Some of the other thread have focused on show us your face, show us your feet, your dog—let us turn to something that really matters in this cyber-terror world of Neo-con dominated America—our guns.
Here is my gun collection. This photo was taken in California, near Barstow, about 1986 or so. I was a public defender then, and I am the shadowy figure with the square head whose shadow falls across the tailgate of the truck. The reason my head appears square is because I am proudly wearing my NRA ballcap.
Enough about me, as to the guns: starting in the lower right with the brown shoulder strap is my Uzi (chambered for 9mm); next to it is my MAC-10 (also chambered for 9mm), then above those two is my Mossberg 12ga with a pistol grip. In the brown case which is opened is my Ruger .44 magnum (yes, Ruger, I was not inclined to pay twice as much for a Smith and Wesson just because Dirty Harry carried a S&W; so my Federal Firearms dealer brother in law recommended the Ruger.).
The rifle, sitting sideways in the bed is not mine, it is/was my brother in law’s and all I remember about it was I shot it once and it kicked like a fucking mule. My brother in law bought it to murder Bambi, but I have too kind and gentle of a Buddhist heart to engage in such activities.
I still have all these back in California except for the MAC-10 which I was forced to turn into the Sheriffs Department because of the dick brained government (Republican by the way) which outlawed them. {in all fairness, if I had been willing to go back to California and get fingerprinted I could have grandfathered my MAC-10 in. But I was not willing to do so.} Not shown, but still a great gun and lots of historical fun to shoot is my Thompson Center Fire Hawkins black powder gun. Chambered for a buffalo (and Yankee) killing .54 ball.
I like your thinking Brian. My weapon of choice has always been the stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile. Here’s a picture of me and my uncle Ned while we were out hunting one day. Ned’s reminding me to lean into the recoil - I always had a habit of pulling right with it. We did all right that day as I remember; bagged a couple of nice Russian Mi24s.
Guangtou, what a crack up. That reminds me of the scene in the old movie Magic Christian where Peter Sellers is telling his “son” Ringo Starr about the importance of a “clean kill” and then the anti-aircraft guns open up to kill a single lone duck flying across the sky.
It’s the only gun I still have now… Ruger 10-22 carbine. I liked it so much that I also bought the 10-22 magnum version. Vermont keeps an open season on coyotes, and the bigger gun was great for that.
The government lent me one for awhile. I liked it, although the reloading mechanism was worn out and I had the gas reload regulator cranked up to the highest point it could go . . . it kicked like a frigging mule. Indeed it gave me a nasty black eye on the long range when I very foolishly sighted the damned thing too far off my shoulder, well actually, with my cheek at the back end of it. Sort of mistake you only make once.
I got no photos of mine, but they’re all sporting rifles and shotguns, therefore not very manly. I did use to have a 4-inch chamber 8-gauge that was pretty fucking virile, though.
That doesn’t really describe mine – mine was a shotgun and didn’t use black powder – but you get the picture. Virile.
[quote=“sandman”]I got no photos of mine, but they’re all sporting rifles and shotguns, therefore not very manly. I did use to have a 4-inch chamber 8-gauge that was pretty fucking virile, though.[/quote]Sandman -
Certainly they are “manly.”
And that 8 guage…woo haa!
Was that mounted in the bottom of a punt for fowling?
I’ve seen pictures of those used years ago in the USA along the wetlands.
I can’t remember the name of them right now. I think they were ilegal in the USA.
No, it was a shoulder-fired monster. Just an oversized (WAY oversized) 12-bore. Punt gunners typically used 4-bores. Even a two-bore was not unheard of. I think I’ve actually seen one of those once, in some kind of private wildfowling museum I visited. You could pretty much stick your clenched fist right into the muzzle.
[quote=“TheLostSwede”]Truant, I envy you… I love that gun… in as much as you can love a gun that is.
And I’m no a Yank, but I still like guns :p[/quote]
Hey, make no mistake. I’m no yank either.
As my brotha broke it down in “Jackie Brown”
The Ak-47, my people.[/img]
