favorite weapons

[frankiej]

I'll take a close combat weapon over a gun... more personal.

shouldn't you be wearing a wet suit and goggles to keep from being infected by contaminated blood when using something like that?

That would depend entirely on the nature of the virus itself, and how one can become infected.

It is quieter that a gun, so using a melee weapon is a no brainer

[Erinome]

LOL...what is that Loura?

My favorite weapon is words.

[Jackalope]

My favorite handgun - customized Argentine Sistema Colt 1927, a 1911A1 pattern gun manufactured under license on Colt tooling. This particular one was formerly used by the Argentine air force.



Favorite long gun, would have to be either my M1 Garand (Korean war vintage)...



...or my M1903A3, WW2 vintage



I don't have much modern stuff at all, the vast majority is WW1/WW2 era from all over the world (or older).

[popeyespappy]

Those CMP rifles Cthulhu?

[Jackalope]

Those CMP rifles Cthulhu?

No, the M1 was passed to me by my father, and to him by his father. It's been in the family for over 50 years.

The M1903A3 I picked up from another collector about 15 years ago.

[popeyespappy]

Nice.

I’ve got a couple of CMP Garands. One is a WRA the other is a HRA. Both service grade both War 2 but they are Greek returns. I picked em off the rack in Anniston myself. Dad has the Springfield he carried with 2/7 marines in Korea. As far as I’m concerned that one is priceless.

My brother in law has a 98 Kraig that belonged to his grandfather, but that one was sporterized.

[kılıç_mehmet]

Traditional arms and weapons of the Seljuk Turks:
A mace, the composite bow, and the scimitar(although the lance was also common for most horseman).
These weapons were the main weapons of Turkish soldiers until the Ottomans introduced firearms into the janissary core, although the majority of the raiders still used these weapons when they went for reconnaissance duties, or flanked the enemy. A traditional azab trooper of the empire would only be armed with the composite bow and a sword, for example.

[popeyespappy]

When would that date to Mehmet?

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looks early.

[Minimalist]

The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.

Alexsandr V. Suvorov

[kılıç_mehmet]

When would that date to Mehmet?

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looks early.

These are the weaponry of Turkish soldiers from the 12th century, but they were in use until some time later(up to the 17th century) , but firearms became more and more common amongst common soldiers later on, and with the nizam-ı cedid army, Turks were almost all only armed with muskets, later on, with rifles.