A very entertaining and unapologetic look at the most manly firearms of the last 120 years or so. I'm proud to say that with just a few exceptions (an XD9 instead of a Glock, and a 91/30 instead of a M44) you can find virtually all of these at my house. I still lack a BMG 50, but I'm wearing her down.
As a gun owner, you have not truly lived until you have shot a .50 cal BMG. I will have one soon.
Other than that, in a rifle, hard to go wrong with a .500 Nitro Express. Krieghoff, if you please.
Shotgun: Perazzi or Krieghoff. O/U in 12 gauge. Or a Browning Fabrique-Nationale in Sweet 16 with the gold trigger.
Handgun: Why argue with the Colt Python .357, the 1911 .45, and the old standby of the S&W .44 Mag, stainless with 8.5 inch barrel.
Can’t get much more manly or costly, than these.
Saiga 12 modified by Tromix. Very effective magazine fed semi-auto shotgun for home protection.
I would have included Model 70, pre-’64 Winchester.
Fun site. They should take Arnold picture off it though. Didn’t he ban the .50cal. Barrett?
Gun Porn bump.
Good read. However I can’t understand why someone would honor the Swiss K31 carbine or Mosin-Nagant and not credit the mother of all bolt-action rifles/carbines the Mauser 98(k). An excellent weapon which was used (partly license/copy) by almost all countries in the first half of the 20th Century.
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Foo on the author for dissing all Berettas. ;-)
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any gun that has a nickname like “tupperware” cannot be called a manly gun.
Does the “ 150 Howitzer “ count as a “Fire-arm”? even though you can’t carry it in your arms really- it does look bang’in on the hood of my 1980 Olds!
DA
P.S. “.... there never has been—nor will there ever be- any such firearm or invention of man that can match the deadliness or destructive force as the uncontrolable & out of control Liberal Press.....” - Last Horseman
My God, Man!!!!!!!!!!!! Where’s the Thompson?????????? What kind of madness is this?
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.
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.....
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?
How about the Charleville musket?