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Posted: 12/8/2022 2:53:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Spas-12. Had one. That thing was a serious piece of shit. I wanted one until I held one at a pawn shop. That immediately cured me of any desire for one. I've owned or have owned pretty much every single gun I lusted over as a kid except 2. A Beretta 92 and a semiauto Mac 10. I intend to rectify the former fairly soon. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 2:54:58 PM EDT
[#2]
1911. Now it is a favorite.
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Posted: 12/8/2022 2:55:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That appears to be an M12 S from what I can see in the pic (selector lever instead of the two buttons (selector and safety) the original M12 had. One damn nice SMG, no idea how many transferrables there are on the registry. AWC used to make a can for them that was mounted on a compatible barrel nut. Effective, but 12" long and heavy. The M3 I had never worked. Of course, that was during the infancy of the Internet, so there wasn't much support in getting stuff to work. Never owned an SMLE. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Double That appears to be an M12 S from what I can see in the pic (selector lever instead of the two buttons (selector and safety) the original M12 had. One damn nice SMG, no idea how many transferrables there are on the registry. AWC used to make a can for them that was mounted on a compatible barrel nut. Effective, but 12" long and heavy. The M3 I had never worked. Of course, that was during the infancy of the Internet, so there wasn't much support in getting stuff to work. Never owned an SMLE. M12s were used by all the respectable bad guy henchmen in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. I never even thought to look at any transferrable examples when I became an adult. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:00:24 PM EDT
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I'll probably be made fun of for why, but I was a dumb kid. All I wanted was a nice 1911 (that's not the dumb part, I still love them), but I picked out the S&W gunsite purely because I thought the logo on the grips was neat. I didn't know anything about them.
My friends and I also spent a little bit of money customizing Beretta 92 airsoft clones to make them look like the ones we would buy some day. I had a mix and matched stainless and blue one that I would still kind of like to recreate, even though I've lost count of my 92 collection. I didn't know what an AR15 was until I was out of high school, and the first time I saw one at academy I thought it was ridiculous because I wanted steel and wood on my guns. The Clinton ban most likely caused that, since I was never around them. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:00:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I thought the Remington 30-06 deer rifle with the shiny wood was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen Edit - The 7400 https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/168790/Remington_7400_with_etching_jpg-2628291.JPG My dad has two. One in .270 and the other in 30-06. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:00:56 PM EDT
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Quoted: For me it was a stainless 10-22 with a Butler Creek folding stock. Eventually I found a used rifle in great shape & got it set up just how I wanted when I was a kid. Shooting this thing still brings a smile to my face as I flashback to 80s nostalgia & simpler times. Now I’m just fighting off the urge to SBR it.  https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/108967/BDB3949C-C523-4A44-B9A5-C8616D00DDF5_jpe-2628250.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/108967/82C2BDCD-F0E0-4478-B947-1961F9C18C2E_jpe-2628253.JPG I remember 10/22s being the first gun people would commonly 'accessorize'. 
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:01:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Browning Model 71 .348 Winchester. Oooh. A store not too terribly far from my home had both a rifle and a carbine on display for a long time. Gorgeous. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:03:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Schmeisser MP40, mostly because of seeing them all over "Hogan's Heroes". https://tinypic.host/images/2022/12/08/mp40.jpg I'd still love to have one, but just can't justify the price point..... There’s a CO2 BB gun version for us poors . Mines still in the box. I should blast a couple magazines through it on one of my Christmas break days. I still want a Luger. 9mm And more recently a Johnson 1941. Ju$t too much for one right now. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:09:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Um.... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Walther WA2000 ever since I saw The Living Daylights with Pierce Brosnan. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/171820/Screen_Shot_2022-12-08_at_12_33_04_PM_pn-2628297.JPG Um.... Just go with it. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:11:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thompson, ever since I grew up watching “Combat” with Vic Morrow. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:16:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Walther WA2000 ever since I saw The Living Daylights with Pierce Brosnan. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/171820/Screen_Shot_2022-12-08_at_12_33_04_PM_pn-2628297.JPG I thought that was Sean Connery? ETA: Seems Rock Island Auctions had a WA2000 in .308 awhile back and it sold for just a hair short of $100k. Damn. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:16:15 PM EDT
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My local LGS has 3 Nylon 66s for sale. I might fo.
