List YOUR 10 favourite guns!

[No_Brakes23]

1911A1
AK47
AR15/M16A3
870
K31
Python
597
CZ75
FN FAL
P226

 

[ARKIESTEEL]

1100 Rem 12 gauge stays by the bed
629 classic 44 mag stays in the truck
686 .357
1911 .45 lives in the with the socks
single six .22lr / .22mag combo
10/22 fun gun
870 3 and a half inch kills lots of ducks
rem 700 in 30 - 06
springfeild stevens single shot .22 the little gun with the straight pull hammer

the gun i like the most is my 45/70 marlin guide gun.

 

[Matthew Temkin]

My favorite shooters...

Ar 15

S&W Model 10

Winchester Model 94

M1 Carbine.

Ruger 10/22

Winchester Model 70 (.308)

Glock 19 & Glock .22 conv. kit.

Colt 1860

 

[willbrink]

Can't have a top 10 list without the 1911 on the list. BHP granted, but no 1911? Impossible!

 

[Michael Zeleny]

Can't have a top 10 list without the 1911 on the list. BHP granted, but no 1911? Impossible!

My Top 10 goes to 11.

 

[Brother in Arms]

here are my top 10 that are beutiful in form and function. I Simply couldn't choose 10 total, so I chose 10 domestic and 10 foreign designed fiearms.

Domestic top 10 in no particular order

M1
M14
1887 Winchester lever action shotgun
Ithaca M37
1911A1
1917 S&W
1919 Browning Machine gun
M1927A1 thompson sub machine gun
Remington rolling block
Stoner 63


Foreign top 10 list in no particular order
AKM
Makarov
Mauser C96
M96 Swedish Mauser
PPSH
Martini Henry
MG-42
Ultimax
Lee Enfield
Steyr AUG

 

[17poundr]

Great pics! Absolutely great!

First of all, is that old looking short shotgun meant to be like that or has some cowboy in the day, shortened it himself???

And as for the collection of 'IAMIAN'.... Well, words are not enough really. AAaaamaziung!!!!!

God , I wish I could have a go on at least half of those guns!!!

The AR, and the M1 and M14 being absolute musts, oh and the FN-FAL. and ... Well you get the picture, I wish I could shoot them all! (Does that good looking cowboy gun shoot factory made ammop, or do you have to make or have made your own)??? I would love a Cowboy classic, which is shooting some factory made slugs. I hear they still make the ammo that the Colt peacemaker used, what was it's nomination again?

Anyway, thanks for the imput, keep 'em coming!

Here is some of my fav's (more I mean)...

 

[jungleroy]

hmmmmm

Well, I, Wear a Glock model 22 every day rain or shine.
I am not sure it would be my top choice, but I am very familiar with it, and have 2 hours of range time and 2 hours of training every week.
I love my Ruger super red hawk 454 Casull, and my Kimber custom TLE 2, but do not think I will lug them around daily.

 

[rudolf]

Barret M82A2 (.50 shoulder fired)
Jugoslaw 20mm Hispano Suiza single shot rifle (shoulder fired)

MG42
FG42

Keckler & Koch P7 in .45 (original)
Luger in .45 (original)

the .32 FN that started WW1
the derringer that killed Lincoln

Holland&Holland .375 double

Quad 20mm German Flak for my garden (in case a XXX Helicopter wants to land)
(Why German? Sort of matches the MG/FG 42)

Makes me wonder why most of you name guns you can easily get. No dreams left in your life?

 

[Rattlesnake]

I'll do it by design... no particular order

CZ75
GLOCK
HK P7
AR15
M1/M1A/M1 Carbine
1911
Remington 700
Winchester 94
Ruger MKII/III
870

 

[Jeff]

S&W 586 .357
H&K USP .45
CZ P-01 9mm
Ruger MkII Target .22 w/red dot scope
Remington 700 LTR .308
Ruger 10/22
SIG 556 .223 (hopefully next purchase)
Remington 1100 12ga
Ruger GP100 .357 (still have to get one someday; 4" SS)
S&W 57 5" Nickel .41 (would love to get my hands on one of these)

 

[17poundr]

OK Rudolph!

The Bren gun, proper British steel!
Japanese Nambu.
The original winchester 73 (like in the film).
Bofors 40mm (ha, now try landing helicopters)!
A pak-40 75mm German anti tank gun...
That Russian semi auto rifle, that had a front site like the AK-47, dont know the name though...
A Suomi 31 smg, with the drum clip!
A 1600 century musket &
A 1400 century longbow!!!
A timeless horse archer Asian compostite bow! (Persian, Attila the hun, Greek, Mongol, Arab explosion 'after the death of Mohammed' , Early Ottoman Empire all used it)...

