# What guns have you fired?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 18, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691 "2000-11-18T00:41:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/1 "2000-11-18T00:41:02Z")
I’ve fired, by catagory:
A Mossberg 550 pump 12-gauge shotgun
A bolt-action 20-gauge Marlin “goose gun”
A single-shot break top .410 shotgun
A pump-action .22 rifle willed to me by my grandfather
A semi-automatic .22 rifle
An old bolt-action .22
A bolt action .243 Winchester rifle with scope
A .38 Special snub-nosed revolver.
I personally own or owned all of these guns except the 20-gauge and the bolt-action .22
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### Author:  [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/2 "2000-11-18T01:42:25Z")
.38 with 2" barrel
.40 Taurus 101 (knockoff of Beretta 96)
.22LR Luger
.22LR revolver
7.62x39 SKS
.303 Brit Enfield No.3 Mk.4
.308 FN-FAL
.223 Mini-14
.410 side-by-side double
12-gauge Springfield pump
There’s more, but those are all I can think of at the moment.
Wish list:
1911 model Guv’mint .45 auto
1873 model Guv’mint .45 (aka Colt Peacemaker)
.45-70
.308 M-14
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### Author:  [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/3 "2000-11-18T01:43:49Z")
Well this is gonna be boreing but here goes.
My Dads savage 22 semi automatic
Grandpa’s 12 guage single shot
My Dads JC Higgins 12 guage pump.
My brothers 12 guage singleshot
My 12 guage single shot–Traded it for
My 16 Guage singleshot
It gets cloudy here
My brothers friends 410
My brothers frienss 22
My 22 pellet gun
My brothers friends 22 pellet gun
Some guy I was hunting with’s 410
A friends husbands high powered rifle- went bear hunting Never saw a bear
My forget the brand name 22 semi auto rifle
My Ithica model 37 featherweight 12 guage
My 7 mm Mauser
My winchester 22 Semi Automatic
My girlfriends fathers winchester lever action 22
Unknown brand saddle rifle 22 worn out
Oh I forgot My brothers Winchester 12 guage
A friends 22 6 inch revolver
A 45 caliber Buntline special.
A 32 Walther.
A 22 ruger
A 38 police special
A semi automatic someone had made into a automatic rifle-that was a thrill
several others I’m sure I’ve forgotten.
I started this in cronological order but it got messed up.
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### Author:  [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/4 "2000-11-18T02:15:35Z")
The one that comes with Nintendo’s “Duck Hunt”.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/5 "2000-11-18T02:39:04Z")
Handguns:
Sig Pro 2340, in .40 S&W and .357 SIG calibers
.38 revolver
.357 Magnum revovler
some cheap 9mm semi-auto a friend owns
.45 Lama
.22 revolver
.22 semi-auto
German “Broomhandle” Mauser. Interesting pistol, that.
A friend will be getting several Walther P-38s soon, so I’ll be able to add that to my list.
Rifles:
12 and 20 gauge shotguns of various makes and actions
short-barrel Mossberg 12 gauge with a pistol grip and a grip on the pump
30-06 bolt action
.22 bolt and lever action
And probably other stuff I’ve forgotten.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/6 "2000-11-18T02:41:28Z")
Crap, forgot about the Chinese-made SKS. That was a nifty rifle, very accurate.
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### Author:  [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/7 "2000-11-18T02:42:39Z")
All that I can tell you is that BAR’s (Browning Automatic Rifles) do not go bang!
They go “thump”.
Same with 45 ACP’s and all sorts of other good high caliber sh!t!!!
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### Author:  [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/8 "2000-11-18T02:44:20Z")
I think it was a 22 rifle. This was many years ago with Dad, who showed me what to do. I killed a couple of bottles.
During this ice age, I’ve fired a rocket-net gun. The recoil hurt a lot.
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### Author:  [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/9 "2000-11-18T02:54:14Z")
An ACP 45
a baretta 9mm
MP5
An M16 A2 modified to fire fully automatic
M14 Rifle (I know this rifle like the back of my hand I’ve used it so much)
M249G SAW
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### Author:  [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/10 "2000-11-18T03:03:41Z")
(Jeez, not sure of the makes and models)
Both flint lock and percussion lock muzzleloaders at various English Civil War re-enactments.
[And I did hit the broad side of a barn, twice.
15 feet east of the target.
The other 30 times I hit the target, mostly.]
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### Author:  [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/11 "2000-11-18T03:13:58Z")
I beat silent scope on 50c.
