funnest gun you have ever shot?

[troy_mclure]

what was the funnest gun you have ever SHOT?
the Dillon mini gun was OK, but only got 30 seconds.

my favorite is the m249 saw. ive fired hundreds and hundreds of thousands of rounds thru these guns, they are always fun to shoot.
not so much fun to carry tho, especialy with 800rds, tripod, t&e, spare barrel, etc...

[bruce drake]

My Ruger 10/22 is fun to spend time with the boys shooting a clay pigeons on the range.

[1Shirt]

My #3 Ruger in K-Hornet. You can load it down to 22 short level, or up to well beyond standard hornet level. Cheap, east to load, fun to shoot.
1Shirt!:coffee:

[pdawg_shooter]

My Marlin 1895g in 45.70.

[runfiverun]

the m-60.
no the m-40 grenade launcher it had suspense built into it.
and i didn't have to pay for the ammo

[SPRINGFIELDM141972]

1918A2.

Regards,
Everett

[oldhickory]

M14 w/rock&roll switch!

[yondering]

I'd love to play with a m-40 grenade launcher! That would be fun but I'm sure I'd get in trouble. :redneck:

My funnest guns are a supressed 22 rifle and my Mech-Tech 45 ACP carbine. It's a hoot to lob those 45's out there a ways, at long distance it's like aiming a grenade launcher, and you can hear them hit too. The Mech-Tech is also about the ugliest gun I've owned.

[Lead Fred]

I renamed my 45-70 Handi rifle, to my Happy rifle :-P

[Dframe]

Thompson sub-machine gun. There is just SOMETHING about the "Tommy Gun" that compares with nothing else.

[2ndAmendmentNut]

The most fun I have ever had while shooting a gun, is bird hunting with my Beretta 391 12gage.

[Cherokee]

Browing 50 Cal, M14, M60. I wouldn't want to lug one around but the big 50 was the most fun, followed cloely by my M14 with a switch, which I did lug around, the M60 last because on a bipod, it beat me to death in long strings of fire. Moving to normal stuff, my old Ruger FT 10" 357 mag was the most fun; well, then there is ...............they are all fun !!!

[lurch]

Kind of anemic compared to some, but the Calico M-100. 100 rounds of .22 as fast as you care to jerk the trigger.

But then you had to load it....

[BeeMan]

Contender with iron sighted 22 Hornet barrel, popping Texas Hill Country varmints.

[Oldtimer]

21 Navy Thompson is hard to beat, long as you got plenty of boolits to feed to it. Bob

[Ricochet]

20mm Vulcan, followed by 105mm howitzer & 81mm mortar.

[shooterg]

A friend's full auto American 180 - 275 rounds of .22LR with one trigger pull and you could hold it in one hand ! His Glock 18 is a hoot too, 32 rounds full auto in a handgun. Having friends who are Class III manufacturers/dealers is next best thing to being able to afford the fun stuff ! My silenced Ruger MKII is great around the house - neighbors never even know I'm shooting at some pest.
There IS something satisfying about launching a 500 gr. plus boolit from a trapdoor with a huge cloud of black powder smoke in the air too.
Heck, whichever one I can shoot today is the funnest yet ! Beats work...

[sundog]

Ma Deuce! Full auto M16 even though I do not like it - one of those love-hate relationships. M203.


I think I'd like to try one of the new Barret 41s at ultra long range....

[DLCTEX]

Has to be the "Ma Duce". Gives a real sense of power to fire off a burst. For domestic action a 10-22 with a 50 rd. mag is hard to beat for grins.

[HeavyMetal]

Ingram M-10 full auto 45 with Silencer.

Belonged to a buddy in one of the more permissive states. What a ride!

[higgins]

105mm main gun on an M60A1 tank (in training). Once properly sighted, think of it as a rifle that you can't miss with out to about a mile, and you don't even have to worry about flinching.

[Murphy]

94' Winchester with cast boolits & a Lyman tang sight.

Rolling rocks and banging steel out to 300yds. I flat out loved it.

The real icing on the cake was the look on peoples faces who never dreamed a thuty thuty could do that, let alone with home made boolits.

Murphy

[Oldtimer]

Almost forgot about this one. Had a class III friend that had a pristine MG42. I had a friend that was in WWII that used to talk about the spooky, dreadful sound that the 42 made. Never knew what he really was talking about until I shot that one. Never have heard a sound like that thing made. Almost raise chill bumps just to think about it. Cyclic rate something over 1200/min. Unbelieveable amount of history there.

