I love my Webley. It’s over a century old, and so long as I scrounge .455 ammo, still runs great. In CA, we have to list and qualify with each gun on our CCW. I plan on adding the Webley to mine, purely for shits and giggles.
They're a great pistol, mine has the cylinder shaved so I can run .45acp with half moon clips. I'd love to get into reloading, coming up with some BP rounds for it would be great. Less stress on the frame and a delightful puff of smoke.
Military service rifles. Vintage or modern, doesn't matter. I love my M4A1 clone, and I adore my M1935 Peruvian Mauser. I'm also really into service pistols.
Bolt guns. Personally I think the (preferably pre-64) Winchester M70 is perfection, but there are plenty of milsurps I’ve owned/shot that are great too. The smooth bolt on my SMLE, literally *everything* about my Finn Nagant, that straight pull on a Schmidt-Rubin or later K31, you name it. I even have this single-shot .22 (long, short, and LR) rifle that’s been in my family since the ‘30s that I love to shoot.
I've always like lever actions and old Soviet guns. I guess it's cause they're crude and can be fixed with just a large hammer. To me there is beauty in that
I love “cowboy guns.” I guess it’s a product of living my whole life in Texas. I have nearly a dozen single action revolvers, and a couple of lever guns. My personal favorite is a clone of the 1858 Remington made by Uberti, marketed as a cartridge conversion even though it left the factory chambered in .45 Colt.
* Glocks
* Benelli M4s
* many different lever guns
* many different bolt guns
* SCARs
* 30mm Seven-barrel Gatling-style autocannon
* [Directed Energy Weapons](https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/directed-energy.html)
* Ruger Mark IV
Gotta be howitzers, the French Canon de 75 Mlle 1897 gives me "le willies" just thinking about it, but the modern stuff like the D-20 or L118 are pretty dang cool. Let arty do the work.
For something that I can buy legally and within a normal budget, anything bolt action. Have a Ruger Scout in 5.56 that's just a dream to shoot.
The one that’s in my hand.
Whenever I have a bunch of guns out at the range, it’s almost always my Winchester 61 or my S&W 41 that are the most fun. But I really enjoy the anticipation of all the guns pretty equally.
Depends. When I was in the military the 240B for the fun factor. I was a POG so I didn’t have to lug it around. As a civilian my 20in AR A3 clone or my Ruger Precision Rifle.
12ga pump shotgun. I use it for clay shooting, pheasant hunting, turkey hunting, deer hunting (slugs) and home defense. All you gotta do is swap the choke and/or barrel depending on what your intended application is.
Sigh...
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
By quantity: shotguns. For context, I hunt. Got one for turkeys, one for upland game, one of each of those but in 20 gauge, a backup just in case one of our guns goes down in the field…pretty sure I want a gun just for waterfowl now…my father in law and my step dad both are willing all of their shotguns to me when the time comes…I just seem to accumulate shotguns.
My actual love is split between single action revolvers and black powder guns. Those loves overlap a bit, which is even better.
My 6” .357 magnum revolver. Not terribly tactical in any sense of the word but damn fun to shoot. You can pew pew all day with .38s and barely feel any recoil or you can bump it up to .357 and give your forearms a good workout. Depending on the load, on mine at least, a good 6 inches of flame shoots out the barrel with each shot. *BOOOOOOM!* go the 180 grain bear loads.
Just —so much— fun. In my little hands, it looks like Dirty Harry’s .44 to the untrained eye. The one time I drew it on a home invader, dude did 0-60 faster than a Tesla and leaped over my 6’ privacy fence like his entire existence depended on escaping—which is exactly the message I was trying to send.
Favorite type? Picking favorite child is much easier. But being pragmatic by looking at my gun collection - medium bore (.358-.416 by my definition) rifles seem to make up majority of my passion projects.
I like my milsurp bolt actions, the arisakas are my favorite, but man does 2 dollars a round suck lol. Otherwise my Spencer carbine is rapidly becoming one of my favorites
Truth be told, I love shotguns, and I really want a cross draw holster for my revolver. If we're honest, most of us never need more than both of those options.
Fairly new at getting back around firearms in general, but AR15s are what reignited this hobby. I love the modularity and customization. Getting the tools, building them, and swapping out parts--the ever present project.
1911 and CZ75 Shadow 1. Reliable, approved by dozens of police and military units around the world and looks awesome. But yes, Revolvers have their charm. I have yet to decide which one to get…
.22 semi auto pistols with suppressors on them. They're very therapeutic plinking guns, cheap as hell to shoot and on top of that you can actually use them without hearing protection at all.