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/12 "2000-11-18T03:22:48Z")
Ahem.
.22 Ruger Bull Barrel pistol
.22 Rifles, too numerous to list
.22 Hornet
.22-250 Rifle
.220 Swift
.223 Mini-14
.223 AR-15
.223 AK-47 (conversion)
.243 Rifle
.25 auto pistol
.270 Rifle
.30 M1 Carbine
Lee Enfield .303
30-06 Rifle
7.62x39 SKS
7.62x39 AKS
Ruger Mini-30
HK-91 7.62 NATO
9 mm Pistols (numerous)
9 mm Uzi
9 mm Tec-DC9
.357 Magnum
.38 Special
.44 Special
.44 Magnum Revolver
.45 ACP Pistol (Colt 1911)
.50 Black Powder Pistol
.58 Black Powder Rifle
.410 shotgun
20 gauge shotgun
16 gauge shotgun
12 gauge shotgun
10 gauge shotgun (OUCH!)
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/13 "2000-11-18T03:24:40Z")
Not only do I like firearms, but I used to have a lot of friends that did too. That’s how I fired so many different types.
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/14 "2000-11-18T03:26:54Z")
I have a potato gun. It’s really neat. You stick the end into a potato, and when you pull it out, a little piece of potato gets stuck in the barrel. The you pull the trigger, and it shoots the little piece of potato and makes a great little POP! It’s really neat.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/15 "2000-11-18T04:01:56Z")
I shot a gun once on a police firing range in the north of Spain, in Asturias, just outside Gijon. It was a little snub-nosed revolver. I didn’t like it, so I stopped and went outside and drank beer in the warm sunshine and spoke broken French with a writer from Poland.
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### Author:  [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/16 "2000-11-18T04:08:54Z")
Athracite,
HK91, nice. I would like the oppertunity to fire one of those rifles some day.
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### Author:  [@Wump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wump)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/17 "2000-11-18T04:18:17Z")
A bunch of older .22 rifles at my scout hall
While doing security guard work experiance:
.355 magnum
.22 something, kinda Glock like
Training gun with plasic bullets… at my friend, while he shot back at me… Shit they hurt!! like 5 times more than a paintball, man that was fun!
a Glock; one that the police use in lots of places. it kept jamming after a couple shots. so if you’re ever being shot at by the cops, run around for a sec, their guns will jam, then you’re free.
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### Author:  [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/18 "2000-11-18T04:32:10Z")
Darn
Thanks Greenbean I forgot about the potato gun.
When I was a kid we had a cannon toy that fired a small ball when you put a firecracker in it.
Don’t know where that thing went.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/19 "2000-11-18T04:39:05Z")
Everything from a .22 to an AK47 to an Uzi.
My cousin owns a gun range.
I may not be able to tell you what (make/model) it is I am shooting with, but I like to shoot.
Gee, I wonder why none of the brits, cloggers or krauts have contributed to this thread 😃
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### Author:  [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/20 "2000-11-18T05:25:22Z")
Pistols:
.22 (just about every variant available)
Colt Peacekeeper .357 (also .38 from same)
Taurus PT99 (Beretta clone) 9mm
Taurus “Raging Bull” .44 Mag _and_ .454 Casul (OUCH!)
IMI Desert Eagle .44 Mag
IMI Desert Eagle .50 (another ouch, not as bad as the Taurus)
M1911 .45ACP (various manufacturers)
Springfield V-10 .45ACP
Ruger New Model Blackhawk .45LC
Ruger Vaquero .45LC
Shotguns/Smoothbores:
Various Make/Model 12ga.
“Sweet” 16ga.
20ga.
.410ga.
Some black powder as a kid, don’t remember model/caliber
Rheinmettal M-256 Anti-Panzer Kanone, 120mm (that’s exactly what the stamp on the breech said).
Rifles/Sub-guns:
Various .22 long+
Ruger Mini-14 .223 (great plinker!)
M-16 and A2 variant .223/5.56mm
Olympic Arms PCR99 .223/5.56mm (M-16A2 semi-auto only variant)
Uzi 9mm full-auto
Ruger Mini-30 7.62x39mm
H&K G3 same
H&K MG3 same
M-240 same
M-60 same
Browning M-2 .50 cal (the venerable “Ma Deuce”)
Naval Ordinance M-68 Cannon, 105mm
_ **ExTank**
“Mostly Harmless :p”_
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