Desert Island Firearms

[gaijinsamurai]

I have a question for those who collect as well as shoot:
If you could choose 5 firearms to "round out" your collection, what would they be?

My choices would be:

1> M1 Garand
2>C96 Mauser Broomhandle (complete w/ stock)
3>Naval Lugar (I've already got the standard and artillery models)
4> Walther P38
5> WWII era 1911A1

I's also love to have a 1917 (Winchester or Remington), a Martini-Henry, an M14 (or M1A), an AK-74.........
(yeah, I know you have nearly all of those, Hollis!)

Sorry if I'm hijacking the thread with this question. Perhaps I should have started a new one.

Edit- I have mate- cool idea

[Seraphim]

Jealous yet? p-)

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3372/dsc000545bl.th.jpg (http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc000545bl.jpg)

[Chops]

Gaijin

Thought I'd move your post to start a new thread. Any posts involving XM-8s, SCARs or whatever will be deleted. I think 'classic' should be the order of the day here.

Me?

Chinese C96 copy in .45ACP
Owen 9mm SMG in jungle colours
Bergmann MP-18
Tokarev SVT40
K43 with four power ZF-4
Boyes .55 Anti Tank Rifle

Is that six? Oh well...

[gaijinsamurai]

Good idea, Chops!
Thanks!

[gaijinsamurai]

Nice pair of Walthers, Seraphim!
I remember back in 1985, I passed up a wartime P38 with matching #s for $200. It was just a couple of days before I shipped out for bootcamp, and had too much else to worry about.
Little did I know how much the value of those would skyrocket......

[Seraphim]

Does firearms like the Masada count? ;)

Im going to bed, and post when I get up.

[Chops]

For you and SMGLee- yes. Anyone else- no. p-)

[Hydro]

Sturmgewehr 43/44.
M1D Garand
MG34
Lee-Enfield SMLE
EM-2


An FG42 might have to be thrown in there, one of the first versions though, with the angled pistol grip.


I want accessories too. Lafette for the '34 plus top cover for the double drum magazine, ZF-4 and mount for the StG and FG42.

[Chops]

Oh God yeah, an FG-42 would rock. Anyone got the story on that angled pistolgrip? Or fired one?

[Hydro]

It's supposedly like that so it would be easier to fire downward when descending with the 'chute. Looks weird, but at the same time it looks oddly comfortable for normal use.

[Hydro]

This is a bad thread, I can't think of just 5 firearms! There's loads of oddities and prototypes I want. Like the 4.85mm XL64E1, the SA80 before it got buggered.

[Chops]

Or an AR-18S... p-)

[Hydro]

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6704/sa80iwei2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

XL64Ex rifle.

[LRPV]

Makarov (East German) 9x18

Walther PPK .380

Soviet AKM 7.62x39

German MP38 9mm

Pennsylvania style flintlock .45

[Durandal]

Boyes .55 Anti Tank Rifle

rofl

You rock. My buddy just bought one last summer rechambered in .50 BMG.

[Durandal]

• 1895 Maxim gun in .303 with carriage.

• AN early (pre-World War I) Vickers MG

• An original, working, .45 Schofield 1865 Model Spencer Carbine

• Accuracy International .50BMG bolt gun (sorry its not a classic, but if I could "just have it" why not a 12K gun that shoot .50BMG spotter rounds ?) :)

• Model 1914 Lewis Gun

There, that's five...

[Freibier]

FG42 2nd edition w/scope
MG42
MP44 w/Arado-Werke or Schneider-Opel sound suppressor and Vampir
Mauser 712
MP40

not very original and I could think of many more but those would be my first five

[Geezah]

Boyes .55 Anti Tank Rifle.

Like this, chambered in .50???
http://www.hunt101.com/img/471669.jpg

[Hollis]

Gaijin. Almost traded for a Henri Martini long ago. Been thinking of buying one, but a well turned SR25, has caught my eye... or a socom 16 (like I need another M1A1, especially one that is not fully grown).

