Gunwriters may shoot a greater variety of firearms than most of us, but this question is not limited to gunwriters. What is the most "fun" gun you've ever shot? My kids absolutely love my SKS; with the bayonet extended and a full magazine they can empty in a few seconds, they love it. On occasion, I like to rip through a full magazine in my 1911. It's also highly enjoyable to hit a small target waaaay out there with my 22-250. Do you have any that are a ton of fun to shoot?

Model 63 Winchester.

22 LR. in just about any model of rifle or handgun, as long as it shoots well.

S&W K-38 5" Just a freakish laser beam of a gun.

or a

WWII all numbers matching bridgeport full auto Thompson

10/22 target followed by the AR.

The .223AI...


It shoots like a "Laser"....

As a fun gun as opposed to a serious gun, a 10/22 has given me the most enjoyment.

most everyone thats shot my Marlin Guide Gun with light loads cant get enough of it....loaded to warm Colt levels with 400 grain hard cast and they will spend an afternoon trying to find a chunk of wood the bullet doesnt go through 10-22 or AR comes a close second...

Carbine conversion unit on my 1911.

Ruger 10/22 carbine bought in 1968. Over the years that's the one I've had the most fun with, by far.

Firing the M2 and M60 machine guns in the Army was a ton of fun, but as a civilian I couldn't afford to feed them.

Full auto M-60. On the first 100 round belt, I blew through a 6 foot diameter stump I'd been using as a backstop for 5 years and had to fix four strands of high tension fence. It was totally worth it.

I want to say that most of my guns are pure fun, to shoot.

Standouts are my H&R 317 .222, my RIA 1911 .45, and the family rifle, our Savage Cub Mini.

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Any pump or autoloading 22. Virtually any 38 or 44 Spl revolver.

22 rifle

Rented a Thompson M1 Submachine Gun at a local indoor range....30 round clip in about 2 seconds!

Wouldn't want to pay to feed that thing much!!!

I'd say my most fun comes from my 10/22 with 50 rd magazines. It lasts like an all-day sucker.

the gun in my hand is the most fun

Model 1892 Winchesters in .44-40 & .357 with cast bullets shooting steel gongs.

K22 shooting anything.

S&W 8 3/8th inch .22LR revolver - BOTH Ruger 10/.22s, Mossberg .22 LR rifle, .41 magnum S&W factorty armalloy Model 58, Whitworth .375 H&H with DST, claw mounts - and the most fun gun my 8 inch barreled, .177 cal BA, pump-up pellet pistol. This pistol keeps me honest and shows every poor trigger squeeze on the target- and it gets shot 10 times every day! Shooting the heads off of the dandylions is pure fun!


Terry

Well, I love my Colt Woodsman. That'll do.

10/22 with a brick of ammo will get more grins than many.

I've also had a ton of grins come our way whenever we hand over the Henry in 22lr as well.

20 years ago, when I first got it, would say my Ruger Mini 14.
Times change, 223 ammo now costs too much, and today I would
say my Ruger 10/22 is my most fun gun.

Ruger MKII or MKIII with 5 1/2" bull barrel is the ne plus ultra of fun guns. They burn a lotta ammo, though.

wow tough question.

after my kids got big enough to shoot I rediscovered the joys of .22 plinking.

used to spend hours at our sinkhole on the farm, shooting bottles, cans, rats, and then combing the woods for squirrels and rabbits and the odd fox.

but I do enjoy shooting my 7mm-08 and my 7 mag as well now that I put an elevation turret upon it.

but for sheer unmitigated joy, guess the .22 wins hands down.

What load are you using? I have been shooting 13 grains of Trail Boss behind 405 grain Missouri Buffalow #1 and 16.5 grains of Trail Boss behind 300 grain Meisners. I shot some this morning. What a hoot.

For pure fun, a Marlin Cowboy 44 Mag or an M1 Garand are hard to beat.

Not sure how you can beat 10/22s for pure fun
I never met a 10/22 I didnt like
Hank

The problem with 10/22s (or any semi-auto) is that they use up waaayyy too much ammo in this day & age of nonexistent 22 ammo.

Yeah, .22's always rank among the most fun, but not without ammo. Maybe somebody will have to storm somebody else's stash, preferably a somebody else who recently bought up a bunch of .22 ammo and is trying to sell it for $50+ a brick....