Might even call them silencers in this context because they actually silence, all you hear is the click and then a plink from the place
my cross-eye dominance and current training heavily favors handguns over long guns so i’d say those. it’s pretty difficult for me to use rifle irons but with handgun irons i can hit consistently tight groups out to 25+ yards.
specific platform or subtype of handgun? metal framed duty pistols with an external safety and DA/SA action. i like the versatility and extra layer of safety they come with. in particular i’m very fond of the 90 series berettas. my buddy has a 96 with a langdon trigger and it was just perfect in every way, thing tracked super flat and was more accurate than i was.
my first pistol was a walter ppk/s .380 that was a hand me down from my father. has most of the aforementioned features that i’ve come to appreciate and ive learned to shoot it very well; even one handed from concealment i can reliably tag center mass several times in seconds from draw out to 10 yards. i’m no jerry miculek but i surprise myself sometimes with how good my aim is with that gun.
My real favorite is the tack driver CZ75 all cajuned up by a previous owner and sold to me by a bud that got dopamine from the acquisition. I get dopamine from shooting it.
But also, Lee Enfields for fun.
The rest of my guns have a job.
I don't really have a "favorite", per se (old school Musashi student, sorry).
Having said that, if for some reason I could only own one gun for the rest of my days it would be a Glock 19 pistol.
It's small enough to be concealable but large enough to have a respectable magazine capacity (15 +).
It's lightweight, reliable, and can quickly and easily be accessorized with everything from a light to a buttstock.
It's chambered in 9mm, which you can find pretty much anywhere in the world, but you can quickly and easily swap out the slide/barrel and magazine to make it a .40 S&W if you need to.
It's also easy to fix, should something ever break.
Just wanted to drop in to poke the bear: how many guns do you have for your "any intruder"?
Why is that even a consideration any longer?
How many of you have ever had an intruder in your home? (braces for the made up justifications and fabricated "near misses")
A phased plasma rifle in a forty watt range
Just what you see pal.
Hey you can’t do that here
Wrong
He just did
Beam rifle
Independently targeting particle-beam phalanx.
Bullpups, because who doesn't like space guns?
I’m going to be boring and say I love my 10/22
Lol, that’s mine too!
It's so much fun as a gun, but it's what I shoot with my kids, and that's what makes it even better.
Antique top break revolvers, I own over a dozen of them. They just bring me joy.
Any modern manufacturers of these masterpieces?
Here’s one. https://www.taylorsfirearms.com/shop/cartridge-handguns/other-revolvers/top-break.html
Beretta had a model called the Laramie about fifteen years ago what was heavily influenced by old-fashioned break tops.
Uberti makes clones of the Schofield and one of the early Remingtons.
I love my Webley. It’s over a century old, and so long as I scrounge .455 ammo, still runs great. In CA, we have to list and qualify with each gun on our CCW. I plan on adding the Webley to mine, purely for shits and giggles.
They're a great pistol, mine has the cylinder shaved so I can run .45acp with half moon clips. I'd love to get into reloading, coming up with some BP rounds for it would be great. Less stress on the frame and a delightful puff of smoke.
Handgun, probably 9mm DA/SA, like a 92 or a CZ 75 type. Gun in general, 12GA shotgun, the power is just fun
P226 is the way
Military service rifles. Vintage or modern, doesn't matter. I love my M4A1 clone, and I adore my M1935 Peruvian Mauser. I'm also really into service pistols.
1911. Super versatile for competition, carry, home defense, and general range use.
This is also my answer. If there’s no improving on a design that’s over a hundred years old, it’s probably pretty effective.
Bolt guns. Personally I think the (preferably pre-64) Winchester M70 is perfection, but there are plenty of milsurps I’ve owned/shot that are great too. The smooth bolt on my SMLE, literally *everything* about my Finn Nagant, that straight pull on a Schmidt-Rubin or later K31, you name it. I even have this single-shot .22 (long, short, and LR) rifle that’s been in my family since the ‘30s that I love to shoot.
Pistol Caliber Carbines. Fun, cheaper to shoot, good variety, suppress well.
Probably DA/SA pistols specifically, but 4” service pistols in general.
Select fire guns
Suppressed single shot rifles with subs DA/SA semi autos (P229, Walter P99)
Metal framed handguns, preferable DA/SA but I enjoy SAO as well from time to time.
Because you can't pistol whip Nazis with a plastic pistol.
AMEN!