[44mag1]

full auto browning high power, and yes it was legal.

[AZ-Stew]

M2 Browning, M60, 60mm mortar, 81mm mortar.

The M2 puts some serious power downrange.

The M60 is fun, but compared to the M2, it's kinda wimpy.

The 60mm mortar is much easier to handle than the 81mm, kind of like the difference between 20 and 12 ga O/U shotguns. Both are fun, though.

Regards,

Stew

[HollandNut]

5"54 MK42 and MK45

MK42 scare the bejesus outta you what with the carriers flying around finding the tray to drop 40-42 rpm

MK45 "the upside down" 5"54 , schweet shooter .. 20-22 rpm

Used to be SO on MK 10 Terrier missle , that was a hoot ...

M60 and M40 , hated the M14 and M16 , M2 sweet ..

More sedate you say ??

500 NE and 458 Lott

[1Shirt]

Well, since mil got cranked into this thread, will have to add a quad 50 on an aircraft towed target on a Chinese air base.
1Shirt!:coffeecom

[madcaster]

20mm Vulcan, followed by 105mm howitzer & 81mm mortar.

John,
I need to go to the range with you sometime,just to see what you do bring to fire away with!:kidding:

[Ricochet]

John,
I need to go to the range with you sometime,just to see what you do bring to fire away with!:kidding:
Those were all at Fort Bragg. I wish I had 'em!

[docone31]

A long time ago, I had this import six shooter in 22LR, and 22mag.
That was fun!
I would fire CB rounds, and watch the round in flight. I could switch cylinders and fire 22mag. .22 LR would make my day.
Fairly accurate, my son learned to fire a pistol with that pistol. I think back then, I paid 100& new. It was a colt single action '73 wannabe.
That was fun!

[EMC45]

The following full auto weapons: M60, M16 (Courtesy USN), Mini Uzi, Thompson 1928A1, Thompson M1, M14 (Nearly uncontrollable), and Benelli 14 inch entry gun (semi auto) all these courtesy of Gulfport PD.

[azrednek]

Thompson sub-machine gun. There is just SOMETHING about the "Tommy Gun" that compares with nothing else.

That is my favorite by far. The early models with the Cutts Compensator and drum mags can not be beat. Unfortunately my friend that owned it has died.

[Bob Krack]

Colt 1911-A1!

Never fired a full auto or any kind of "cannon", though.

Bob

[mtnman31]

AT-4 anti-tank rocket, dang near popped the contact lenses out of my eyes.

Of the more conventional type; SPAS-12 shotgun was pretty fun.

The most fun was probably as a teenager with my Ruger 10/22. It wasn't that the gun was fun, more so the times spent with my friends. I miss the days of spending the afternoon gopher hunting, we'd cruz the fields in my mom's old Ford Ranch Wagon - just me and a coupe friends with a cooler of sodas, some candy bars and chips. We'd buy a brick of Federal .22 LR Spitfires and spend a few hours out shooting gophers and soda cans. We'd go at it till it got dark or we ran out of bullets.

[Gently]

I have to say with all the fine responses here, I could go with Ma Duce, [smilie=w: I had plenty of time with a M60. and numerous other Military weapons...But I have to say the most fun in weaponry had to be, for me at least, a guniune 3 inch Ordinance Gun :bigsmyl2: , Black powder circa 1860, we got to shoot the beast 10 times, AWSOME!!!

I also got to see a 10" dalgren and a 11" rodman fire live. :holysheep
Modern is great but those old cannon are just Awsome!!

[joejr]

assorted machine guns & stuff in the army,wire guided stuff was fun too. i was smiling a lot

[oldhickory]

The M14 and M16s were fun, but ya know a full auto .22rf would be about as fun as it could get with your own ammo!

[waksupi]

It's got to be flintlock smoothbores for me. There are several of us that use them in competition against rifles, just because they are so much fun, and it aggravates the rifle shooters that get beat by us!

[Bert2368]

FN P90. Allmost as controlable on full auto as the American 180, and a lot more dammage down range. Also a lot more $ going down range...

[Marvin S]

I've shot a few full auto's in the military and they where okay but I think suppressed guns do more for me. But I still think I get a bigger kick out of the old stuff along with flint guns. One of the neatest ones I shot was original 32RF untill I had several hundred rounds for it stolen.

