Most famous gun you have never owned or fired

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M61 Vulcan 20mm Gatling gun attached to the nose of a T-bolt II.
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Wouldn't it be the GAU-8 Avenger 30MM out of the T-Bolt II, AKA Warthog?
M61 Vulcan 20MM is in F16, F15, F14, F18, and several others.

I think I'd like to rip some rounds through the 25MM cannon of the AV-8B Harrier.

As to which famous/popular guns I haven't fired or own?
No Thompson SMG, but I own the SA rifle version. I've had the opportunity to have fired a variety of FA, both military and through friends. But the Thompson hasn't been one.

Through a friend I've been able to go back all the way to Brown Bess, Civil War pieces, and the Dreyse needle gun with the paper cartridges. Cool pieces of history there.

For the longest time my holy grail to light off was the Ma Deuce. I finally had the chance while in Iraq. That baby rocked!
Like Herrwalther and many of the other Vets, I also got to play with M240, M249, Mk19, M203, M60, M16, M16A1, M16A2, and M4. Of course M1911A1, and M9 as well as M11 (Sig). I even got to fire off a LAAW, but it was only with the subcaliber training round, but still cool to see the swoosh go downrange.

But, while I've gotten to fire SA versions of AK47 and 74, I haven't gotten to shoot FA versions.

One or two that I haven't gotten to fire, and frankly I don't really know if I would want to, is the S&W 500 and the 460. I'm a short guy with small hands and I'm not interested in getting beat up by the handgun. I've fired a couple of mags out of the Desert Eagle 50 and that was almost too much to handle. Mind you, I own the 357 version and I can shoot that with no problems. Similarly the 44 Mag was comfortable. The 50 AE not so much.

I've fired BHPs, but don't care to own, same with 44 Mag (29, Redhawk), though I'd probably own the Desert Eagle.

In rifle, no 45-70 in any variety, no big Weatherby Magnums.
 
Hmmmm, dream guns to check off the bucket list...

A pre '64 M-70 in .264 Win Mag.
A S&W 53 in .22 Jet.
A war-ready Thompson M1A1.
A pre WWII era Artillery Luger and a C96.

( My first college roomie had a Broomhandle in .30 but I never got to shoot it. )

I guess that's about it...
 
MA DEUCE Browning M2. I just want to shoot one once before I die. Never happen, cause I couldn't even afford a good burst of .50 cal, but I sure want too.
 
I don't have access to enough.
The Garand (on my wish list), Thompson, any .303, Desert Eagles, the venerable .44...
Handled a lot, but never even fired an AR. Everyone I know was more into handguns, shotguns, or AKs.
 
About 20 years ago there was a news report about an auction that was to take place on Sat, and the report said the auction contained a lot of items that used to belong to famous people. The story was that the items belonged to a collector in Austin Tx, and were being sold off. Among the items, were rifles belonging to Audie Murphy, Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, John Wayne, and others that I have forgotten. The items were to be on display on Friday before the auction on Sat, so I took off work to go have a look.
There was more cool stuff there than I had ever seen in one place before. Along with Audie Murphys' personalized hunting rifle (it had his name embellished in the custom sling), Clyde Barrow sunglasses taken from the ambush scene, they had a lot of John Wayne items.
They had several of the Dukes' big hats, and shirts and vests worn in different films, but what really got my attention were a couple of SAA revolvers. They looked to be Colt, but might have been another SAA clone, one of them was engraved, and had yellow colored stocks. The placard said it was from the movie "The Shootist". I was standing there looking at the pistol inside the display case, when one of the auction workers walked up and asked if I'd like to hold it, I was shocked, but he handed it to me none the less. To me it was like handling something God touched. Needless to say it made quite an impression. I didn't bother to go to the auction, I would not have been able to afford anything.
I called the auction house on Monday telling them I was curious to see what the John Wayne guns sold for, and they told me that just before the auction started, Micheal Wayne called and ask that they be take out of the auction, that the family wanted them to add to a museum somewhere.
 
Once owned a Colt 1877 Thunderer with a two plus inch barrel. Was marked J.McPharland. Was ordereyd by the Pinkertons. Superintendent McPharland was responsible for breaking the back of the Molly McGuires in the coal fields of Pennsylvania in the 1870's.
 
Deus Machina said:
I don't have access to enough.
The Garand (on my wish list), Thompson, any .303, Desert Eagles, the venerable .44...
Handled a lot, but never even fired an AR. Everyone I know was more into handguns, shotguns, or AKs.
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Deus, if you ever work your way down to South East FL, look me up. We can maybe arrange to take care of some from the list for you.
 
I've never fired a Luger.

Owned and fired FN GP-35's of the period, Polish Radom's, P-38's, CZ-27's, fired a full auto MP-40, umpteen Mauser 98's....but never fired a Luger.
 
.308 Norma said:
I've never owned or fired a 1st generation Colt SAA, a genuine Sharps, or an original Winchester 73. But if you equate "famous" to "popular," I've never owned or fired a world famous AK-47 - the most "popular" rifle in the world. I used to have a 7.62X39, but it was a notoriously inaccurate Ruger, not an AK-47.
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The only time I fired an AK (frankly I don't remember the model) was in the Army. We were expected to load put the safety on, take the safety off, fire one round from, and clear the AK. That was the extent of the training on the AK that we got.

