Legendary guns.

[Faithless]

Messing around with a geocities website [link in sig].

What would you consider as a legendary gun? By legendary I mean, a great design, numbers made, copied by its peers, right calibre, and so on, you get the idea.

I've put down the Mauser 98, Browning Hi-Power, AK-47 and Remington 870 down first. Those picks should be fairly non-controversial. What do you think should be added?

 

[FPrice]

Colt Single Action Army.

Colt .45ACP 1911/1911A1

S&W Hand Ejectors

 

[GlenJ]

Mosin-Nagant

 

[Akira13]

M1 Garand

 

[R.H. Lee]

Obviously the Winchester Model of 1894 and it's successors.

 

[Nimitz]

k first off there are so many guns...so little time. this is in no particular order just as i thought of them....

pistols:

"Liberator"
S&W 29
Colt python
Colt single action Army
1911
Luger
CZ52
CZ75
Tokarev
browning hi-power
beretta 92
GLOCK
ruger MK II family...

Rifles:

Enfield
M1 garand
M1903 springfield
K-31 (swiss)
winchester 1873/1894, etc.
AR-15/M-16
Barret M82
mauser 98
mosin nagant
SKS
ruger 10/22

Machine Guns:

M1921 (Thompson)
UZI
STEN
M3 "grease gun"
BAR
FN FAL
Sturmgewehr-44
AK-47 and all variants
Browning M2
MG42
BREN
M60
M249


Shotguns:

remington model 17
mossberg 590
remington 870
browning shotguns
benelli M1/variants

Chad

 

[VARifleman]

STEN AKA "grease gun"

It was the M3 (an american gun) that was named the grease gun, not the British Sten.

 

[Nimitz]

typo...sorry.

Chad

 

[Matt G]

LEGENDARY:

leg·en·dar·y ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ljn-dr)
adj.
Of, constituting, based on, or of the nature of a legend.

Celebrated in legend.
Extremely well known; famous or renowned.

Using the "Celebrated in legend" standard (not just "well known"):
Springfield 1903/1903A3
SMLE
M1 Garand
Government Model
Single Action Army
Brown Bess
Trapdoor Springfield
M29
...


Now: Assign each a source for the "celebration":

 

[Sleeping Dog]

Wow, big list.

A couple of machine guns might be worthy of addition:

Hiram Maxim's machine gun.
Browning's M2 .50cal.
(editing - I see the M2 was on the list - bad eyes)

But legendary? I'd like to see the little Belgian Browning pistol that Princip used to shoot the Archduke Ferdinand. It brought us WW1, which led to the Treaty of Versailles, which made Germany a hell-hole, which allowed the rise of National Socialist party, giving us Hitler and WW2, bringing in Hirohito, leading to the holocaust and the A-bomb, thus the cold war. All from one little pistol.

Regards.

 

[VARifleman]

Rifles:

Kentucky Long Rifle
1903 Sprinfield
M1 Garand
Enfield
k98
Mosin-Nagant
Model 70

Pistols:

SAA
1911

Select Fire:

Thompson
BAR
MG 42
M2
M16A2



GAU 8/A

 

[Dr.Rob]

Callahan Full Bore Auto Lock.

Seriously, 'legendary' isn't something that should just thrown around like grass seed.

Colt's Patterson is one of those. The SAA is one of those. Certainly the 1911 is one of those.

But the 1903? It's copy of a Mauser, which does belong on the list.

Tha BAR? You bet. The AK? For certain. The STG-44... totally changed small arms design.

'Legendary?'... hmmm.

The M2.. no doubt at all.

The Luger... its the most recognized pistol in the world. Pretty neat trick for a pesky 9mm. BHP.. only the most widely used semiauto handgun in the world.

The Tommygun? Not to a Russian. Give him a Stalin's Banjo any day. To an American kid that grew up on bank robber/gangster movies, ww2 flicks and the untouchables? Legend isn't enough of a word.

If glock is on the list (it's not the 'first' polymer pistol) then why isn't the P7?