[longhorn]

MAC11 in .380 and Thompson '21 with drum both plenty fun, but I really think the most fun was an Anschutz match .177 rifle. Astonishing, absolute precision--the pellet always went exactly where the sghts were when you pressured the trigger. Kinda like driving in competition on the track (and I've done that too); you can learn a lot about yourself while operating a machine at 10/10ths.

[trk]

Full auto's are ok.
M2 50cal (ma duce) is #2
BUT the MOST FUN was the 155mm Self-Propelled !

Setup the loading tray, squat down to pick up the 164 lb bullet, hydraulically ram it home, stuff in a stack of sacks of powder, close the several hundred lb breach block with twitch of the lever, prime and hook up the lanyard.

Grab the ammo rack on the right with your left hand, right hand holding the lanyard hooked to the firing device primed with a .410 shell sized primer. Twitch. The whole front end picks up off the ground, the tube comes back 36-42" and the breech block automatically stays open. Like riding a roller coaster. Repeat. All this in a minute or less.

[flhroy]

Probably the rifle I've had the most fun with is my marlin 39A my DAD bought me when I was 12. During the long Wisconsin winters and my younger siblings (there were 5 of us) were royal PITA I'd go down down in the basement and shoot. When I did that they had to stay upstairs. also don't know how many bricks of ammo I'd shoot up walking the RR tracks (the Milwaukee Road). not as exciting as the military stuff but that 22 still makes me smile just as big as it did almost 50 years ago.


Take Care

Roy

[Dorf]

Whoa! Let's see-- Browning 1918 BAR, Suppressed MAC 10, maybe twin .50's hung under the wings of a T-28 all fun but it's hard to beat a Lyman .54 Great Plains Rifle using 80gr of FFFg and a patched round ball. :-)

[jsizemore]

Anoles at 300 yards with the 6br.

[JSnover]

Boys AT rifle, rebarrelled to 50 BMG. And a scaled down Coehorn mortar built for golf balls... or whatever else you feel like stuffing it with.

[Mk42gunner]

Gov't owned:
Gotta love a 5"/54 MK42
M2-HB -- I have shot enough .50 Cal from a mounted machinegun that I have no desire to ever shoot one of the rifles made for it.
Outshooting the Coasties that Crane sent to NAS Fallon to test the 25mm Chain Gun was a hoot.

Private:
No. 2 Remington Rolling Block in 32 Long, (I have another breechblock setup for centerfire so I can shoot 32 Short Colt, or Long Colt if I can ever find the brass).

I think the absolute most fun is shooting my Dad's old Model 67A Winchester; it is the first gun I ever fired.

Robert

P.S. The after I submitted this post I realized; the funnest is one that I don't have to clean.

R

[jhrosier]

I've shot a Thompson with a 50 round drum and that was a lot of fun.
I would have to sell off everything I own to buy one and steal stuff to feed it though.

I guess the most fun is my trusty '74 vintage Ruger Single-Six .22 revolver.
It lives permanently in my range bag and gets shot every week for a lot of years now.
Besides, I can afford to feed it without stealing stuff.:)

http://images14.fotki.com/v255/photos/5/590147/2786028/SingleSix61_2-vi.jpg

Jack

[TCFAN]

For me it has to be my Marlin 94C. Loaded with 38specials with the Lee 158gr. RF boolit using 4.2gr. of Bullseye.I can shoot all day and still want more ......Terry

[Rockydog]

40 years ago, give or take a year, I had one of the original Ruger 44 magnum Carbines. Bought it for a brush gun for WI whitetails. Never used it for that. I ran a couple of 50 rd boxes of shells through it. It was a load of fun to shoot. Had a problem with a major jam up the day before opening day of the season. Couldn't open the bolt after firing. Split the stock from end to end. Took it back to the place of purchase for a replacement. Out of stock on that model. They swapped me a new Rem .06 Auto for it and $10. There was about $75 difference in the price so I took it and never looked back. Sure wish I had it now. RD

[405]

Least fun... ultra-light 458 mag

Most fun but limited, special purpose... either an UZI or a suppressed MAC 10.

[JIMinPHX]

I'm a real big fan of the handi rifle in .223. That has to be my all time favorite. I also have a lot of fun shooting cap & ball revolvers. Those old fashioned things are surprisingly accurate & easy to shoot (once you get them loaded). I also can't imaging growing up without a 10-22.