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:17:13 PM EDT
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Beretta M9 (Die Hard)
Mk23 (Metal Gear Solid) USP Tactical (Metal Gear 2 and Executive Decision) MP5 (Navy Seals and Executive Decision and just about every other 90s action flick) I only have the mp5 
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:18:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: M12s were used by all the respectable bad guy henchmen in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. I never even thought to look at any transferrable examples when I became an adult. I see them in movies from time to time. The 12 was my favorite SMG (not counting the 93R, which I don't consider a SMG). I recall a pin match at, IIRC, the North Country shoot in NH back in the 90s. I had a 12, the other two guys in my team had 12S'. Setup was 9 pins on a table at 25 yards, one stop pin on a post at 50. I don't think any of us fired more than 10-12 rounds, each taking out three pins with 3 round bursts and all of us whacking the stop pin at more-or-less the same time. I forget the time, but it was damned fast. These were all DS guns. I really miss my SOT days! Edit: I don't know if they all did, but the 12 I used had brown plastic furniture, all the 12s' I've seen were black. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:18:11 PM EDT
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XM-177E2
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:20:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There’s a CO2 BB gun version for us poors . Mines still in the box. I should blast a couple magazines through it on one of my Christmas break days. I still want a Luger. 9mm And more recently a Johnson 1941. Ju$t too much for one right now. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Schmeisser MP40, mostly because of seeing them all over "Hogan's Heroes". https://tinypic.host/images/2022/12/08/mp40.jpg I'd still love to have one, but just can't justify the price point..... There’s a CO2 BB gun version for us poors . Mines still in the box. I should blast a couple magazines through it on one of my Christmas break days. I still want a Luger. 9mm And more recently a Johnson 1941. Ju$t too much for one right now. Holy crap, you're right:  "IMA" has non-functioning repro's at that price point, but this BB version is full-auto selectable! Dang, now I really want one..... |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:24:42 PM EDT
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M14/M1a.
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:32:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: spas-12 still kinda do SPAS-12 and the Calico M-950. 2 that I found fascinating, but never bought by the time I was old enough (after reading about all sorts of complaints/issues). Oh, and a Wildey Automag, and Desert Eagle in .44Mag or .50AE
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:34:23 PM EDT
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The Armi-Jager AP74……a .22LR AR lookalike.
 Saw them in magazines and catalogs when I was a kid and wanted one. Saw one later and it was kinda crap. Gonna build me a better one once I source a .22LR pencil barrel. Other one is a Broomhandle Mauser with a shoulder stock holster. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:34:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: An M60. Still do. Ooo... that too. I also remember thinking that the M60 looked a heckuva lot bigger when Stallone was holding one, vs when Arnie held one 
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:34:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Schmeisser MP40, mostly because of seeing them all over "Hogan's Heroes". https://tinypic.host/images/2022/12/08/mp40.jpg I'd still love to have one, but just can't justify the price point..... MP40 and an M1, all thanks to Saving Private Ryan and Medal of Honor. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:35:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: SPAS-12 and the Calico M-950. 2 that I found fascinating, but never bought by the time I was old enough (after reading about all sorts of complaints/issues). Oh, and a Wildey Automag, and Desert Eagle in .44Mag or .50AE Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: spas-12 still kinda do SPAS-12 and the Calico M-950. 2 that I found fascinating, but never bought by the time I was old enough (after reading about all sorts of complaints/issues). Oh, and a Wildey Automag, and Desert Eagle in .44Mag or .50AE |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:41:51 PM EDT
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I never had to want for a gun, I have to give the old man that.
Got a pump pellet rifle when I could hold one. Got a CO2 pistol in 6th grade. Got an M1 carbine in 8th grade. In 12th, I bought myself a Mini-14 and a shotgun. That was pretty cool, Dad. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:41:58 PM EDT
[#24]
A 44 Automag, just like Mack Bolan's.
 
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:42:19 PM EDT
[#25]
Remington 11-87.
There was a hunt club my dad would take me to that had an area in the basement were members had lockers and gun cleaning stations. For some reason many, many of them had these guns. I lusted over them and the white diamond on the bottom because this place was kind of prestigious (now very). If prestigious members liked those shotguns then they must've been amazing, right? Never did get one. Just kept busting birds and clays with Dad's old humpback Remington 16 gauge. I'm a Benelli whore now so I never looked back at the 11-87's.. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:43:29 PM EDT
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Luger and 1911. And a Vietnam era M-16 of course!
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:44:40 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I thought the Remington 30-06 deer rifle with the shiny wood was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen Edit - The 7400 https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/168790/Remington_7400_with_etching_jpg-2628291.JPG My Dad has one. If you ever get one make sure you keep it clean or she'll teach you how to failure drill like a mofo. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:45:44 PM EDT
[#28]
Colt CAR-15.
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:45:46 PM EDT
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My Dad had a LOT of old hunting magazines laying around, stretching clear back to shortly after WWII. So I spent a fair amount of time looking at a bunch of old ads as an impressionable youngster and it explains a lot of how I turned out.