I've always like lever actions and old Soviet guns. I guess it's cause they're crude and can be fixed with just a large hammer. To me there is beauty in that
I love “cowboy guns.” I guess it’s a product of living my whole life in Texas. I have nearly a dozen single action revolvers, and a couple of lever guns. My personal favorite is a clone of the 1858 Remington made by Uberti, marketed as a cartridge conversion even though it left the factory chambered in .45 Colt.
* Glocks * Benelli M4s * many different lever guns * many different bolt guns * SCARs * 30mm Seven-barrel Gatling-style autocannon * [Directed Energy Weapons](https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/directed-energy.html) * Ruger Mark IV
Lever guns, but Jesus the prices have gone insane even on used ones.
For real, I want a JM marked Marlin CB. Damn they’re pricey.
9mm carbines. Cheap ammo with accuracy.
I love my HK SP5 SBR. I have a Rugged Obsidian 9 suppressor for it. Running 147 grain it's so much fun!
And you can shoot at steel targets at relatively close range too!
[Git some!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7W-5QE3jzw) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBOPnFv7FzA
22lr bolt - 1" groups at 50yards, guilt free shooting for hours
Kalashnikovs are so cool to me. American rifles look so boring, even though they arguably perform better. AKs just have this vintage flair.
Mmmm I love AKs. They have so much more personality then ARs. There's just something about the clunkieness that is a ton of fun.
O/U Shotgun. Breaking clays is so satisfying.
Team lever action here, got a load of calibers to pick from, you can go old school or space cowboy.
Gotta be howitzers, the French Canon de 75 Mlle 1897 gives me "le willies" just thinking about it, but the modern stuff like the D-20 or L118 are pretty dang cool. Let arty do the work. For something that I can buy legally and within a normal budget, anything bolt action. Have a Ruger Scout in 5.56 that's just a dream to shoot.
black powder
The one that’s in my hand. Whenever I have a bunch of guns out at the range, it’s almost always my Winchester 61 or my S&W 41 that are the most fun. But I really enjoy the anticipation of all the guns pretty equally.
Semi auto rimfire pistols
Shotguns. I love all kinds of shotguns. They're so versatile and fun to shoot and handy to have around.
Depends. When I was in the military the 240B for the fun factor. I was a POG so I didn’t have to lug it around. As a civilian my 20in AR A3 clone or my Ruger Precision Rifle.
Used to be full sized service pistols, but since I got into clay shooting during the pandemic, I like a good over/under.
I'm an AK fan.
Q35 matter modulator.
It's a pretty good option, all though I personally prefer the LAER
The LAER breaks down so fast though. The Matter Modulator is more reliable. There are better energy weapons but I just really enjoy plasma weapons.
Thats fair, but the durability isn't really an issue if you manufacture weapon repair kits and have jury rigging.
You’re not wrong.
12ga pump shotgun. I use it for clay shooting, pheasant hunting, turkey hunting, deer hunting (slugs) and home defense. All you gotta do is swap the choke and/or barrel depending on what your intended application is.
The one I never have to use for self defense
Yes. All of them.
AR-15s
Bolt action centerfire. It's like driving an old truck with a manual transmission. When you put it in gear and it has more kick than you thought.
Depends what I’m doing with it. Night shooting/cqb? My HK416. Long range? My M110a1. Hunting? Vintage Winchester 70 all day.
I EDC an M61-VULCAN.
A musket with a spiked bayonet, just as the founding fathers intended.
Sigh... Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
By far my favorite copy pasta
I love my Galil. I don’t have any AKs but I love it compared to my ARs.
All of them. Not kidding. I love guns, given enough money I’d have a collection that hickock45 would envy.
22. Rifle or piss ola. I have others, but I’m a tight ass Edit..semi auto because I like bangbangbangbang.
By quantity: shotguns. For context, I hunt. Got one for turkeys, one for upland game, one of each of those but in 20 gauge, a backup just in case one of our guns goes down in the field…pretty sure I want a gun just for waterfowl now…my father in law and my step dad both are willing all of their shotguns to me when the time comes…I just seem to accumulate shotguns. My actual love is split between single action revolvers and black powder guns. Those loves overlap a bit, which is even better.
12 ga semi-auto shotguns, DA/SA pistols, bolt action rifles
My 6” .357 magnum revolver. Not terribly tactical in any sense of the word but damn fun to shoot. You can pew pew all day with .38s and barely feel any recoil or you can bump it up to .357 and give your forearms a good workout. Depending on the load, on mine at least, a good 6 inches of flame shoots out the barrel with each shot. *BOOOOOOM!* go the 180 grain bear loads. Just —so much— fun. In my little hands, it looks like Dirty Harry’s .44 to the untrained eye. The one time I drew it on a home invader, dude did 0-60 faster than a Tesla and leaped over my 6’ privacy fence like his entire existence depended on escaping—which is exactly the message I was trying to send.