I guess the ones I would like to have would require class III stamps, but would be way too expensive. I am sort of a cheap collector.

Other fire arm I have been looking at, and hoping the price will drop is a Burnside carbine, in very nice condition and with some history.

chops SVT40's are very nice indeed. I made a gas regulator tool for mine (a needed tool when shooting cheap surplus). Also Numrich has Taiwanese copy mags under $50, but needs to be fitted.

I think what really discouraged me on collecting and infact I reduced my collection after going there was the Cody Museum in Wyoming. It is easy a three day visit. They had walls of Henry rifles, Amazing collection, wheel locks, everything.

[Straker]

Baker Rifle
De Lisle Commando Carbine
SOE Sleeve Gun (Can't remember its real name)
Knocke Volley Gun
Civil War era musket (English Civil War)

Bit of a blackpowder and silenced theme but their you go (I'm pretty sure you could own any of them legally without a section five FAC in the UK apart from the sleeve gun but they are all quite rare now.)

[Hydro]

I could fair go a DeLisle too. Ideally a full stocked one AND a folding stock version. Hey, this IS a dream thread :)

[James]

M1903 Springfield
Enfield No. 1 Mk. III (SMLE)
Webley Mk. VI
Thompson M1928
BAR M1918

[SMGLee]

For you and SMGLee- yes. Anyone else- no. p-)


LOL....


Five to round out the collection but not already in my collection??

FN SCAR-L with CQB-R and Std config
FN SCAR-H with CQB-R, STD and SV config
Barrett M107 with one of their BORS system on an illuminated Leupold LR/T
SW M&P45
FN Mk46Mod1 or Mk48Mod0--I can always dream.


sorry Chops, no Masada...not yet...



wait.. classis?

hmmm...

Thompson 1928
Stoner M63A
Sturmgewehr 44
M2
Mauser Broomhandle complete with the red cloth on the handle.

Does HK G11 cinsider as a classic?

[punchinout]

Oh God yeah, an FG-42 would rock. Anyone got the story on that angled pistolgrip? Or fired one?

i held one at a gunshow a long time ago, some rich guy made a reproduction, wasn't selling it but it was sweet.


M1 Garand
1911A1
Winchester Model 1897 pump shotgun(just the stock one, no trench guns here)
S&W.45 Schofield Revolver
Sharps Carbine in .45-70

if i didn't like my M1 Garand so much i'd bring a Johnson M1.

[Geezah]

PPsh-41
SAW
AI in .308
DeLisle .45
M1 Garand

I've shot all but two of those, the PPsh-41 was the most fun.

I've seen a repro of the DeLisle, it would be cool to own one.

[Anthony91]

M1 Garand
Colt M1911A1
Mauser Kar98k
M14
M1 or M1928A1 Thompson (with a 50-round drum)

[oldsoak]

Hehe.

Lee Enfield MK4 II
Mauser 98 with sniper scope
AK 47
MP 44
Dutch M95 Mannlicher

[Pete031]

plasma gun of doom!!!111

[California Joe]

Berdan Sharps
Marine Corps issue 1903 Sniper rifle with 10 power Unertl scope
Ferguson Rifle
M1D Garand






Chauchau p-)


OK, not really.....

Original Hawken rifle.....

[Macs.]

Heckler und Koch G11

Somewhere in some Bundeswehr armouries they are waiting... Waiting for day X... Muhaha !

[Durandal]

Like this, chambered in .50???
http://www.hunt101.com/img/471669.jpg

Damn it Geezah, you beat me to it. :)

[LaoSexMachine]

M1 Garand
BAR
and or course a 1911.

[gaijinsamurai]

For me, the biggest challenge is limiting it to just five.

Hollis, why did the museum visit discourage you from collecting?
My uncle has a Burnside. He lives just down the road from you, in Albany.

