.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
.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
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.