I have a number of rimfires, but my fsvorites to shoot are a Winchester Model 62A pump and a Ruger Mark II "slabside." Both are a blast!

Two other of my rifles that are apparently fun to shoot are a Ruger No. 1B .22 Hornet and an Interarms Mark X Mauser .375 H&H. I like to shoot both myself, but almost everybody else who tries either one likes 'em too. The people who shoot the Hornet say, "That's really cool!" and the people who shoot the .375 say, "Hey, that doesn't kick much at all!"

Though one of my hunting buddies really prefers to shoot my .416 Rigby at rocks. He says it's the best rock-busting rifle he's ever tried....

Almost any .22 is fun but the most fun was a borrowed fully auto Tommy gun. It was a blast.

i forget, havent loaded any for awhile.....since the girls went to live with their dad over a year ago i havent been going through near as many.....

For me, in a rifle my Marlin 1894 or Browning 92 in .357, in a handgun a Les Baer 1911 45acp. Tough call on this one. I'd better stop thinking about this before I change my mind.

I've read a bunch of folks saying that the Marlin 1894C is tops for shooting fun. Unfortunately, none of them will sell me one to let me find out for myself.

Browning shotgun when shooting sporting clays or my ruger 9.3x62. Not sure what it is about the 9.3 but it is a heck of a lot of fun.

While I first thought of my single shot .22 [a war trophy my dad brought back from Germany] I killed who knows how many jackrabbits and other critters..but after a little thought..my browning 2000... heaven only knows how many bobs and blues that thing killed...and sunflower field doves

Handgun: .22lr Buckmark pistol. I've introduced several people to the world of shooting with that gun. I've also introduced several gophers to the afterworld with that gun. Cheap, fun, wonderfully accurate - one of my best purchases, ever.

Long gun: 700 MR in 7x57, bought from Timberline here on 24HCF. Handles like a dream, and drops critters with a casual nonchalance. Speaks in a whisper, but delivers blows like a pre-batsh!t-crazy Mike Tyson.

FC

I love to blow though 100 or so rounds of .30 carbine out of my M1, 15 shots per mag. Cans and random stuff set out 30-40 yards away. Depending on my mood they are banzai charging Japs, Wehrmacht, N Koreans....

M1 Carbine.

My little .357 mag. Rossi mod. 92 trapper.

My Kimber Custom Shop Match Target 1911 in .22lr

I've sure enjoyed shooting a 1-8 twist .22-250 recently, both on paper and critters...

The fun factor is very high in my Brno 602 375 H&H!

Eric

Ding-ding! Winner!

My fun gun is my McMillan Mac 50, love digging holes in the field and watching tree limbs fall after hitting a hog

The .30 carbine is our favorite.

38/357 Marlin 1894 CSS is an awful lot of fun

For me, it's an HMR in a big PD patch. Absolutely no recoil, and watching the bullet impact is about as much fun as I can stand. If it's a little windy, the .204 or .221 Fireball fit the bill equally well, if a bit noisier, and the .17 Hornet, if I can ever find one, should be a really good time, as well.

or you can just mix 'em... 15-22

It has to be a .22. I have seven long ones and five short ones. I suppose that one of my Marlin Mounties would be the favorite rifle and one of the early MK Is would be the favorite short one for plinking or target use. For different applications, the Bearcat and one ofthe Browning semi-auto rifles or the 10-22 might move to the head of the class.

Truth is, I do not keep any gun that I do not care for, so on any given day for some application it could be a fun gun. Jack

My fun gun. . . And my sons get a kick out of the shotshell rounds lighting up a shoot-n-see target!

I have three favorite guns: A single shot 410 that was my dad's first gun, a winchester 22 semi auto that was the first gun my grandfather bought after WWII around 1950 and my M1 Garand.

358win

M1 carbine = 10/22 on steroids!

Mark

The guns I had the most fun with in my life were either my brothers single shot JC Higgins 22 down on our grandmothers farm or my 16 ga 870 I had in HS. We'd dove hunt after school with a group of friends. There were a lot of grade B diaries around in those days and silage fields were easy to come by. Man those were heady times.

Rented a Thompson submachine gun once...absolutely the best $100 i EVER SPENT.

Hard to pick.. for pure shooting. My friend has a little 9mm bolt action rifle.

My 17 HMR is fun for feeding squirrels the little pill from far away




And a open sighted 22lr is fun for squirrels as well

These three are pretty fun:

Everybody differs, but my "most fun gun" to shoot is a S&W Model 64 (38 Special).

