What guns have you used.

[rolmops]

Since this is deep winter with very little fishing in the near future and cabin fever political quarrels at the verge of exploding from the fingers of opinionated and bored members, I thought of an interesting subject to opinionate about.

GUNS!!!

Which ones have you used and did you like or dislike.

I will start by saying that the only hunting I have ever done was for the prey that shoots back and maybe a rabbit or two.

Starting with pistols, I have only owned a few and used one government issue. They are an Austrian made Parabellum (1936) which because of previous ownership left a very bad taste in my mouth and because of that I had it destroyed. A 9 millimeter FN pistol with a large handle and very little kickback. It would fit my hand and I could easily shoot it with one hand.

As for guns. I started out with a Czech made Mauser carabine they are extremely precise, quite heavy and nowadays the ammunition is hard to get. Then the Uzi . There are songs written about them, but I think that the people writing those songs did not have to use them. They sometimes would start firing on their own. Then the FN (comparable to the M14) good but heavy. Then the AK47 ( it will protest and groan and it is heavy, but it will get you there) Next the M16 light weight and the first gun designed with battlefield psychology in mind. It will cause terrible wounds but does leaves the victim alive for a while.  And then the Galil. A mix between the M16 and the AK47.

The only hunting gun I ever fired was a 1926 twin barrel 12 gauge savage.

How about you?

 

 

 

[sherman brown]

I started my hunting by hunting squirrels and rabbits when I was about 6 to 8 years old with my oldest brother's octagon barrel pump 22 with the pump not working so I used it as a single shot.

 

A few years later I moved up to a 12 gauge shotgun which I used for many years for small game mostly for rabbits in Indiana and when I often visited Tennessee.

 

I was in the Marine Corps from 72 until 76 and didn't do any game hunting during that time.

 

After I came home, I bought an 1100 Remington autoloader and used it for small game again, but I was more interested in fishing, which included salmon fishing on Lake Michigan trolling. I mostly fished for them on Manistee Lake in the fall.

 

In 1980 my older brother found a Savage 16 gauge autoloader in a trash can with the barrel bent looking like someone had wrapped it around a tree. It did have a tendency to jam. hew used a door to straighten the barrel. it had a full choke but I shot slugs through it and it was as true as any gun I ever shot. I started deer hunting that fall and got my first deer on the morning of the second day of my first time deer hunting.

 

I bought a CVA 50 caliber muzzleloader kit after the gun season I had it put together and the metal was put through a black oxide which made it a smooth black then I coated the wood with a beautiful walnut stain then used a spray on clear sealant on it the gun turned out to be a beautiful gun. I used it to hunt 1 weekend that year. the 2nd year I didn't score in gun season and when muzzleloader season came in I was hunting with my muzzleloader but when a big doe was 19 steps away the cap didn't fire it was wet and filled the nipple full of crap. by the time I got the nipple cleaned and was putting another cap on they took off.

 

I had a Ruger 10-22 I wasn't using and traded it for a recurve bow at a flea market so year three I hunted bow season and got a small doe. then gun season I got a buck and the muzzleloader season I got a doe,

 

when they came out with the inline muzzleloaders I bought a White brand that used musket caps. but later came out with a conversion kit to use 209 shotgun primers. since then I have owned several autoloader shotguns for deer hunting and several different muzzleloaders and I've taken at least I deer for the next 25+ years but a lot of those years I took doe's with my muzzleloaders. I ended up with a Thompson Center encore that has taken many deer. I bought another Thompson Center gun for my youngest son. a few years ago I bought a new CVA 45 caliber long-range accura but I haven't taken a deer with it yet.

 

my oldest granddaughter wanted to hunt with me so a couple of years ago I took her with my encore. but I was trying to remove the hammer tang to move to the right side of the hammer after me shooting left-handed it didn't work for her and I broke the hammer and haven't been able to find one. so I dug out the one my son no longer uses and gave it to her.