What's your favorite gun?

[rumguy]

I like the Winchester Model 94. It's a 30-30 caliber rifle. It's a classic, old-school rifle, but still popular. I dig the lever action too.

It's perfect for deer hunting. In fact, it's the classic deer hunting rifle.

[Worst Username Ever]

1. HK USP .40 n/t

[-..__...]

18. "Only accurate rifles are interesting".

... Col. Townsend Whelen.

With that in mind...

Dakota Longbow in .338 Lapua Magnum.



Or .408 Cheyenne Tactical... "reach out and touch someone". :evilgrin:



Neither is up to benchrest standards, but they have a certain allure.


Ohh, BTW... "Gun Porn" redirected to the "Gun Dungeon" in 1... 2... 3...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=118

(On edit: Sorry, response should be to original poster).

[Zuni]

52. That is sweet

I really want to go to the range now

[Mizmoon]

2. Supersoaker

yes, the supersoaker is my weapon of choice.

[calico1]

3. Squirt guns. n/t

[MrScorpio]

4. The Love gun

I'm a lover, not a fighter

[the Princess]

13. I was gonns say that!!!!!

[CO Liberal]

68. Don't Forget Your SuperSoaker, Honey

Oh-oh - I think I'm gonna get drenched when I come home tonight.....

:-)

[Union Thug]

5. Russian made SKS

I love that gun!

[CanuckAmok]

70. My Russian "girlfriend" has a great photo...

of her in high school, with her SKS, after winning a junior Soviet marksman competition.

She's pretty hot in it.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

6. One of the Guns of Navarone

The one on the left.

[Momgonepostal]

7. Hot glue guns

Those things rock. What did I ever do before?

[TheMightyFavog]

8. Lessee.....

From my counterstrike expereince.....

The deagle. My favorite handheld tactical nuke!




The Styer TMP Two words: Ownage Machine!



And the motherfucking AWP!!!

[skygazer]

9. Loved my Model 94

Sold it a few years back but remember it fondly.

I also had a Marlin 7 shot .22 rifle that I really liked - synthetic stock and a good scope. Very nice rifle but I sold that too.

Right now, I have a Mossberg .12 gauge pump shotgun with a pistol grip that I absolutely love. Oh, and my Sig Sauer .9 mm P228 handgun.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. Gunther Gable Williams

[JVS]

11. My staple gun

[DrWeird]

12. P90

Jack O'Neill's got one and it kicked ass in Goldeneye.

[sleipnir]

36. Too European if you ask me.

It's a great weapon, probably the best mass manufactured assault weapon today.

Too European for me, damn it, it's just looks like John Kerry's favorite gun.....(typical freeper response to this weapon :evilgrin: )




Honestly, I'd take this gun any day over the American M-16, if I was going into battle. The spent cartridge eject method is so much more efficient and less dangerous to a squad in close quarters combat. Also, I've read this weapon is a quite accurate over 200 meters (something most assault rifles can't claim.)

[Zuni]

53. The 'Bullpup' style is heinous

it might have it's advantages as a military weapon, but for aesthetic value it lacks.

[Spiffarino]

14. Almost any shotgun

Easy to shoot, hits anything you point it at, and you can fill it with almost anything.

Skeet's a great sport that I hope I can figure out some day. My ineptitude won't stop me from doing it, however. :)

[ohiosmith]

15. Beemans. Oh, never mind!

[EstimatedProphet]

16. I have several

Got a ruger .45, a Winchester pump shotgun, a 9 mm rifle, and a M1 .30 cal.

But of course, none of those are really GUNS...and not my favorite gun by a long shot either...

[MrSandman]

17. Savage Model 99...

Lever with a rotary mag.

If it is mfg'd today, the BLR.

Handgun is between my PPK/s and P220ST.

[Twillig]

19. 120mm Rheinmetall or the M240 coax mg.

That's just the ex-tanker in me though.

My dad has a .32 Winchester special though. Pretty old-school. I think it's from the '20s or '30's. We've never fired it since I've been alive.

[jdots]

22. Benelli Sub Machine gun

it fires the entire cartridge very good for 1&1/4" crown staples
when you have to have that tuff upolstery job done yesterday.Then Juicy Fruit is a superior under table weapon.

[jmowreader]

20. M109 howitzer

The new M109A6 self-propelled 155mm howitzer has the inertial navigation system on it. With INS, you can bring the battery to a halt from the march, lay it, fire a mission and be gone before counterbattery fire reaches your firing position. The days of three-day artillery barrages ended when the Firefinder radar was deployed. Now you gotta shoot and scoot, and the M109 lets them do this.