Still, would love a good Lewis gun, or the Dekjatyeff (sorry, still can't spell it) lmg, and ofcourse a Lee Enfield, and a Maxim gun, and a Finn version of the Mosin Nagant...

 

[Bricky62]

I can list 10 favorites but the order depends on what I'm doing and what season it is:

Model 94 Winchester (authentic not clone)30-30
1899 Savage 250-3000
Colt Single Action Army .45 (God created men, Sam Colt made em Equal)
Pre 60's Remington 700 30-06
Pre 60s Winchester model 70 .270
1911 Colt .45 auto
9422M About as handy of a coon and rabbit hunter as is made.
Baltimore (Or Lafever, Greener, Whatever) circa turn century side by side
12ga. (The more engraving and fancier the wood the better)
Winchester model 12 12ga to actually hunt with.
Winchester 1890 or 1906 .22 s,l,lr or wrf for plinking.

 

[17poundr]

I sympathise with Briky's list! Now, as shotguns are conserned, I must tell that I know nothing.

We did shoot what was called an 'Assault shotgun' in the army, it was pump auto, all black (we trained agressive building and room entry, so you can imagine that one guy would have a shotgun), it fired about one and a half dozen rather large pellets, that would rip a car tire hanging from a rope to shreads on the point of hit from about seven-ten meters... No sights to talk about, my aim was always high... (meaning the guy would have got a headshot every time)!

But, as I said, we only trained a bit, just like we trained a bit of Suomi smg, a check lmg firing ak-47 ammo in a belt, two sniper guns, and a sten, but our primary weapons that we really shot a lot with were the rk-62, and later the rk-62 with folding stock, and the FN-9mm Hi Power copy with ten round clip.

So, what does gauge mean? Yep, I do not know, I just looked at the stylish shotguns in the new Ruger catalogue I ordered, and tried to look if the 12gauge was thinner barreled than a 20gauge, no seemed the same, the length was stated in inches, so what is a gauge???

Also, I read in a guns and ammo mag article that people are loading too agressive loads for home defence, apparently people are going for 12 pellet loads that can penetrate walls!!! Not so good if your daughter is in the next room and you miss eh???

We, used a version of what are called 'wolf pellets' I belive, and they have 16 to 18 pellets in them, and this was the army's heavy stuff!!!

So, I belive that a 20-30 pellet load is good for home defence, it's also a bit more forgiving from a longer range imho...

Still, in our day (1990-91), there was only lead pellets, now I see tungsten and all kinds, I see those one slug things, that are aerodynamically made to fly 100meters straight!!!

Well, I'll put some pretty pics so that somebody will take mercy and explain the gauge thing to me...

Mr Poundr...

 

[EricTheBarbarian]

heres some of my favorites

1. k98 mauser
2. mosin nagant 91/30 and m44
3.wasr 10
4. sprinfield xd .45
5. mossberg 500

 

[Michael Zeleny]

So, what does gauge mean?

The number of solid spheres of a diameter equal to the inside diameter of the barrel that could be made from a pound of pure lead.

 

[aerod1]

M1A
M1 Garand
AR-15
Swedish Mausers m96
K-31 Swiss ( Schmidt - Rubin)
Springfield Armory M1911A1
Ruger P series pistols
Ruger Super Redhawk
Old Smith & Wesson revolvers (model 10)
Glock pistols

 

[Drifting Fate]

In no particular order:

1. Colt Python
2. S&W 19, really all K-frames
3. Browning Hi-Power
4. Sig P226
5. Ruger 10/22
6. Remington 870
7. Marlin 39A
8. Browning Buckmark
9. AR-15
10.Colt SAA

 

[FIFTYGUY]

Rudolf wrote:

Jugoslaw 20mm Hispano Suiza single shot rifle (shoulder fired)

That's the Croatian RT-20 semi-recoilless. Yes, pretty darn cool. One of the highest power-to-weight ratios for an anti-tank/anti-material gun, with only the Gustav m/42 full-recoilless 20mm doing better.

MG42

Or MG3, simply because I'd only want it in 7.62 NATO.

FG42

Cool, over $100,000 these days in the U.S., and wildly impractical in full-auto.

Keckler & Koch P7 in .45 (original)

You mean, "Heckler & Koch"? They made the P7M10 in .40 S&W, but I don't think they ever made one in .45 ACP.

