Coolest Guns you have fired?

[FLDomer]

I have a 1903 Colt Commander that my Granfather, Wild Bill, bought brand new. Just Wild Bill to me. Two owners, 104 years.

I bet Ol' Gpa had many a great tail to tell lil Bog as he bounced you on buckskin covered knee!

 

[peoriairish]

It's probably not "cool" but I like my .38 special.

.38 special is quite cool! I was planning on getting my girlfriend one here shortly.

The 870 is a good shotgun. What are you planning on using the shotgun for? Bird, Slug, home defense?
I have used and actually looking to purchase a 870 slug gun for deer up north and hogs down here. Now home defense the Mossberg 500 and 595 are nice and I believe both are Mil-spec. 870 all around is nicer than the 500/595 but strictly for home defense the mossberg is nice and pretty reasonable.

I plan on using it for everything, deer (would still be shooting slugs. Illinois says buckshot is illegal for deer), bird, clays... I want an all around gun. To who ever it was that was thinking I meant bad press from dumb firearm owners, I wasn't. I have heard that the steel on the new 870 express was very prone to rust, it had a very loose front end and people have been having ejection and extraction issues with it. I know the old 870's were excellent guns and can go forever, but I am worried Remington's quality control has gone downhill.

 

[FLDomer]

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I plan on using it for everything, deer (would still be shooting slugs. Illinois says buckshot is illegal for deer), bird, clays... I want an all around gun. To who ever it was that was thinking I meant bad press from dumb firearm owners, I wasn't. I have heard that the steel on the new 870 express was very prone to rust, it had a very loose front end and people have been having ejection and extraction issues with it. I know the old 870's were excellent guns and can go forever, but I am worried Remington's quality control has gone downhill.

If you want to us the 870 for deer I would look at a Hasting Barrel (fired a couple and tack drivers) the rust issue I cant comment on, and no forearm on a pump is going to be super tight so I wouldnt worry about that too much. For extra coin get the 1187 (semi auto), no rattling foregrip and super nice!

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Not just Grandpa, who was born in 1889, but his friend, Vigo, who moved with his mother a white missionary to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, when he was four. He knew mountain men, trapped when he was old enough, and in the late ninteen-sixties told me all about Wounded Knee. He really identified with the Native Americans he grew up with. The man taught me to hunt and trap, fish and ferment sour dough batter. My Grandpa got me behind my first shootin' iron, in the early sixties. We would shoot ground hogs, and ambush, Old Joe's chickens and rabits, that would escape his pens and range over into Grandpa's orchard. How much damage they did was hotly debated, but I knew exactly where the property lines ran, and I was a six or seven year old dialed in on my target!

I gave up hunting though, after I got through with people as targets.

 

[Fbolt]

I do a lot of traveling to Portland (OR), for my job-- well when I am out there I go to a place called Threat Dynamics. Basic premise is that you have a gun that acts and kicks like live ammo would (believe it is loaded with a Co2 cartridge), so you walk into a simulation area with screens all around you (300 degrees)...then based on different "events" such as a pyscho person shooting is a school...you have to make split second decisions on fried vs fo....while you wear a belt that will shock the Hell out of you if the bad guy shoots you. And at the end will be grades on your decision making.

Check out the web site below. Figured you guys would enjoy checking this out.

Here is their Web Site.
http://www.threatdynamics.com/

Firearms Training Simulator (FATS)

 

[goldandblue]

Lot's of you seem to like the BAR. Here is a trivia question. What historical figure so perferred that weapon, that they would use that to the exclusion of every other weapon, except a hand gun or two, tucked in just in case.

My guess is Clyde Barrow from the infamous Bonnie and Clyde....

 

[FLDomer]

My guess is Clyde Barrow from the infamous Bonnie and Clyde....

Clyde did love the BAR, and Ironically it was one of the weapons that was used to end his crime spree.

One a side note, I love the BAR because not only is it bad a$$ but it is what my Grandfather carried during his action in the Pacific.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Good guess guys; It was Bonnie Parkers favorite weapon. She had a sawed off version, all five foot nothin' of her. They wanted a lot more firepower that the Thompson, as most bank robbers did. That is how they shot their way out, no one could hide behind walls or cars. Unfortunately, Frank Hamer was a quick study . . .

I had a chance to use a BAR quite a bit as they were retiring the weapon just as I joined. Wanted to replace it with the M60 which had it's good points, lighter than **** comparatively, and it's bad, (belt fed, change melted/warped barrel so-and-so).

