Top 10 Manly guns

[zxcvbob]

Nobody's mentioned the BFR yet.
http://www.magnumresearch.com/bfr_specs.asp

 

[TheLastBoyScout]

It took until the 54th post to even mention the .500 S&W.

That would be because it falls under the same category as the DE .50. So large and impractical that its compensating for the shooter's lack of manliness.

 

[gyp_c2]

hmmm...

...I'd sub a German K series Mauser for the Swiss, other than that, prettydangood!...except there's no Tommy Guns, or sawed-off double barrels, no Garand, and no thutty-thutty, and no SAA...

 

[rocinante]

No way the AR-15 is more MANLY than the AK47. Never mind the technical merits but the AR-15 is pretty and refined and sissy looking compared to the rugged, metal and wood, simple and frankly MANLY ugly of the AK.

He got it right with Clint's bad wheel gun but NOTHING is more manly than a Winchester 73 lever rifle.

 

[Working Man]

Why is there no lever-action anything?

.45-70, 30-30, 30-06.... If them there ain't manly I don't don't know what is.

 

[Leif Runenritzer]

but why the glock and SMLE
glock reminds me of mall ninjas and guys name Gaston
the SMLE reminds me of people named Nigel Wimpsnapple

It's because of guys named Gaston that the Glock is manly.

 

[sacp81170a]

I'm battin' .800, but that's cause I can't afford a Barrett just now, and I have a Marlin lever action .45-70 guide gun instead of a K31. If it's manly enough to take Kodiak bears, is manly enough for me.

But let me add to the list a philosophical favorite: the bolt action .22 rifle. Hear me out.

What weapon was it that most people were given at the earliest opportunity? I'd venture to say that the vast majority of us cut our shooting teeth on the venerable .22, usually a bolt action. What could be more manly than being the first gun of every self respecting Viking child? I have a special fondness in my heart for the Springfield bolt action .22 that I bought as an 8 year old in 1967 at the Oklahoma Tire and Supply Company in Huntsville Arkansas with my Christmas and chore money. This was in the days before the unmanly GCA of 1968, when manly young men, under the supervision of their manly elders could proudly go up and plunk their hard-earned $19.95 on the counter and walk away with a useful hunting weapon and a box of ammunition without signing some silly, unmanly paper. Ahh, for the good old days... :banghead:

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Did Clint Eastwood carry a Redhawk? No? Then a Redhawk is still more of a metrosexual pistol.. the model 29 is more manly!

Clint Eastwood? Hahahahahaha. Dirty Harry shot "light specials" out of his 29. (Magnum Force) Redhawks spit out loads without problems that would blow up 29s. Nice trigger, but that's where the "manliness" of a 29 ends.

 

[davepool]

That would be because it falls under the same category as the DE .50. So large and impractical that its compensating for the shooter's lack of manliness.

when was the last time you killed an elk with a .44 magnum?....oh thats right;never, but my S&W 500 with corbon ammo did... its just that most girlie men can't handle a handgun that big

 

[Working Man]

when was the last time you killed an elk with a .44 magnum?....oh thats right;never, but my S&W 500 with corbon ammo did... its just that most girlie men can't handle a handgun that big

Well a .44 magnum can and has killed a polar bear. I'd say that is manly enough.

.... although I do have a DE .50, a BFR in .45-70, and a .44 magnum Redhawk.

 

[trueblue1776]

Seriously, the DE is a toy, a novelty gun.

 

[Texas Moon]

My list( in no particular order)

1.) Colt Walker - started the American heritage of big powerful fighting handguns.

2.) Springfield 1903 -need I say more? Ask Sgt. Woodfill of the Regulars or that draftee guy York.

3.) Holland&Holland Best Quality double rifle in .470Nitro. Manly men can drop a charging tusker before breakfast.

4.) Parker shotguns - any of them.

5.) Colt 1911 - see No. 1

6.) Winchester 1873 - It settled the American west.

7.) British 577/450 Martini-Henry - settled some pretty nasty hash.

8.) Hawken Rifle - Carson, Meeks, et al used them. Good enough for me.

9.) S&W N-frame revolvers. The awesome Registered Magnum or .44 Triple Lock are worthy of true fame.

10.) M-1 Garand - GI Joe saved the world with one.

11.) Not a gun but a caliber - .22LR Real men can put a round where it counts. No need for .50BMG.

 

[lamazza]

I would replace M44 and K31 with Garand and M14

 

[Taurus 66]

Remington 742, 7400, or Browning BAR

I should've been more precise in wording and stated, "Too bad there isn't a .270 in semi auto to my liking".

 

[hoji]

3 of the ten.

 

[operator114]

One more for the manliest gun:

a nickel-plated RG 22 with pearl grips.



JUST KIDDING

However, my cocked NAA 22 stuck in some BG's left nostral would be pretty manly.

 

[Badkharma]

The Desert Eagle is NOT a manly gun. It is a WANNABE-MANLY gun, used by wussified metrosexual hyper-liberal hollywood types who want to compensate for their utter lack of manliness, which becomes so negative as to warp space-time and actually create a kind of schwarzchild radius of anti-manliness. They believe people will not see this seething hole of anti-manliness that surrounds them when they clutch a Desert Eagle in their carefully manicured hands in a pathetic attempt to project a manly image in some movie or tv show. Real men do not have to try to project an image of manliness, and hence have no use for a Desert Eagle. They use real guns, because Practical IS manly.

By that same token, a Prius Hybrid is more manly than an H1.

While I agree it is wussified by hollywood, before it was so, it was manly. I would certainly like to see a petite woman shoot one. Oh wait, there's Laura Croft.

Seriously, the list was meant to be humorous and ridiculous, not a reflection of what our ACTUAL top 20 would be when we look at it realistically.

 

[koja48]

Ooh . . . a Marlin 45/70 Guide gun should be on the list . . . it'll either make you "grow a pair" or shake what you have off . . .

 

[CrawdaddyJim]

Whoa... a whole website devoted to manliness. Now that is pretty dman funny.

Anyway.

10. M14 socom

9. 870 12ga

8. FA 454 casull

7. 1911 45acp

6. lever in 45-70 or larger cal

5. any gun in 458 Lott

4. The Ruger Alaskan

3. 340pd in 357mag

2. Barrett 50

1. JDJ handcannon in 460 weatherby

and just for sillies, a friend's dad had a quad 50 on a jeep mount. Would make a VW bug dance around the cornfield.

 

[OpFlash]

I'm batting 3.5, counting my Saiga .308 as half an AK (even though it is much more powerful).

 

[jerkyman45]

I think I would put the old punt gun in there. 2 inch bore, it was basically a small cannon firing grape shot with a stock that was used to take out entire flocks of birds. That seems pretty manly to me.

 

[Big45]

Chuck Norris's gun

 

[bender]

lol, hilarious...

"if Clint Eastwood listened to Heavy Metal he'd be the perfect Man..."

Is it true about Barrett not dealing with the California gov't? I'm impressed if so...

 

[Ohio Rifleman]

Yes, it's true. Ronnie Barrett announced in all his ads that he will not do any business with any gov't agency in the state of California. Good to see a gunmaker standing up for the Second Amendment even if it means fewer dollars in their bank account.

 

[Blackfork]

Manly Guns

1. 1911 Colt.

2. M1 Garand

3. Colt Python 357 mag w/six inch barrel.

4. 870 Shotgun.

5. AK47.

6. 50 BMG rifle.

7. Luger 9mm parabellum.

8. Glock 21.

9. K98 Mauser.

10. Winchester M 70 in .308.