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blind_dead_mcjones

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fired several guns at a shooting range with the family as part of my my 21st birthday (FYI this is in australia)

9mm glock
.45 glock
.357 magnum
.44 magnum
12 gauge over under double barrel shotgun with birdshot
.50 AE desert eagle
 

elbrandino

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Oh man... here we go. I own a Mosin-Nagant 7.62x54mmR, and I have fired several .22's, semi-auto and bolt action, two different 12 gauges, an M1 Garand (.30-06), an M1 Carbine (30 cal.), a 9mm Glock, my uncle's Springfield .45 ACP handgun, and some .30- 30 firearms. I think that's it. I think.
 

BonsaiK

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MasterOfWorlds said:
I was just wondering. If you have ever shot a gun, what kind was it, and what was the round that you shot? I ask the round size for those of us that don't know what rounds go to what weapons. Grain count isn't so much as issue here, but if you'd like to post that too, feel free.
I shot air rifles when I was a kid. My dad would drive me out into the bush and we'd shoot at tin cans. I don't know what gauge bullet goes into an air rifle but I don't even think they qualify as a bullet, they're just tiny pellet things. The air rifle only held one pellet, you'd have to reload after each shot. Once we tried to shoot at birds, we didn't hit a single one.

More recently I shot an antique Winchester .22 bolt-action rifle on a relative's farm. It comes with a clip that holds about 7 or 8 rounds. I was expecting it to kick more than the air rifle I remember from my youth but I was surprised by the lack of recoil. It wasn't even all that loud, either. It didn't make a cool rifle noise, just a little pop. He also had a 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun of a similar vintage on the farm but I didn't shoot that because the catch that holds the barrel in place was broken and there was a real risk that when shooting the buckshot would come out the wrong way and hit me in the face instead of the target. There was a smaller single-barrel shotgun I went rabbit-hunting with (I think .410 gauge but that could be wrong) but I didn't fire that either because the rabbits were just too damn fast for me, by the time I was in firing position the damn things had run off.
 

ldbmikey86

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only fired an m16a1 during my brief time in the army, and I don't really intend on touching a gun ever again, honestly.
 

Shoqiyqa

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EllEzDee said:
Boneasse said:
The AT4 Disposable rocket launcher. That thing packed a PUNCH, I tell ya.

http://withfriendship.com/images/g/31125/at4jpg.jpg​
Isn't that the laser guided thingy ma-bob from Half Life 2?
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AT4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The AT4 (also variously AT-4, AT4 CS, AT4-CS, or AT-4CS) is an 84-mm unguided, portable, single-shot recoilless smoothbore weapon built in Sweden by Saab ...
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Modern Firearms - M136 AT4
AT4 / M136 antitank grenade launcher (Sweden) AT4 is a disposable, single shot, recoilless weapon, available in several versions, which differ mostly in the ...
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M136 AT4
8 Jan 1999 ... The M136 AT4 is the Army's primary light anti-tank weapon. The M136 AT4 is a recoilless rifle used primarily by Infantry Forces for ...
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AT4 - The Call of Duty Wiki - Call of Duty: Black Ops, Modern ...
The AT4 is a shoulder fired, disposable anti-tank rocket launcher featured in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
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The last link says the game gives it heat-seeker lock-on capability, but the first three made no mention of it. That's passive homing.

The Half-Life weapon is a semi-active laser homing one with simpler-programming bonus that allows it to turn round and come back for a shifted laser spot that's now out of sight behind it, smacking into the top of a tank when you shift your aim from the sky to the underside of the tank's nose, for example.

The modern anti-aircraft weapon that turned out to be good against APCs too is the Starstreak, developed from Starburst (I think), and both are beam-riders. The re-usable launcher has a laser projector in it, and the operator aims the laser pattern at the target and keeps it there while the missile launches out of the tube with one burst of propulsion, goes ballistic to a safe distance, lights up and accelerates to very high speed and then steers itself into the middle of the grid to stay on-target. The old one will explode in a shower of tungsten cubes if it gets close. The new one splits into three smaller missiles, each of which steers to its assigned place in the grid, so it's a bit like a shotgun, if you think of the aircraft as a $25,000,000, 700mph clay pigeon. It's best fired into the face of an enemy aircraft on a low-level strafing or bombing run while it heads straight towards you, but you can fire it up his arse instead as long as you're quick.
 

Shoqiyqa

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loc978 said:
Weapons systems worked on but never (personally) fired for the US military:
-M60 machine gun (7.62x51mm NATO)
-M18 Claymore anti-personnel mine (all I really did was inspect 'em and hand 'em off)
-M230 chain gun (30x113mm High Explosive)
-AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and guidance systems (178mm diameter)
-Hydra 70 unguided rockets & pods (70mm diameter)
Apache tech?
 

loc978

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Shoqiyqa said:
loc978 said:
Weapons systems worked on but never (personally) fired for the US military:
-M60 machine gun (7.62x51mm NATO)
-M18 Claymore anti-personnel mine (all I really did was inspect 'em and hand 'em off)
-M230 chain gun (30x113mm High Explosive)
-AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and guidance systems (178mm diameter)
-Hydra 70 unguided rockets & pods (70mm diameter)
Apache tech?
Good ol' defunct 68X (later 15X, now retired and merged with 15Y... don't ya just love Army Military Occupational Specialty designations?), yeah.
 

KiKiweaky

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jdun said:
I own quite a number of firearms. Probably more than all of Escapist member combine. My favorite caliber is the .22lr.

The difference between you and me is that I have access to a wide range of firearms that I can own. However once you own it it just another weapon/tool. For example I either buy or built a firearm. Once I got it in my hand I put it in my safe unfired just like the other countless firearms I own. Of my entire collection I only use the same 5 firearms.

I sympathizes with you. It's a shame that your government does not trust the citizens that elected them. You have to fight for your rights.
A shame I know. We're a minority that they can basicly do what they want to, guns arent that popular here. Most people just arent bothered about them, which is a shame going to the range is something I enjoy. Just not sure how much longer it'll be able to keep going :(