What's the most fun gun you have ever fired

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I can only imagine the conversation and the Armory…” We go a bunch of LAW rockets from Nam, what are we going to do with it… Send it to ROCT at Maple High” lol

This was University of Minnesota Army ROTC, fired at Camp Ripley.
High School and prep school ROTC is referred to as JROTC, Junior ROTC.

In the early 00's I was issued an MP5SD. Full-auto mag dumps will have you gigleing like a school girl.

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Indeed. So will door kicking training firing 3 Rd. bursts. :D
 
Ok let's go with two. The most fun weapon you have ever fired and the most fun weapon you own. Maybe a little background as per why.
I can't pick between two of the most fun weapons I ever fired, so I'll mention both. 1- MG42, and 2-Mk19. Why the most fun? 1- Because 1600 rpm rate of fire and its history; 2- because you can lob 40mm grenades with a 5 meter kill radius at 40-50 per minute (250 rpm cyclic rate). I had the opportunity to fire these while stationed in Germany during Desert Storm (I was technically a non-combatant, so shooting anything was a thrill).
Picture below was made at an air show that had re-enactors all over the place, including a guy toting a MG42 around, so I had a Kodak moment :D
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As for the most fun weapon I own, all 32 of them. The fun exists on several levels.

This one is fun because it is loud as hell, kicks like a mule, and has a muzzle blast like a 16" naval gun (sorta :eek::D) Lights up the range around dusk, never fails to get the attention of everyone when you shoot it.
Mosin-Nagant M44 carbine:
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Most fun (with age factored in) was the full auto BB gun you shoot the red star out of the paper with at the fair.

Second would be the M60 or M249 SAW. Belt fed fun with more rounds than a "familiarization" exercise with the M2 50 cal.
sights were always off! except the one the carni was shooting! I miss the fair!
 
Fun to shoot? Hmmm.
Probably the first arm I shot. It was the old Marlin 39 (not "A") lever gun of my late fathers. I was likely seven years of age. It was the very first time I shot a gun! (My honored father is gone on home now. Dead for those who are familiar with the idiom. I still own the rifle, made - according to the serial number - in the first year of production.)

I still, after all these years - roughly sixty five years - enjoy to some degree or other shooting any of my firearms. (The .458 Winchester and the .450-.400 Nitro Express were not as enjoyable as the .257 Roberts.)
 
Back in the day, waaaay back... the venerable 3-inch 50...
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Look at those shells! My ears Hurt just looking that them!

That Looks FUN!!! Were you in WW2 (Just Kidding… lol)
That video is around 1950-53.
Those Mk 24 3"50 mounts were spiffy, if crowded, finger-eating, noisy buggers.

3" had been selected as, in 1945, that was the smallest shell diameter that could be fitted with a Vx Proximity fuse. That itty-bitty radar dish was aboard to track the shells coming off the mount. The Gun Director had a Search & Acquisition radar, and the two vectors were merged until there was no target left. The Director Operator had direct vision to the target, but, it was generally just a cloud of exploding shells.

The Mk 18 was meant to replace a Quad 40 directly (they can use the same base ring); weight meant you swapped 3 for 2. The Mk 24 version was a stand alone, and not meant to replace anything. The Mk 24 reduced required on-mount manpower to 8 from ten (six of those were loaders).
 
Now, my Semi 1919A4 was fun, I do have to admit. If a pain to tote to the range. And a pain having to sit endlessly with a linking machine so as to be able to feed it. And lugging sandbags to hold the tripod legs down got old after a while. But, it was fun to set up on the 300 yard line and see who could get a better group with iron sights and .30-06fmj.
 
That video is around 1950-53.
Those Mk 24 3"50 mounts were spiffy, if crowded, finger-eating, noisy buggers.
The gator I did two WestPacs on had two twin-mount Mk 33s. To my knowledge, without looking it up, the Navy used these up into the '90s. You did not want to be the guy with the sound-powered phone headset on (even so, hearing protection back in the day was pretty pitiful too, to say the least).
 
That video is around 1950-53.
Those Mk 24 3"50 mounts were spiffy, if crowded, finger-eating, noisy buggers.

3" had been selected as, in 1945, that was the smallest shell diameter that could be fitted with a Vx Proximity fuse. That itty-bitty radar dish was aboard to track the shells coming off the mount. The Gun Director had a Search & Acquisition radar, and the two vectors were merged until there was no target left. The Director Operator had direct vision to the target, but, it was generally just a cloud of exploding shells.