Other than that: M-16A1, M1Garrand, M1 Carbine, High-Power, M1911A1, Makarov, and M9
 
Captcurt said:
I had one as my first deer rifle. A total piece of crap. It was the most inaccurate gun that I have ever owned and I have owned a lot.
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Were you using factory loads or handloads? A Carcano takes a .268 dia. bullet, not .264. A lot of factories (PPU for one ) load .264 bullets. If you were using handloads you were using .264 bullets. .268 bullets aren't available. Norma has always loaded the proper size bullet, and my Carcano will shoot 2" at a hundred with Norma ammo.
 
tark said:
Were you using factory loads or handloads? A Carcano takes a .268 dia. bullet, not .264. A lot of factories (PPU for one ) load .264 bullets. If you were using handloads you were using .264 bullets. .268 bullets aren't available. Norma has always loaded the proper size bullet, and my Carcano will shoot 2" at a hundred with Norma ammo.
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This was back in the mid-60's and Norma was the only factory loads available here in Podunk Arkansas. If memory serves it was a 162gr round nose that didn't expand worth a penny. I had an unlucky spike nearly run over me at a maximum range of 13 steps. I punched a 26 caliber hole right through both lungs. The deer went 100-125 yards and was still alive when I found it. The only reason that I hit it was because it was in self defense.
 
mstreddy said:
Wouldn't it be the GAU-8 Avenger 30MM out of the T-Bolt II, AKA Warthog?
M61 Vulcan 20MM is in F16, F15, F14, F18, and several others
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This was my thought as well, confusing the M61 with the GAU-8. The Avenger I got to fire was not enclosed inside the air frame of the A-10. I was at a General Electric shooting range where they still test fire the weapon. I guess to see if it is still awesome. Or for load development, either way. The range is part of an 80,000 acre shooting complex for all sorts of weapons like the Avenger and artillery tests.

Browning said:
I've never fired a Luger.
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I have 2 Lugers coming to me from an estate inheritance. And I am not even sure if I want to fire them. I know for a fact one of them was made around World War ONE, and has a longer barrel than the standard issue. It has 5 magazines and the original leather flap holster.

Hasaf said:
The only time I fired an AK (frankly I don't remember the model) was in the Army. We were expected to load put the safety on, take the safety off, fire one round from, and clear the AK. That was the extent of the training on the AK that we got.
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I was fortunate to have a pretty good weapon familiarization fire in the Army. We had a rep from Century Arms bring some AKs and PKMs out to a range for us. Everyone fired at least one magazine on semi-auto and at least one on full auto out of the AKs. If ammo and interest allowed, we could shoot more. The rep's goal was for us to respect the AK, not fear it before deploying. It served that purpose very well. And that was where I found out I preferred my M4.
 
herrwalther said:
I have 2 Lugers coming to me from an estate inheritance. And I am not even sure if I want to fire them. I know for a fact one of them was made around World War ONE, and has a longer barrel than the standard issue. It has 5 magazines and the original leather flap holster.
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Unless they're worth several thousand dollars or more and are possibly going to be damaged in some way I'd fire them. At least a few mags worth to get an idea of what they're like.

Perhaps that's just me though. I'm not really a collector.
 
Colt .41 Thunderer

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This one belonged to the last train robber in Wyoming. He spent 20 years in the pen and eventually after serving his time, he wound up in Laramie Wy. I met him at the ranch.. (Gunsights story below)
http://www.talesfromthehighlonesome.net/gunsight.html
Years later when I was in college, I would go visit with him as he held court a the cash register in his tourist trap motel, restaurant, and curio shop.
When he got so old he couldn't manage this anymore, he sold everything and moved back east with his family.

He gave me this gun that had been within reach beneath the cash register all the years he owned the place. It has a cracked forcing cone, and I have never fired it.
 
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This one belonged to the last train robber in Wyoming. He spent 20 years in the pen and eventually after serving his time, he wound up in Laramie Wy. I met him at the ranch.. (Gunsights story below)
http://www.talesfromthehighlonesome.net/gunsight.html
Years later when I was in college, I would go visit with him as he held court a the cash register in his tourist trap motel, restaurant, and curio shop.
When he got so old he couldn't manage this anymore, he sold everything and moved back east with his family.

He gave me this gun that had been within reach beneath the cash register all the years he owned the place. It has a cracked forcing cone, and I have never fired it.
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Wow! Cool!
 
herrwalther said:
I have 2 Lugers coming to me from an estate inheritance. And I am not even sure if I want to fire them. I know for a fact one of them was made around World War ONE, and has a longer barrel than the standard issue. It has 5 magazines and the original leather flap holster.
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Shoot 'em bro! You ain't gonna hurt em and they are a hoot. You think the Germans babied them? Heck no!
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So my 20yr old Daughter's BF (a good kid, but not too gun savvy) was at dinner the other night and we were planning to take him shooting with us the following Sunday and I ask him if he has any requests as to which guns we should bring.
He plays Call of Duty, of course, so he said, gee it'd be neat to try a Garand, an AR, or an AK.
No problem, say I.

So I pack those up (along with the Daughter's .22 and my Taurus Carbine) and we head to the range planning to meet him there.
Unbeknownst to me, he had also invited his father whom he had recently become reacquainted with after his parents divorce some years back. He had brought a few guns of his own and seemed like a nice enough fella, so we went inside and started to set up.
I uncased my Garand- and his Dad uncased his. And it was nicer than mine. o_O
I uncased my AK- so did he. And, dammit, it was nicer than mine. :eek:
I pulled out my Del-Ton. He pulled out a Patriot Ordnance monolithic piston rifle.:what::fire:

At least the SOB didn't have an MP5 to show up my Taurus.....and the kids had a good time shooting their "video game" rifles.

I swear, though, if I get a rematch, I'm bringing my chrome-plated '03 Springfield MK1.
Let's see him top that.;)
 
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