Most memorable gun at indoor range...

[Zen21Tao]

I was talking with the owner of our local indoor pistol range a couple days ago and he said that I could bring my 450 Marlin in for a few shots because it falls just barely below the velocity cut off point for his back stop. A friend assured me that this would be a very disruptive gun to others there but I replied that it would defintely be a memorible gun for them.

This got me thinking, what is the most memorible gun you have either had the oppertunity to personally use or oppertunity to personally observe being used at an indoor range? This can be based on performance, looks, uniqueness, whatever criterion you choose just so long as it translated to you as a memorible experience.

 

[LaibYechiel]

My Kel-Tec PLR-16.

It's a Blast to shoot (pun intended) and with its Bushnell Red Dot scope on the top rail and Streamlight TLR-2 tac light/ laser sight combo under the forearm, 30 round magazine, muzzle brake and single point sling, it never fails to draw a crowd.

It is also VERY loud and throws an impressive fireball out the front end as well. In other words, it's hard to ignore.

Peace and blessings,
Laib

 

[loumarch]

I took my .68 caliber black powder pistol once....just once.

 

[Rembrandt]

Rented an HK MP5 at an Orlando indoor range.....50 rounds didn't last long, but the memory has.

 

[zoom6zoom]

My broomhandle Mauser.

 

[usp9]

Personally used - MP5, love that gun!!!

Observed - American 180, coolest .22 on the planet.

 

[Zero_DgZ]

My boss took his .480 Ruger up to the indoor range at Targetmaster once and touched off a cylinder full. By the time he was done there was dead silence all the way up and down the firing line for a good fifteen seconds.

 

[orangelo]

Thompson SMG

Nothing like the sound of a Chicago Typewriter in an enclosed building

 

[Stiletto Null]

People give me dirty looks when I rapid-fire...well...anything.

Nobody seems to go shooting just for fun anymore.

I got to play with a Hakim once. I wasn't very impressed, but it was a pretty nifty gun.

 

[Hemicuda]

I'd say it was having the joy of shooting a real German Luger, that my friend got from his grandpa, and that Grandpa had taken from a dead German soldier during WWII...

not impressive to others, but a real priveledge... and later that day I had the priveledge of trying that same WWII vet's homemade whisky, while hearing the story of that Luger... made it all the better...

 

[220_Swift]

Probably a Desert Eagle chambered in .50AE a buddy had for a while. Very loud, and lots of fire.

 

[Boom-stick]

Everybody at my range that's seen my Freedom Arms Mini revolver still asks after it.

But for me, the club secutary got a .44mag mateba and one of my shooting buddies has a modern delise carbine in .45acp that uses Glock mags, that's pretty cool

 

[earplug]

Desert Eagle 50.

I have seen two DE .50 being shot indoors. One shooter ended up hitting the ceiling when it was coming down out of recoil and the slide enertia made his trigger finger fire.
Other Desert Eagle was being fired during a night fire event. That was entertaining.

 

[kd7nqb]

2 memories

So, at the range I normally shoot at they have a pretty limited collection of rental guns but one of them is a Ruger Alaskan chambered in .454c. Its a small range so anytime somebody rents it, it makes a impression on others. Occasionally if the range is full they wont rent it out. I rented it once and realized that the reason no one ever rapid fires it is well with a recoil like that you really cant.

Also this is slightly different but last year right after christmas I went to the range with my father and in the lane next to us there was a father and daughter and the father had just purchased a new S/W pistol chambered in .45 (sorry I dont remember the model), this girl weighed at most 110lbs. At first I was like "Hot girl + hot gun= new friend" then I watched her shoot this it nearly took her arm off. I let her shoot my fathers Astra a-60 in .380 her response was "daddy this would have been better". I shot her pistol a few times and I liked the feel of it much better but it really was not the gun for her. Both of these are memorable.

 

[EddieCoyle]

I was the first and last person to fire a S&W .500 Mag at a nearby indoor range.

 

[Heywood Case]

For me that would be a Rossi 851 .38 special, my first handgun. It worked, it was mine, and a whole new world was opening up to me. Nothing else will ever come close to that.

 

[Sig245]

I had a 9mm Browning High Power back in the 1970's that I liked a lot. The trigger pull was a bit hard so I decided I would clean up the action a bit. So I worked on the sear with a stone, and the action seemed very smooth.

I went to the range and fired the pistol and it went into full auto mode and shot the whole 13 round clip before stopping. I was stunned and so was everyone else on the range. When the smoke cleared I sat the gun down and noticed that everone in the place was looking at me with their mouths open.

That was my last attempt at playing gunsmith!

 

[Hoppy590]

well Smith and Wesson has an indoor/undgerground range with a motto of "if you can fit it in the door you can shoot it" supposedly the old testing ground for various airborn weapons (.50 cals/ cannons ect) for Springfield armory and SW during the olden days

 

[Owen]

I've used that range at S&W quite a bit. Some of the holes in thebaffles are impressive. 3" diameter impressive.

Which brings us to most interesting thing I've shot indoors. An MP5SD, at steel plates. We figured it was supressed, so we wouldn't need hearing protection. Well, the gun was pretty quiet, but the bullets hitting the plates were not!!

 

[highlander 5]

p 38 belonged to a friend first time I saw a semi auto pistol eject to the left.
BTW How come all lugers are taken from DEAD german soldiers?

 

[mpmarty]

Good question Highlander... especially since very few German Soldaten had Lugers in WW2.

 

[Geno]

Bushmaster Carbon 15 (Model 21)

To say that the Bushmaster Carbon 15 (Model 21) has a thunderous blast would be an understatement. Without fail, people walk out of the nearby booths to see who is firing what. Invariably, someone taps my shoulder and asks, "What is that?!"

Not being selfish, I always ask if they would like to try it. Most say no, but some take me up on the offer. It's fun to share.

Doc2005

 

[Dr. Dickie]

Back in 1986 I had a Desert Eagle .44 automag.
When I let loose, everyone in the other lanes would lean out and look to see what I was I was shooting.
Kinda wish I still had that gun (only one I ever traded away), just for the novelty of it.

 

[woerm]

highlander 5

re: the Luger /P-08

In my misspent youth,


a fellow at the Vetrans' hall asked me for assistance w/ some yard work,

while hammering the mower back to life I saw 5x P-08 on a 'plaque' hanging by their trigger guards,

"where did you get those?"

"A******** tried to shoot me"

" what happended?"

"well, theirs jammed the Thompson didn't"

(re early morning hours Normandy, 5/6 June 1944)

another old duffer at gunstore in Abilene

"Mr. can this be fixed?"

(P-08 w/ steel bullet misfeed/jam)

looked at gun

side plate was different # from rest of gun

'well how long has it been like this?'

Since 44 (re winter sports events in Belgium)

We got a new sideplate and got the thing running on S&B fmj, it wouldn't eat anything else.

the P-08 just tends to be finicky about ammo and the good ones are toolroom jobs ie matching # are more likey to work than cobbling one up out of parts.

I never found out if the 5 guns were from one stop or a over a period of time but the second one was really odd, what were the odds of one solider assembing his pistol with a wrong part prior to going into fight?

With that sideplate it would not even cycle

sabotage? poor training ?

 

[Legionnaire]

Seen lots, but most memorable was a Taurus M44 with a 4" ported barrel. The .44 mag ammo was cheap (inefficient) white box stuff. It was loud, and threw quite a fire ball. Very fun!