10 Manliest Guns of all time

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I would go to the range with a pink .22 Chipmunk with daisies stuck all over it if I want - using .22 shorts.

A gun like that will kill someone just as dead as a .50 caliber.

And, I am the same man, whether I have that or my 500 Magnum with me.

The gun does not make a man just as a car does not make a man.

To those men who think they need something to make them look "more manly", I personally think you are looking in the wrong places.
 
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[Ronnie Barrett] is a man so cool even his sperm smoke unfiltered Camels.

I LOL'd so hard I snorted my coffee...

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I knew a guy when I was younger who would always say "you aren't a MAN unless you drive a Corvette."

Well, it seemed the last time I had looked at myself in the mirror, I was a man - and I NEVER owned a Corvette since I started driving in 1972.

The funny think was his Corvette was such a piece of junk that it never ran and he was forced to always drive his mother's station wagon. I guess in his mind, that would make him a woman.:rolleyes::D
 
Real men also don't confuse what's on their hip with what's between their legs.

No truer words!
 
I'd definitely lose the SMLE, and add either an 1894, Colt SAA, or most likely, THE LIBERATOR. The author seems to be into the backstory of particular guns, and there's nothing more badass than a $.05 single-shot pistol created explicitly for slaughtering Nazis. I'd actually put it in the top three somewhere...
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You are joking aren't you? The Liberator's entire purpose was to disable an enemy so you could get his rifle. Nobody I know of who own them wouldn't shoot them even if they weren't so pricey because they had a tendency to explode in your face after a few shots.

The SMLE is a manly firearm, if you're man enough to shoot it accurately, it's a very fine rifle, likely a better shooter than most who tuck it into their shoulder.
 
I agree with the first 8 on Dr. Rob's list. I'd only add the M-1 Garand and one nobody's mentioned....

Walker Colt
 
The Colt Walker (Dragoons too). Four and a half pounds of pistol. Most of you pantywaists couldn't even pick one up! You girlymen with your plastic and aluminum lightweight pansy pistols....

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Guys, not everything has to be taken serious.
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Quite right. I'm under the impression this thread was to be taken lightly.
Let's not get our panties in a knot here; it's all in fun.
 
You are joking aren't you? The Liberator's entire purpose was to disable an enemy so you could get his rifle. Nobody I know of who own them wouldn't shoot them even if they weren't so pricey because they had a tendency to explode in your face after a few shots.
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No, I'm not joking, and you just made it sound even more awesome.
 
Well then, be my guest. Here's a reproduction of it for sale currently:

http://vintageordnance.homestead.com/Liberator.html

That one is inoperable, unless you drill out to allow the firing pin to hit the cartridge.

Or here's one currently offered for sale:

http://www.gunsamerica.com/92687818...ry-Misc-Pistols-US/Other/LIBERATOR_PISTO.htm#

To each his own I guess. Oddly enough, most gun boards I look at damn Hi Point pistols because they are cheaper than other guns, and in most folks opinions anyway, are made cheaply. And the common comment is that they wouldn't shoot a pistol that's liable to blow up on them.

Phil Schreier presented one of the Liberators on a segment of American Rifleman TV, and discussed the back story of the gun. He even fired one, but he advised that anyone who had a Liberator not do so, because the pistol tended to blow apart after as few as 3 shots.

Have a big old time!
 
I'll see everything on the lists, and after I note that the dude who wrote those is a member here, raise with...

(once it's finished) ABOMINATION. Built by my own hands, no less... granted, mine has 5" of barrel extension, no select-fire and only a 37mm underneath, but you still don't argue with a 12-gauge drum-fed AK with a power-assisted bayonet.
 
To each his own I guess. Oddly enough, most gun boards I look at damn Hi Point pistols because they are cheaper than other guns, and in most folks opinions anyway, are made cheaply. And the common comment is that they wouldn't shoot a pistol that's liable to blow up on them.
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You seem to be missing the point of this list, and consequently this entire discussion. The object of conversation here is not a list of the "10 Best Firearms Ever". I'm not saying the Liberator is a good firearm. It's a piece of junk. My point is that the backstory is savage and the height of retribution, and that makes it cool. Some of the other arms on this list aren't well-made firearms either, but the author points out that they were used to notable effect. For example:

#6: AK47
Another communist piece of trash, and I say that with the greatest respect.
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The Liberator is another example of a "piece of trash" which served a particularly respectable (and "manly", depending on your definition of that colloquialism) role in history.
 
Häyhä was credited with 505 confirmed kills of Soviet soldiers, and 542 if including the unconfirmed deaths. The unofficial Finnish front line figure from the battlefield of Kollaa places the number of Häyhä's sniper kills over 800. A daily account of the kills at Kollaa was conducted for the Finnish snipers. Besides his sniper kills, Häyhä was also credited with over two hundred kills with a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun, thus bringing his credited kills to at least 705. Remarkably, all of Häyhä's kills were accomplished in fewer than 100 days and with iron sights.

Not a big fan of mass produced surplus military rifles; especially when they get passed off as the greatest thing ever built, but this man did unbelievable things with his issue rifle.
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Who is Hdyhd?
 
I thought the first list was wrong

but the second list was just worse. I mean what makes a gun "manly" anyway. In my mind it has to be associated with manly men to begin with. It also has to be readily recognizeable and last, it should be powerful or at least have a lot of firepower. So, if you were to generalize which kind of men are manly you would probably come up with Cowboys, Cops, Soldiers and, Gangsters. So here in no particular order are my top 10

44 Magnum ala Dirty Harry
M-60 Machine gun- especially when fired from the hip ala Rambo
1927 Thompson sub-machine gun "The Tommy Gun"
1911 pistol Seargent York
Colt Single Action Army (how does this get left off anyones list?)
1873 Winchester the gun that won the west
Double barreled shotgun- the gun that realy won the west
Sharps rifle or 1885 Winchester High wall in 45-90 to 50-140 Buffalo guns
AK-47
M-16
 
IMO one of the "manliest" has to be the Winchester Model 1901 lever action 10 gauge shotgun.



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I don't see the HK G3 on that list. Too bad, cause the German ex-army ones are perfect examples of what a mans gun should be like.

No garand either
 
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