Irrational Firearm Desires

[fly out]

UZI carbine. In 41AE.

[Inkwell 41]

Lately, a Manuhrin MR73 Sport with a 5 1/4" barrel is the current object of desire. Others have been... A Bren Ten, 44 Automag, an American 180, a Q Honey Badger, Walther PPK, British Ferguson Rifle (actually a carbine version), SIG PE57, the list goes on and on.

[olstyn]

I want a large caliber muzzle loader that shoots a giant plume of black power with a large boom.

Man, "boom" isn't even the word. Those things go "whump." It's a whole different sound from modern smokeless powder. I can't ever see myself dealing with the absurd cleaning schedule that black powder requires, but they sure are impressive.

[SecondsCount]

Something from Vudoo Gunworks

[rob_s]

If we are going with most-utterly-useless yet most-irrationally-desired, mine would have to be

1. Steyr Aug
2. Barrett .50
3. Desert Eagle .50
4. Uzis in all three sizes
5. Gyrojet

[Blades]

If we are going with most-utterly-useless yet most-irrationally-desired, mine would have to be

1. Gyrojet

Gyrojet! Good choice.
Based on your excellent choice I want to add the Dardick 1500 with the Dardick trounds to my irrational firearm desire.

[Malamute]

Man, "boom" isn't even the word. Those things go "whump." It's a whole different sound from modern smokeless powder. I can't ever see myself dealing with the absurd cleaning schedule that black powder requires, but they sure are impressive.

I did the quick math on the 4 gauge flintlock African trade gun, that comes out to a 1750 grain round ball. I seem to recall they used 150-200 grains of powder.

[olstyn]

I did the quick math on the 4 gauge flintlock African trade gun, that comes out to a 1750 grain round ball. I seem to recall they used 150-200 grains of powder.

I know black powder doesn't translate like for like to smokeless, but still, that's a big damn chunk of lead and roughly a metric *#!@ton of powder.

[mtnbkr]

I know black powder doesn't translate like for like to smokeless, but still, that's a big damn chunk of lead and roughly a metric *#!@ton of powder.

My scale doesn't measure in metric *#!@tons.

Chris

[Malamute]

Yes, it is. I think they were capable of killing elephants, but I sure would like shooting one loaded full power.

I recall reading about one of the old time early African hunters talking about his 4 bore elephant gun, he hated shooting it, it gave him severe headaches.

Edit: I was mistaken, the heavy charges in the 4 bore cartridges were 16 dram, which is 437 grains of powder. Gads. The muzzle loaders may have used the wimpy 150-200 grain charges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_bore

https://www.google.com/search?q=dram...hrome&ie=UTF-8