-ccm
Posted on 12/24/2009 6:56:55 PM PST by parsifal
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 ...
That’s an 1858 Remington being shot by an elf????
Amen! Preach it brother!
I considered avoiding this thread due to so many comments about girls’ stuff and store-bought pieces. An owner-customized Blackhawk-Bisley in .45 Colt and homebrewed bear loads for that is about as manly a firearms pursuit as a man can have. ...along with custom .45-70s, .45-90s, and the like.
...includes technical knowledge, metalwork by hand, reloads by hand, bullet casting, recoil control and development of extreme speed and accuracy (after 2,000 loads or so in less than a couple of years, of course, for those who have the spatial-visual coordination to get there at all).
But you know, manliness was once the norm.
Agreed that the Colt Python .357 ought to be there. I’ve had many a guy at the range ask to fire my Python snubnose, but they always hand it back very quickly. I don’t get it ... ;-)
-ccm
Modernize your Mosin and make it much easier to carry, and a hoot to shoot:
It suddenly looks like a weapon suitable for Darth Vader's personal bodyguard corp!
Our first deployment to Vietnam our ship had some firearms training. After firing the M-16 I thought there wasn’t much difference from my nylon66. Then I saw one of the Seawolf gunners fire his M-14. Right then I said I got to get me one of those. It took about 20 years,but now I have it. That’s up near the top of my list, but still behind my Garand.
Beautiful thing about a pick ax is that you never have to reload it. It's always ready so long as you can swing it...
See the video.
John Linebaugh’s Custom Sixguns
http://www.customsixguns.com/
Read the truth.
Gun Notes: The .45 Colt - Dissolving the Myth, Discovering the Legend
http://www.customsixguns.com/writings/dissolving_the_myth.htm
The reaction of the corporate sissies, of course, was to outlaw hardcast lead bullets for hunting.
I’m right there with you on the Garand RM. Merry Christmas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TC2xTCb_GU&feature=player_embedded
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Great reading thank you for posting it!
I had my hands on a completely rebuild M1 Garand last year for about $700 and should have bought it then. (I still kick myself for not buying it.)
The Garand is on my shopping list, then a BAR in .338 and then a .50BMG, I almost bought a Barrett years ago but I wasted the money on a stupid Toshiba laptop that totally died soon thereafter when I spilled chocolate milk on it. I paid $3,000 cash for that POS Toshiba, same price for the Barrett.
I’ve learned my lesson, computers are obsolete as soon as you buy one. A gun is never obsolete as long as it can fire.
40 mm grenade launcher called the Thumper US military Vietnam era. Yeah legal in free states if you have the money and jump through the right hoops.
Yep, the Tommy Gun needs to be on that list.
So does the M1 Garand, credited by Patton as “the greatest battle implement ever devised.”
You are welcome. Merry Christmas!
parsy, who thinks he hears hoof beats on the roof. . .
MG-42/59 - reworked to take standard 7.62mm NATO ammunition.
Awesome isnt it?
Colt Peacemaker. Elf? Dunno.
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