# What guns have you fired? **URL:** \ **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:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/61 "2000-11-20T22:11:36Z")
**In No Particular Order** .22 LR (all kinds) .338 Super Mag (Remington) 30/06 Winchester Various shotguns mostly 12 gauge (.410 smallest and 10 gauge the biggest) Modified .45 cal Thompson SMG M16 A-1(5.56mm) M16 A-2(5.56mm) MAC-10 (.45 ACP) MAC-11 (9mm) .38 Special (Various) M203 (40MM) M-60 (7.62mm) .357 MAG (Mostly my Rugers, Blackhawk and GP-200) Barettas (M-92, M-92F) MK-19 (40 MM Auto grenade launcher) TOW Missiles Dragon Missile Desert Eagle Auto-Mags (.357 and .50) Jericho (40Cal and 9mm) Tocharev (7.62 WARSAW Czeck) AK-47 (7.62) AKM (7.62) Dragunov SVD (7.62) BAR (.30 Cal) HK MP5-SD Dan Wesson .44 MAG M-2 (.50 BMG Cal) Barett .50 Cal Bolt Action Various muzzle loaders :funny story, the first time I ever shot a muzzle loader I was like 8 y/o and my dad’s friend Pat Conlin, A man of many guns and owner of the two MAC pistols listed above as well as the Thompson, and me and my dad were would camping and Pat hands me this big pirate looking pistol and says “here kid try this out” (we had been shotting little guns and having fun up until then) and my dad says it’s ok so I aim the gun with both hands and Pat pulls back the hammer (I think this was a cap using non-flint gun) and steps back. This gun was heavy as hell and I steadied it with both hands and _ **BOOM!** _ I fire. I don’t know if I had my eyes closed the whole time or just closed them when the gun went off but I do know that when I opened them I was laying on my back looking up at my dad and Pat with the gun still in my outstretched rigid hands pointing up at the sky. My heels were about a foot back from where I had been standing and they were both laughing their asses off at me. I instantly fell in love with large caliber guns. More fun that a roller coaster any day. That pistol was a .75 ball with a rifled barrel. Fun. Anyhow I’m sure I have forgotten some guns here but hell it’s a long list and when you go to a gun club and get to know people or serve in the military or know people like Pat (who among other things, sold guns and speed to bikers until he blew up in his truck in a suspicious manner about 6 years back) you shoot a lot of different guns. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/62 "2000-11-20T22:37:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gund \* > \*\*Its difficult to believe the changes my country has undergone in the last ten years… > > The propoganda of the day suggested that at any second, we could get attacked by the ‘swart gevaar’ (the ‘black danger’), the ‘rooi gevaar’ (the ‘red danger’ - communists from Angola and the like who were on the side of the anti-apartheid underground etc etc). And to top it all off, we had some friends in strange places, one of which was Israel\*\* Are you from South Africa? Was ISRAEL a friend of South Africa?! ---
**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/63 "2000-11-20T22:59:51Z")
Not too impressive, but here we go. I’m not up on my gun knowledge, though so I’m missing some of the details and I probably can’t spell them all right either. [ul][li].22 semi-automatic german pistol (Ruger, Mauser?)[/li][li].22 squirrel rifle, make unknown.[/li][li].32 (or so) Barretta semi-auto pistol[/li][li]Just about the same size Walther PPK - I bet I couldn’t tell it from the Barretta.[/li][li]Glock 9mm semi-auto (CHP issue)[/li][li].357 magnum (Colt?) revolver with an 8" or so barrel[/li][li].45 semi-auto (Colt?)[/li][li]AR-15, without the full-auto kit[/li][li]HK-something, 7.62 mm? Sweet. This thing was like butta. Very cool assault-rifle looking thing.[/li][/ul] I think that’s about it. Never shot a shotgun. Oh, and an air-pistol for pellets, or just firing air blasts to over-G insect airframes. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/64 "2000-11-20T23:14:40Z")
You know, for being a southerner, I haven’t fired that much. .22 rifle: Nice. and .50 caliber Machine Gun (Dunno type, but Big bullets) .65 caliber Smoothbore Muzzleloader I only took two shots with the muzzleloader. That thing had a nice kick, but I did decimate the poor target. Machine Gun was a friends Dad, who let me squeeze off a few rounds. Poor 55 Gal drum… didn’t know what hit it. My Dad has fired a lot of stuff, that being normal for Korean War vet. His favorite for attention getting was a Quad Mount .50 Caliber Machine Guns. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/65 "2000-11-20T23:36:03Z")
**jti:** Thanks or the response. I’m curious, though… Did the violators you dealt with have prior criminal records? Or had they just run-afoul of the registration process? ---
**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/66 "2000-11-21T01:33:26Z")
I’m with Ike. I fired a rifle once and blew a photo of some Third World country despot to smithereens. I was still standing after the recoil, but I was completely convinced that guns were not for me. I still hate despots, but I have a much better understanding of what a gun can do. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/67 "2000-11-21T06:20:26Z")