[Seraphim]

Heres my realistic list :p

S&W M&P 45
HK45
M1 Garand
Magpul Masada
Benelli M4

The first two will be knocked off my list as soon as possible. And believe it or not, I dont even own a shotgun. :oops:

[Anthony91]

Heres my realistic list :p

S&W M&P 45
HK45
M1 Garand
Magpul Masada
Benelli M4

The first two will be knocked off my list as soon as possible. And believe it or not, I dont even own a shotgun. :oops:

Masada.....mmmmmm. :)

[Hollis]

For me, the biggest challenge is limiting it to just five.

Hollis, why did the museum visit discourage you from collecting?
My uncle has a Burnside. He lives just down the road from you, in Albany.


Neat, Well...... it had firearms and more firearms and more and more, seriously figure 2 - 3 days touring just the firearm museum. My collection looked like a grain of sand compared to Everest.

But I am ok, now, I have been picking up a few here and there. I think a Stoner SR25 maybe next.

[Pete031]

Sig 226
Remi 870
M4/C8
M14, EBR
C14 .338 Timberwolf

From 5 meters to 2000 meters

[BillySing]

• 1895 Maxim gun in .303 with carriage.

• AN early (pre-World War I) Vickers MG

• An original, working, .45 Schofield 1865 Model Spencer Carbine

• Accuracy International .50BMG bolt gun (sorry its not a classic, but if I could "just have it" why not a 12K gun that shoot .50BMG spotter rounds ?) :)

• Model 1914 Lewis Gun

There, that's five...

She's a nice gun.

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/4343/awxs8.th.jpg (http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=awxs8.jpg)


My list:

1. L42A1 with original matching l1a1 3x (AV7246 mounts)
2. Longbranch No.4 Mk1 with C No. 67 Mk1 telescope
3. Parker Hale mod. 82, fitted with 1200 TX heavy barrel topped with Kahles Helia Zf 69 6X
4. Lahti Saloranta 20mm AT rifle.
5. No.1 Mk3 H.T with pattern 1918 telescope, lithgow 1916 (high mounts)

[TacoDelRio]

If I could have anything.....

-Zastava M70B2 (Plain 7.62 AK with full stock)
-Zastava M92 (SMG, picture below)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y222/TacoDelRio/m92.jpg
-Smith Enterprises fixed-up M14, standard stuff, heavy-ish barrel, with quick detach crap and all that jazz.
- Some new 1911, pretty basic with Trijicon night sights and Hogue rubber grips
-FN FAL "Congo" Para-length, 18" Bbl, side folding tubular stock

[Mark Sman]

O/U shotgun for Sporting Clays. Still shopping models.

2 more Colt .45 Peacemakers so I can go for the John Wayne look from The Shootist.

P53 Enfield

M1895 Lee Navy

[Sabre]

Hmm...

1805 Baker rifle
Martini-Henry Mk IV
Rifle No4 Mk 1
Bren Gun
GPMG (plus a couple spare barrels)

[Chops]

And a sustained fire kit surely! p-)

[Sabre]

And a sustained fire kit surely! p-)

Pah! SF role is for wimps and poofs. Firing with the left hand?!? What's that all about? :lol:

Real men go light role. Nothing like emptying a liner or two into your daysack and crawling about with a geet big gun! p-)

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[Royal]

Welrod
A pre-war BHP
1928 Thompson
M70AB2
L42A1

A .455 Webley - purely so I can send idiots off the the mess with it and a glass of malt...

and a Baby K - just for ****s and giggles :)

[gaijinsamurai]

One thing I like about old military guns is imagining where the weapon served, and what kind of history it was a part of.

Was this M1 Garand on Tarawa?
Did this Enfield serve on the Northwest Frontier?
Was the Martini-Henry in South Africa or Afghanistan?
Was the L1A1 in the Falklands or Northern Ireland?

Who carried it?

[mcsplurry]

c8sfw
and any lee enfeild .303 rifle
with a scope of some sort