What's your favorite firearm and caliber you have shot?

[AJMD429]

.375 Ruger Alaskan - you know you're shooting a 'real' gun, but it is NOT nearly as unpleasant as a .12 ga breakopen 'slug' gun.

 

[buckhead]

450 bushmaster

 

[bikeman]

S&W Model 14 38 special

 

[ncthorn]

Of all the things I have shot, the M1 Carbine in .30 Carbine takes the cake with regard to the pleasant/power ratio. Just enough recoil to know it's there, but with enough power to be effective at any range I would use irons.

 

[Cerberus]

40mm Mk19

 

[Octomonkey]

Yugo M48 Mauser in 8mm. It's not the biggest caliber out there, or the prettiest gun, but it is a solid and straight shooter with a heck of a punch. I can't help but grin every time I shoot it.

 

[Yes]

For me, it's my Savage 93r17 .17hmr. It has a heavy barrel and an accutrigger, and it's just so easy. Regular groups smaller than 3/4" at 100yds in low wind conditions.

I once owned an AK-47. Had to sell it due to money issues, but man...there is nothing quite like emptying a 40rd magazine through one of those.

Sometime in the next few months I'll be able to shoot an M14 NM and a m1 garand NM. My GF's father has them and says he's going to take them out soon. Waiting for him to heal up from surgery. The garand has a really nice scope and it's mounted high enough to still be able to use the irons. Needless to say I'm excited, and my opinions may change following that next outing.

 

[bdybdall]

I love my Marlin 39 A. With a Leupold scope and CCI Mini-mags it is deadly accurate. And even better, while we were dirt poor, my wife scrimped and saved to buy it for our first anniversary 30 yrs. ago.

 

[Skip]

.358WSSM for a rifle

1911 45ACP for a handgun

 

[djones]

45-70 rocks

Anything in 45-70. I really like my Marlin 1895. Fun to reload and a long history.

 

[lumpagus1]

Well I'm glad I didn't read this one in anyones posts. Favorite Weapon I've ever shot was an MP7 (yes I actually have shot one, I know it's restricted to Military and LE only but while I was in Norway helping the Royal Norwegian Air Force, they allowed us to shoot all of their weapons: G3, .308 Bolt Action Rifle, MP5, Glock 17, MP7, MG3, M230). It also just so happens that my favorite round to shoot was out of an MP7...the 4.6 x 30mm.

 

[CTS]

I don't have a lot of experience with them yet, but 3 inch slugs put a big smile on my face the first time I fired some.

 

[gklatv]

Shooting 22lr on a range is fun and affordable. My other gun uses 9mm.

 

[FordBronco]

While I enjoy the 45LC and 45acp guns in the stable, and have had a ball with the 30'06, 30 carbine and even .22s...

... for the best "on the range smile" try something in black powder (I shoot my Ruger Old Army). Nothing like it, the sight and the sound (and the smell too) of black powder sending those lead balls down range to a steel spinner and watching the spinner go (that is when you can see it through the smoke!)

If you have not tried it you owe it to yourself to try it at least once!

 

[Delta3Two]

Rifle/carbine: M-16a1/M4/M4a1/AR platforms....all in 5.56mm.

 

[Bigtanker]

My absolute most fun gun I have and shoot is my Ruger MKII 10" target. 5 magazines and so cheap to shoot. Heck, last time I went to the range, I shot 888 rounds.

 

[Exo594]

A list of ALL the guns I've shot, and the time spent on them:
.22, .117 or .177 breaker pellet guns. 2 Weeks, at least 2 hours a day, almost every day during those 2 weeks. These were the guns I learned to shoot on, and zero sights on. Got 5 cans around 50 yds with a scope, infinitely more on a shovel at 40? yards.
.22 Bolt. Got about 5 min.s, only 10 rounds. Fun though.
.223 AR-15. Got about 5 min.s, only 10 rounds. Fun but gassy.

I'd say I had the most fun with the pellet guns.

 

[x10]

when it comes down to it and I'm going to grab a gun out of the safe to just go have fun just in the back yard or out with the kids, it Has to be the 22lr
best gun
pistol S&W 41, can't tell you what a pleasure that is to shoot
Rifle is toss up between 10/22 and S&W MP22

But I tell you another addition to this is the 22lr Suppressor, it is so pleasant to shoot without ears and not disturbing the countryside ( have to shoot my M&P 22 pistol not the 41 for the pistol suppressed) I'm really suprised how much the supressor has made shooting more enjoyable

 

[O'Shark]

I had a TC Contender with the .45LC/.410 10" barrel. I worked up a load for .45LC using H110/260gr JHP that had to have been approaching or exceeding 44mag velocities and pressures. The brass looked fine with no excessive pressure signs. Shooting that thing offhand was a real "kick." The sound and concussion were equally as impressive...

 

[Jetman]

Favorites

Handgun:
1. .45 acp.
2. 5.7x28
3. .357 mag.

Rifle
1. .338 Lapua
2. .308
3. .22-250