 

[k1ssme1m1r1sh]

Well Bogtrotter, if I would have had a gun during my marriage, I can't guarantee I'd be posting here, because he probably would have shot me, but if he wouldn't have, I still wouldn't be on here because I'm pretty sure they don't allow IE in the pokey.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Well Bogtrotter, if I would have had a gun during my marriage, I can't guarantee I'd be posting here, because he probably would have shot me, but if he wouldn't have, I still wouldn't be on here because I'm pretty sure they don't allow IE in the pokey.

Bogsey to you. Sure they do. Besides you are a smart medical chick. You watch the forensic shows. You are a good cook. You would have probably figured out how to shoot him with a frozen meat bullet or something.


I always tell people who are afraid of having someone taking their gun away, hold it with two hands, proper stance and clock 'em with it first, then shoot 'em when they go down, if needed.

 

[FLDomer]

Just picked up a Winchester Model 70 in 300WSM.....for squirrels

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Hey I meant to ask you FLDomer, your grandpa must have been a big guy, no?

 

[FLDomer]

Hey I meant to ask you FLDomer, your grandpa must have been a big guy, no?

Not too tall, 6' but a solid 215-220bs while he served but I am just going off stories and pics, he passed before I was born.

 

[peoriairish]

Just picked up a Winchester Model 70 in 300WSM.....for squirrels

You must have some crazy squirrels down in your parts. I'm picking up a Sig SP2022 in 9 mm next month. Pretty excited.

 

[InKellyITrust]

I'll stick to my finger guns

 

[TerryTate]

You must have some crazy squirrels down in your parts. I'm picking up a Sig SP2022 in 9 mm next month. Pretty excited.

For self defense?

Get the .45, bring the hammer.

 

[Old Man Mike]

The two best shots in my family are/were my mother and my youngest sister --- preternaturally accurate. The only gun I ever shot was during my senior year at ND when I fired the physics department's Vander Graff Generator several times and moved some subatomic particles around. ... probably doesn't count.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Women are always better shots, better breath control, smoother, better fine muscle coordination skills, etc.,

 

[peoriairish]

For self defense?

Get the .45, bring the hammer.

Yeah, but as my only handgun, I don't want something that is going to cost an arm and a leg to practice with. 9mm rounds are about half the price of .45 and even .40. 9mm gets the job doen with 147g hollow points and if you can hit your target... and I don't miss.

 

[Irishbounty28]

I love shooting guns!

 

[FLDomer]

You must have some crazy squirrels down in your parts. I'm picking up a Sig SP2022 in 9 mm next month. Pretty excited.

Yeah, I like the idea of a rifle that can down any animal on the North American Continent I can wait to smoke a big ol boar hog with it but that may have to wait for cooler weather....not a big fan of hunting in mid 90s heat. Btw I agree with Terry on the 45 bringing the hammer but you spot on about the freaken price of ammo...9mm are cheaper and in most cases more accurate. Ya can't go wrong with a sig!

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Not too tall, 6' but a solid 215-220bs while he served but I am just going off stories and pics, he passed before I was born.

That's what we called a squad "hog" or "pig." I was one. So like when I was in basic, at one point we had this thing called a fat man relay race. It was a relay race where the heaviest guy in the platoon was the baton. Our team looked good. When I took over (last leg) I just blew the other teams away. Our guy was 240, and I am not sure anyone else had a guy over 200.
Everyone, all the DI's anyway, ooohed and ahaaaed. They wrote something in my service jacket, apparently. It added points to the platoon colors competition. I was proud. After basic it followed me around for the rest of my FMC duty. I was a hog, 93 lbs, when everyone else had what, a little over forty?

I can still see that drill sgt from Forest Gump, "Gump, you are a genius!"

 

[FLDomer]

^ Thats awesome Bog! I wish i could have chatted with my Grandpa but apparently he did talk to much about it. We have a bunch of his service medals, a sword, couple flags and the prize of the collection a Nambu pistol. He was with the 25th ID in the pacific.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Yeah, but as my only handgun, I don't want something that is going to cost an arm and a leg to practice with. 9mm rounds are about half the price of .45 and even .40. 9mm gets the job doen with 147g hollow points and if you can hit your target... and I don't miss.