Luger in .45 (original)

Very expensive in the U.S. again, but why a Luger?

Quad 20mm German Flak for my garden (in case a XXX Helicopter wants to land)

There's a few privately-owned Flak 30/38's out there in the U.S. I've got some of the original Nazi ammo in my collection, as well as a 20-round mag. Pretty much a longer version of the Solothurn S18-1000 mag (I've got one of those), but of course not interchangeable at all with the Lahti M/39 mag (I've got one of those mags as well...).
With a quad AA setup, each gun running around 600 rpm, you'd need four or five of your buddies running around to keep those 20-round mags going!

 

[22LongRifle]

In no certain order......

M1 Garand, I think Gen George Patton said it best!

The Long Rifle, in .36 or .40 caliber

Colt Navy, like stated before.

Colt Pocket Police, it doesn't get better than this!

1873 Trapdoor, clean that weapon trooper!

1903 Springfield

P-35 or BHP, I won't qoute JMB cause alot of folks will start to cry!

Thompson 1927 machinegun, they had to ban them so they must be great!

1898 30/40 Krag, helped Teddy take that hill!

M1 Carbine, war baby!

I know they are "old", and most are longguns, and no shotguns. But I'll stand by them.

Jerry

 

[FIFTYGUY]

17pounder wrote:

The Bren gun, proper British steel!

You mean Czech. But still, Bren's are very classy!

Japanese Nambu.

If you mean the pistol, Dear God WHY?

Bofors 40mm (ha, now try landing helicopters)!

You mean like mine?

http://members.aol.com/fiftyguy/featherduster.html

A pak-40 75mm German anti tank gun...

Nice gun. Big brother of the 37mm Pak 38.

Still, would love a good Lewis gun,

I've always liked the Lewis - very simple design. If it weren't for the mysterious animosity of General Crozier, Colonel Lewis' gun would have helped end the Great War sooner.

or the Dekjatyeff (sorry, still can't spell it) lmg,

Degtyarev? aka the RPD? Some say it's the most practical LMG ever made...

and a Maxim gun,

I would expect you, of all people, to prefer the simplified, more compact Vickers version! Although those solid brass Vickers tripods feel like they weigh a ton!

Very reliable guns. They really don't build them like they used to... Eight Maxim guns at the Somme killed about 60,000 charging British soldiers - eight percent of the entire British army - in one hour!

 

[pcf]

FN M240G (shoot not carry)
Browning Buckmark
Ruger 10/22
S&W 686P
Sig P226R DAK
Remington 870
Beretta 390
Marlin 336
AR15
1911

 

[Geronimo45]

FN FNC - a FAL in 5.56. I like the looks of the FALs. Like the low recoil/price of 5.56. Also takes AR mags.
http://world.guns.ru/assault/as24-e.htm
Thompson, 1928 model with the C-drum - no honest man needs less than fifty rounds in his submachine gun.
American 180 - magazine capacity alone gives the VPC cold shivers - capacity's over 200 rounds with some mags. That's enough rounds to take on dozens of squirrels, Russian paratroopers, or to thin out mosquito hordes a bit.
Walther 2000 - it's got a new look with style to it.
Baby Browning - tiny size and a neat gun. Classy.
1911A1 - so many accessories for it - lasers, conversion kits - and it's a great natural pointer for me... extremely practical. And fun.
CZ 75 - everybody needs at least one high-cap 9mm.
CZ 83 in .32 - a high-capacity mousegun. I like having a lot of bullets.
Kel-Tec PLR-16 - another 'give-the-Brady's-a-fit' gun. Shorter than any SBR that I've heard of, while not being nearly as expensive. Takes AR mags, also. Great wilderness pistol, I reckon.
Webley Mark VI cut to .45 ACP - Europeans seem to have had major issues in getting a revolver to look right to American eyes. Look at the Nagant, for example. The Webley looks like a revolver ought - tough and rugged. The Webley's just dripping with character - from the big stirrup latch and automatic extractor to that hexagonal barrel. I love it.
Honorable mention: FN Five-Seven. If they came out with an all-steel model, I'd love it - just a matter of looks, not of distrust of polymer.

 

[17poundr]

To my esteemed gollegue aka 'The filthy guy', I like your oppinions, and I'm very jealous about your helicopter, perhaps if I come to the US, and happen to be in you neck of the woods we can go for a ride, after going to do some shooting on a range on my dime???

