What's your Holy Grail gun(s)?

[effengee]

The one(s) that you would quest to the ends of the earth and time for, the minute you won the lottery?

Mine are:

A WW2 era 1911 and a SS Luger.

A belt-fed fully-automatic man-portable machine gun. Preferably an M2 .50

A full-auto Thompson, with a 100 round drum, in a silk-lined violin case.

A 20mm Lahti.

Basically, the only thing stopping me from getting these are the huge wads of money I'd need for each one, so I'll have to say that the topper would be a Robbins and Lawrence carbine manufactured at the Windsor plant in Windsor, Vermont. I like to buy local

 

[bushmaster1313]

Ithaca Auto & Burglar
But New Jersey doesn't allow NFA.
This picture pulled off the Internet:

 

[Oyeboten]

Colt 'Monitor'...

M1905 Colt .45 ACP

Savage 'Trials' .45 ACP

Luger 'Trials' .45 ACP

Mauser 'Broomhandle' .45 ACP


Can of Rem-Oil and-a-Rag...

 

[esheato]

I don't really have one...

1911? Have a Brown and a few Kimbers.
Varmint? Two Coopers with all the fixings. (223 AI and 243 AI)
High end bolt guns? Two HS Precisions (260 Rem and 338 LM)
Lever? Yeah, several, mostly 45-70.
Safari gun? Yeah, .405 Win in there. If it was good enough for Roosevelt...
Revolver? Yeah, Python and a bunch more.
EBR? Yeah, even a pistol caliber carbine.
High end optics? Yeah, NF and S&B.
O/U? Yes, several (read 5)

So...what else do I need? Maybe a fine european SxS....Merkel comes to mind.

 

[bhp9mm]

Smith and wesson 66 super k

 

[Tim the student]

A double digit M1.

 

[yeti]

Winchester 71 Deluxe .348 Win


"Thus ends the technical history of the .348 Winchester. Please pardon us when we say all of that really has little to do with the "real" history. You see, the story of the .348 WCF can never truly be told due to its unique purpose. Designed solely as a powerful hunting cartridge for the finest big bore lever gun that has ever been, its history was played out in dim woods and along forested streams of the cold country. Dark spruce, black water, and white snow have felt its concussion in places where weather was bad and ranges short. Elk, moose, and big bears knew its report, too, but the only witness was the north wind.

"Those who brought this rifle and cartridge into being were some of the last men to know what relying on a rifle really meant. Not head hunting, not killing, but slipping as through a curtain, alone, into a land that is big, beautiful, and totally unforgiving. A good canoe, a favorite pack frame, a big Winchester with receiver turned dull silver from wear by countless pairs of mittens are all part of this history.

"Then the sudden violent shaking of the brush. A blood chilling half-growl, half-roar paralyzes mind and senses. Quick flashes of brown transform into a slobbering face of teeth and gray guard hairs standing erect, accented by eyes turned red with hate for reasons know only to itself. As death closes the final few feet, there comes, somehow, the crashing thunder of a Model 71 - again and again.

"Yes, the .348 Winchester truly belongs to another era. It was created for a place that is part fiction, part reality, part memory. Unfortunately, we have never been allowed to glimpse very much of it."

from: Gil Sengel's "Cartridge Board: .348 Winchester"

 

[Shadow 7D]

Metaba autorevolver
a Remington 51,

A full auto PPSH
or similar in .22

My FIL 30.06, mainly because I just want to know where the hell it ended up.

 

[LHRGunslinger]

Walther WA2000 in .300 Win Mag. $75000 from the President of Walther USA. NIB

 

[bannockburn]

1) Lewis Machine Gun
2) U.S. Model 1919A4
3) U.S. Model 1919A6
4) U.S. Model 1918-A2
5) U.S. Model M2-HB
6) U.S. Model M249

...and one example of just about every submachine gun ever made.

 

[RyanM]

Not really sure, now that I managed to snag a .44 mag Mateba awhile back. Everything else I want is pretty common. Colt Walker repro, Seecamp .380, etc.

Oh, I know. An American-180! Nothing like a .22 LR machine gun that holds about 174 shots (or whatever) and shoots 20 rounds a second.

 

[Rembrandt]

A stainless steel barreled Model 52 Winchester......very rare, only made a couple years, discontinued in 1931.

 

[Hatterasguy]

88mm Flak

 

[Kingofthehill]

This rare baby!

One day.... One day....

 

[1911fan]

1940 mfd Danish Krag-Jorgensen, rechambered for 8mm Mauser.

1970's Mauser mfd, Interarms imported, stainless steel Luger w/ 6" barrel and American Eagle Rollmark on the breech.

Half a dozen M-72 LAW's because "If I had a rocket launcher, there'd be hell to pay."

Hand-held phaser.

ed

 

[Hawthorne2k]

An M163A3 PIVADS.

On a slightly more reasonable note, an M249. There's a few out there for civilian ownership, I just need to win the lottery a few times in order to get one.

The trick would be getting enough money for that gun AND the ammo to shoot it.

 

[TexasRifleman]

Top of my list, doubt I'll ever make it happen. Stg44

 

[pikid89]

M1941 Johnson Rifle

 

[NC Cruffler]

A GP-35, John Moses Browning's final pistol design finished by Dieudonné Joseph Saive. Browning was working on the design when he dropped from a heart attack in his son's office in 1926.

 

[CapnMac]

Johnson rifle has long been on my list; but the "holy grail" would be either of the Johnson Automatic Rifles (and that 3rd or 4th lottery win would help to afford the magazines).

 

[ScratchnDent]

A rifle that shoots 1" groups at 1000 yds for less than 25 cents per round.

 

[wuluf]

S&W Model 1950 Target in .44 Spl, 4" barrel, shipped in my birth year. I'm not asking much....

 

[armoredman]

STG44
PPsH 41
vz-805.
Skorpion EVO

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

A Phased plasma rifle in the 40watt range.

 

[Roswell_Kid]