Your Favorite Firearms By Class
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I'm a sucker for an old fashioned lever action carbine. Pretty much any caliber. The motion and flow is just so zen.
I read somewhere that the 5.7mm round used by the P90 was in consideration to be made a NATO standard, the Germans mucked things up because they wanted the 4.6mm instead, so P90 seems to win there.
OTOH, Magpul was/is making a PDW weapon which is just a really compact bullpup carbine, that can take standard NATO mags and 5.56mm round, so there is that. But then the 5.56mm was designed for a longer barrel, and has problems with stuff like the PLR, dunno how well it'd work.
OTOH, Magpul was/is making a PDW weapon which is just a really compact bullpup carbine, that can take standard NATO mags and 5.56mm round, so there is that. But then the 5.56mm was designed for a longer barrel, and has problems with stuff like the PLR, dunno how well it'd work.
Colt Single Action Army. The classic.
Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III. Germans in WWI came upon positions manned by well drilled riflemen armed with the SMLE and reported being under fire from machine guns. I also like the look of it aesthetically and it gets a nice long bayonet to boot. It is easily my favorite bolt action rifle from history although I'll probably end up with a Mosin Nagant in my gun cabinet first because Nagants are inexpensive in comparison.
The StG 44. The first modern assault rifle that was developed too late by Germany. Eclipsed by modern assault rifles certainly but damn, I love this weapon.
The world's first General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG), the MG34. Light enough to be carried by a single soldier and offering the range and firepower of older, heavier models. My favorite feature is the dual action trigger which when depressed in one direction fires the weapon automatically and the other is for single shot firing. The MG42 is also an amazing machine gun for its time but it doesn't have the cool trigger!
Yes another German first! This time its the world's first Anti-Tank rifle. The Mauser T-Gewehr was a single shot rifle that fired 13.2mm shells capable of penetrating 22mm of flat armor at 100mm. Many were produced but obviously it wasn't a war winner. I just think the thing looks awesome and has its place in history.
Okay, who honestly knows what this is without clicking my spoiler? I swear, this is a submachinegun that was used in WWII and not something I made in the Pimp My Gun [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.131220-Pimp-My-Gun-Show-your-Creations-Image-Posting-tips-in-the-First-post] thread! Honest!
This is the Owen Gun! Built for and used by the Australian Army, the top mounted magazine meant that this gun was in an entirely different league of reliability compared to the Sten or the MP40. And here you all thought I only liked German guns! Shame on you.
How about the pistol the caliber was made for? OKAY, OKAY! I like German weapons!
In my defense, they are really cool. I mean, look at that action! And the Luger can be made into a carbine if you want.
Hmmm, that's about it for me. I mean, modern firearms are alright I guess. I myself side more on the AK-47 side of modern assault rifles but I don't mind the M16 family of weapons either. I'm just far more interested in firearms from the World War era.
While the Australians decided the Owen Gun was better than the Sten (or the Australian variant of the Sten)or the Thompson (mostly due to less jams), it should be remembered that the Sterling was a WW2 era 9mm SMG, and the UK kept that until they replaced it and their SLRs with L85s in the 80s.Redlin5 said:
Okay, who honestly knows what this is without clicking my spoiler? I swear, this is a submachinegun that was used in WWII and not something I made in the Pimp My Gun [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.131220-Pimp-My-Gun-Show-your-Creations-Image-Posting-tips-in-the-First-post] thread! Honest!
This is the Owen Gun! Built for and used by the Australian Army, the top mounted magazine meant that this gun was in an entirely different league of reliability compared to the Sten or the MP40. And here you all thought I only liked German guns! Shame on you.
The Australians replaced their Owen Guns with the F1 long before that, in the 60s or so.
Interestingly, the British replaced their SMG with a side mounted magazine with another SMG with a side mounted magazine, and the Australians replaced their SMG with a top mounted magazine with another SMG with another top mounted magazine.
Annoying that you just about never see them in films set in WW2, easier to get British Sten guns, I guess, and not particularly inaccurate.
I would point out that the Browning Hi-Power uses the same cartridge, was used in both world wars, and is still widely used today, and the Luger is not.Redlin5 said:
How about the pistol the caliber was made for? OKAY, OKAY! I like German weapons!
In my defense, they are really cool. I mean, look at that action! And the Luger can be made into a carbine if you want.
OTOH, Steyr made various pistols fed from stripper clips, for example:
m1912
So, you could walk into a gun shop and ask for "a clip for 9mm bullets for my handgun". When the shopkeeper tries to explain the difference between a clip and a magazine, you can tell them they are wrong. That wouldn't get old.
I stand by my statement that the Owen was the best during the war because of the numbers actually deployed during the conflict. The Sterling evolved into a better gun no doubt and has the distinction of being modified for use by Imperial Stormtroopers. I just like the Owen better.thaluikhain said:
Not saying the Luger is the superior weapon of its class, its just my favorite.
I imagine m1912 owners love being on the receiving end of rants about clips, smugly pulling out their pistol to prove their opponent wrong. There's always an exception!OTOH, Steyr made various pistols fed from stripper clips, for example:
m1912
So, you could walk into a gun shop and ask for "a clip for 9mm bullets for my handgun". When the shopkeeper tries to explain the difference between a clip and a magazine, you can tell them they are wrong. That wouldn't get old.
Not usually a big gun fan but I love a lot of the older style single shot firearms. The Napoleonic wars are one of my favourite eras partly because I really like the guns they used back then, no idea what the are actually called but I usually just refer to them as muskets.
I also like lever action rifles, they just look so cool and stylish to me most of the time. I love the way they look when being used.
I also like lever action rifles, they just look so cool and stylish to me most of the time. I love the way they look when being used.
Ah, had overlooked the numbers. I'm led to believe that the Owen had accidental discharge problems, though, which is a drawback.Redlin5 said:
Also, the Sterling got used by UNIT troops to fight various aliens with...for some reason, if a monster was immune to 9mm from a Sterling, it was immune to bullets, there never was something that shrugged off a Sterling but was damaged by a 7.62NATO from an SLR.