What's the most exotic ammo you have ever shot?

[119er]

Not so exotic small bore: 7.62x25 Tokarev, .32 Win SPL

Medium bore: 40mm MK19

Somewhat large bore: 105mm Willy Pete or APERS-T out of M119. Charge 8 RAP HE was a cool experience too.

 

[plmitch]

.280 Ross

 

[FROGO207]

Lets see----500 NE or maybe 25-20 single shot or 33m WIN. I load for all three BTW.

 

[arspeukinen]

Some carrot-sized enormous ammo out of an imperial british blackpowder cartridge rifle. It was most probably the Martini-Henry. It was like sex, big BOOM and lots of residue and I was smiling afterwards

 

[db_tanker]

416 Rigby...out of a 15" Encore.

my 416 Taylor

357-44 Bain Davis from a 12" Contender.

445 Supermag 14" from a Contender

 

[lpsharp88]

Either 40mm from a MK19 or .50 BMG from a M2

 

[sauer1911]

I was at my range, and the S.O. came out with a S&W500, and some new loads from the reloaders in the back.

All I remember is aiming, cocking, and then nothing but a big smile. I had foam in my ears, and hearing protection over that, just barely worked.

Be safe

 

[MedWheeler]

12 gauge tear gas shells.

(I, too, had thought of .22LR before even finishing reading the thread title, but I'm late to the thread.)

 

[danoam]

7.7 Jap. Out of Grandpas Arisaka. I was about 12 or so at the time.

 

[blindhari]

45 years ago, 3rd Btn, 6th Inf went from Berlin to West Germany for summer weapons training. I was armorer. I called in favors from Btn headquarter and in 1 day, qualified on M40 106mm rifle, M67 90mm anti tank rifle, M72 Law, and even got to fire a completely out of date M20A1/A1B1 Bazooka. Two days later I set up and fired in the M2 50 cal Browning machine gun. Other than that I spent all my time tuning M1911 A1 pistols and M14 rifles for the rest of the Btn.

blindhari

 

[SleazyRider]

I had a huge box of 12-gauge rounds that were designed to scare flocks of migrating birds away from airport runways, as the birds presented a hazard to arriving and departing aircraft. The gun was held at a 30 degree angle and the round was lobbed onto the runway, then KABOOM, the projectile would explode. The box of shells lasted for many Fourth of July celebrations before I ran out.

Don't know if they still make these things, but they sure were a lot of fun.

 

[Tom Held]

22 jet

22 Remington Jet out of the Smith and Wesson Model 53, 357 magnum necked down to a 40 grain 22.

Also, 24 gauge english double shotgun

 

[km101]

.460 Weatherby, .50 BMG bolt gun, M-72 LAW

The .50 BMG hurt the worst!

 

[mljdeckard]

120 mm sabot.

 

[49willys]

7x47,338 lapua,50 bmg,81mm mortar.

 

[silicosys4]

I shot a grouse with a black talon .40s&w....twice

 

[Dr.Rob]

.470 NE, .404 Jeffry same as Robert. In fact, same rifles.

KINDS of ammo? Nothing more exotic than a tracer.

 

[Gun Runnerz]

Nice Silicosys4 I've had the chance to test some Black Talon ammo on some gel. It was awesome!

 

[mnrivrat]

.510 Express

 

[herrwalther]

I shot some 22lr once.

You sir have won the internet for today.

I got to spend some time on a range and "pull the trigger" (trigger was a computer) on a GE 30mm Avenger cannon. What that cannon can do to doors, buildings, and everything is pretty awesome. Also sounds like hitting the world's largest and angriest beehive for a few miles around.

 

[5-SHOTS]

9mmx21 IMI. Very common in Italy, not so much in the rest of the world...
7.65mm Parabellum (aka .30 Luger) another popular cartridge here in Italy.

 

[HoosierQ]

I fired a .300 Weatherby. You don't see those every day.

 

[blarby]

Most exotic ?

Probably a handload I've been working on.

Its a 12 ga shell loaded with stacks of .021 rare earth magnets.

Sits well in the wad, shoots like a slug, scatters all that magnetic sticky goodness on impact.

Its still not "there" yet, but would work for its intended purpose. Biggest problem is getting it to feed- a little plastic does not stop that kind of magnetism, and they get hung up in the feed tube, lol.

Def. a single feed round.

Factory ?

Probably the 416 ruger. I will own one, one day.

 

[aarondhgraham]

Ding-Ding-Ding,,, We have a winner,,,,,

Ding-Ding-Ding,,, We have a winner,,,,,

Do these count in what you are asking for?

I have fired Gyrojet rounds from a pistol and carbine. Also fired one Dardick tround before.

It doesn't get much more exotic than those examples.

Aarond

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[230RN]

.38 rimfire black powder cartridges out of an ancient top-break revolver. Only about 80% fired on first try. Usual solution: Rotate and try again.

Very moderate recoil, lotsa smoke, lotsa smell.

I seem to recall the cases were copper, not brass, but memory fades from so long ago (late 1960s). Also might have been .32 rimfires, but .38 sticks in my mind. This was up at the Boulder Co city dump, which is now the south range of the Boulder Rifle Club.

Terry, 230RN