And let's face it James Bond made the PPK a legend.

Winchester and Colt didn't 'win the west' the single barrel shotgun likely did, but kudos to their marketing departments and celebrity endorsements.

The 1873 Winchester belongs on the list.

Gyrojet? Nope. Automag? Nyet. Desert Eagle? uh uh.

SW model 10/M&P yes indeedly do.

 

[smokemaker]

I'm glad someone mentioned the GAU-8A, but I'd also chime in for the M-61 Gatling in any guise.
And the Winchester pumps: Model 1897 and Model 12
Maybe even the Ithaca 37
If that little Browning pistol that caused all the greif of the 20th century gets in, then how about the Carcano-Mannlicher
(hey nobody said great guns, they said legendary guns)

 

[entropy]

Noble Sniper Vasili Zaitsev's Mosin Nagant PE sniper rifle:

 

[Majic]

The 98 Mauser was listed, but the 93 Mauser started the design. Also the '73 Winchester was mentioned, but I think that honor goes to the Henry.

 

[Faithless]

Thanks for the replies.

I had hoped to include a revolver and knew it would be a Colt, so I'm going to put up the SAA. I also can't believe I forgot about 'Ma Deuce' so that's going up as well.

I'll put up a better reply to y'all a bit later as I've got to run.

 

[Jeff Timm]

Legendary = that about which legends are spun?

To a citizen of the US of A, that would include IMHO:

Winchester 73, don't matter whose first, matters who got the most mentions in the pulps and on the idiot box

Colt Single Action Army 1873, see above

Colt M1911A1 .45 Automatic, see above

Browning BAR, M1917 (all variants, especially the water cooled), M-2 .50 Caliber

Pistol 08, the Luger in the US of A, always the "Bad Guy Gun"

M1928 Thompson SMG, with drum magazine, 10,000 bad gangster flicks cannot help but make a legend, cross reference picture of Winston Churchill with cigar and Thompson, c. 1940.

"Generic Sub-nosed .38" Renown in song and story, "She pointed a pair of 38's at me, but the sub-nosed revolver in her hand got all my attention." More pulp fiction.

M-1 Garand, the legend so strong our enemies would die to capture one.

MP-40 and MP-38, the Schmisser, the legend so strong our guys would die to capture one.

For the foreign devils observing, the AKM, or AK-47, renown in song and story, and on the flag of at least one African dictatorship.

Geoff
Who believes in the M1911 legend, at least enough to own two.

 

[Onmilo]

Anything that works when one needs it too.
The weapons posted pretty well meet that criteria.
The Mk23 SOCOM pistol may one day be included in the line-up.
Word is they are performing better than expected,,,,

 

[sheepdip]

Colt Python

 

[blazer610]

I noticed a shotgun that was conspicuously missing from the list. The Browning Auto-5. The first semi-auto loading shotgun ever and it remained in
production for 97 years. I still don't understand why production ceased.

My dad gave me my first Browning A-5, a 20ga, when I was 10 years old. I currently own 7 of these fine weapons and have never had the desire to hunt with any shotguns besides the old "Hump Back".


Larry

 

[4thHorseman]

FPrice....

Colt Single Action Army. Colt .45ACP 1911/1911A1 S&W Hand Ejectors

My choice too on hand guns.

 

[Sharps Shooter]

"The legendary Sharps." - Alan Rickman in Quigley Down Under.

 

[Ky Larry]

Remington 870
Winchester Model 70 (Pre '64)
Browning BAR

 

[Dionysusigma]

IMO:

Kentucky rifle
Winchester '73
Gatling
Colt SAA
Any SxS 12ga
Springfield 1903 (Sgt. York)
Luger P08
1911 (and A1)
Thompson 1927A1
MG-42
M1 Garand
AK-47
M-16
Uzi
MAC 10
Hk MP5
Beretta 92 (and 92FS)
Desert Eagle

... at least, I knew what those were and what they looked like long before I got into guns.

 

[MICHAEL T]

I think the PPK should be up their. Been a lot of clones from that design.