling. He told me he had "about" 2000 long guns in that room. He took me on a tour, taking down one from the ledge here and there and telling me about it. I remember a matchlock, a wheellock, a blunderbuss, some middle eastern arms with fancy wood carving and unusual curves to my cowboy movie educated eye, some long, graceful Kentucky rifles and flintlocks forever.
The gun that sticks in my mind the most was a wall gun, the biggest thing in his collection. It was matchlock, taller than me, had a barrel that seemed about the diameter of my wrist, and was so heavy I could hardly manipulate it. I remember thinking "It must take a really big strong man to shoulder and fire this thing" and Mr. R. explained what it was and showed me the Y shaped support that went into a hole in the top of the wall. He told me it weighed 37 lbs and could hit a man at 500 yards.
Shortly after that, we moved away, and Mr. R died a couple years later. I wonder to this day what became of his collection. Other than a major museum, I've never seen so many muzzle loading guns in one place in all my life.
HK UMP .45 (full auto)
StakeOut
US Veteran
At the Marine Corp's Landing Force Developement Center ,Quantico Va I had the opportunity to test and evaluate many weapons of the day.
The ones that Impressed me the most were the Stoner 62 and Stoner 63
Modern Firearms - Stoner 63
With a weapons like this available back in 1964 why was Colt given the contract to produce the M16 that were pieces of junk when compared to the Stoners?
The ones that Impressed me the most were the Stoner 62 and Stoner 63
Modern Firearms - Stoner 63
With a weapons like this available back in 1964 why was Colt given the contract to produce the M16 that were pieces of junk when compared to the Stoners?
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Ed Fowler
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Here she is, an original US Colt converted to 22 rimfire by Alonzo Krull, I hear he was blind at the time, but he had been making them for years. Front sight adjustable for elevation, rear sight in dove tail. Milled ramps on top and for the ejector rod, made his own cylinder and it shoot like a rifle. Best part - I own her. You have to look her over carefully and you will find an amazing example of the art of the true gunsmith.
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