However. When I was a little kid, I had a number of rubber suction cup dart guns, including lookalikes of a Thompson, a Colt. Woodsman Match target and a pair of Beretta M1951s. Darned things apparently made quite an impression, as at some point or another, I've had a semiauto Thompson, a (I want to say 3rd model) Woodsman Match Target and this thing's laying around right now :  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:47:02 PM EDT
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This one, except I found one, and bought it.
 Attached FileI want one of these.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 3:53:37 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I always wanted a DE in .440 Cor-Bon. I thought that was a really awesome round. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: spas-12 still kinda do SPAS-12 and the Calico M-950. 2 that I found fascinating, but never bought by the time I was old enough (after reading about all sorts of complaints/issues). Oh, and a Wildey Automag, and Desert Eagle in .44Mag or .50AE Shows how long it's been since I bothered looking at/for Deagles. I recall them debuting with the .357 and. 44, then reading about the .50AE release ("the most powerful semi-auto pistol cartridge"). Got to shoot one in .44. Kinda cool, but realized it was more of a novelty, than any kind of practical. Not long after, I kinda lost interest in owning one. I think the main draw for me when the Mk I debuted (aside from the "Cool looking gun"), was "Oooo...9rds of .357. 50% more capacity AND quick reloads". I think the .50AE dropped in '89? Then it was, "Oooo... most powerful semi-auto pistol, with 7 rds". By 91, when the G20 came out with 15rds of 10mm, it pretty much made the DE drop off my radar. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:06:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My local LGS has 3 Nylon 66s for sale. I might fo. Came to post Nylon 66. Funny because I already had a 1964 Marlin 39A I got at age 10. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:10:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A 44 Automag, just like Mack Bolan's. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Automag_44amp.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a0/a6/52/a0a6521ac20a9d8c0804e81682f7e757.jpg Close, but not quite: 
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:12:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Walther WA2000 ever since I saw The Living Daylights with Pierce Brosnan. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/171820/Screen_Shot_2022-12-08_at_12_33_04_PM_pn-2628297.JPG  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:14:24 PM EDT
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I really wanted a norinco or maadi ak, i got an sks. I reaaallllly wanted a cobray m-11 i got a ab-10. I cant complain, my dad loves me. We used to trade shit all the time when i was a kid. At one point i had two llama .45s. One for each hand. We used to have so much fun.
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:16:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thompson, ever since I grew up watching “Combat” with Vic Morrow. This^ And a large loop lever like Chuck Conners. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:16:22 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:18:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: An M60. Still do. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:19:39 PM EDT
[#39]
Bren Ten, M1 carbine, BAR and M14/M1A. Don't have any if them, but at least a built a dew 10mm Glocks so that scratched that itch at least. Got the 45-70 Marlin and the CAR15 so at least got some of my childhood guns.
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:24:16 PM EDT
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Ruger Bearcat, H & R 949.
Have them now, paid a lot more than if I bought when I was a kid. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:34:29 PM EDT
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 and a Scarab 38 KV |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:37:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:41:56 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Holy crap, you're right: https://tinypic.host/images/2022/12/08/mp40-bb.jpg "IMA" has non-functioning repro's at that price point, but this BB version is full-auto selectable! Dang, now I really want one..... Are you aware of the MP40 GSG makes? It's 9mm or .22 LR and they are not very expensive. They do have some quirks but they are also quite accurate. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:43:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:44:36 PM EDT
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In a way I got better cooler guns than I could have ever imagined as say a 15 yr old
Back then I just wanted a AR15 with a red dot and a flashlight
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:45:47 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My local LGS has 3 Nylon 66s for sale. I might fo. That was my childhood dream. Still don’t have one. 
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:50:48 PM EDT
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A real MP5 with a giggle switch, a MAC10, and a stainless folding mini 14......in a black van
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:57:52 PM EDT
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I must have read the Remington sales catalog cover to cover 500 times between 12 and 14. Looking at the ballistic tables made me want a 700 Sendero in 7mm STW in the worst way. The only centerfire rifles i had shot were some 788 22-250s and a 22 hornet. I had it all planned out: i would get that, a viper 22 (even though semi auto rifles were rumored to be minute of barn accurate in the house of cluster) and a marine finish 870. I would have the best collection of guns anyone could buy.
Once i got a little older, shot a 300 win mag, and briefly owned a 597, i wisely abandoned all those plans. |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:58:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A 44 Automag, just like Mack Bolan's. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Automag_44amp.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a0/a6/52/a0a6521ac20a9d8c0804e81682f7e757.jpg Glad I'm not the only one here who was impacted by Don Pendleton- I've wanted a 93R forever thanks to that bastard. Other grail gun from childhood would be a fancy double rifle in 470 NE or 505 Gibbs |
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Posted: 12/8/2022 4:58:11 PM EDT
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Sterling Submachinegun
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