LOL BattleStar Galactica meets SHTF !!!!!!!!!
15-30rd Factory/Mec-Gar mags..... shorter than a M-4 with collapsed stock.
Your “COOLEST” gun?
- Thread starter KalamazooKid
- Start date
LOL BattleStar Galactica meets SHTF !!!!!!!!!
15-30rd Factory/Mec-Gar mags..... shorter than a M-4 with collapsed stock.
Not my coolest but another honorable mention, especially since this is the S&W forum-
When I was a kid I was all about shiny N frames, they just wowed me and the guns in the articles by Skeeter and Elmer whetted my appetite for the big guns. I've owned quite a few of them but a nickle 29 eluded me until a few months ago when I picked up this 29-3 from a friend. Wicked cool.
When I was a kid I was all about shiny N frames, they just wowed me and the guns in the articles by Skeeter and Elmer whetted my appetite for the big guns. I've owned quite a few of them but a nickle 29 eluded me until a few months ago when I picked up this 29-3 from a friend. Wicked cool.
AJ
US Veteran
The older I get,I like less recoil,noise,and cost. So my 22 Service Model Ace gets shot a lot,fools me into thinking I'm shooting 45.
I shoot my Series 70 Gold Cup National Match quite a bit yet. But I also have Colt Conversion Unit in .22 LR and it is fun to shoot, also much easier on the hands.
Sandman4delta
Member
For "Movie Cool", I'd have to go with my brace of Bushmasters.
(They actually match in color but the lighting came out weird.)
But for "Gun Geek" cool, probably this Bergmann,
in good company with some other cool friends.
(Just shot a 100% LEOSA qual with the Sig)
(They actually match in color but the lighting came out weird.)
But for "Gun Geek" cool, probably this Bergmann,
in good company with some other cool friends.
(Just shot a 100% LEOSA qual with the Sig)
Attachments
Lots of really amazing pieces in this thread. I'm very fortunate to have a handful of guns I consider cool, mostly pre-ban stuff but at the moment I feel like my "coolest" gun is an early lightweight G Series FAL that sports a late-1950s vintage prototype optic, complete with factory mount and everything.
Attachments
hemiram
Member
My gun that always gets at least some attention when I take it to the range is my Tanfoglio "Mossad" 9MM. It gets either laughs or puzzled looks when they look at it closely. It's my favorite of all my guns anyway:
Another one which is kind of a sleeper is my Astra A75. Last time I took it to the range, I had a bunch of people wanting to shoot it, and then asking about getting one. It's amazingly smooth DA pull and all steel heft make it a great shooter. This one is prettier than mine is:
Another one which is kind of a sleeper is my Astra A75. Last time I took it to the range, I had a bunch of people wanting to shoot it, and then asking about getting one. It's amazingly smooth DA pull and all steel heft make it a great shooter. This one is prettier than mine is:
Custom black powder cool....1860 Army.
A L E Jurras Custom 200 "International" Auto Mag. These pistols featured an 8 1/2" barrel with a 3/4 rib and are chambered for the 357 Auto Mag cartridge. They are all stainless steel and fully polished. They were available with the pictured removable brace/stock if desired. There were about 10 of them made in the mid 70's and the Gun-Ho case with the "Tiger Stripe" liner certainly dates it. The scope mount is a prototype designed by Kent Lomont and is a one of a kind.
Attachments
Last edited:
AJ
US Veteran
xtrtsqrt11
Member
Rifleman200-10X
Member
Original Sharps 1874 Business Rifle
Easy for me. My original 1874 Sharps Business Rifle, shipped to Carlos Gove & Son in Denver Colo on February 5th. 1880. The whole rifle is in amazing shape, including the mirror bright bore. This is an "Assembled" rifle, made when Sharps was desperately trying to save themselves from bankruptcy. This one has an 1863 percussion receiver, with the thick lockplate to fit it. It has a Civil war era rifle, not carbine, buttstock with the patchbox, and filled bottom sling swivel cut. The forearm has a dovetailed in repair on the left side, and was probably checkered to hide it, with the wrist checkered to match. And finally, the barrel is marked "Business 40", but must have been out of spec, and rebored. It is remarked 45 2 1/10", or 45-70, and the letter states it left Sharps as a 45 caliber. This rifle was among the last produced before they went under, and I'd attribute it's condition to the fact that the buffalo were gone. It did't spend it's days banging around in a hide hunter's wagon.