The Mk 18 was meant to replace a Quad 40 directly (they can use the same base ring); weight meant you swapped 3 for 2. The Mk 24 version was a stand alone, and not meant to replace anything. The Mk 24 reduced required on-mount manpower to 8 from ten (six of those were loaders).
Man! you guys know your ships!
 
I’m fortunate to have a few well off friends that are class three collectors. Out of all the full auto firearms I’ve had the opportunity to fire the Uzi and AK47 were the most fun. The M14 was the least!
 
Man! you guys know your ships!
Well, I'm third Generation Navy, grew up with the details, the nitty and the gritty as common family discussion.
And, we are middling picky about earning those "wings" through knowledge, training, & experience.
Half my Navy life was SWO, the other Information Dominance (even if the "wings" did not appear until later on).

A ship does not much let you live in isolation; every part is part of a larger whole--you can either fight that, or embrace it, and one of those is less success-oriented.
 
oooh heck yeah!

alright, on the internet those 40mm grenade don’t look that destructive, are they really that effective?
Effective range to a point target (vehicle, building entryway, etc.) is about 1500 meters, but only because the sights aren't graduated any farther. Over 2400 meters max range, and the explosive rounds have a 5 meter kill radius. That's a 10 foot diameter circle of death, with injuries for another 15 meters (radius). It will penetrate 2 inches of armor plate, so an APC isn't much protection. It's not the same grenade the M203 uses. That's just one round, so imagine firing them in a blanketing pattern at the rate of 40-50 per minute..
 
Effective range to a point target (vehicle, building entryway, etc.) is about 1500 meters, but only because the sights aren't graduated any farther. Over 2400 meters max range, and the explosive rounds have a 5 meter kill radius. That's a 10 foot diameter circle of death, with injuries for another 15 meters (radius). It will penetrate 2 inches of armor plate, so an APC isn't much protection. It's not the same grenade the M203 uses. That's just one round, so imagine firing them in a blanketing pattern at the rate of 40-50 per minute..
That’s sounds effective!
 
Well, I'm third Generation Navy, grew up with the details, the nitty and the gritty as common family discussion.
And, we are middling picky about earning those "wings" through knowledge, training, & experience.
Half my Navy life was SWO, the other Information Dominance (even if the "wings" did not appear until later on).

A ship does not much let you live in isolation; every part is part of a larger whole--you can either fight that, or embrace it, and one of those is less success-oriented.
like the Borg on Star Trek ? lol … assimilated now, resistance is futile
 
Most fun: Tripod mounted MA2
That I own: Ruger Mark II Target Model

Is a flamethrower a firearm? That one was way up there too.

My post boot camp MOS was 0351. Weapons. Got to train with the flamethrower, 3.5 inch rocket launcher (old school bazooka), 106 mm recoilless rifle and M-79 grenade launcher. All of them except the M 79 were already obsolete and out of service when I got into a regular rifle company.
 
Tough one. I’ve never served in the military nor had opportunity to shoot anything fully automatic. So my most fun ever are pretty pedestrian.

Suppressed .22 would be near the top, either a custom 10/22 or the Browning Buckmark. Both are a hoot being so quiet.

Gotta say the Ruger Hawkeye African in .375 Ruger always brings a smile to my face; other end of the spectrum from the suppressed .22s.

I’d LIKE to shoot a DE .44 Mag and/or a .44 Automag.
 
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Soon after being hired as senior range advisor to the Saudi Arabian national Guard i was driving past range 15 when i heard an MG 42 being fired. Stopped at the range and met the battalion commander and others. The gun was an MG 42/58 in 8mm. The units automatic rifle was the FN D 8mm. The individual rifle was the FN model 50: Methinks the model 50 was the last military 98 Mauser. i fired those weapons that day and every time the unit came to the range.
 
This memory comes to mind..........

It had to been at least 20 years ago.
The Mrs. and I were visiting some friends at their cabin north of Ely, MN.

This guy pulls up to join us.
I knew him but didn't know him.
He sez, "Look what my wife bought me for my birthday."
The biggest (insert cuss word here) revolver I had ever seen in person.
A 500 S & W.

"Ya want to shoot it?" he says to me.
"Well, yeah" I say.

Someone had a half liter? plastic bottle, put some water in it and tossed it into the minnow pond.
My first shot must have launched that target 20+ feet into the air!
The recoil and concussion from that first shot sold me after emptying the revolver.
I gotta get me one!

Well, that was not affordable back then.
Then S&W came out with the 460...
the rest is history............

Yup, there is a S&W 460 in my safe!
 
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