Coolest Guns
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chuckusaret
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I was in the military and fired everything from a 22 target pistol to a Nike Hercules missile. Probally the coolest was the helicopter mounted TOW missile or the UH 1 helicopter door mounted crew served minigun supported by a search light and a starlight scope for night operations.
QUICK_DRAW_McGRAW
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Beretta M948 .22LR when i think i was 10 or so. well ether that or shooting a .357mag snubbie when i was maybe 12 or so. put all 6 shots in the 10 rung at 40ft.
Officers'Wife
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The coolest, was a breech-loading black powder rifle the name of I have forgotten. It was loaded with a paper cartridge and when the lever was put up the end of the paper tube was cut.
Second place - just barely - was an experiment my late uncle built. The propellant was 'cast' in a flammable plastic and the firing pin was a battery powered heated rod. The lag tme was nearly a full second but when the action cycled there was no expended cartridge. It was cool but what he called a brilliant failure.
Second place - just barely - was an experiment my late uncle built. The propellant was 'cast' in a flammable plastic and the firing pin was a battery powered heated rod. The lag tme was nearly a full second but when the action cycled there was no expended cartridge. It was cool but what he called a brilliant failure.
bigalexe
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AR-15 civilian version in .223
Reason: Im a newb and my experience isnt very deep. What amazed me was how at 100 yds having never touched the gun before it was so simple. Given a ten round clip for a human silhouette target I pumped all ten into the target at reasonable accuracy in the space of 15-20 seconds. Then to see how accurate the gun really was, I stopped and slowed down, clocked the target directly in the middle of the face. The abilities of the gun were amazing.
Im not a full auto fan... yet
Reason: Im a newb and my experience isnt very deep. What amazed me was how at 100 yds having never touched the gun before it was so simple. Given a ten round clip for a human silhouette target I pumped all ten into the target at reasonable accuracy in the space of 15-20 seconds. Then to see how accurate the gun really was, I stopped and slowed down, clocked the target directly in the middle of the face. The abilities of the gun were amazing.
Im not a full auto fan... yet
shotgunjoel
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I really liked the black powder muzzle loaders that I shot in scouts. Shot a target of Barney the Purple Dinosaur, that made it even more fun 
gloucestergarand
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Bar none, XM-35 20mm cannon, fired from the front seat of an AH-1G, at night. Rattles and shakes the cockpit!
Savage Shooter
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A .458win mag I don't even know what the gun was I was at a buddys house one day and he asked If I wanted to shoot a new gun of his. Shot it of off his back door "ONCE" It was fun It was a sweet looking gun, great woodwork but I'm not big enough to shoot that gun he's like 6'6" 300+ needless to say he's a big boy and likes to shoot big guns.
It was fun It was a sweet looking gun, great woodwork but I'm not big enough to shoot that gun he's like 6'6" 300+ needless to say he's a big boy and likes to shoot big guns.sohcgt2
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I've fired M2 machine guns, M60 machine guns, M16s and have even assisted with a 105mm Howetzer, but the coolest gun I've ever fired is the 20g mossberg 185k that my grandfather bought my father after WWII so they could hunt deer, rabbit and squirrel together. That gun belongs to me now and I refinished it to new condition. I still shoot sporting clays with it on occasion.
Myles
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Hmmm....
Sharps .50-140 - clanging away at a steel buffalo from 500 yards is a hoot.
Second runner-up, full auto Mac-10 .45 with a Sionics suppressor. Without the can, it's a bullet hose. With it attached, you can write your name.
Sharps .50-140 - clanging away at a steel buffalo from 500 yards is a hoot.
Second runner-up, full auto Mac-10 .45 with a Sionics suppressor. Without the can, it's a bullet hose. With it attached, you can write your name.
Joe Demko
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A Daisy caseless .22. Power was approximately that of a standard velocity lr. Noise level was on a par with suppressed weapons.
musick
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Good topic.
The coolest - a toss up between a French AA-52 and a FN MAG, both full auto.
Not as cool, but still pretty neat, a Zastava M21
I also was able to shoot an auto Russian made AK-47, but I cant say it was the "coolest".
The coolest - a toss up between a French AA-52 and a FN MAG, both full auto.
Not as cool, but still pretty neat, a Zastava M21
I also was able to shoot an auto Russian made AK-47, but I cant say it was the "coolest".
BobOfTheFuture
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1851 Navy replica.
My first black powder, and pistol fired.
Awesome.
My first black powder, and pistol fired.
Awesome.
zombienerd
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M-2 .50BMG,
M60,
Mark19 Fully Auto Grenade Launcher...
M60,
Mark19 Fully Auto Grenade Launcher...
theotherwaldo
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Lyle line-thrower mortar.
blaisenguns
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Officers Wife, that sounds like a sharps.
doc2rn
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Lonestar is that the Vulcan out of a A-10 Warthog?
Coolest I got to shoot was the M997 Barrett .50 cal, funnest full auto was Squad Automatic Weapon w/ 250 rd box magazine
Coolest I got to shoot was the M997 Barrett .50 cal, funnest full auto was Squad Automatic Weapon w/ 250 rd box magazine
BushyGuy
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if i was to take any gun i be the Sniper Division with a cool Tactical .338 Lapua Magnum ...
AStone
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Agreed.
Got mine when I was 8 (or was it 7?).
Loved it. First "real" gun I'd ever shot. (Hey, it slung projectiles. To me, it was "real".) What a total thrill.
Next coolest was an 1863 Springfield cap lock in .58. My father traded an old jeep for it.
We spent hours with it. It had little carvings of the names of owners in the stock. I could visualize the history.
These days: my Marlin 336 in .30-30. Yeah, I'm easy to please.
You know you wanted one from the time you were 8.
SP Shop Foreman
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Dealer sample H&K G11 and selective FAMAS.
nyggis
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Tim the student
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Very cool indeed. I've always heard the crew can only fire a small amount per day. Any truth to that?
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