Personally, I carry my grandpa's Colt Commander. That is my weapon of first choice. It can do just enough damage, and I trust my marksmanship. But I also carry a S&W 686P (Plus) for sticky situations. With that I keep .38 wad cutters chambered. I am more worried about collateral dammage. But I always have a speed loader or two handy with .357 rounds, just in case. My logic is if I need more than seven rounds, I am already going to have found something to hide behind. And if I need more that 14 rounds, I am going to need a lot more help than one hand gun, (or even two) can provide.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

^ Thats awesome Bog! I wish i could have chatted with my Grandpa but apparently he did talk to much about it. We have a bunch of his service medals, a sword, couple flags and the prize of the collection a Nambu pistol. He was with the 25th ID in the pacific.

It wasn't awesome. It was a whole lot of work!

I knew a lot of men, friends of my fathers that were in the 25th. They went through the Philippines in '45 and freed a lot of the battling bastards, (Bataan prisoners), and really decimated the Imperial forces.

I remember one of my Dad's friends telling me at his funeral how emaciated those guys really were. Your grandpa did this country a great service. Was he from these parts too? Actually, from what my Dad told me, you were lucky to be; The Battle of the Philippines was a meat grinder.

 

[FLDomer]

It wasn't awesome. It was a whole lot of work!

I knew a lot of men, friends of my fathers that were in the 25th. They went through the Philippines in '45 and freed a lot of the battling bastards, (Bataan prisoners), and really decimated the Imperial forces.

I remember one of my Dad's friends telling me at his funeral how emaciated those guys really were. Your grandpa did this country a great service. Was he from these parts too? Actually, from what my Dad told me, you were lucky to be; The Battle of the Philippines was a meat grinder.

Yeah from what my grandmother told me and what I researched he fought in the Philippines and from what my grandmother said my grandfather rarely talked about it (and when he did was stopped by tears). My father told me my grandfather had a pretty nasty scar on his forearm for what he was told, was caused by a Japanese bayonet. My grandfather was from Lawton MI and worked at checker motors before and after the war. I would give just about anything to have known the man!

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Take notes

Take notes

Here is my Colt Commander from 1908. My Grandpa purchased mine new, so it is only a two owner model. This was the handgun that quite a few racketeers including Al Capone used, because it was a quick firing semi-auto and was relatively hard to screw up, (hammerless action, very compact.) So it was not conspicuous. It may not be fancy. But it might be my favorite in a knive, fist or even a gunfight . . .

 

[Andy in Sactown]

Bought my first handgun today.

Bought my first handgun today.

While I've owned many shotguns and rifles over the years, and shot numerous other firearms while I was active duty in the United States Navy, I've never owned my own handgun before.

I woke up this morning 90% sure I was going to purchase a Glock 23 (semi-automatic .40 S&W caliber). A good friend of mine had brought one over to my home and I really liked the light weight combined with comfortable grip feel (come to find out he installed different grips; more on this later). But in due diligence to a purchase of this magnitude, I fired several different weapons in the .40 S&W caliber to ensure I was not overlooking another firearm that would suit me better. It took a few boxes to narrow it down, but the Springfield Armory XD .40 S&W changed my purchasing plans by virtue of shots fired down range.

I should stop to say I really like the Glock 23. My main complaint about the weapon was, for my hand fitment, the dovetail of material at the aft end of the weapon rubbed against the bone (I am a computer engineer, not a health professional, so I cannot tell you what it was rubbing against specifically, but it wasn't the "knuckle", it was the joint located where your thumb meets your hands proper). Come to find out my friend had the same issues and installed aftermarket grips that had contours/channels that directed your grip a bit lower, but he attested to still running into the same issue.

The other factor was as clear as the holes in our targets: I was shooting better, more accurately, at a higher rate of fire with the Springfield. The additional weight (moderate, same construction type as the Glock) helped with the recoil characteristics and once I was on the third box with the firearm I was getting quite comfortable and the decision was made for me. Tight groupings fired at ease with a weapon of this caliber? Sold me.

Since I am presently residing in my native state of California, I do not have any pictures of my new firearm (10-day waiting period). But since it's an extremely common (and popular) handgun, an internet pic will have to suffice.

She looks something [exactly] like this:

 

[BobD]

Nice! enjoy.

In Sacramento and Stockton people will probably be suspicious of someone with a permited handgun.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Congrats. That's a fine piece.

Did you try an M&P? If I was inclined to carry in .40, that'd be my choice.