Jack Package
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What weapon was the most fun for you to shoot? Mine was a GAU 21, nothing like slinging .50 cal lead down range. I am just curious about other peoples experience.
Funnest gun you have shot
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OilyPablo
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Nothing that cool. I'm just the happiest when I get a basket case project gun running well. My 10mm AR.
dbmjr1
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90mm Recoiless Rifle
HK MP5/10!
Back when the FBI was transitioning to 10mm, couple of agents came to the range to familiarize themselves with the new gun (but mostly I think just to show off). While everybody was gawking, I walked up and asked if I could fire a few rounds. Semi-auto only, but HOT DANG! It was complete Rock n Roll. Maybe not the greatest ergonomics compared to some of today's guns, but I would totally have one if I could.
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Back when the FBI was transitioning to 10mm, couple of agents came to the range to familiarize themselves with the new gun (but mostly I think just to show off). While everybody was gawking, I walked up and asked if I could fire a few rounds. Semi-auto only, but HOT DANG! It was complete Rock n Roll. Maybe not the greatest ergonomics compared to some of today's guns, but I would totally have one if I could.
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BinRat
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Glock sent a full auto .40 caliber to our Department so the firearms instructors could evaluate it, likely in hopes that we'd purchase some. Whenever I was at firearms training, I'd always stay after instruction was done and shoot some more....on their dime
. But they were good to me because they knew I was one of the guys that actually liked to shoot.
One of those times, the range boss showed me the handgun and said I could try it out if I wanted. Like I'd pass up that chance. I loaded up a few mags and tried it out. It was my first time ever shooting anything in full auto and what a blast. It was surprising just how quickly that thing wanted to push the muzzle up.
. But they were good to me because they knew I was one of the guys that actually liked to shoot.One of those times, the range boss showed me the handgun and said I could try it out if I wanted. Like I'd pass up that chance. I loaded up a few mags and tried it out. It was my first time ever shooting anything in full auto and what a blast. It was surprising just how quickly that thing wanted to push the muzzle up.
1868 Colts Army Not a replica. Firearm was a family legacy that was used in the Civil War And by used i mean fired in battle
It had been handed down through the generations and no one knew when it was fired last the current owner worked with me and ask if i'do show him how to operate it we out two cylinders through it then cleaned and lubed it up real good
He still takes it out once a year and fires off a cylinder, He does this around the birthday of the original owner. Pretty nice tribute to an old soldier long past.
It had been handed down through the generations and no one knew when it was fired last the current owner worked with me and ask if i'do show him how to operate it we out two cylinders through it then cleaned and lubed it up real good
He still takes it out once a year and fires off a cylinder, He does this around the birthday of the original owner. Pretty nice tribute to an old soldier long past.
Scooter22
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Hmmm. Old "pop gun" air rifle. You could stick the barrel in soft dirt and it would fire the clod out 10 feet or so. Great for cats, mean dogs or playing Army. I remember finding a neighbors camp full of big spiders along the clap boards after a summer thunder storm and spent a hour or so killing them with mud clods. When the folks got home they weren't happy. Spent a long afternoon scrubbing them off.
cpt-t
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JACK: A 106mm recoilless Rifle, main Gun 106mm round and 50Cal spotter round. I had two of them mounted on our 113 APC`s with the 1st Inf Div in Viet Nam in 1968 & 1969. We had 2 types of ammo for them, and HE rounds for bunkers and hard targets and a Flechette Rounds for everything else. And when you fired a Flechette Round at the VC & NVA. You could hear the Angles Sing and the Devil Grinding His teeth. And after 2 or 3 rounds of flechettes, from both Guns we could usually move forward quite a ways with out to much resistance from the Bad Guys. The 106mm Recoilless Rifle was an awesome weapon and when you fired it for ((( REAL ))) The Man Upstairs had His Hands on your shoulders, and was patting you on your back. Dam it was a Hoot To Shoot.
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Panzerschwein
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I get to qual on M4s. Burst is fun.
pdsmith505
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The mounted M-2 on the USS Cleveland was pretty fun.
Being on the bridge while we tried to hit a surface target with the CWIS without surface search radar was interesting too... didn't have enough downward elevation, so we waited till the ship rolled just right and let it rip.
Being on the bridge while we tried to hit a surface target with the CWIS without surface search radar was interesting too... didn't have enough downward elevation, so we waited till the ship rolled just right and let it rip.