My favorite military rifle is the Steyr AUG-1. It's made in Austria and a lot of countries use it in various places--the US Coast Guard is said to use this rifle. This is a slick system. It comes in three colors--green, tan and black--and four barrel lengths. You can change barrel lengths without any tools and without re-headspacing the rifle. The whole action drops out the back if you wear out the one it came with. Plus, it has a telescopic sight instead of just iron sights--someone in Austria figured out troops shoot better with a scope on their rifle.

My favorite civilian rifle is the Weatherby Mark V. That is one high-class firearm. My favorite civilian rifle that I can afford is the Ruger M-77.

My favorite automatic pistol is the H&K P7. Love that squeeze-cocker.

Revolver? Ruger Redhawk, .44 Magnum caliber.

If I had to get a shotgun, I'd get the Remington 870 pump. I know all about how the 1100 is super reliable, very accurate, all that. If I was a trap shooter firing doubles, I would definitely get an 1100 if my local trap range allowed them. But for home defense, when you cycle the action on a pump shotgun, people will fucking LEAVE! People who are allowed to be in your house will leave. That psychological edge is what makes the pump shotgun superior for shooting intruders--usually you don't have to.

[Zuni]

55. Nothing works for home defense like a 155 mm SP howitzer

you could probably take out the burglar's home with one of those, provided he lives within 5-10 miles and you have a good fire control team

[jmowreader]

74. My favorite artillery story

In World War I, the Krupp Werke in Germany built a weapon called the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Geschuetze. The gun fired a 94-kilogram shell and had a maximum range of 130 kilometres; its shells flew to the height of 40 kilometres--a height not exceeded until the Nazis started firing rockets from Peenemuende in World War II.

The gun was nicknamed the "Paris Gun" because that's what they used it for--shelling Paris from so far away the French couldn't fire counterbattery missions against it.

When you fire artillery, you must "register" the battery so the rounds hit where you want them to. It is done by choosing a target, firing a round at it and measuring the distance between the target and the round's point of impact, then making adjustments to the battery to zero the weapons. The Paris Gun was registered by firing a round then having your illicits in Paris go through the next day's newspaper for reports of mysterious explosions. (Sam Kinison once told a joke about the Smart Bomb and the Scud Missile. "You fire the Scud missile then go home and watch CNN to see where it landed." The Paris Gun crews actually did this.)

[HawkerHurricane]

78. In WW2...

The British, using German Agents corrupted by the Double Cross network sent the Germans false info about where V-1's and V-2's were landing.

The Germans, using the false info, targeted many a missile at farmland.

[da_chimperor]

86. There was a railroad gun in WWII

Made by the germans that fired 7-ton shells. They named her 'Dora'. She was one big b*tch.



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[sundog]

21. The Smoking Gun is the only gun I'm interested in

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

23. The lowly, oft-maligned Government Model .45 ACP

The gun that saved my life.

[rumguy]

24. really?

wow...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

31. Yep. I used to love exotic guns, for years owned them, shot

them, endlessly tweaked them and polished them. Read magazines about them and put all the newest cool combat shooting things.

Then, I realized with out that old piece-of-shit GM .45 and my being a touch faster in reaction time than a Cambodian teenager, I would not even be here most likely.

Reality set in. The purpose of a gun is to kill people. The .45 does that very effectively.

[yardwork]

83. You were never in Cambodia!! Prove it! Prove it!

Eek. Screech. Whine. American troops were never in Cambodia. Kerry lied. Eek screech wind down....

[SarahB]

25. Warm ones.

They make me happy.

[rppper]

26. my enfield .303....best hunting gun ever

i still use the pop up sights on it. when i bought it back in the mid 80's, ammo was close to impossible to find...seems they have glutted the market since. it will bring ANYTHING down.....

.....

as for military weapons, i have always had a fascination with the oerlikon 20mm anti aircraft cannon and the mk 4 bofors 40mm cannon.....



you can nail a lot of skeets with the bofors.....

[Endangered Specie]

27. This...

[immoderate]

40. One must be careful with this!

--IMM

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

28. Whatever that chaingun/minigun that Jesse Ventura had in "Predator".

Can you hold that shit and fire it from the hip for real or is that some kind of joke?

[Endangered Specie]

30. no.

[Zomby Woof]

29. my penis

Which works great.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

44. Can it take down an elk from a half mile?

If so, I stand in awe before you...

[Zomby Woof]

47. damn right

And still leaves plenty of lovin' for Saturday night.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

61. You're a man's man...

Take that howver you like.

[Zomby Woof]

76. my humor

Is above the grasp of 99% of DUers.

[nini]

60. LOL

.

[Spider Jerusalem]

32. The Lee-Enfield rifle.

Probably the best military bolt-action rifle ever. Short throw and bolt travel of only the length of the cartridge case made it the fastest-cycling bolt-action ever, and in the hands of a trained marksman it was capable of sustained rapid fire (the record being 54 aimed shots on a 300-yard target in 1 minute...with a bolt-action, reloading 5 times from stripper clips).

