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

[fyimo]

When I was in Vietnam in 1969 I also fired the M79 a few times and I carried the M16 from March until September when I took over the M-14 sniper rifle I posted earlier in this thread.

Another gun I got to check out was the Captains Car-15 a carbine version of the M16.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

Does anyone have any suggestions for a legal, non-full-auto gun that's available today that is truly "cool"?

There are a lot of opinions in re "cool". My CZ Duo make in German occupied Czechoslovakia in 1944 is cool. My Walther P-4 is cool (just try to find one). I fired those so that makes them cool guns I have fired.

I didn't count the Ma Deuce I fired in the Army, M-60 from the hip, or howitzers I fired. M14s, too, and that's my favorite rifle of all time but it's a favorite, not necessarily the most cool. All big military guns are pretty cool, I guess, but they don't light me up like that 500 Jeffrey I wrote about earlier.

I don't think of full auto weapons as all that cool. I've fired an UZI, MAC 10, probably others I can't think of. Fun, exciting, yeah, but not that cool. Wasteful of ammunition, hard to hit anything, etc. Someone once wrote, maybe PF Ackley or Townsend Whelen, "only accurate guns are interesting". That might include a coolness factor, too.

So, as for a current gun that is legal today that is very cool, well, we're back to taste - what qualifies to YOU as cool? My Walther PPK/S .22 with a suppressor affixed ranks WAY UP THERE in the coolness department, totally legal, outrageously fun. So there ya go!

 

[ISCS Yoda]

ICS Yoda - "Now that one will hurt ya...."

I've admired the art of those double rifles, but I'd never want to shoot one.
Reminds me of something I read or heard once:
A 160 lb. Englishman with a 16 lb. rifle fires at a 16,000 lb. elephant at 16 yards.
The Englishman goes down; the gun goes down, the elephant goes down.
Whoever gets up, owns the others' possessions.
If none get up, their possessions are divided according to the law of the jungle.

I love that!

I had a CZ 550 European style .416 Rigby for awhile. Gorgeous gun and very impressive when it went off. I imagine that .500 Jeffrey was far more impressive.

A 16 pound rifle would have been something made back in the day when they measured bore size and not caliber. I reckon a 4 bore blackpowder elephant gun would weigh 16 pounds. VERY COOL - shooting it would not be quite so cool but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!!!

I refer you back to Bill Bates post in this thread - it shows just such a gun.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

In 1983, I was at a OGCA show in Columbus, Ohio and stopped at a table to see if he had any unusual double rifle ammo. He had brought about 15 assorted rounds from his "junk ammo" box for my collection. Sitting on the table was a Holland & Holland Side-by Side, Royal Grade 4 Bore rifle at $80,000. It was like new and may have been unfired. All the accessories were with it! I had bought a WR 450 3 1/4" N.E. SxS from him three shows before, so he told me to see how it fit. I said there was no way I could afford to buy it, and it would be pointless to "Try it on." He replied he probably had it sold at that show anyway, and I should pick it up because, "When are you going to get a chance to pick up another one?" So I hoisted it to my shoulder, It was as if it had a mind of its own and wanted nothing more than to be at my shoulder and aiming at the African Big 5. I ask about ammo, he replied that he had all I wanted at $400 a shot! I didn't try to justify buying it. But every now and then, in the middle of the night it still calls to me, like some lost lover. As tears roll down my cheeks, I refuse to answer back and roll over and fight my way back to sleep!

Iven

 

[ISCS Yoda]

16"on a Battleship.

Winner of the "Biggest Gun" right here. Any challengers?

There are many online photos of battleships firing their guns so to save having to post copyrights I recommend you just search and you will find them. I assure you they are the biggest and baddest and COOLEST it's sad they're all mothballed now.

 

[CptCurl]

My Colt '21 is a good candidate:

 

[jmace57]

I had a late friend who was a FFL dealer and a class 3 collector...
I had the honor of being invited to a private shoot with his class 3 friends... what a day...

but my favorite...
BAR WW2 set up...

