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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: mike31 on October 28, 2007, 06:04:21 AM
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Here's a Viking's view of the top 10 manly guns...very funny read...my collection is only 40% "MANLY". http://arthurshall.com/x_2007_manly_firearms.shtml
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A friend sent this to me yesterday. Pretty funny stuff. Should be a Mossey 500 instead of the Remmy 870.
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If Mossberg counts and 629 is close enough, then I'm at 50%! ;D
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Hey, If a Mossey and the 629 DIDN'T count I'd call BS!
In any case those are the only ones on the list that I have. ;D
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I have 50% of the list (M91/30 instead of M44 and Wilson .45 instead of Colt).
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Why is there no .45-70 or S&W 500 on his list? He's a pansy! ;D (J/K)
I've got a GLOCK, a 1911, an AR15, and a Mossberg 590 (It's a little more manly than the 870... After all, you can't put a bayonet on an 870.). And I have access to an AK47. So that puts me at 50%.
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A Glock isn't Manly. It is a great gun, but its made of plastic!!!! Men like Wood and Steel, not the stuff milk jugs are made from!!
Where is the Garand, the BAR the Mauser? Any of these are more manly than a Glock....
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A Glock isn't Manly. It is a great gun, but its made of plastic!!!! Men like Wood and Steel, not the stuff milk jugs are made from!!
Where is the Garand, the BAR the Mauser? Any of these are more manly than a Glock....
A Sig is more manly than a Glock. German steel, precision-made, and in .45ACP, kick-ass.
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MMMhh Pathfinder, I think that would be Swiss steel, and only on the slide yes? Aluminum frame, ok we can call it an alloy. The BAR definitely is a manly gun, but sadly unavailable to most of us, even the semi versions take mucho dinero.
The M1 is definitely a manly gun. Manly guns mean big projectiles, at a decent rate of speed or really heavy large projectiles at a nominal rate of speed.. Arthur has some interesting picks, but is very limited.
I guess lets start out with what does manly mean? I think things that less than a MAN would not want to participate in, however stupid that may be on reflection after the event. I once worked for a shooting range, sighting in rifles, mounting scopes and so forth, and I thought why would people pay me to sight in their guns? Well some people are not good at it, but some people are really smart and let me sight in their heavy rifles. After a day of .460 Weatherby, and 500/475 nitro shooting, off the bench, I decided that the range rates were way too cheap, and my clients were very smart. You learn really quickly to shoot a very good first shot and do your math. 10 - 15 rounds of 30/06 is no big deal, but shooting the behemoths, makes you pause. Get out the book, look up the trajectory, pay attention to the sight or scope adjustments and do it in a very efficient manner.
Lets make our own list of manly guns or cartridges.
1) .50 BMG of course.
2) .460 Weatherby
3) .600 nitro express, and the slightly smaller variants.
4) 8mm norma magnum
5) lets take a break, almost all the magnum rifle cartridges above 30 cal.
6) 45/70, .444 marlin, 50/110, all those lovely 350grn + bullets in .40 cal and bigger.
7) .54 cal muzzle loaders are very manly. Especially if you grow a beard and look like Charleton Heston in the " Mountain Men"
8) .500, .460 S&W magnums
9) .44, .41 magnum.
10) all the Linebaugh cartridges.
11) the Howdah pistol, oh yea.
I'm not going to hog this thread, post your own vision of manly guns and cartridges.
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WOW...1 out of 10. My Remington 870. I guess I'm just not very manly. Oh well :'(
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MMMhh Pathfinder, I think that would be Swiss steel, and only on the slide yes? Aluminum frame, ok we can call it an alloy. The BAR definitely is a manly gun, but sadly unavailable to most of us, even the semi versions take mucho dinero.
Sig - um, well, yeah I knew that, I was testing everyone, yeah, that's it, I was testing you to see if you'd catch the mistake.
Actually, I DID know it was Swiss, was tired last night when I wrote. I have an older (dozen year old) P220 and it feels like all steel, but the frame could be alloy.
Amen on the BAR. My one hope and desire before I depart this mortal coil is to fire a BAR in full auto. I grew up watching Combat, with Kirby (in the later episodes) being the squad's BAR man. Always wanted to fire something that big, that auto,, that manly.
And we should probably add the Ma Deuce to the manly list.
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No Particular order and some are guns others are calibers;
Mosin
Garand
Mauser (K98)
1911
454 or above anything (rifle or handgun)
45 Colt (preferably SA able to take heavy loads)
12 Gauge (500 or 870)
30-06 (other than the Garand, scoped for hunting. .308 need not apply)
50 cal or above BP
Model 29 or 629 44 mag
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This is for those impromptu moose hunts. ???
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/2Late45/Keepers042.jpg)
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WHOA! Do you have a concealed carry version of that bad boy????
Okay, here's my list, working backward Dave Letterman style:
10: SSK T/C Contender in .470 Nitro express
9: Ruger Alaskan .454 Casull
8: 1887 Winchester 10-gauge
7: Hamilton Bowen .500 Linebaugh lightweight single action
6: 4-Bore Nitro Express
5: 500/465 Rigby Nitro Express double rifle
4: Purdy & Sons .600 Nitro Express double rifle
3: Barrett .50 BMG M107
2: Anzio Iron Works Take-Down 20mm hand-held
1: U.S. Army Flame-Thrower M1A1...get out the marshmallows, honey; we're lighting 'em up tonight!
Yee-HAW! Carpel tunnel here we come!
Michael B
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WHOA! Do you have a concealed carry version of that bad boy????
Okay, here's my list, working backward Dave Letterman style:
10: SSK T/C Contender in .470 Nitro express
9: Ruger Alaskan .454 Casull
8: 1887 Winchester 10-gauge
7: Hamilton Bowen .500 Linebaugh lightweight single action
6: 4-Bore Nitro Express
5: 500/465 Rigby Nitro Express double rifle
4: Purdy & Sons .600 Nitro Express double rifle
3: Barrett .50 BMG M107
2: Anzio Iron Works Take-Down 20mm hand-held
1: U.S. Army Flame-Thrower M1A1...get out the marshmallows, honey; we're lighting 'em up tonight!
Yee-HAW! Carpel tunnel here we come!
Michael B
WAAAAY back in my military days I used to instruct on the flame thower. LOVE IT!! For 8 seconds you feel like the baddest SOB on the face of the earth!
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You pretty much are, unless somebody manages to shoot that valve on your back....... I like Michael's list better than that first one! That pretty much covers manly!