But about the ww1 battle of the Somme, you have it a bit off old chap, the British army suffered almost (just under a fiew hundred), 60 000 CASUALTIES!
Now, you probably know that casualties is a word used for KIA, MIA AND WIA, THAT'S, killed, missing in action and wounded in action.

I have to 'dissapoint' you, in the fact that the actual KIA figure was 20 000, and the rest were mostly wounded and some missing in actions, that is about 40 000 wounded.

This mirrours a ususal breakdown of casualties in modern war, you tend to get about two to three wounded for every killed, ofcourse especially in ww1, many wounded died later in hospital. Unlike nowaday's.

And you are mistaken that it was 8 Maxim's, for even if it was the big killer after the artillery in ww1, the front of the Somme was tens of miles, and there was more than eight mg's there, and surviving riflemen too, I know, I have read a couple of books on the Somme, one was over 500 pages thick!

And some Brit infantry got into the german trenches, and exacted their revenge on the Germans there, actually although MOST of the casualties were in the first hour and a half, the total figure of 20 dead and 40 thousand wounded is the toll for the whole day... And one Scottish remains of a Battalion that had got through the killing fields, continued to remain in their bit of captured trench for almost two weeks, until starvation and their ammo ending forced them to give it up and surrender. Also, modern re examination of the battle of the Somme, which lasted about two and a half months, and resulted in about similar end total casualties for both sides, that being about 350 000 each, and yet strangely the total figure for the Somme, on both sides is one Million men as casualties in three months, from these about 80-85% were British and German, the rest were French, and the whole attack, was pulled as a mainly British event, because the French were in the similarly hellish battle of Verdun, put these both together, and you realize that the German high command was not happy after the 1916 battles, even if the French and Brits had suffered near a half million casualties each, the Germans had suffered double, and they had the Eastern front taking it's toll too!!!

Just so that people get the right impression. But as I said, in essence you wer e right.

btw, the Finnish army still used the maxims in it's heavy companies in ww2... As did the Soviets, and to a lesser degree the Brits and the Canadians, in defencive work, it was a honey, but that tripod, that wasnt nice to carry!!!

Thanks anyway for the reminder!

Mr Poundr.

p.s. as I'll be posting ww2 guns this time as my pic gift (where are your pic gents)? I thought that anobody into ww2 would be interested in this site: OH, and I put the ULTIMATE GANSTA GAK pic existing, guess which?

http://www.cafepress.com/flumecreek.34739721

 

[FIFTYGUY]

17poundr wrote:

To my esteemed gollegue aka 'The filthy guy',

Never been called that before ... but I'd have to admit sometimes it's appropriate!

I like your oppinions, and I'm very jealous about your helicopter, perhaps if I come to the US, and happen to be in you neck of the woods we can go for a ride, after going to do some shooting on a range on my dime???

Hmmm... did you actually check the link? I don't have a helicopter - I've got a Bofors!

But about the ww1 battle of the Somme, you have it a bit off old chap, the British army suffered almost (just under a fiew hundred), 60 000 CASUALTIES!
...
I have to 'dissapoint' you, in the fact that the actual KIA figure was 20 000, and the rest were mostly wounded and some missing in actions, that is about 40 000 wounded.

You are indeed correct! My original source said "casualties". I made the erroneous assumption that meant KIA, since the preceding paragraph mentioned that 11,000 men a week died on the Western Front alone, and that Maxims (of various flavors) were responsible for 90+ % of the 31 million dead of WWI.

And you are mistaken that it was 8 Maxim's, for even if it was the big killer after the artillery in ww1, the front of the Somme was tens of miles, and there was more than eight mg's there, and surviving riflemen too,

WRT to only eight Maxims - again I was misinterpreting the source, which mentioned that there were 8 Maxims at Somme that averaged over 120,000 rounds each and were still running fine at the end of the battle with no appreciable wear. I had assumed these eight guns firing a total of 1,000,000 rounds had to account for a substantial portion of the 60,000 casualties - that would be only one shot in every 15 or 16 fired hitting a different soldier. But you are correct - there had to have been many, many Maxims at Somme.

I've never fired a Maxim, but I have shot a friend's Vickers. All you have to do is give them bullets and water and they'll shoot forever!

I'm also kinda curious about the effectiveness of artillery during trench warfare... most of what I've read seems to imply that it wasn't very effective at infliciting casualties.
FWIW my guess is that disease killed as many soldiers as artillery did.

Just so that people get the right impression. But as I said, in essence you were right.

Thank you very much for the history lesson!

BTW the BAR in the pics you posted is another classy piece of heavy iron - is it yours?