Immediately after I win the lottery, I'm going to find one of these and pay whatever it costs. (Dad was a BAR man in WW2)

 

[Usmc5811]

In order of what I think are the coolest firearms that I have handled and shot would be MK-19 grenade launcher, tommy gun, MP5, MP10, Uzi, Ma Deuce, and the like new pre 1960 Savage 99EG in .243. The savage I bought 2 years ago for a total sum of $350. But it was given to my father for Father's Day. But it will come back to me, hopefully a good many years from now.

 

[CO_Kid]

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.

Not sure if you're aware of this, but those 45 caliber lugers are now literally worth a million dollars each. Only 2 Are known to still exist.

 

[Cyrano]

Not sure if you're aware of this, but those 45 caliber lugers are now literally worth a million dollars each. Only 2 Are known to still exist.

Yes, Serial number 2 is the one that's been on the market several times. Highest it went for was $985,000. Don't know whee it is now. Sereial number 6 is supposed to be in a museum somewhere in Louisiana. Publicity about it is scarce, and I've never seen a picture of it. Anybody know anything more about serial number 6?

 

[Wtlnrdr12]

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)

The coolest, in order: Colt Single Action Army 45 Long Colt 7 1/2" Brl/ German 7.62mm Luger all numbers match!!
1886 Winchester 45/70 Octagon Brl.,1898 30/40 Krag, U.S.Army Rifle Team Rifle, belonging to my Grand Uncle on the U.S.Army Rifle Team circa 1906!!

 

[BOMBTEC]

Coolest guns

Back in late '68 as a USAF SP in RVN. I was issued and M16A1 with a XM148, 40mm tube on it. It had a strange trigger on it. Before that in the SAC Missiles fields of MT I carried a M2 Carbine as the AF had sent all the M16s to NAM.

 

[Frank46]

MP5 with silencer and of course the giggle switch. Was the best box of 9mm I ever had fun with.Frank

 

[bigjohn4]

Had fun shooting a suppressed full auto Uzi. Like fondling my Model 1892 Krag/Jorgenson, Broomhandle, and Luger too. An interesting one is an Remington Model 51. Feels nice in the hand, points naturally, and shoots great. Hate taking it apart though! Same thing with my Second Model Colt Woodsman. Webley Mark 2 that is unit marked is cool too.

 

[Andyd]

The coolest gun? A Walther single shot rimfire match rifle when I was about 6 years old. The first shot from a real gun, a memorable moment that gave me direction in life.

I am surprised at the love of full autos. I hate machine guns although I was more than once the best in my batallion with the belt fed beast.

 

[brucev]

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)

Re: OP. Had a chance to handle a few nice guns. A nice .30 1919 was fun to fiddle with and shoot. Same w/ a M-16 and AK-47. Handled a BOSS shotgun... gorgeous. Perhaps the one that sticks out in my mind was a pre-WWII Merkel... double barrel shotgun w/ a rifle barrel centered below the shotgun barrels. Stunning carving and engraving. Some sort of Luftwaffe gun. Absolutely gorgeous... breath taking. Held it and handled it one afternoon while visiting one of my church members about 1994. He pulled it out from under the couch where it was wrapped in a oily cloth. He'd picked it up out of a pile of confiscated weapons before they crushed everything under a tank and then threw the scrap into the river. He sent it home to his wife. Fifty years later... it was simply beautiful... a joy to hold. Sincerely. bruce.

 

[pawncop]

Coolest gun I have handled is the Savage 45 ACP at a Dallas Market Hall show many years ago. If my memory serves me correctly it was serial number 2 or 3.

I have been fortunate to have owned several cool guns. A Whitney Wolverine, which I sold as well as my Luger and H&K P7 M8, which I still have.

I have had the opportunity to shoot an MP 5, no Thompson yet.

 

[Cyrano]

GREAT string!! Keep 'em coming.

 

[Muss Muggins]

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!

H&K P7 . . .

 

[BruceM]

Wish I had something exotic to add. I have shot, however:

Hard Chromed 5" Bren Ten ala Sonny Crockett/ Miami Vice

6 1/2" North Hollywood .44 AutoMag early serial# made from mostly Pasadena parts.

8 3/8" .45 Win Mag Wildey, actually two different ones.

6 1/2" LAR Grizzly .45 Win Mag.

.45-70 custom single action revolver before the BFR.

Bruce