**Ex-Tank:** my sample is too small to make any generalisation about causes. ---
**Author:** ![Gund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@Gund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gund)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/68 "2000-11-21T07:33:46Z")
At the time and still today, a lot of our firepower was bought and traded with Isreal, at the time we had the most accurate cannon in the world (G6) and they had other stuff we needed I guess. I remember at one stage a passport was not requireed to enter Isreal, only an ID, a sign of close ties. Anyhow, they had a range of personal automatic rifles which we needed, called the Galea or something like that, when it landed here, it was called the R4 and later, a shortened barrel version for pilots and drivers called the R5. Unfortunately, as the weapon was designed to be used in a much drier region, it required frequent maintenance and many a long shower at night with Preen and my rifle to keep the damn rust out. Blah, Blah, Blah… anyhow, the army, the best years of your life you would never go back to… Trouble is, the govmint of today was supported for some time by the Palestine Army and I have a suspicion that is how the whole Isreal-Old RSA relationship came about. As a result, Nelson has taken an unnatural interest in Middle East Affairs as the Palestine way obviously conflicts with our ideal goals etc… But if you where here, you could see where this is going without consuming an entire thread with arbitory history. ---
**Author:** ![filthy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@filthy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filthy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/69 "2000-11-21T10:39:07Z")
A couple of years ago, my grandkide talked me into building a spud gun. This is nothing more than a piece of 1 1/2" ID, PVC pipe coupled by a reducer to a short length of 4" ID pipe with a plugged end. In the 4 inch there is mounted an igniter for a Coleman lantern. The muzzle is sharpened so that as a potato is rammed into the barrel, it will be cut to exact size. So, load a spud (pear, neck from a butternut squash, whatever), give the chamber a good shot of cheap hair spray, screw in the plug and hit the igniter. Our’s will chuck a spud half way across the lake. If fired at night, you get 4’ of flame out of the muzzle. Disclaimer: Anything this much fun can’t possibly be legal everywhere, or maybe even anywhere. Further disclaimer: A spud gun has power and you can kill somebody with it. It also needs to be constructed carefully. There’s something about high-velocity produce… ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/70 "2000-11-21T14:39:04Z")
**jti:** thanks anyway; I’m always trying to gather “ammo” for the _next_ Gun Control debate over in GD (and there’s always _another_ GC debate over there. Sooner or later.) ---
**Author:** ![steeljaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@steeljaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steeljaw)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/71 "2000-11-21T15:05:33Z")
supersoaker 200. I wasted this cocky bastard around the block from my house. I can still see the look in his eyes as I bombarded him with a steady stream of dihydrogen monoxide. The way his body folded over in agony onto the concrete, showered in the malicious discharge of my supersoaker 200. aaaah, what a great day. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2000, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/72 "2000-11-23T08:21:08Z")
> [@](#): > > jti: thanks anyway; I’m always trying to gather “ammo” for the next Gun Control debate over in GD (and there’s always another GC debate over there. Sooner or later.) Hustle over to GC, **Ex-Tank**. It’s started: [Gun Control Working](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=47635). ---
**Author:** ![Sledman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Sledman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sledman)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/73 "2000-11-24T03:54:22Z")
.22 LR Marlin Model 60 and Ruger 10/22. Also some single shot a friend had. .303 British again a friends and not sure the make. 30/06 Smith & Wesson Manufactured by Howa (Bite me NRA) .270 Weatherby Mag Not sure the make on the rifle but I actually think it is a Remington model 7 7MM Rem Mag Remington Model 7 30/30 Model 94 Winchester .338 Mag - Believe it was in a Model 70 .357 Magnum not sure the Make believe it was a Smith & Wesson (Bite me again NRA) .38 shells out of said .357 12 Gauge Mossberg Bolt Action 12 Gauge Browning A-5 12 Gauge 870 Express 20 Gauge 870 Express 20 Gauge Winchester .410 not sure the make I’m sure there are more I have forgotten. also Various Crossman and Daisy BB guns ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/74 "2000-11-24T04:21:42Z")
One more to add to my list, a Mossberg 500 Cruiser in .410, I bought it for back packing, I love it. ---
**Author:** ![swampy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@swampy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691/75 "2000-11-24T14:07:52Z")
well here is something from a “Brit” I have fired. 7.62 mm British army SLR 9mm Sub Machine Gun .303 Lee Enfield Mk 4 9mm Browning High Power AK47 12 Gauge 51mm Morter 81mm Morter 84mm Carl Gustov Anti Tank Gun. 66mm Light Anti Tank Weapon L1 Hand Grenade 5.56mm SA80 .50 Barrat 7.62mm sniper rifle So there you go us Brits get to shoot things too, Just not fellow students at school. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-guns-have-you-fired/41691.md?page=3)