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THE TEN MANLIEST FIREARMS
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Posted on 12/24/2009 6:56:55 PM PST by parsifal
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To: PzLdr
1. StG 44
2. 1911A1
3. Colt 1873 Peacemaker, .45
4. Winchester 1876
5. MG 42
6. Sharps Buffalo Gun, 45-70
7. Thompson Submachine Gun
8. AK 47
9. Mac 10
10. Colt Python .357 Magnum Those in bold are ones I've owned... and I've shot #7 in full auto because a friend collected Thompsons. In fact, I have a picture of me, taken in 1973 when I was retail manager of the Old Sacramento Armoury, holding a Thompson with a 50 round drum magazine, standing in front of a 1929 Cadillac, not two feet from my Computer right now.
Swordmaker 1973
with Thompson Submachine Gun
and Hubacher Cadillac's 1928 Cadillac
Photo taken for 1973 Christmas Card
"Merry Christmas from the Mob Down at
The Old Sacramento Armoury"
The guy at the extreme left is the owner of the collection of Thompsons.
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posted on
12/24/2009 10:37:09 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Brugmansian
I want him and his collection on my team. :) Great video.
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posted on
12/24/2009 10:37:29 PM PST
by
mojitojoe
(“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
To: HangnJudge
I have a very similar looking vintage Remington - 12 ga. Sportsman Pump Magnum with a 31” barrel - accepts both the 2 & 1/2” and 3” shells; with the “plug” removed hold a few extra underneath.
It was a sweet deal, bought off the books a while ago; when I got a good look at it, I discovered it had literally never been fired, and I had to have it.
Not a single scratch inside the barrel or woodwork - everything on it completely spotless...probably a ‘99.5’ on a scale of 1 to 100. Not bad for a gun over two decades old.
The seller bought it from a lot of guns that someone else picked up from the estate of a old deceased gun store owner in another state.
I only wish I could have picked up another 2 or 3 like it - especially considering the times.
A.A.C.
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posted on
12/24/2009 10:44:20 PM PST
by
AmericanArchConservative
(Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
To: parsifal
To: parsifal
Don't Laugh these are lethal and very very quiet ....
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posted on
12/24/2009 10:48:01 PM PST
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(Screaming in Agony they ran to the Government But then Realized from whence the Agony came !)
To: DieHard the Hunter
“Just because its French doesnt mean its bad.”
NOT TRUE
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posted on
12/24/2009 10:49:40 PM PST
by
sonic109
(and...what are we going to do about it ? NOTHING ?..so shut up and take it !)
To: Tainan
"...'Blooper' for the distinctive sound they make when fired. A versatile weapon with quite a few different rounds made for it. And its fun to use."
I disagree, but that's a matter of perspective, I reckon. ...once had to fire powder grenades from an M203 from 06:00 to 18:00 hours except for marching back and forth to chow twice that day. Elevating it enough for the "massed troops" target (most distant target) kinda bites the shoulder after a while. ;-)
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:01:46 PM PST
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
To: sonic109
I give you proof not all things French are bad: Eva Green
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:04:52 PM PST
by
PugetSoundSoldier
(Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
To: PugetSoundSoldier
I give you proof not all things French are bad: Eva Green Ah, but when she was bad, she was very, very good...
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:10:23 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Swordmaker
And thus the paradox of French women! :)
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:15:37 PM PST
by
PugetSoundSoldier
(Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
To: sonic109
> NOT TRUE
(grin!) Absolutely true. In firearms, in food, in wine, in alcohol, in music, in art, in literature. Nothing wrong with French stuff. At all.
Heck, even in pocket-knives. The French make the Opinel, and they also make the Laguiole -- both are exceptional. I own several of each.
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:40:28 PM PST
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: DieHard the Hunter
(grin!) Absolutely true. In firearms, in food, in wine, in alcohol, in music, in art, in literature. Nothing wrong with French stuff. At all. Especially in wine... the roots are all American... since theirs all got killed off and they had to import all new root stock from America.
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:43:55 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Swordmaker
Great list — I would have fit the Lee Enfield SMLE .303 in there somewhere, as well as the Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver and the Vickers .303 Machine Gun. Still, there’s no quibbling about your list — it’s a good one.
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:46:49 PM PST
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: Swordmaker
I think much of the root-stock here in New Zealand also comes from America.
Nothing wrong with American wine.
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:53:02 PM PST
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: PugetSoundSoldier
Re: Eva Green
I hope she surrenders to my advances!
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posted on
12/25/2009 12:46:40 AM PST
by
gigster
To: familyop
Now thats a long session of H&I.
I do believe I'd found some empty crates to sit on and a sandbag incline to ...oh...steady my aim.
Must avoid those 'repetition injuries' ya know...lol.
In thinking about it, I think there were some guys that just 'had the knck' for the blooper. Natural at it so to speak. I never used it enough to get real nuanced with it; but I do think it definitely has its uses.
I did figure out that it is a skill not easily transferred to the civilian workforce...;-)
Merry Christmas.
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posted on
12/25/2009 12:47:21 AM PST
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus)
To: DieHard the Hunter
Still, theres no quibbling about your list its a good one. I can't claim the list, except the one's in bold that I've owned. The list was put up by freeper PzLdr in Reply 134 to which I was responding.
I would have replaced some of his other selections with guns which I also owned such as a Winchester 1886 in .45-70, the custom built .45-70 RevolverFun but super heavy at over 9 pounds (only on a list of "Manliest guns"), a Replica Walker Colt (also huge and heavy), and, probably one I didn't own, a super light, 3.25 pound, .458 Winchester Mag rifle our gunsmith made.
It would definitely qualify as a MANLY GUN.
He had a standing offer: Pay him $50 and shoot the damn thing 3 times in one hour with a standard Winchester factory load (510 gr, muzzle velocity, ~2,280 ft/s, muzzle energy = ~5630 foot pounds, which would produce ~70-80 ft/lbs of recoil on a ~12-~13 commercial rifle, but on his it could be as high as ~180-200 ft/lbs) and you could keep the gun. I shot it just once, after putting on a shooting jacket, placing several folded towels between me and the butt... and was a black and blue wreck for three weeks!
HE could shoot it. . . but then, he thought it was nothing to take a stockless 10 gauge Magnum shotgun down to our range and test fire it holding on to the tang. He made over a thousand dollars with it, having unmanned quite a few wanna-be "manly men", before he finally re-barreled it and made a usable hunting gun out of it and sold it.
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posted on
12/25/2009 12:54:19 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: PugetSoundSoldier
the paradox of French women..
I know, I have one for a wife, well she is French-German.
She hates my guns and hates my motorcycles even more, she hates my bed because it hurts her back so she sleeps in a recliner. She will keep cooking something I despise and forgets what I like to eat.
But she knows that without my hobbies I would be less than a man, an empty vacant shell that probably drinks himself to an early grave.
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posted on
12/25/2009 2:25:38 AM PST
by
Eye of Unk
(Phobos, kerdos, and doxa, said the Time Traveler. “Fear, self-interest, and honor.”)
To: TLEIBY308
Not a problem to me but this site is most likly watched by the fedsIrony of ironies. Check the properties of that picture. It's from the UK.
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posted on
12/25/2009 2:58:37 AM PST
by
Sarajevo
(You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
To: parsifal
The Mosin Nagant M44 is what I think it is.A Mosin is a heck of a lot of fun to fire, but wear DOUBLE hearing protection!
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posted on
12/25/2009 3:04:33 AM PST
by
Sarajevo
(You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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