Thread: What is your favorite gun?

Let's see now.

16 gauge Remmington. First gun I ever shot, didn't hit anything. But at that age, recoil wasn't much of a problem.

Colt 45 semi auto. Quite possibly the best one handled to date. Good stopping power. Lack of insane recoil. Can't provide much detail beyond that. The description of it left much to be desired.

Well, loading & unloading it is about as easy as 2Drezq's pride & joy demonstrated with her weapon of choice.

And for the times when subtlety isn't an option. The 357. revolver. Custom made, seven round chamber. Well stocked with hollow points.

Flak jackets & some cover is optional when facing the business end of this bad boy. :twisted:

Also got a chance to check out a nine millimeter. But just shrugged, said "thats nice" and wanted to handle at the 45. some more. :love

Curious about a Kalishnakov btw. AK47 or AK74. An auto that seems to be light on the recoil, judging by the physical size of some who swear by it. And the fabled ability to always remain operational, no matter how dirty gets a second glance.

For those of us who like things as simple as they can possibly get. No fine tuning required, like the M16. Wouldn't want to try it without the formal training those who serve get anyway.

In the 50's, everything was vacuum tubes, which oh by the way are very resistant to EMP.

Atomic Annie was a 280mm howitzer.

Had a small drawback, it was about as mobile as the maginot line.

BR, you're close, but the pre-81 had a narrower reciever, so the mag was different, and extended more visibily below the frame. Also the triggers were blued.


The other one is a BL-22, sweet little rifle.

Tiny little 'ole thing thought up by the grand masters of giant guns, The Krupp's

210mm monster used in the 1st WW to Shell Paris from behind German lines. Since Paris was over 70 miles from the lines, this brought some consternation to the Allies. The shelling began on March 23rd of 1918 and ended 139 days later on August 8th. To Quote Ian Hogg: despite the best efforts of the allies, "The Paris gun continued to fire as, and when, it liked..." Until the germans were pushed back towards the end of the war. The barrel was so long that a cantilever support was fixed to the top to prevent barrel droop. When fired the muzzle flexed up-and-down as much as a meter for over a minute. Every time it was fired enough steel was melted out of the chamber and bore that the shells were sequentially numbered in increasing diameter, and the chamber had to be measured, and volumes and chamber pressures recalculated to allow accurate shooting. Barometric pressures, temperatures, the earths curvature, all had to be calculated. The Barrel had to be lowered and straightened after every shot, and the shells were preheated in an underground chamber, while the powder charges were prepared in an environmentally controlled room. After 65 rounds the barrel was worn out, and returned to Krupp's for relinering to 240mm. Spies on the French side had to report across the lines on the fall of shot, Paris being beyond the Horizon 3 times over. About the best they could manage was a shot every twenty minutes. (fire for effect????). When all was in readiness, a telephone call was made, and thirty artillery batteries in the area around the Paris gun were fired in sequence before, during, and after the mighty gun spoke. All to confuse allied auditory locators, for there was no mistakeing the voice of such a giant. Remember that all of this was done before computers. She fired a shell weighing 500 pounds, and had a range of eighty-one miles!

The gun was manned by german sailors, and commanded by a full admiral.

After the war many efforts were made to find the gun, but Krupp wouldn't say, and Krupp's workers, normally willing to answer any question, kept their silence about the greatest gun in the world to their dying days. Some say the gun was hidden, buried under rubbish at the Krupp's works, against the day germany would need her again. If this is the case. she never showed up in the Armory of the 3rd Reich, and Hitler was a fan of truely giant ordanance. Others say the barrel was stood on end, and bricked up to look like a chimney, but no evidence ever turned up. If the gun was melted down, no record of such has ever surfaced.
So, the longest range conventional rifle ever built ends its story as it began, in a country at war, and shrouded in mystery.


1. The Guns, 1914-1918 by Ian V. Hogg

2. The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968 by William Manchester

Originally Posted by Lunatock

Curious about a Kalishnakov btw. AK47 or AK74. An auto that seems to be light on the recoil, judging by the physical size of some who swear by it. And the fabled ability to always remain operational, no matter how dirty gets a second glance.

The AK, firing proper ammo, comes as close to jam-proof as anything can get. I once dunked mine in a swamp, swished muddy water through it, and shook it out and fired 15 rounds without a jam.
(Just to prove a point, but I did check the barrel for obstructions.)
I NEVER clean it, and it just goes on working.

My mind must be failing me.

The gun I called the Gustav Zede, was named the Schwerer Gustav

800mm, 7.5 ton projectile, 48 km range

Check it out on my artillery thread...
Military History forum

800mm, lol, that's friggin excessive eh?

Man, i so needed one of those on the other end of the radio a few times!

LOL, what's the DCZ.... your zip code?

Let's see:

I have the AR as you can see by my Avatar. 16" heavy bbl with a Bill Wilson muzzle brake. I have a JP Trigger and Hammer group with a 3# pull (Very nice trigger pull!!!!) I have a Bill Wilson Tactical Targeting System (TTS) with a useable peep sight below the scope mount and a Leupold Varex-II 1-4X scope, and an Ergo pistol grip. I might float the bbl one of these days but it is doggone accurate as it is!!!!

I also have the 1903-A3 Springfield that is wonderful for long range shooting. As to the Garand, I would love to have one. I have had a modified Garand once, they called it an M-1A....... (Shot M-14's while in the service) I prefer it over the Garand because it has a twenty round magazine and it's not so obvious to the enemy when you need to reload. BTW, Springfield Armory used to sell them in .308, 30-'06, 7MM-08, and .243 at one time. I don't know if they still do.

I love Colt model 1911's and I definitely love my Beretta 92F in 9MM. I have a stainless Ruger GP 100 in .357 Magnum with a 4" bbl that I did a trigger job on and man is it sweet!!!

If I had a place to hang some pictuers to post them, i would show a few of them.....


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