Posted on 04/24/2007 6:01:25 AM PDT by tcostell
This was a hard piece to write, because guns by definition are manly, except for Berettas, gold-plated TEC9s, .25 caliber pistols or anything made by the French. To simplify things, I have limited it to modern cartridge firearms a man might, can, and should collect and shoot. There are certainly other manly weapons, and you may have a different list. As long as the list contains nothing French, gold-plated, .25 or with pearl grips (which Patton correctly observed are the mark of a New Orleans pimp), it is a good list.
(Excerpt) Read more at arthurshall.com ...
I THINK the WW1 ones were probly about 850? 900lbs? maybe?
Too bad the local police made me take it off though—something about “distracting” other drivers.-POOSH!
NOTHING on earth can match the sound and feel of a big bore muzzle-loader going off - the fire in the pan, the muzzle blast, the clouds of smoke, the whine of the ball!!
Its great!! I agree with you. I have a .54 cal Hawken I built personally - 32 inch barrel, full stock, sett triggers, a .50 cal Thompson Center I bought, a model 1858 Naval Style Enfield rifled musket, a M1917 .30-06 and an M1 Garand. Right now I’m rying to build a .54 caliber Pennsylvania Flinter. Never owned a good sword though, but I can throw a tomahawk pretty accurately - not THAT makes a seet sound as it swooshed though the air and a rewarding THUNK when it hits the target.
THESE are MANLY weapons.
Can’t get much more manly or costly, than these.
Think about that one again...
Dang, my Finnish grandfather used to plink Russian tanks with a Lahti like that in 1939. Then again, the molotov cocktails were just as effective.
AHHHH!! REALL MANLY WEAPONS!!!!
Knock yourself out! and NO Drooling while looking at this pick! (Althou I myself am EXTREMELY Envious of this owner's collection!)
DA
The manliest firearm is the one that hits what it’s aimed at and gets the job done. Which is another way of saying that the skills matter more than the tool. It’s the technique, not the size, that matters.
(Let’s stop pretending. As soon as you start talking about a car, or a gun, or other machine in terms of “manly,” you’re talking abut a substitute schlong. By its very nature it’s a matter of preening and posing.)
I’d rather be missed with a .50 cal than hit with a .22. Any day.
It's the lack of quotes like this that define what's gone wrong with American culture in the last 40 years or so.
This is a man so cool even his sperm smoke unfiltered Camels. And that makes this gun the manliest gun on Earth.
The last sentence was worth reading the entire article.....
Manly men don’t wear dresses. And people who are 6’3” tall and weigh 145 lbs aren’t MANLY men. They are Gurlie Boys (One of the few worthwhile phrases from the Gubernator)
Holy Crap, Dude!!! Is that a 100 round drum in the top, middle? Whose collection is this? Man oh man, one of these days I’m gonna part with 15K and get one of them East (West??) Hurley Choppers!!!
I assume you meant WW III?
25mm sniper rifle? Did he say they made a 25mm sniper rifle? That is almost 1” in diameter! How does a hand held weapon put a round like that down range and not hurt the user?
I am going to need to see super slow motion video of a 25mm rifle firing and the projectile penetrating it’s target. What is the effective range of a 25mm sniper rifle?
Any pics of this insane weapon?
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