Firearms wishlist to shoot or see

I would also like to shoot a G43 and to a lesser extent a Johnson. But shooting a semi-auto is only half the fun, I also love to take them apart and see how they tick! My SVT40 is a nice shooter but it is a bugger to strip and clean. My Sweedish Ljungman on the other hand is the simpelest mechanism and easiest to strip semi-auto Iown. Owning a Ljungman and a Hakim I would love to own a Rasheed some day... or atleast hold and shoot one. FN49 is another I would like to shoot and strip if I never get a chance to own one.

For handguns - Webly Fosbery automatic revolver would be the top of my list. A Japanese Type 14 Nambo is another that I would love to shoot and strip.

If you want to extend our lists to full autos I would love to take a historical trip through the full auto world starting with a Maxxum and touching the other greats along the way like the BAR and MG42. These more than any I would love to see what makes them tick and how they are put together.

For legit research got into the storage room at the Royal Armories. Once in, they understand it's fun time, so when done with work, they asked what else I wanted to see, and let me wander, pick up all sorts of stuff.

Didn't work. Now I want to /shoot/ all those. HKs with the built in scopes (terrible scope). Ameli. WA2000. EM2, and a carbine version I didn't know existed (that sight is amazing!), SAR80 and SR88, the competitor to the SIG550 back when that happened, um... I forget what all it was so much. As an example, I didn't play with the HK briefcase gun, but had three in my arms as they were in the way of the things I did want to see

Got to see a Reising, and I saw a few Johnsons back in the day at shows. Those two would be cool to shoot.

Got to hold a Baby Nambu. That was neato, prolly not real exciting shooter though.

Would like some trigger time with one of the new P210s and Pythons.

To hold:
*jim bridgers Hawken
*wyatt earp's colt
*Meriwether Lewis' airgun

To shoot:
Billy Dixon's Sharps
Capstick's double rifle
Tom Horn's saddle rifle

STG44, Ma Deuce and lastly M240 Bravo (FN MAG).

Don't think I can come up with three. Some day I intend to head out to Vegas and put a few hundred rounds through a Thompson sub gun. And I would dearly love to spend some time with the Keith #5, extraordinarily unlikely as that is.

If I can't shoot it, I'm not going out of my way just to look at it. LOL. But, my list of really wanna shoot guns... 1. Box fed Barrett .50BMG. 2. Glock 18, 3. I wanna take a ride in an A-10 and get to shoot one of those 30mm cannons.

Would love to shoot a Lewis Gun! Also a Model 1919A6 Machine Gun and a Thompson Model 1928 Submachine Gun with a 100 round drum magazine!

One of the units at Ft Devens, Ma. years ago had pretty much any kind of weapon that you would find on modern battlefields used by front line troops and guerrilla fighters. It was all ways fun when we got to take that stuff to the range for familiarization training. I sure miss those days.

I'd just be happy to shoot some of the dozens I have that I have yet to. If I have to narrow it to three of them, I guess I'd pick my N-PAP, my Romanian TTC, and the 67-1 I recently got. Okay, that last one technically doesn't count, I guess, because I was issued one back in the day and shot the snot out of it. So, maybe number three would be my Winchester 94.

I don't really aspire to hold any gun just for the sake of holding an example of that model. It would have to be a specific gun that, in itself, had some historic significance. Even a war-period rifle that would likely have been hefted by a soldier in defense of country, who possibly took, lost, or both, life while carrying it, evokes a feeling of honor (I have a 91/30 that meets that criteria, and have never shot it, but I have shot another one, so I didn't mention it in the paragraph above.)

Just thought of another one: the M45 Quadmount a.k.a. "Quad Fifty"!

Hold or fire one of Bonnie and Clyde's B.A.R.s it's a dream.

Interesting discussion topic. To hold and to shoot. Well, to hold would have to be guns of such historical value that you would never shoot them again. Being an historian of sorts, I understand objects have history. So I would approach this thematically:

Theme 1: Assassinations. 1.) John Wilkes Booth's Derringer used to kill Abraham Lincoln. 2.) Lee Harvey Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle used to kill Kennedy. 3.) Gavrilo Princip's FN Model 1910 used to kill Archduke Ferdinand.

Theme 2: Guns of Famous and Infamous Americans. 1.) Patton's Colt 45 SAA revolvers. ("They're ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl handled pistol." 2.) Clyde Barrow's BAR 3.) Wyatt Earp's Colt revolver.

I feel quite blessed to have shot plenty of guns in my life time. Full auto doesn't interest me, although I wouldn't pass up a chance to shoot a BAR (again more for the historical aspect.) So I don't feel a particular need to delve into the second half of the question, especially since I answered the first half twice.

Meeks36 said:

Hold or fire one of Bonnie and Clyde's B.A.R.s it's a dream.

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Beat me to it by 3 minutes lol

Would like to shoot a M134 GAU-17 Gatling Gun.

Full auto of course at explosive and reactive targets.

Nothing tripod mounted. They are cool as hell but your not getting the full recoil impulse so your not really feeling the gun. I’m gonna go crazy here on my “just wanna shoot” list...

savage navy revolver... because lever and revolver.
Volcanic lever pistol
2 bore shotgun
and just for good measure, I need to shoot some antique artillery. Naval gun, field artillery, and shooting a port defense gun would be awesome... but that will not ever happen for anybody ever again.

just hold... Colt Root rifle and pistol set
The derringer the killed Lincoln
Han Solos Mauser broomhandle contraption

WestKentucky said:

Han Solos Mauser broomhandle contraption

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There's no substitute for a good blaster at your side.

I wanted to add Luke Skywalker's light saber, but I couldn't think of a theme to put it in. lol

Borchardt
Berdan 2
Mauser 71/84

To hhold and shoot

Where's Tark?

Regards,
hps

I want to fire one round through the T-Rex Rifle,,,
Just to have the Braggin' Rights.


I want to fire one round through a Gyrojet pistol,,,
Again, just for the Braggin' Rights.


I honestly can't think of a third that really intrigues me,,,

Aarond

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MikeInOr said:

If you want to extend our lists to full autos I would love to take a historical trip through the full auto world starting with a Maxxum and touching the other greats along the way like the BAR and MG42. These more than any I would love to see what makes them tick and how they are put together.

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That would be fun, starting with a Gatling and moving chronologically up the chain, with all nationality firearms. Other than the M16, I've fired two other full-auto firearms, and I don't think I could top them for kick-ass factor. While stationed in Germany in 1991, I had the opportunity to fire the MG42 at a Schutzensnur qualification (missed 'Bronze' by one lousy round), and went to a range in Belgium where I got to fire the Mark 19 40mm machine gun. The MG42 was unbelievable, had the heaviest trigger of any gun I've ever fired, it was impossible to get a single round and very difficult to get two rounds and get off the trigger.

I'd love a chance to fire a M-2, or actually, if my dream were to be truly fulfilled, 6 of them while flying a P-51.