It is cheap to shoot with 125 gr. lead bullets over 3.5 gr. of Red Dot powder. I go to the range and shoot 300 rounds with no heavy recoil and it only costs me about $20! What's not to like?

Full auto MAC in 9mm, 458 Win Mag puts a grin on my face every time, and yeah, just about any accurate 22lr.

I have a little Winchester M-70 Super Grade in 22 Hornet with an old M8 4X Leupold long tube scope on it.

That rifle is an absolute blast to shoot, no recoil, not to loud, and very accurate to boot.

I love that little coyote smoker.

Gunner

My 400 Whelen has been a fun project and I love to shoot it. Stout recoil but not painful. After that it's a toss up. I really love to shoot my old Savage 34M 22 magnum. I bought it when I was 13 with my trapping money and terrorized the Northern New York woodchuck population.

Recently I came into a Ruger Deerstalker 44 magnum. What a fun gun to shoot. I just got a Winchester 1910 401 self loader. I'm betting it will be a bunch of fun. I found brass bullets and dies and have a few test loads worked up but have to find some 4227. I'm almost out and it is the powder in the 401 according to those that load for it.

For shotguns I sure enjoy my old Ithaca Lewis 10 gauge. Took it to Washington last fall for some ducks with Safariman and had a ball. Great duck shooting and a lot of fun.

They're all fun to shoot.

Mart

Ma Deuce.

I can find a sort of a relaxation in hanging up some paper and run a couple boxes of ammo through a Smith 41. No recoil, no muzzle blast and just guilt edge accurate.

Uzi
followed by a 10-22 ruger. Absolutley loved to hunt grouse with the 10-22.

This one. (Mine's not exactly like this, but close enough.)
--Bob

Without question my Ugartechea Jubali SxS 12 bore slug gun. Less than 2" groups spot on the top of the front sight at 50 yards with 1 oz Brenneke MP slugs for which it was regulated. Just shy of 7 pounds of thump.

All of these!!!!!
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Marlin 1894C lever-action carbine - 357 Mag./38 Spl.

Ruger Vaquero SA revolvers - 17 HMR to 45 Colt,

Remington 24 lr for me. Accurate, and reliable as long as you don't clean it too much. Plus it was built the year of the stock market collapse. The design is still made today in the Browing S-A 22. But my Remmy has way more character, and did I mention it's accurate?

That is VERY VERY VERY nice. If I lived in a shotgun only deer area I would thin the heard for one of those.

Winchester Mod 61

Wouldn't know where to start. Somewhere between a .17 and 16", inclusive. BP is good.

.223AI for me

Maybe not the most fun that I've ever shot but, a Remington Model 14 1/2, 44.40 WCF is currently my most fun gun.

Cast bullet reduced loads in a Glenfield 30a w. peep sight provide much fun for young and old. We get minute of soda can at 100 yards for less than 8 grains of powder per round w. 170 grain bullets at about 1000fps give or take.

The 10/22 comes close.

Ella

Hot damn, an old skoo open bolt 1980's south central sweeper MAC would sure be some fun, but someone else would need to be on the hook for the cases of ammo..

Haven't had that PRIVILEGE yet but I can see how that'd be hard to beat.

ALL are fun to shoot, sometimes the TARGET makes it funner.

Among mine are 1. Ruger 10/22 SS, Laminate stock. SWEEEET

Second place is 2. Ruger Mk II SS 6 7/8" Target. I've had it the longest therefore have put the most thru it.

Full Auto is kind of fun. Except that it takes a lot of practice to get decent with them. Mostly it's just spraying bullets across the countryside. I don't have the money to keep one in ammo, or a need for suppressive fire, so I'll pass. As First Sea Lord John Fischer so eloquently put it, "Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. HIT THE TARGET! All else is twaddle".

AR and a good running 1911.

You may be right but the M60 was fun too





































OK you are right Ma Deuce was funner than chit....bastids wouldn't let me play with the mini gun......or the Vulcan

Ma Deuce is fun till you have to carry it.

Two that get lots of grins when I let newbies shoot are
Marlin 1895 45-70 with cast bullets over trailboss.
Marlin 1894 .45 Colt with cast over mid level loads.

Iron sights and a nice "plang" when they hit a steel plate.
Everybody likes to play Cowboy!