[Zuni]

54. I have a WWII Lee-Enfield No.4 Rifle

It is a little different from the SMLE pictured above, but it is one of the best military bolt action rifles I have ever fired

[getoffmytrain]

102. Springfield 1903.

[LiveWire]

33. The GAU-8/A

Miniguns rock!

[jmowreader]

75. Nothin' "mini" about the GAU-8

The minigun is the GAU-2. You can drop a quarter down the barrel of a GAU-8.

[doc03]

34. This is my weapon that is my gun, this one's for Kill'n that one's for fun

[sleipnir]

35. Damn, my favorite....I'd vote for the modern Colt .45

Nice killing machine, brutal, effective, concealable, all that one needs in a good gun.

[St. Jarvitude]

37. Railgun!

[immoderate]

41. Is that a vaporiser?

--IMM

[bleedingheart]

82. Do you have a license to operate that!

:silly:

[Skittles]

38. S & W 38

easy handling

[immoderate]

39. Browning HiPower

A work of art!


--IMM

[ausiedownunderground]

42. I love the vaporiser!!! very funny photo!

Gee we laughed our heads off down here at that photo - Great work. In fact my mate pissed his pants!! We couldn't get him to stop laughing!
Hey, we didn't realize that you Dems are armed to the teeth. If "The Bush Boys" try to steal this election - Dems get your guns ready!!!!YEEEEEHAAAW isn't a Foreign Policy - Its for Domestic consumption only!

[Pert_UK]

43. My Lamb Cannon...or Mutton Musket, if you prefer.

It's not very accurate at long ranges, but could take your eye out at close range......

[DemWitch]

45. Glock 45

Slim, concealable, easy to handle

[auburngrad82]

46. A blow gun

[MissMillie]

48. this one

Check IT out!

[amandae]

57. That gun is GREAT!

I've never seen anything like it! My kind of gun! :P

:hi:

[No2W2004]

49. The LeMat Revolver (Civil War era)

A serious "last resort" weapon, Gen. Beaureguard's favorite.



.42 caliber, 6 1/2", barrel. Nine shot cylinder and mounted on its underside, with a 5", .63 cal. (16 ga.), smoothbore, shotgun barrel.

[rumguy]

90. the shotgun barrel is a nice touch

that is one wicked firearm!

[gpandas]

50. only gun i ever owned-

mossberg 10 gauge pump short barrel. recommended by gun nut friends for home defense.

[Zuni]

51. I like shooting the M1 Carbine

it is pleasant to shoot, not to powerful, like a .22. I also like .22s.

I also like Mausers, Lee-Enfields. They have more kick, but are good, reliable and accurate

[Xithras]

63. I prefer the M1 Garand.

Just bought my second CMP Garand, in fact. They are beautifully crafted, amazingly reliable, and a real piece of history. Just watch the thumb :)



The only problem at this point is that it's getting harder to find historically accurate replacement parts. Both of my Garands are over 50 years old an have worn parts in need of serious replacement. Many of the parts on the market today are focused towards the hunting market (it's apparently widely used by hunters, but I don't see how...it's heavy as hell) or the target shooting market. I have yet to find a single vendor who machines quality replacement Garand parts for owners wanting to keep them historically correct.

[Ryano42]

67. Beatiful Balance...

I shot the M-14 in competition as a teen and I really liked it, but my Dad's M1 felt so much better, especially in the standing position. He sold his after retiring from competition...

How long did it take to get a DCM Garand? I refuse to join the NRA again to get one or join a local gun club that requires NRA membership so I guess I can get my reformed :-) Dad (and lifetime member) to get one!

I would love just to own and on rare occasion shoot a piece of HISTORY...

:D

[Xithras]

95. I don't recommend a CMP gun

It only took a month or so, beginning to end (btw, I got it through an affiliation with my local Boy Scout council), but CMP's can be so hit or miss in quality that you're really taking a chance. I got lucky with my service grade rifles, but I have a friend who bought a rack grade Springfield M1 and it can't fire more than two shots without jamming. Remember, there are no refunds or exchanges, and you are getting a military surplus weapon in the exact shape it was packed away in when the Army quit using them. Some (probably most) rifles were treated well, but some were badly abused. It's also pretty common to get CMP Garands that have duck tape or other things stuck on them, or that the soldiers have scratched their names into. It's just a chance you take.