I do have to admit though, I also like to play with something like an SKS once in a while. Those can be just plain fun too, especially with moderate cast loads.

[Bullshop Junior]

Homemade muzzle loader I made for shooting golf balls.

[stubshaft]

20mm Vulcan mounted on MPC. Infra red dot sight and programmable cyclic rate of fire.

[Marlin Hunter]

The funnest gun that I have is my Marlin rifle, there is just something cool about cycling a round with the lever. I also like the Benelli shotgun and hitting things out of the air. If I could afford a Sharps, I think that would be one of my funnest also.

[Southern Son]

Gun that I own, probably my 45/70 Hiwall with the holy black. Although my Brno .22 is always a hoot, doesn't matter if I am shooting Buggs Bunny or targets on a range.

Military stuff, M60 was a hoot (they gave us lots of ammo), M16, F1 Submachine gun (Picture a really cheaply made Stirling, with the magazine on top, lot of fun), I really liked the M79 (only got a few rounds through that), 84mm Carl Gustav Short Range Anti Amour Weapon (we called it Charlie Guts Ache, when you let it off, there was no recoil, but muzzle and tail blast like you would not believe), but out of all the weapons I got to fire in the Reserves, I liked the SLR (Australian made Semi-Auto FAL) more that all the rest combined. A beutifully made military rifle that just felt right to shoot. The only gun I fired in the reserves that I wish I could have kept.

[dk17hmr]

I really like my M1 Garand
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Than there was the AR50, that was pretty fun...until the woods caught on fire.

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Proabably the most fun was my AR15 firing blanks, with a golf ball launcher on it, golf balls fly 300+ yards, tried shooting them like skeet one day with a buddy...the BB's from our 12 gauges could catch up.

[EMC45]

I've shot a Thompson with a 50 round drum and that was a lot of fun.
I would have to sell off everything I own to buy one and steal stuff to feed it though.

I guess the most fun is my trusty '74 vintage Ruger Single-Six .22 revolver.
It lives permanently in my range bag and gets shot every week for a lot of years now.
Besides, I can afford to feed it without stealing stuff.:)

http://images14.fotki.com/v255/photos/5/590147/2786028/SingleSix61_2-vi.jpg

Jack



I have to agree with you on this Jack. The first gun I ever fired was a blued Single Six that was my uncle's. I was 6 and it led to all this madness!!

[Terrier]

H & K MP-5, silenced, with all ammo provided by H&K.
Terrier

[txpete]

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[big dale]

Back in the late 80's while i lived in the Austin area, i had a friend that kept buying 2/4 ton pickups so he could tow around his civil war cannon. We used to take it out to shoot it three or four times a year. It was a hoot!

Big Dale

[oldfart1956]

Well fellers I'm a big fan of the flintlock smoothbores and I've got "a few of them." :) Some of them carry better, swing better and are more accurate but the one that really makes me giggle is Bess. She's a wide bottomed gal with a huge lock and a 31in barrel bored to .735 and just picking up a roundball that size and rolling it around in yer palm has to make ya laugh. She's bulky and a little slow on ignition but on a clear sunny day ya kin watch a peach-pit sized ball wallow downrange and smack the backstop with splinters and paper flying. I've got to know her real well and an 80yd. shot at a fat whitetail is indeed possible. Ahhh..the Brown Bess. In production since 1700 and STILL going strong! Audie..the Oldfart!

[Ricochet]

20mm Vulcan mounted on MPC. Infra red dot sight and programmable cyclic rate of fire.
I absolutely loved that thing! The one I got to fire would shoot fixed bursts of 10, 20, 30, 60 or 100 rounds IIRC at 3000 RPM, or continuously at 1500 RPM. I fired a couple of 10 round and a 30 round burst at an old deuce-and-a-half about a kilometer away. When I pressed the trigger, it sounded rather like a dragster engine revving (the 6000 RPM ones REALLY do!), and I saw orange muzzle flashes flickering in the scope. A second or so later, white flashes started sparkling all over the truck, it started disintegrating, and pieces of it flew up in the air. Great fun!

[DanM]

Thompson SMG on a IPSC style course of fire. Mowing down plates and pins was big fun. Muzzle climb was a non-issue. Something I will never forget.

[Freightman]

The one I own now is my Veterlli I got from Smokemjoe in the past was my Hakim with surplus ammo you can take a cement wall down.

