Have you ever fired a gun?

Have you ever fired a gun?

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ShiggyBiggs

Original Poster:

713 posts

174 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Just thinking about this, after reading the thread about the guy who saw the policeman with the gun.

Have you ever fired a gun? By gun I mean propper guns. Shotguns, pistols, rifles, machine guns etc. No BBguns or air pistols or anything.

If so, guns have you used? And what was your favourite? Im hope someones used a mini gun or something!

In america, I found out you could rent guns with your driving licence. Excellent!

Boozy

2,338 posts

219 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Went to a Father and Son's day with the Marines, fired an SA80 and I think Browning pistol, I know I'm not a sniper put it that way. Watching those guys fire was something else, especially when they used up the rest of the rounds in pistols double tapping.

KieronGSi

1,108 posts

204 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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L85A1 & LA85A2, LA86A1, M16, HK53, L9A1 (Browning Pistol), L7a2 (GPMG), and an AK47.


RobDickinson

31,343 posts

254 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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When I was oevr in the states about 8 years ago (Utah!) we had a morning 'shooting' crap up on a rellies land.

Bunch of pistols from a .22 belt bucke 4 shot revolver (more noise than action) to a .45 something or other handgun, through 22 rifles and up to an Sk47 (?) which though technicaly illigal was bought from a policeman....

The handguns were ok , not so easy to aim at distant targets (20m+), rifles very easy to aim, the SK47 destroyed a gearbox casing realy easily & at 40m you couldnt realy miss.

Sorry movies, if you have an auto assault rifle and the good guy is running away but visible he's dead meat....

ShiggyBiggs

Original Poster:

713 posts

174 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Nice! I love guns, but dont really think id like it if they were legal here!
I've used, a browning 9mm pistol, usp 9mm silenced, glock 9mm, glock .40, some kind of .22 pistol, desert eagle.50, pump action shotgun of somesort, semi auto shotgun of some sort, mp5, g3, grease gun, some other 9mm rifle and a browning 1919 machine gun thing on a tripod.

Best fun I would say were the Desert Eagle, and the g3 maybe. Although, if I had to pick for practicality I would pick the glock and the mp5 or g3.

Cant remember who said about the AK and m16, definatly gonna try and get a go on those and a p90 next time.

I saw a guy buying one of those shotguns youd see swat teams using to blow door hinges off, the guy working at the shop told him thats what it was for and the guy bought it.

Also I saw a barrett 50 cal(famous from games like Call of duty) for $15000! Anyone could buy it I think. Pretty crazy!


KieronGSi

1,108 posts

204 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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ShiggyBiggs said:
Nice! I love guns, but dont really think id like it if they were legal here!
I've used, a browning 9mm pistol, usp 9mm silenced, glock 9mm, glock .40, some kind of .22 pistol, desert eagle.50, pump action shotgun of somesort, semi auto shotgun of some sort, mp5, g3, grease gun, some other 9mm rifle and a browning 1919 machine gun thing on a tripod.

Best fun I would say were the Desert Eagle, and the g3 maybe. Although, if I had to pick for practicality I would pick the glock and the mp5 or g3.

Cant remember who said about the AK and m16, definatly gonna try and get a go on those and a p90 next time.

I saw a guy buying one of those shotguns youd see swat teams using to blow door hinges off, the guy working at the shop told him thats what it was for and the guy bought it.

Also I saw a barrett 50 cal(famous from games like Call of duty) for $15000! Anyone could buy it I think. Pretty crazy!
The M16 is nothing special but its quite light for an assault rifle i disliked it due to its length and plasticky feel, but maybe that's because i had been used to the La85 which is much shorter and sturdier.

Corpulent Tosser

5,459 posts

245 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Fired several guns and owned a couple.

Ruger 357 Magnum revolver and 1911 framed Colt 45 owned while I was living in US.

Shotgun owned in UK

Several rifles fired when I was in the Army Cadets.

I would like to see gun ownership made easier for law abiding people in Britain.

