So, what's the biggest gun you guys have fired?

[oldman45]

ORIGINAL: jetjockey

Later I was to bravely use a 50 cal to defend my ship against a rogue 55 gal drum trying to infiltrate our borders.

I defended my ship against those same evil 55 gal drums, except we had a 20mm port and starboard and after some serious deal making I got to fire a few rounds. I think I liked the 50 cal better.

[usersatch]

Not a gun, but the Javelin missile. Dragon, too (not sure which one is bigger). I did get to fire a live 120mm round from an M1A1. For some strange reason, my basic training/AIT unit attended a dog and pony show (at Benning). I had the best marksmanship score, so I was "invited" by some general to get in the turret and fire it. That was pretty cool, but not sure why an infantryman was invited to climb in a tank. I joined the Army after college (where I played football), so getting in and out of the turret at 6'3" 250lbs was a bit tricky. Made me glad I didnt pick armor as an MOS.

[Gunner98]

105mm How
155mm How
25Lbr Fd Gun (with the Irish Arty)
Twin 3" 50 Naval from Osborne Head hear Halifax
Been n an CF18 dropping a 1000lb GBU
Directed the fire of most things from 81mm through 5" Naval, CAS, AH and a B52 - unfortunately it only dropped smoke pots

[Mundy]

.50-70 Govt. I like old stuff.

M-

[tk208]

SKS 7.62mm and AR-15

[1EyedJacks]

When I was in the Guards my first unit I served with was an 8" SP M110 Arty unit. They had a bird cage for a turret. During the winter we'd get tarp to protect us from the cold... Winters sucked on the M110s... Tooling down dirt roads @ 15-25 miles an hour with 10 degree weather - and it's always windy so you get windchill to factor in...

I moved to California in 86 and transferred over to a 155 SP M109 unit out of Bakersfield. The nice thing about the M109 was the personnel heater. And the M109 has a real enclosed turret. Winter time in a M109 with a working personnel heater was a beautiful thing.

I became very perficeint in the fix-n-repair of piece-of-crap military personnel heaters on the M109 and the M548 Cargo Carrier <grin>.

[patrickl]

Where does a hand grenade come in? Bigger than M16 yo.

[steamboateng]

12 gage pump at a cardboard 'pirate'; damm near dislocated my sholder!

[minnowguy]

M242 Bradley main gun, 25mm
Mk 19 40mm grenade launcher (my favorite -- totally rocks)
M2HB .50

[rockmedic109]

Biggest size? Caliber? Weight?

.50 Caliber Hawkins Black Powder is largest Caliber.

.44 Magnum Desert Eagle is the largest Handgun.

Steyr GB was the weapon with the largest by round capacity.

The largest by actual size {if not weight} was a potato gun that my dad made. It could shoot a spud well over 100 yards. Never got around to seeing if it could penetrate a car door. My brother never showed up....

[CarnageINC]

.177 caliber air pellet&nbsp;[:D][:D]

TANKERS!

[RevRick]

.50 cal Ma Deuce....taking very careful aim at the Atlantic Ocean
....or maybe a 10 guage shotgun (most unusual thing I have shot - belonged to a cousin who was a highway patrol trooper on a baaaaaaadddddd stretch of road! Now that thing kicked. Did I mention it was sawn off at 19"!)
I have also fired Thompson 45 cal, Colt 45 hand gun (both ACP and hogleg), M1 Garand (we had really up to date equipment in the small arms locker at that time.) Would love to have an M1 now (and the ACP), but might have a hard time explaining it to my wife.
I have range shot with Springfields, Mausers, Garands, M14 and several hunting pieces.
Love shooting, but can't afford that hobby. This one is bad enough!

[captskillet]

I hear Rev on that 10 gauge scatter gun..........we used to carry one (single shot so you got ALL the KICK) to shoot cripples when we went Duck hunting............ needlees to say you didn't use that one too many times in one day till you said no mas!! [&o]

[LST Express]

M60 machine gun and the law. Not really big guns, but the biggest I've shot.

[frank1970]

Hm, fired a MG3 tripod, a Panzerfaust (trainig version) and some handgrenades.
Possibilities to own a rifle in Germany are quite restricted by law.

[morganbj]

Lots of stuff:

81 mm mortar (a few times)
120 mm Mortar (many, many times)
90 mm Jagdkannone round (two or three times. What a stinkin' treat that was!)
105 mm tank round (many, many, many, many times)
120 mm tank round (a few times)
155 mm howitzer (three or four times, but with help)

And too many different individual weapons to list.

[LeeChard]

Does a dozen sticks of dynamite count? My cousin has a blasting license and we were removing an old cherry tree stump in a farmer's field. We had used two sticks to loosen it up and my cuz told the farmer he could yank it out with his tractor. The farmer got mad at us and said we were being paid to get it out of the ground. He got his wish. It must have taken half a day to pick up the chunks of wood spread around the field and fill the crater

[TulliusDetritus]

Tree removal, eh? [:D]

That's how it's done!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqY7b4JpJMw [:D][:D]

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus

A 12 gauge shotgun, when I was 14 or 15. Me and my cousin used to kill little birds with it [:(]

One day, my cousin killed an incredibly beautiful bird (a woodpecker, if I remember correctly). I realised that was very mean: "we killed such a beautiful creature".

I haven't touched a gun since that day. I still feel very sad when I remember that bird (I didn't kill it, right, but I know I would have done it) [:)]

Funny you say this. I shot a pileated woodpecker when I was fourteen. Thought it was a crow. (crow hunting was legal back then). I never shot another thing after that.

[PaxMondo]

6 guage shotgun as a 12 year old.&nbsp; After the first shot I was in the perfect AA position if that had been needed.&nbsp; Oh, and about 10 feet from where I had started.&nbsp; Just a little bit of a kick.&nbsp; My Dad, Grandfather,and uncle's were all laughing their asses off.&nbsp; [:D]