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S.A. Boggs
07-03-2018, 12:48
Could have one weapon, a place to shoot it and ammo what would it be?:icon_scratch::1948::banana100:
Sam

kj47
07-03-2018, 04:32
Marlin 1895 45-70

Allen
07-03-2018, 04:51
I don't hunt so my preference on guns would be for self defense.

If it could be class 3 then I would want an M60.

If no license required it would be a semi AK-47.

I think most of us shoot 22's more than anything but since it's narrowed down to just one it would have to do any job required of it.

Sunray
07-03-2018, 10:15
A Royal Ordnance L7 105mm gun with a Leopard tank attached. We would probably consider a Mk II Leopard with its 120 mm Rheinmetall L/55 gun though.
Do I get to choose the ammo? snicker.

M1Tommy
07-03-2018, 12:10
Well, if'n only one, and if'n others were footing the powder and such.... an 8"/55 Mk 71 :headbang:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8%22/55_caliber_Mark_71_gun

togor
07-03-2018, 12:18
MG42 or MG3, for the fun and resale value.

bdm
07-03-2018, 12:46
The BAR one heck of a gun

JB White
07-03-2018, 07:32
All this exotic weaponry! I was going to say a Ruger Super single Six and enough .22 WMR to last a lifetime. Oh...and a cleaning kit.

SwampRatt
07-03-2018, 07:50
105 mm recoilless with beehive rounds. Major fun:icon_lol:

bruce
07-03-2018, 09:11
One weapon w/ ammo? Easy! It'd be a four inch S&W 686! If a rifle, then it'd be a left-handed Remington 700 SF-VS in .260 Remington or 7-08. I would lean hard toward the .260 Remington. Sincerely. bruce.

free1954
07-04-2018, 03:56
well, since we're fantasizing, it would be one of those big arsed buffalo rifles from the 1870's with a LONG way to shoot, and all the ammo you could fire. i'll supply the buffalo steel silhouettes.

Dan in NH
07-04-2018, 06:39
I'm with BDM. A BAR

Mark in Ottawa
07-04-2018, 12:56
When I was 13 years old, we still had cadets in our high school in Toronto and I joined the Bren gun group. By the time I turned 14 I could field strip and reassemble one in the dark and do basic IAs (immediate actions) to correct problems. I have always wanted to put a few hundred rounds through one to see if it really was possible to use a Bren to cut down the wooden range flag pole (said to have been a favourite WWII trick).

Vern Humphrey
07-06-2018, 05:50
When I was 13 years old, we still had cadets in our high school in Toronto and I joined the Bren gun group. By the time I turned 14 I could field strip and reassemble one in the dark and do basic IAs (immediate actions) to correct problems. I have always wanted to put a few hundred rounds through one to see if it really was possible to use a Bren to cut down the wooden range flag pole (said to have been a favourite WWII trick).

I used to have a Bren Gun -- found at a British dump at Siwa Oasis in Egypt. A fellow with our crew (oil exploration) found a BMW motorcycle with sidecar AND an MG 34. He made the mistake of shooting it where the authorities could hear, and they took it away and cut it up. I didn't make that mistake.

S.A. Boggs
07-06-2018, 07:11
I used to have a Bren Gun -- found at a British dump at Siwa Oasis in Egypt. A fellow with our crew (oil exploration) found a BMW motorcycle with sidecar AND an MG 34. He made the mistake of shooting it where the authorities could hear, and they took it away and cut it up. I didn't make that mistake.

When you was a company commander what did you use?
Sam

Vern Humphrey
07-09-2018, 03:09
Way back in the stone age, I was in the 30th Infantry at Fort Sill. One of our missions was to support the Artillery School with "infantry things," such as running the Infiltration Course. where troops crawl under live machine gun fire. The M60 was not certified for overhead fire in training in those days, so we had 6 M1917 water-cooled machine guns.

I conceived an unnatural affection for that gun.

Jim in Salt Lake
07-10-2018, 08:17
My Palma rifle. I've already been shooting it for the past four years. I'm off to Bisley, England tomorrow to shoot the Imperial Meeting. Been dreaming of this for years.

Vern Humphrey
07-11-2018, 07:18
When you was a company commander what did you use?
Sam

I bullied my Battalion Commander into getting me two M14 sniper rifles (this was before the M21 was standardized.) I had one trained sniper, so he got one and I got the other.

S.A. Boggs
07-12-2018, 03:01
I bullied my Battalion Commander into getting me two M14 sniper rifles (this was before the M21 was standardized.) I had one trained sniper, so he got one and I got the other.

Did you do any good? I am saving back pop bottles to get a semi to go with my mini.:1948:
Sam