MudwiG

283 posts

264 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Fired a shotgun for the first time at a very up market Clay shoot day. No training given or safety brief at all. I was more than a little surprised by this.

fathomfive

9,916 posts

190 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Nothing flash, just a shotgun at a couple of clay pigeon events.

working class

8,848 posts

187 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Desert Eagle, Point five O

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

255 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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I'm always firing my spudgun....

Tampon

4,637 posts

225 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Went on a rugby tour to Vietnam.

Spend a few quid shooting the AK47's and a browning tank gun ( ? ) big bd and was mounted to a platform, doubt I could hold it up ( 6ft 5in 18-19 stone ) let alone hold it and fire it, the bullets came on one of those belts you see rambo wearing.

The biggest thing for me was the noise, even the AK, echos through you, god knows what it muust have sounded like with 10-20 of those things going off shooting at you in the jungle in the 60's, scarey.

Also shot a .22 rifle that I stumbled across when I was a kid, thinkn the small bullet was a "superdooper" air rifle pellet, lent out of the window and shot a tennis ball in the garden, with the gun body still inside the room it nearly deafened me and scared the st out of the guy who owned it, he ran up stairs to realise there was a 14 year old with his gun that he had left lying around, he wanted to shout at me but probably was more scared at the possibilities of his actions at leaving it lying around, we decided to call it quits and never tell any one of responsibility ( ie my parents and the fuzz ). Back in the days before Dunblain.


Edited by Tampon on Friday 21st May 07:20

f13ldy

1,432 posts

201 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Desert Eagle.
Mac10
MP5
Pump action shotgun
Glock 9mm.

Asking me if I could accurately hit something with anything other than the Glock/MP5 would be a different matter.

Cara van Man

29,977 posts

251 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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KieronGSi said:
L85A1 & LA85A2, LA86A1, M16, HK53, L9A1 (Browning Pistol), L7a2 (GPMG), and an AK47.
this, pretty much

plus an Uzi shortstock in Vegas.

Ynox

1,703 posts

179 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Yep.

Double barrelled shotgun
.22 rifle
Browning 9mm
Colt 44 Mag
Uzi
Spaz 12 pump action
M16
AK47

KieronGSi

1,108 posts

204 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Cara van Man said:
KieronGSi said:
L85A1 & LA85A2, LA86A1, M16, HK53, L9A1 (Browning Pistol), L7a2 (GPMG), and an AK47.
this, pretty much

plus an Uzi shortstock in Vegas.
Have you fired the Browning in a car without ear defs? smile I did and it's not something i'm going to do again in a hurry lol.

Edited by KieronGSi on Friday 21st May 07:09

Mr_annie_vxr

9,270 posts

211 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Yes.
Shotgun
Glock
G36
Mp5

davemac250

4,499 posts

205 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Cor loads.

Mag .44 - huge kick
.38 snub nose
Franchi Spaz 12 - too complicated for its own good
AA12 full auto - fk me
AK 47 - like clockwork
M16 - very accurate
Mach 10 - not accurate, in any way!
umpteen shotguns/target rifles
Uzi 9mm - hard to keep on a target, actually the muzzle lift makes it nearly impossible.
MP5 - way better than is given credit for IMO
Glock 9 - would be my pistol of choice
RPG - Whoa. Exit one van.
Blunderbuss - that made a HUGE hole in the target car.
Browmning 9mm - TOO LOUD
Desert Eagle - Too bling
Sten gun - hell yeah.

Can't think of any more, but would love a go with a 50 cal.

Please.

The above where fired in a mix of a being a rifle club member pre Michael Ryan, police firearms training and a couple of trips into the Eastern Block where the local army bases will let you into play for a fee.

Oh, and yes, off a gnat at 100 yards wink




Monkey boy 1

2,063 posts

231 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Yep.
Couple of shot guns

.22
.303 (had a kick like a shire horse, but I was quite young then)
7.62mm SLR
5.56mm SA80
L98Al
LMG
M16
M60 - Blanks only though, but felt like Rambo at the time.

and some wierd flint lock musket

Edited by Monkey boy 1 on Friday 21st May 07:55

Summertime

1,292 posts

172 months

Friday 21st May 2010
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Yes lots of them.