Posted on 04/24/2007 6:01:25 AM PDT by tcostell
This was a hard piece to write, because guns by definition are manly, except for Berettas, gold-plated TEC9s, .25 caliber pistols or anything made by the French. To simplify things, I have limited it to modern cartridge firearms a man might, can, and should collect and shoot. There are certainly other manly weapons, and you may have a different list. As long as the list contains nothing French, gold-plated, .25 or with pearl grips (which Patton correctly observed are the mark of a New Orleans pimp), it is a good list.
(Excerpt) Read more at arthurshall.com ...
A very entertaining and unapologetic look at the most manly firearms of the last 120 years or so. I'm proud to say that with just a few exceptions (an XD9 instead of a Glock, and a 91/30 instead of a M44) you can find virtually all of these at my house. I still lack a BMG 50, but I'm wearing her down.
As a gun owner, you have not truly lived until you have shot a .50 cal BMG. I will have one soon.
Other than that, in a rifle, hard to go wrong with a .500 Nitro Express. Krieghoff, if you please.
Shotgun: Perazzi or Krieghoff. O/U in 12 gauge. Or a Browning Fabrique-Nationale in Sweet 16 with the gold trigger.
Handgun: Why argue with the Colt Python .357, the 1911 .45, and the old standby of the S&W .44 Mag, stainless with 8.5 inch barrel.
Can’t get much more manly or costly, than these.
I loev guns, but I don’t think those guns are particularly
“manly weapons”. Effective and useful but not manly.
A manly weapon is a battle axe, two handed sword, samauri sword, long lance for use on horseback, Hawken Rifle, or Pennsylvania Rifle. Mabye even a Brown Bess, 1903 Springfield, M1917 or M1 Garand.
THOSE are MANLY weapons. But then, I’m an atavist.
A woman or child could use most of the weapons listed here.
Good artilce though. I saved it.
Saiga 12 modified by Tromix. Very effective magazine fed semi-auto shotgun for home protection.
I would have included Model 70, pre-’64 Winchester.
Fun site. They should take Arnold picture off it though. Didn’t he ban the .50cal. Barrett?
Gun Porn bump.
Lol! I have a .50 cal Pennsylvania rifle with a four foot long barrel. Neither my wife nor daughter can hold it up to aim. Flames and smoke everywhere when I fire it! Love it.
Good read. However I can’t understand why someone would honor the Swiss K31 carbine or Mosin-Nagant and not credit the mother of all bolt-action rifles/carbines the Mauser 98(k). An excellent weapon which was used (partly license/copy) by almost all countries in the first half of the 20th Century.
http://arms2armor.com/gunsforsale/trapdoor3d.jpg 
Foo on the author for dissing all Berettas. ;-)
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http://www.gundirectory.com/more.asp?gid=20164&gun=Pistol
#8 glock
any gun that has a nickname like “tupperware” cannot be called a manly gun.
I have the 6 inch Python and three Belgian A-5s.
Does the “ 150 Howitzer “ count as a “Fire-arm”? even though you can’t carry it in your arms really- it does look bang’in on the hood of my 1980 Olds!
DA
P.S. “.... there never has been—nor will there ever be- any such firearm or invention of man that can match the deadliness or destructive force as the uncontrolable & out of control Liberal Press.....” - Last Horseman
yeah.. but a REAL man can shoulder fire one of those :)
come on.. it only weighs like 90# right?
My God, Man!!!!!!!!!!!! Where’s the Thompson?????????? What kind of madness is this?
I am officially putting you on my ‘Extremely Jealous’ list.
;)
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