Have you ever fired a gun?

[Don]

Yes. Innumerable shotguns of varying calibres and light hunting rifles. As a yoof I did a good deal of hunting both in rural North Wales and on an estate in France.

Lots of air-rifles and pistols of course..

Very little experience of handguns - no call to fire them - but if they were legal in the UK I'd have one at the gun club for target shooting for fun.

[Wing Commander]

Courtesy of HRH

It's not me in the photos, but that is because I can't fire guns and take photos at the same time!

Taken from the trip down through Messina Straits on towards Africa, onboard HMS Bulwark

The mini gun is one of several onboard used for close in protection, ie fast attack RIBs. Used to practice by toeing 5 or so buoys behind the ship on a couple hundred metres of rope and have competitions between the rear port and rear starboard minigunners to see who could take out the bouys first. Very cool to see two streams of bullets flying off, tracers streaking through the air, at sunset in the Med!

Shame I haven't got any of the 50 cal we used off the back of the ship, from the quarterdeck. Very impressive!!

So, from my time in the forces:

• Browning handgun
• SA80
• Various tin pot little 22 rifles etc

Outside of the forces

• Shotguns, when clay pigeoning etc

All good, healthy man-fun!

Edited by Wing Commander on Friday 21st May 08:17

[Stu R]

Many times, great fun and a great hobby, just wish i had more time for it ( police response times spoil the fun )

kidding of course!!

response times are rubbish.

Joking aside i've only really fired shotguns over here and a couple of pistols in the states. Put a few rounds through rifles just to give em them a try, prefer my shotguns

[sneijder]

I was going to post on this thread that, yes I have fired guns but don't find it terribly exciting.

Then I saw this picture :



Anyway, the point of me posting now is, where do I send the application form ?

[PHmember]

Just a shotgun at a clay pigeon place. Loved it.

[Stu R]

That's a great pic

[Tony*T3]

Standard military issue personal weapons of the 1980's and 1990's. (smg, slr, sa80, browning 9mm) All pretty much over rated.

Never shot a weapon AT someone. Perhaps that would make a more intresting thread. A gun is just a basic machine/tool. Using it is the issue I think.

[Ciaran]

Yes

AK47 - in vietnam

Glock 45
.357 Magnum Both in an LA gun range

A few shotguns

Edited by Ciaran on Friday 21st May 08:46

[Targarama]

I used to work for a company headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We went to an off-site product management meeting, at the firing range. The one gun which I always remember is the 57 Magnum. BOOM. Target gone The girls didn't enjoy that meeting much

[amir_j]

yup, Baretta 9mm and a small machine gun

[Cara van Man]

I've Played laserquest in Norwich, does that count?

>pew pew<

[RemaL]

I've never fired a gun but would like to try one day. next time i'm in the US i would like to try the firing range

[M001]

An AK47 and AR15. What got me was the whole noise and shock wave you felt when firing and with someone next to you firing.

You don't get that feeling in the movies or on TV and it gave me new respect for soldiers who go into battle. It must be bloody frightening.

[GTIR]

20 gauge shot gun, well it wasn't a 12 bore so whatever the baby one is.

I've "held" all types of handguns as a guy next to were I worked in Perth, Oz made the projectile bit of the bullett for the police and army. He may have let me fire them (into one of those CIS'esque chambers with jelly stuff in) but the first gun he gave me (Glock) I picked it up with two fingers in the middle of the gun and just looked confused.
"You've never even held a gun before have ya mate?"
"Er, no I'm from Hertfordshire.."






(the Glock was bloody light especially without a mag thing)

[JakeS]

Cara van Man said:

I've Played laserquest in Norwich, does that count?

>pew pew<

Only if Time Crisis 3 with the red Pistol in an arcade counts?

[petrolsniffer]

Yep Probally one of the main reasons I joined cadets procedures were surrouned by red tape but they are giving guns to 13-18 year olds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L98_Cadet_Rifle Only got a chance to shoot these on the main camps.Live range firing was confined to annual camp mostly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L81_A2_Cadet_Target_R... If you were lucky your detachment might have a range if not you traveled to the nearest one to play with one of these

[Jem0911]

Yes about two hundred times a week,
But in comparrison to the mini gun above my 12bore is a chicken chaser.

Respect to Mini gun man, nice spacing btw.

[WreckedGecko]

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.

One more vote for the above, minus the Uzi, plus M40A3 etc etc.

[goblinslayer]

My thread has arrived!
Currently own about 40 odd :-)

Some Lee Enfield goodness:

[james_tigerwoods]

I joined the cadets at school (CCF) to fly and ended up spending more time with the Army cadets as with them I got to shoot more

Nothing exciting though - .303, SLR, L98A1, SA80, GPMG, Browning pistol and a couple of others... However, if I'd have thought I could have used/shot a minigun, I would have been right down to join the Navy