LoneGoose
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M79 grenade launcher. I liked that I could see the projectile at the top of its arc and could adjust windage before that round hit.
bannockburn
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Nothing full auto but my brother had a Sterling Mk.VI semi-auto carbine and that thing with it's 34 round mag (or 32 rounds with Sten mags), was a hoot to shoot!
aarondhgraham
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Quad 50,,,
No matter where I went in the Air Force,,,
I always tried to get to know the Rangemaster.
If you went there one time and showed a true willingness to learn,,,
Most of them were more than happy to help you out.
Nothing like shooting a couple of hundred rounds a week,,,
On Uncle Sugar's dime.
But the real benefit was when they had ammo inventory control days,,,
That's why got a phone call to,,,
"Get to the range. Now!"
I got to sit in a turret seat and fire 4 full cans of fifty cal,,,
Absolutely cut apart an old deuce and a half.
After that it was a FN P90 on full auto,,,
I rented it with 250 rounds of ammo for my birthday a few years ago.
Better than the V pill.
Aarond
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No matter where I went in the Air Force,,,
I always tried to get to know the Rangemaster.
If you went there one time and showed a true willingness to learn,,,
Most of them were more than happy to help you out.
Nothing like shooting a couple of hundred rounds a week,,,
On Uncle Sugar's dime.
But the real benefit was when they had ammo inventory control days,,,
That's why got a phone call to,,,
"Get to the range. Now!"
I got to sit in a turret seat and fire 4 full cans of fifty cal,,,
Absolutely cut apart an old deuce and a half.
After that it was a FN P90 on full auto,,,
I rented it with 250 rounds of ammo for my birthday a few years ago.
Better than the V pill.
Aarond
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Coyote3855
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Original Thompson submachine gun.
MP-40. 32 rounds seem to last forever. Very controllable and a ton of fun.
FL-NC
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Tie between: M134 mini gun, 106 recoiless, MK47 auto grenade launcher, and quad dshk. But if I had to pick 1, it would be the MK47.
FiveStrings
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Firing the 105mm main gun of an M60 tank in "degraded gunnery" mode. No hydraulic controls or computer-fed ballistic solution, just using the traverse and elevation hand cranks, the M105D telescopic sight, and a hard twist on the manual trigger handle. Spanking targets out to 2000 meters doing that made you feel like you'd really done some shooting.
These days its my Brown Bess .75 cal smoothbore musket. For Boom, Bang, Smoke, Fire, and just slinging a big-a**ed chunk of lead, it does make me smile. Once I took a couple of friends from work to the range. Both guys had grown up completely oblivious to guns and were practically what you call "anti's". They both did OK with pistols and centerfire rifles but no real enthusiasm. After introducing them to the Brown Bess, however, they would argue over whose turn it was to load and fire it next.
These days its my Brown Bess .75 cal smoothbore musket. For Boom, Bang, Smoke, Fire, and just slinging a big-a**ed chunk of lead, it does make me smile. Once I took a couple of friends from work to the range. Both guys had grown up completely oblivious to guns and were practically what you call "anti's". They both did OK with pistols and centerfire rifles but no real enthusiasm. After introducing them to the Brown Bess, however, they would argue over whose turn it was to load and fire it next.
My Army service was full of good times and tough times, but fire missions in the M109A6 155mm howitzer was a thrill. Almost got to shoot direct fire but they called it off, we were bummed, had an old deuce and 1/2 all lined up at 500 meters or so. The Barrett .50 was a hoot, but that was only in a Long Range Marksmanship class. The MK19 grenade machine gun is just plane cool, and a game of horse with a M76 on an Iragi range full of shot up trucks was a lot of laughs with the buds. Loser had to clean the .50
I wasn't in the Bradley, but watching two of them at dusk rip up a 2 story block structure in a crossfire was a serious thrill. 20mm laser beams was what it looked liked. We just sat back in the Humvee and cheered our asses off like our team was winning the Super Bowl.
Good times.
I wasn't in the Bradley, but watching two of them at dusk rip up a 2 story block structure in a crossfire was a serious thrill. 20mm laser beams was what it looked liked. We just sat back in the Humvee and cheered our asses off like our team was winning the Super Bowl.
Good times.
lightman
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A Doctor brought a 1919A4 to the range with a 22 rimfire conversion and a suppressor. That was a hoot! Over the years I've shot his Uzi, Sten, M-14, M-16, Thompson, and a few others. He is a serious collector. He is saving his brass to have a cannon barrel cast with it.
Burst is for those who lack control.I get to qual on M4s. Burst is fun.
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