Easy for me. My original 1874 Sharps Business Rifle, shipped to Carlos Gove & Son in Denver Colo on February 5th. 1880. The whole rifle is in amazing shape, including the mirror bright bore. This is an "Assembled" rifle, made when Sharps was desperately trying to save themselves from bankruptcy. This one has an 1863 percussion receiver, with the thick lockplate to fit it. It has a Civil war era rifle, not carbine, buttstock with the patchbox, and filled bottom sling swivel cut. The forearm has a dovetailed in repair on the left side, and was probably checkered to hide it, with the wrist checkered to match. And finally, the barrel is marked "Business 40", but must have been out of spec, and rebored. It is remarked 45 2 1/10", or 45-70, and the letter states it left Sharps as a 45 caliber. This rifle was among the last produced before they went under, and I'd attribute it's condition to the fact that the buffalo were gone. It did't spend it's days banging around in a hide hunter's wagon.
Attachments
Last edited:
AJ
US Veteran
These are not real "guns" to adults. To me they were very "cool" when I received them from my parents in 1958. I had just had open heart surgery and was not allowed to go out to play. These are Hubley Colt .45's, the cylinders turned when you pulled the trigger. In the cylinder were lead bullets with brass casings, the casing came off and you could put "Greenie Stick-Um caps on the base of the lead bullet, when you pulled the trigger you got a bang (of course) and smoke came out of the barrel. The loading lever allowed you to rotate the barrel and remove the cylinder. To a 7 year old these were the neatest things in the world. I have thought enough of them that I still have them 63 years later. Probably in the over all scheme of things all the firearms will be gone before these.
Attachments
Last edited:
My coolest gun is probably my Walther P4. Basically a modernized P38-type pistol with a shorter barrel and a decocker instead of a manual safety. Issued in limited numbers by West German police forces as a stopgap to the Walther P5, Sig P6, and HK P7.
Dan Wesson full 44VH Kit
Hey Folks,
My favorite gun is my Dan Wesson 44VH. I looked for years for a full 44VH kit. And finally found one at a gun show. With the ability to swap barrels while at the range is so fun.
Has 4", 6", 8", and 10" Barrels with heavy outer sleeves.
I can shoot a 4" barrel for a while. Then do some long range handgun shooting. By changing to an 8" or 10" barrel in under 10 minutes including sighting in the new barrel.
It is heavy enough to tame max power .44 mags and one of my most accurate handguns.
She sure is my coolest
I have been on this forum for years but this is my first try at posting a picture.
It does not look like the thumbnail gets to the picture. This is the address of the picture.
https://i.postimg.cc/sgJW8Rqs/20211129-161536-R.jpg
Hey Folks,
My favorite gun is my Dan Wesson 44VH. I looked for years for a full 44VH kit. And finally found one at a gun show. With the ability to swap barrels while at the range is so fun.
Has 4", 6", 8", and 10" Barrels with heavy outer sleeves.
I can shoot a 4" barrel for a while. Then do some long range handgun shooting. By changing to an 8" or 10" barrel in under 10 minutes including sighting in the new barrel.
It is heavy enough to tame max power .44 mags and one of my most accurate handguns.
She sure is my coolest
I have been on this forum for years but this is my first try at posting a picture.
It does not look like the thumbnail gets to the picture. This is the address of the picture.
https://i.postimg.cc/sgJW8Rqs/20211129-161536-R.jpg
Attachments
Last edited:
sigp220.45
US Veteran
I gotta give it to this Remington Rand 1911A1.
Not a lick of finish left, and it still has the rack number from its last day on active duty.
I don't know what its been up to since 1944, but I can imagine.
Not a lick of finish left, and it still has the rack number from its last day on active duty.
I don't know what its been up to since 1944, but I can imagine.
Similar threads