[SCIBUL]

My most funny fired gun was a "LE MAT" revolver (especially the big centered shot barrel).
The second on my list was a zouave rifle with a round .58 ball and 123grs of FFg (a "little" mistake in the reloading sequence).

[big boar]

Pdawgshooter, the 1895M 450Marlin takes up where the 45-70 leaves off and is a way better gun. Just kidding of course. We're all shooters so I think I can honestly say the most fun is whatever I'm shooting at the time. I just love to shoot, 22s fun/cheap, recoil free, 223 far more accurate than anything should be, 308's, just a bigger 223, amazing accuracy, 450Marlin, nothing compares with carrying in the deep bush and fun offhand rapid fire, 303 British, can't count how many 1000's I'v fired, historical and ALWAYS makes me think of the courage and sacrifice of those past and present...where would I stop. I even like shooting a sling shot, can't think of anything I don't love to shoot. Thanks for the question, reminds me of all the fun I've had over the decades.

[vp146b4]

I turned the crank on an original 45/70 gatling gun. That is one heck of a lot of lead!!! It's amazing how smooth it operates.

[Dframe]

I should also mention a huge percussion pistol a guy at my old club let me fire. The guy loading poured a huge amount of powder in then stuffed in a bullet that looked about the size of a shot glass. Absolutely wonderful. HUGE BOOM, Lots of smoke and fire and not that much recoil.

[Sensai]

Ripple firing 2.75 folding fin aerial rockets off a Cobra Hog. Four eighteen round pods dumping as fast as they could. It's a hoot!

Of course my little Henry H001 ain't bad either!

[JeffinNZ]

Can I say all of them?

But most memorable were a BREN gun, M60 and a 9mm AR15 clone on rock and roll.

[snowwolfe]

Any SxS double rifle. Besides being a hoot to shoot they are an instant draw to all shooters on the range. Everytime I take mine out they draw a crowd of onlookers.

[dualsport]

Doesn't anybody here like full auto heavy military hardware? You all have named everything I was going to pick, but I did like shooting the suppressed full auto Uzi when I didn't have to buy the ammo. Back in the real world I like a 12 ga. muzzleloader, mine's a TC New Englander, it'll do anything you need it to. Before that was a CVA dbl. barrel, wish I'd kept that.

[txpete]

Ripple firing 2.75 folding fin aerial rockets off a Cobra Hog. Four eighteen round pods dumping as fast as they could. It's a hoot!

Of course my little Henry H001 ain't bad either!


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[TAWILDCATT]

Grease gun and Reising.the MG 42 an MG34 are alright also.always wanted a lewis.they shoot quite accuratly too.ther are abunch of MGs around,but darent shoot them.Had a hotchkiss 303 I bought from NUmrichbake in early 60s.A dewat
got it shooting.dont have it now.

[HollandNut]

Doesn't anybody here like full auto heavy military hardware? You all have named everything I was going to pick, but I did like shooting the suppressed full auto Uzi when I didn't have to buy the ammo. Back in the real world I like a 12 ga. muzzleloader, mine's a TC New Englander, it'll do anything you need it to. Before that was a CVA dbl. barrel, wish I'd kept that.

I enjoyed the full autos in the miltary , but as a civvie , they dont do anything for me ..

The 1911 is the only miltary piece I am interested in ..

Except for the 5"54 and 16"50 , but I dont have anywhere to keep them let alone the powder mag and projo mags

[dsmjon]

No matter what I post will pale in comparison to the military folk in this thread! My current favorite is my 45-70 loaded hot. I like things that hit back :)

Aside from that, I love shooting my AK. The best part of shooting my SKS was the first time I shot it... slam fire crazy!! I was a blast to empty the 30rnd mag in what seemed like 2 seconds. :D

Yet, while I type this I nearly forgot my favorite of all time... and homemade to boot! That is/was my 2.5" tater cannon. :) We used to cut 2" thick Styrofoam plugs and push down to the firing chamber, then we'd toss in a few small rocks. I found that White Rain hairspray would send ~1oz sized rocks through the door of a mid 70's Ford LTD. :redneck:

[ghh3rd]

My funniest gun is my potato gun. You stick the muzzle into a potato, squeeze the handle and a potato slug shoots across the room with a little pop. I never measured, but it's probably about a .177 slug...

