Your “COOLEST” gun?

[Irate45]

Mine is a 24-3 that was converted to .45 Colt. It's topped with a Burris FastFire 3 sight. Grips are Ahrends made from rosewood I supplied.

 

[AJ]

Detonics Combat Master. Not made in over 40 years.

I was offered one of those years ago. A guy wanted to trade that to me for a S&W Model 29-2 blued 4". Told him no.......think I did the right thing.

 

[dave1918a2]

Mine is My Model 53. 22 Jet/22LR. Always gets attention.

 

[Michaelp57]

Cool or just fun

Heritage rough rider is the weirdest, but one that everyone always wants to shoot.

My Henry golden boy .45-70 is the coolest in my opinion.

The scorpion set up before the whole pistol brace nonsense was the coolest, but not as cool now with no brace or optic on it.

 

[sprscientist]

I don't think I have anything considered super cool. My friends like this one, a 610-3 with Culina osage orange

 

[Glenn R. McMannly]

Hard to choose.

One of my SBR's would probably be amongst the coolest, but my Polytech AK is the one I wanted the longest. And yep it's a real picture of it I took in my living room.

Chinese junk!

It is amazing that during the time these were readily available and cheap, these were sneered at by many as inferior chicom garbage guns. Same for many other Norinco/Chinese imports.

Not so.

Now decades late these command extreme collectors prices ($$$) and are thought of as some of the highest quality imports ever made.

I feel the Turkish 1911s are treated the same way these days. Many looks at them and think there's no way they can be any good and are made by a Muslim country so must be bad. But I think in a few years they're going to go up in value.

 

[Glenn R. McMannly]

I don't think I have anything considered super cool. My friends like this one, a 610-3 with Culina osage orange

I love those osage handles.

 

[wood714]

Chinese junk!

It is amazing that during the time these were readily available and cheap, these were sneered at by many as inferior chicom garbage guns. Same for many other Norinco/Chinese imports.

Not so.

Now decades late these command extreme collectors prices ($$$) and are thought of as some of the highest quality imports ever made.

I feel the Turkish 1911s are treated the same way these days. Many looks at them and think there's no way they can be any good and are made by a Muslim country so must be bad. But I think in a few years they're going to go up in value.

The Polytech is my all time favorite, but in the AK groups my Maadi gets the most attention. I paid less than half for it too.

 

[Echo40]

Here's some of my other guns that I think are really cool...

Short Scatterguns are cool and pretending otherwise is lame.

 

[AJ]

Short Scatterguns are cool and pretending otherwise is lame.

Would rather have a real combat shotgun, than a little fella....... This a USMC M870 Mk1 Combat Shotgun. It has an 8 shot magazine, rifle sights and a bayonet lug. This isn't pretending.

 

[LVSteve]

Chinese junk!

It is amazing that during the time these were readily available and cheap, these were sneered at by many as inferior chicom garbage guns. Same for many other Norinco/Chinese imports.

Not so.

Now decades late these command extreme collectors prices ($$$) and are thought of as some of the highest quality imports ever made.

The Chinese SKS rifles are generally considered the most accurate of the breed.

 

[rimfireshooter]

No doubt mine is the model 52.

 

[TJm15.38]

I guess it has to be this one; the Walther PP in 7.65mm (.32 Auto),

 

[CH4]

Hmmm
All my guns are cool, but I'd have to go with my Pythons, Diamondbacks or 3.5" 27s.

 

[AJ]

I guess it has to be this one; the Walther PP in 7.65mm (.32 Auto),

Had one of those in .22 LR, really fine piece!

 

[pasound]

Interesting that this thread got revived, but I like it. I have nothing that I think is that cool, but I do have one that is my own "it's cool".

My 1923 44spl Pre-N model 44 Hand Ejector, factory finish, aftermarket grips (protecting the originals for now). I call it Pops, as it is lettered as shipped 27 years and two days before I did, and I'm 73.

 

[Echo40]

I guess it has to be this one; the Walther PP in 7.65mm (.32 Auto),

"Walther PPK. 7.65mm with a delivery like a brick through a plate-glass window. Takes a Brausch silencer, with little reduction in muzzle velocity. The American CIA swear by them." — Major Boothroyd; Dr. No.

NOTE: The gun which appears on screen in the film is actually a PP, like yours.

I own two PPK/S Models myself.

 

[fishwishin]

A select few rival this one as my coolest- SFPD stamped 58.

 

[BC38]

I guess it has to be this one; the Walther PP in 7.65mm (.32 Auto),

"Walther PPK. 7.65mm with a delivery like a brick through a plate-glass window. Takes a Brausch silencer, with little reduction in muzzle velocity. The American CIA swear by them." — Major Boothroyd; Dr. No.

NOTE: The gun which appears on screen in the film is actually a PP, like yours.

I own two PPK/S Models myself.

For sheer cool factor it is pretty hard to top the classic James Bond CCW

 

[AJ]

Here's my latest "coolest" gun. It's probably the cheapest, and least expensive gun I've ever owned. Certainly the lowest powered.

A Galesi (no model name I can find) in 22 Short. Tiny little 6+1 semi, made in Italy in 1965, so before the GCA-68 basically banned their importation. I was told when I bought it that it was a 22 Long only, but I've never seen any 22 Long ammo that I remember, so I tried it with shorts and it works. So now it's a 22 Short only. It is not a "Saturday Night Special." It's an all steel, well made little gun.

Blue steel, with white plastic grips, European type heel mag release, and a safety. That's about it. Mag holds six rounds and will hurt your fingers loading it if you're not careful. It's not the most reliable gun I've ever owned, but it functions most of the time with Remington Golden Bullet shorts.

What makes it really cool (IMHO) is that it came with a well worn holster. Someone must have carried this little thing. I have a mental image of an old man, leaving his shop at night, going by the bank to make his night drop, with this on his side. I'll bet his family never knew he owned a gun, and found it in his stuff when they cleaned up for the last time. From there it ended up at my LGS where my wife saw it and thought it was "cute."

The finish is worn, the holster is too, and shows evidence of having been repaired. It was clean, but dry, a few drops of oil was all it took to get it back in the game.

I've shot it a few times. At three feet it will make a group you can cover with a quarter. A real "get off me" gun. It will probably be the last gun I ever get rid of.

I have several boxes of .22 Longs stashed somewhere.......

Found some! Probably have some more some where!