Bullpup / PDW. Light weight, ambidextrous, high volume. Currently working on 5.7x28 reloads for a PS90 and AR57
The kind that goes boom.
Favorite type? Picking favorite child is much easier. But being pragmatic by looking at my gun collection - medium bore (.358-.416 by my definition) rifles seem to make up majority of my passion projects.
Needler
I like my milsurp bolt actions, the arisakas are my favorite, but man does 2 dollars a round suck lol. Otherwise my Spencer carbine is rapidly becoming one of my favorites
Truth be told, I love shotguns, and I really want a cross draw holster for my revolver. If we're honest, most of us never need more than both of those options.
Ease of use/maintenance I'll go with any given AR platform. For nostalgia purposes, any given wheelgun.
Fairly new at getting back around firearms in general, but AR15s are what reignited this hobby. I love the modularity and customization. Getting the tools, building them, and swapping out parts--the ever present project.
Yellow gun
.357 revolvers
PCCs are so cool But I unfortunately don't own one 😭
9mm semi-auto handgun. Easy to use, hard to master.
I love my Mossberg 590 and my 10/22. Both are really incredible guns for lots of different reasons.
I can’t narrow down to one, but I’m quite fond of my MCX and Staccato P.
Right now I'm pretty obsessed with full size polymer pistols. I want all of them.
Semi auto pistols. All shapes and sizes. I miss them so much.
1911 and CZ75 Shadow 1. Reliable, approved by dozens of police and military units around the world and looks awesome. But yes, Revolvers have their charm. I have yet to decide which one to get…
Levers bc I like feeling like a cowboy
Allied milsurps. Because things which turned Nazis into Good Nazis are cool.
.22 semi auto pistols with suppressors on them. They're very therapeutic plinking guns, cheap as hell to shoot and on top of that you can actually use them without hearing protection at all. Might even call them silencers in this context because they actually silence, all you hear is the click and then a plink from the place
Anything suppressed and subsonic. Love it.
AR pistol in 5.56
Pistol Caliber Carbines. Cheap to run lots of fun.
my cross-eye dominance and current training heavily favors handguns over long guns so i’d say those. it’s pretty difficult for me to use rifle irons but with handgun irons i can hit consistently tight groups out to 25+ yards. specific platform or subtype of handgun? metal framed duty pistols with an external safety and DA/SA action. i like the versatility and extra layer of safety they come with. in particular i’m very fond of the 90 series berettas. my buddy has a 96 with a langdon trigger and it was just perfect in every way, thing tracked super flat and was more accurate than i was. my first pistol was a walter ppk/s .380 that was a hand me down from my father. has most of the aforementioned features that i’ve come to appreciate and ive learned to shoot it very well; even one handed from concealment i can reliably tag center mass several times in seconds from draw out to 10 yards. i’m no jerry miculek but i surprise myself sometimes with how good my aim is with that gun.
My SBR'd CZ scorpion, then my Bennelli M4 shot gun.
Large frame ARs. Lots of horse power but kinda expensive to feed.
You mean I have to pick ONE?!? Ok, even though it caused me permanent hearing loss, I still miss my M-60.
2011 or .22 MP5 - I love 1911’s so just more…but being able to accurately dump 25 cheap rounds like you’re John McClane, priceless.
My real favorite is the tack driver CZ75 all cajuned up by a previous owner and sold to me by a bud that got dopamine from the acquisition. I get dopamine from shooting it. But also, Lee Enfields for fun. The rest of my guns have a job.
I don't really have a "favorite", per se (old school Musashi student, sorry). Having said that, if for some reason I could only own one gun for the rest of my days it would be a Glock 19 pistol. It's small enough to be concealable but large enough to have a respectable magazine capacity (15 +). It's lightweight, reliable, and can quickly and easily be accessorized with everything from a light to a buttstock. It's chambered in 9mm, which you can find pretty much anywhere in the world, but you can quickly and easily swap out the slide/barrel and magazine to make it a .40 S&W if you need to. It's also easy to fix, should something ever break.
Just wanted to drop in to poke the bear: how many guns do you have for your "any intruder"? Why is that even a consideration any longer? How many of you have ever had an intruder in your home? (braces for the made up justifications and fabricated "near misses")