# Most exotic weapon you've ever used. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 4, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981 "2003-03-04T12:08:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/61 "2003-03-05T02:40:30Z")
ah. forgot one. Homemade napalm in a molotov when I was a teenager. Just as an experiment mind you… ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/62 "2003-03-05T02:43:45Z")
um…a flyswatter. Hugs, Ruby The Least-Violent-Poster Award Winner ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/63 "2003-03-05T03:24:38Z")
Panty waists, all of you… \*\*Potato Gun \*\* AKA as a Spud Chukker ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/64 "2003-03-05T03:26:18Z")
I’ve got a nasty black jack. ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/65 "2003-03-05T03:35:04Z")
Ooh ohh I got one: an electric fly-swatter, you know, the ones that resemble a tennis racket They actually work (and will give your buddies a little buzz too!) Talk about trailer-trash exotic! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/66 "2003-03-05T03:42:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DreadCthulhu \* > \*\* , but one of the more unusual was a AR-15 knockoff made by Daewoo (sp?), that my uncle owns. Handles pretty much like a normal AR-15, but the stock was different. \*\* That’s the K1A1 I mentioned last page. Heavier bolt, shorter bolt travel, had a problem firing two rounds so damn fast it sounded like one? Cool. My friend has one and didn’t know how to zero it. Same as the M16. I fired it a lot to make sure the sights were good. ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/67 "2003-03-05T04:00:53Z")
Various military and hunting weapons–pistols, rifles, shotguns, machine guns, grenades and grenade launchers (including the MK-19–it was cool), claymores, whatever explosives I could get them to let me use when I was in that engineer battalion . . . wow, a lot of stuff that goes boom or bang. And I don’t really even like guns. Let’s see . . . I once threw a lassoed a person off their bicycle as they were riding past my house. Me and some friends once rolled an enormous snowball down a hill and took out a bunch of girls. I did some damage nailing somebody in the head with a pine cone once. I once hit a bully over the head with my lunchbox. I’ve messed around with a lot of “martial arts weapons,” but never actually used one on another human being. That’s all I can think of at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/68 "2003-03-05T04:04:54Z")
Actually the only time I ever used anything as a weapon, it was my fists and that was back in College. That’s not true, actually. I did once hurl the dreaded yellow snowball at an enemy. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/69 "2003-03-05T05:26:42Z")
Well, I qualified with the M 14, and shot Sharpshooter with a 45 caliber Semi Automatic Pistol. I fired an M1 Carbine, too. But I got an Expert with the Nike Hercules Anti Aircraft Missile System. (I had help firing that one though. My part was putting it together.) (We didn’t use any nuclear warheads, but I can put those together, too.) I am a lousy shot with the rifle, by the way. They cheated to get me into the Army. I’m damned good with a missile, though. Tris ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/70 "2003-03-05T06:09:34Z")
A Brick wrapped in a bedsheet. Smashed a hole in a wall with it. Ah, the things you learn from MacGuyver 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ProjectOmega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@ProjectOmega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProjectOmega)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/71 "2003-03-05T07:34:00Z")
While not exactly as exotic as some other weapons that have been posted, my dad has a Lee Enfield .303 (standard rifle used by Canadian/British infantry in WW2) that he bought for something like 20 bucks back in the 60’s. Unfortunately, he modified the stock (as, get this, a school woodwork project; imagine trying that scenario today) so it’s no longer vintage, but it’s still pretty darn cool. Anyone know if there are places to take guns to modify stocks? Somewhere down the line, I’d like to get it modified back into its original form. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/72 "2003-03-05T09:00:48Z")
Not especially exotic, but I fired a vietnam bringback AK-47, and they’re fairly rare since importation was banned in 1968. Also, a select fire romanian ak-74, which are fairly rare for similar reasons - this one was a converted dealer sample, I believe. A sten, an Uzi, and a dozen more common guns. I semi-own a 1941 marked finish mosin-nagant - and given the supply and men situation in the continuation war at that time, there’s a very good chance that the rifle saw combat. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/73 "2003-03-05T09:05:40Z")
Mine would have to be an AR-15 and a 1903A3 Springfield rifle(from what I can tell, was made by Remington during WW2). ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/74 "2003-03-05T10:11:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Derleth \* > > * * * > > Oh, and now that I notice, I was using a magazine, not a clip. I don’t think any AK-47 will accept a clip. (The distinction was drilled into my head once. I am surprised it slipped by me in the creation of the OP.) \*\* Ok, yes, you were using a magazine. The AK-47 won’t “accept a clip”, because no rifles accept clips. Magazines accept clips. You can “charge” AK mags with clips for speed loading. The simple rule is clips go into magazines, magazines go into firearms. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/75 "2003-03-05T13:54:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Padeye \* > \*\*Does it have the warning label like the modern ones? “Front toward enemy” \*\* You know, I actually toyed with the idea of inscribing that on the blade in gaelic. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/76 "2003-03-05T14:15:02Z")
BMalion, that is brilliant! There is a fighter here in Trimaris that used the yellow “Caution: Watch Your Head” tape on his polearm. Makes me laugh every time I see it… O ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/77 "2003-03-05T14:28:01Z")
Weapons I’ve Used for fun or practice- .22 revolver, semi-auto pistols & rifles .25 pistol .38 snub-nose S&W revolver .357magnum revolvers .44magnum revolver .45ACP pistols 9mm pistols 10, 12, 20, and .410 gauge shotguns .303 Enfield Mk4 rifle 7.7mm Nambu rifle 30-06 springfield '03 rifle 30-06 M1 Garand .30 M1 and M2(full-auto) carbine 5.56mm AR-15 37mm Flare launcher 7.62mm AK-47(semi-auto chinese copy) .270 rifles .30-30 rifle .350 magnum rifle .378 rifle .50 BMG bolt-action rifle (once!) .36cal black powder revolver .65 flintlock pistol .75 flintlock rifle various broadswords, foils, rapiers, knives, staves, sticks, bokken, foam-padded rattan SCA “swords”. Weapons I’ve used with serious intent- Fists, feet, knees, head, elbows, fingers, forearms. beer bottles pool cues blackjacks brass knuckles chairs a heavy glass ashtray a hot cup of coffee a bar towel with a pool ball wound up in it a shovel a pitcher of beer ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/78 "2003-03-05T17:18:46Z")
Oh, I forgot the homemade cannon, from my youth. And a couple of small trebuchets I made, as well. Do those count? They worked! Tris ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/79 "2003-03-05T21:13:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ryan \* > \*\*Weapons I’ve Used for fun or practice- > a bar towel with a pool ball wound up in it > \*\* ala’ Steven Segal? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981/80 "2003-03-05T21:24:37Z")
A sheet of printer paper. It was just after I had gotten my Black Belt. A cow-orker was talking to me about the Martial Arts and we somehow got onto the subject of weapons. I made a point about how _everything_ is a weapon, if you think about it. He picked up a sheet of paper and demanded I show him how that was a weapon. I grasped the paper firmly in both hands, holding it taut. In less time than it took him to blink, I jumped up and slashed it across his throat - about 1/2 inch from contact, and sat down just as he was starting to jerk back. Point made. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-exotic-weapon-youve-ever-used/158981.md?page=5)