[ZULU]

I loev guns, but I don’t think those guns are particularly
“manly weapons”. Effective and useful but not manly.

A manly weapon is a battle axe, two handed sword, samauri sword, long lance for use on horseback, Hawken Rifle, or Pennsylvania Rifle. Mabye even a Brown Bess, 1903 Springfield, M1917 or M1 Garand.

THOSE are MANLY weapons. But then, I’m an atavist.

A woman or child could use most of the weapons listed here.

Good artilce though. I saved it.

[Inyo-Mono]

A manly weapon is a battle axe, two handed sword, samauri sword, long lance for use on horseback, Hawken Rifle, or Pennsylvania Rifle. Mabye even a Brown Bess, 1903 Springfield, M1917 or M1 Garand.

Lol! I have a .50 cal Pennsylvania rifle with a four foot long barrel. Neither my wife nor daughter can hold it up to aim. Flames and smoke everywhere when I fire it! Love it.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I have an early virginia style .54 cal flintlock. It’s a hoot to shoot. (I will admit the barrel is 36 inches, and not 42, but after all, I am a lady.)

I call her Longneedle.

[Beckwith]

Shame on you for putting quotes around “manly weapons” when the headline clearly states “manliest firearms.”

[Mad Dawg]

Yeah! (not that I'm about to use any of the weapons you list ....)

One of the ways we know Paris is a womanizing wuss in The Iliad is that instead of fighting like a man he was an archer. "Real Men" fight up close and personal.

Other than that, I kind of like my p226.

[MarkL]

For quite a while, I thought that I needed a "manly handgun," and in order to be sure that we keep the wild elephant population down in my neighborhood, I decided on a TC Contender, in .375JDJ. I figured, what could be better than having a handgun that can be converted to fire "less manly" cartridges, like the .45-70 and .444 Marlin "buffalo" cartridges (just to keep there populations down too).

But then I came to my senses, and just bought a S&W 625-5...

Mark