If you really want a Garand and aren't up to taking chances, I recommend finding a local gun store that has one in stock so you can check it out first. Of course, it'll cost you. A reasonably decent Garand from a gun store will set you back $700 to $900 (and up to $2500 for a mint, never fired model), while a CMP Garand will only set you back $250 to $450.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

56. I was told by a republican mouth piece(my bf's bro)...

That if Kerry gets elected, bye bye guns. What an idiotic thing to say. Apparently, no matter how many times I said you're full of shit, and present facts, he wouldn't listen.
Duckie

[Surf Cowboy]

58. Winchester 94, all the way. 30-30, no scope. Marlin model 35 is also

a nice lever-action.

Oh, and BTW, I LOVE Zhang Ziyi. Too hot.

[NoPasaran]

59. The Guilford Gun

I go and see it every time I visit my folks in Connecticut

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

62. My Bersa Thunder .380

it's a handgun. Nice, powerful, easy to handle.

[redqueen]

64. A red-hot, belt-fed one

Okay not really, but some days...

[DonP]

65. .45 Mil Spec and Browning BPS 12 Ga. pump

When your HD weapon absolutely, positively has to work.

Both extremely reliable and proven for years and years.

But I do like my large loop Winchester in .45 LC too.

... and my Garand still runs great at 60 + years old and is far better out to 300+ yards than I am. Too many choices darn it!

OK, OK the .45 Mil Spec. that's my favorite ... for today at least.

[Phillycat]

66. www.smokinggun.com

Certainly more useful today than the firearms.

[No2W2004]

72. don't forget the "The"

as in WWW.Thesmokinggun.com

[CanuckAmok]

69. Plasma-watt rifle in a 40Mw range...

n/t

[guitar man]

71. Colt SAA

Love 'em.

[Arkana]

73. 7.65 mm Walther PPK

I'm a huge Bond fan

[democracyindanger]

85. Then it should be the Beretta

The Armorer made Bond change to the Walther because he thought the Beretta was a "ladies gun." Bond loved the Beretta. :P

[HawkerHurricane]

77. I like to use these for hunting

I like to soften up an area before I hunt in it.

[Spider Jerusalem]

80. Nothing like a few hundred 16" shells for that...

[HEyHEY]

79. An official Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model...

air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time

[kodi]

81. happiness is a warm sig 229

.

[da_chimperor]

84. Sig Sauer SSG3000

A very nice rifle. I'd LOVE to have one!

[sendero]

87. My Glock .40...

... choice of law enforcement officers everywhere :)

[Reverend_Smitty]

88. this gun

arts and crafts anyone?

[jpgray]

89. My father and I built a Model 1873 Winchester

Lot of fun.

[jpak]

91. My Johnny 7 OMA

Watch out fools....

[solinvictus]

92. Zastava SKS 59/66

This one was purchased in unissued condition for the princely sum of $175, including tax and two boxes of cartridges.

[GingerSnaps]

93. Squirt

[getoffmytrain]

94. Norinco Ak-47

Though lately I have taken a liking to Bulgarian parts kits made on Arsenal (USA) receivers.

Also.... Colt AR-15's are hard to beat.

But, again, all around favorite firearm is Mr. Kalashnikov's great invention!

[Monte Carlo]

96. This thread makes me wish I knew anything about firearms...

... I've never owned, fired, or even held one. If a war breaks out tomorrow, I am royally f-ed.

[carpetbagger]

97. That's the first gun I ever fired.

Damn nice gun. If I ever went hunting or shooting regularly enough to get a gun, I'd think about getting one of those.

[Tsiyu]

98. Okay, I am so salivating to buy a new gun, now

Thanks rumguy!

Right now I would say the SKS and my beloved Mossberg 12 gauge ( love the SKS sound when it fires and just pumping the Moss will run a bad body off) but my alltime favorite gun was a little Colt 45 six shooter that hid right nice in the folds of my flannel nightgown.

The kids called me Annie Oakley for a while. I miss that gun. And I had a blast with a Glock semi-auto pistol once, but that's a long story......

Love those beautiful gun photos

[rumguy]

100. annie oakly...with a six shooter in the nightgown

lol..

and yes, guns are cool...

Mossberg 12 gauge - nice. I own a Remington Model 870 12 gauge - another
'classic'.

[Tsiyu]

101. yeah, Think of that scene in Gone Wit Da wind

when Melanie hides the gun in her gown. That was me, after a pro-choice piece I wrote was published in the local paper. Had a few freaks come around late at night, but this mama would hush the kids and motion them behind me and I'd have that little revolver hidden but ready if I needed it.

Guns are cool, and you are cool too, rumguy for starting this great thread!

[Taverner]

99. Glock 9 mm

OK...I'll admit they are made to kill people, but

Damn, nothing feels the same as a loaded Glock....

And yes, my penis WAS 2 inches bigger that day.

Side note: ever since the birth of little Taverner, I sold all my guns.

[ProfessorGAC]

103. Peter

Or at least the theme from his show.
The Professor