Randy

[sheepdog]

Rheinmetall 120 mm gun on an M1 Abrams.

[det]

Jap type 11 light machinegun. It just not right to use a machinegun that loads from 5 round stripper clips.

Det

[yodar]

The funnest gun i shot was actually the funniest, cause thie particular CYQ sPREEWERKE P-38 that with every shot, it spat the ejected case right down the neck of you shirt

I called it my "date gun"

It worked !

yodar

[Gerry N.]

The most fun to shoot gun I ever owned was an old exposed hammer pump .22. I don't remember the make. A woman working at the first job I ever had sold it to me for $10, it was her husband's. He'd been killed in Italy in WWII and she was scared crapless of guns. She brought it to work one day, I checked it out to find it had a live round in the chamber, 9 more in the tube mag and the safety was off. It had been that way since her husband enlisted in 1941. This was in the Summer of 1963. Anyway, after cleaning and with the Federal Monark .22's my uncle got me from the Seattle Police Rifle range for about 2 bux a brick, I must have put most of 100k rounds downrange with that rifle. The feature I liked best was that the loading gate was on the side of the tube so I could lay the rounds in the valley between the mag tube and barrel and slide 'em into the gate. It took mere seconds to load 17 LR's. Another grin producer was you could fire it by holding the trigger back and racking the slide. 17 rounds downrange in about 2 1/2 seconds.

Gerry N.

[ETG]

Can't afford to feed a FA. My funnist gun is a single shot 50 BMG. Putting a round through a 2" plate of steel is impressive. All the fun type rounds - incindeary, spotter tracer, AP - it's almost endless the variety. Launching a 800gn spotter at the side of a mountain 2 to 4 miles away and watching this raod flare trace all the way there, see the flash, smoke and then boom - always puts a huge grin on anyones face that shoots it. And the way it cleans out your sinuses every time you pull the trigger :-D

[Southern Son]

Gerry, the rifle was probably a Winchester. A mate had a Rossi copy, it took us about 2 minutes to discover that holding back the trigger and working the slide made rifle go bang, alot, very quickly.

Yodar, I fired a cheapo 1911 once that spat live rounds out the top every time you fired it. The feed lips on the magazine were too weak so every time the slide went back when you fired it, the top round in the magazine would shhot up, slip through the magazine lips and then fly out the top of the pistol. The magazine spring had enough strength to get the second round up into position and it would get chambered (most of the time). The down side to this process was that when the round popped out the top of the pistol, it was mid recoil and therefore the top of the pistol was angled back towards the shooter. This caused the round to fly up and then backwards, comming down right on the top of my head. A 230grain .45ACP round leaves quite a lump on top of your head. It is even worse if you are dumb enough to fire it 3 times.

[Bob.]

Kinda in this order,,

Tompson
20mm on a one one four
Ma duce
M-60
M-16
1911
Browning supressed 22
Theoben 22 cal air rifle

Bob.

[bearcove]

#1 M60D out of a huey.
#2 50 cal Browning machine gun.

[panzerr]

M2 with raufus rounds was a blast!

[TCLouis]

Not exactly a firearm, but I sure wish I had sot a lot more LAWs when they were free.

Several years ago I was working a range where we were within earshot of a MG range. They had been blasting away with 249s and 240s all afternoon.
Someone came out to test fire a MG-42 and all the people turned to me with "wide eyed wonder" and asked . . . "What was that?".

Easy to see why they would be feared on the battlefield. Probably a better design than some modern medium MGs, but I think the rate of fire was a waste of good ammo.

I will bet, waste of ammo or not, they did get the attention of those US soldiers in Europe.

[markinalpine]

8 Inch Howitzer. :bigsmyl2:

Years ago.

Mark

[swheeler]

Open bolt Ingram M10, funnest strobe light ever.

[gishooter]

Hmm, I've fired lots of big and small military stuff in 22 years of service( 16 at Fort Bragg). Subguns, full auto rifles, and belt feds from around the world. The most fun? Probably a ZPU-1 14.5mm antiaircraft gun that I captured in Afghanistan. Fired it often over a period of 6 months. The US 20mm Vulcan was a close second. The 106 mm recoiless rifle that was fired annually as part of training was a beast to shoot from the concussion the firer was subjected to. After 6 rounds of that it was time to switch out to the next operator!

[Marlin Hunter]

Single shot AT-4.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/images/at4-s.jpg

[Kraschenbirn]

Military: I've got to go with the M2 Browning or the Thompson (had one in 'Nam that I collected off an ARVN captain who had no further use for it). Civiliam: probably my 1885 HiWall in .38-55 or my 1943-vintage Garand.

Bill

[thenaaks]

m109a6...155mm howitzer with some charge 8 red bag is pretty fun
the mk19 is 2nd in line
i also love taking my 2" snubbie in 357 mag to the range...people don't expect that much bang from such a little gun!

[eveready]

M3 smg (grease gun) a real ball with that 4 pound bolt slamming back and forth.

[casca]

Red eye & stinger missle

if it filies it dies !!

[casey]

Has to be a AR-50. Something about a 750grn. at 2800f.p.s really does wild things to varmints! M-60 was a lot of fun, also m-14, m-16, and anything else with the rock and roll button !!!:grin:

[Mtman314]

Funnest one was a machine gun (M-60) on the back of the ship. To qualify, to use it you had to hit water. A new meaning to the term rock and roll (with the wave action).

[levallois]

Conehammer Broomhandle Mauser made circa 1899 - 7.63 cal - surprising how good those round grips were for controlling the pistol and how easy it was to hit what you aimed at out to 50 yards without the shoulder stock.

John

[levallois]

Got to put the Reising Model 50 SMG at the top of the list. It was a failure with the Marines at the beginning of WWII because it doesn't like to be dirty, parts aren't interchangeable between guns, and rust was a problem with the blued finish. But when it's clean - damn!!! It's lighter than the Thompson by about 4 pounds and it's fast - miuch faster than the published 450 rpm - shot 400 rounds, no FTF - almost impossible to keep on target if firing more than 3-4 round bursts. Still, it was fun, fun , fun.

[spqrzilla]

Can't explain why, but my K31.

[462]

Military: M-39 20 mm cannon. F-100 Super Sabre had four of them, but for sighting in purposes, only fired two at a time. Never got to fire the M-61 200 mm Vulcan, but loaded umpteen- million rounds, in them.

Civilian: My '43 Springfield Garand and S&W 6" 624.

[steg]

Hands down my used to have trapdoor carbine and 500 gr boolits! .......steg

[Dframe]

Just has to be a Thompson Sub-machine gun. Something about the old chicago typewriter that just can't be equaled. As they say, if you have to ask, you wouldn't understand.

[44fanatic]

Winchester model 62 pump 22. Fun to shoot gophers out to 50 yards with.

[MDC]

30 carbine that I should have never traded off and my Super Single Six 32 H&R Mag

[NickSS]

I have fired a lot of fun guns in my life but some of the more memorable ones are a quad mounted 50 call AA on an M3 half track, a lewis LMG, and a Lancaster 9mm Sub machine gun. However the funnest gun I ever shot has to be a 3 inch ML cannon I owned for awhile. Shooting 55 gallon drums with a six pound cannon ball propelle with a pund of blasting powder at 900 yards was a hoot believe me!

[hhranch]

Took my father's Winchester 63 out one day, and with one pull of the trigger, emptied all ten rounds. Kind of like squirting water out of a hose. After playing with it all day with the same results, and considerably less ammo, took it apart and cleaned the hammer-trigger group, and it was back to one pull, one shot, where it has been ever since. It was sort of fun while it lasted, although you couldn't reliably hit anthing smaller than a good-sized bucket with it.

[txhunter77]

Favorite weapons I've fired.

M-16 Full Auto
AK-47 Full Auto
10-22 surpressed 50 rd mag
45 Colt Blackhawk hot loads
45 Colt Rossi M92 hot loads
44 cal Walker repro. cap n ball. (automatic smoke screen)

[nicholst55]

Full auto:

1. 12.7X108mm Degtyaryova-Shpagina Krupnokaliberny (DShK) The 3'X6' muzzle blast has to be seen to be believed! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DShK)
2. .50 M2HB
3. GUU 5P (M16 Carbine)
4. MP-5 SMG
5. AK-74 (Very controllable)

Other:

1. M1911A1
2. Lyman .54 GPR
3. .62 Edward Marshall flintlock

[RugerFan]

Hands down its the M134 Gatling Gun

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[FISH4BUGS]

My all time favorite is my M11A1 MAC submachinegun in 380. What a bullet hose! 1200+ rpm. Empties a magazine in a few seconds!
Suppressed is even more fun!