Yep! Then it transforms into one of the most miserable torture devices ever invented!

there is that but............that wasn't in the equation......OP said shoot...not carry

Marlin 45/70 with plinking loads

Browning BL-22

Colt Diamondback 4" 38spl

I originally said a .30 carbine as I thought we were talking about guns we owned. If we are talking about ones we've fired a bit I would say the B.A.R. Hands down the most fun I have ever had with a weapon. Better than a .50, an M-60 or an AR. I could get on a 55 gal drum at 500 meters in two or three short bursts. I got to shoot one quite a bit one day at I.T.R. we were the last unit on that range and there was extra ammo.

17 HMR for rifles, and my Ruger SR22 for handguns, Two of my most used guns.

Virgil B.

My favorite is any 22 Hornet, I just love that cartridge. Another is my Winchester model 92 in 44-40. Hope to be buried with that one.

Hi all! Happy to be at the fire.

Any 22 rimfire in my hand used to be the ticket for instant fun and gratification- that was when the ammo was cheap and prolific. Lately, I am loving my 30-06 with reduced loads and cast or plated bullets. Those Berry 150s are benchrest bullets in my 700!

Recently inherited a Contender with a 218 Bee Bullberry bbl that is a laser and a hoot. Pop goes the squirrel! This one is cheap to shoot, and extremely satisfying from a handloading, hunting, and plinking perspective.

Ruger Mark II?

or Colt Python?

tough decision

Ma Deuce without a doubt. But the M-60 on a Jeep pedestal mount is a close second.

My 20 Vartarg in a field full of p/dogs @ 400 yds....

Or my 20 Practical....or 20 BR...................or my

Marlin lever action .357 carbine. My wife and daughters love it with cast bullet target loads, it shines as a high-capacity defense carbine with +P hollowpoints in either 38 special or 357 mag, and when stoked with Garret or Buffalo Bore heavy duty loads, rivals a 30-30 for hunting deer or pigs. What a gun!

Gota be a 22LR of some sort. I will admit the most fun gun to fire when I was in the Navy was the Ma Deuce. Could not believe what it did to a wrecked Trawler hull. Paint flying off and clean holes in 1"+ steel hull. Every third was a tracer, what was not to like??

Ive got a 458 win built by Remington,s custom shop,that is a real grin to use with super mild cast loads I won,t post all the details because you might not believe me,and Im not sure the loads safe in all guns, but a properly sized lubed 355 grain cast bullet properly hand loaded can be pushed to about 1100 fps and if shot off a bench rest, can shoot under 1/2" hundred yard 3 shot groups on a very calm windless day.
and yes Ive used that load on a few hogs and while its not going to make spectacular instant kills its deadly, and punches to the vitals
yes that loads producing less than 20% of the factory load energy levels but its still fun to shoot

Rossi M92 stainless carbine (20") .357/38 with Lyman receiver sight and a bucket full of cast .38's, and a swinging steel gong target and a bunch of tin cans. My wife even likes shooting it!

My boss has a full auto M-4 that is awesome to shoot, but gets spendy pretty quickly with todays ammo prices. ($15-$20, 30 round clip 2 seconds). My fun gun is shooting a round of trap with my 16 gauge drilling with rabbit ears, gets a lot of attention and everyone wants to try it.

Bart

S&W M&P 1522 is hands down the firearm I have the most fun with.

no question about it......an M-1 carbine with a basket full of surplus ammo.....and a 20 shot clip

Second most fun is a M-70 push feed in .223 Remington

Next in line is a currently owned Taurus 4" stainless tracker using .38 special ammo.....all great fun

My Shiloh Sharps puts a silly grin on my face every time I pull the trigger. The Lyman GPR with patched 54 round balls rates up there.

The M256 120 mm gun (M1A1 Abrams Main Gun) is definitely the most fun gun I've ever shot.


The lil Browning 1911-22 is pretty fun as well.

1. My old Marlin 30.30. It is the ultimate gun to me.

2. Winchester Model 70 Coyote in .22-250. Shoots like a laser

3. Thompson Center Black Diamond .50 cal muzzleloader. I find the process of loading and shooting a muzzleloader is just fun and relaxing.

Red Rider, times were simple.

CZ Bobwhite SxS .410, Cooper Classic .17 HMR, and S&W 629 with cast bullet loads

Yesterday I shot a full auto suppressed Uzi. The guy that let me shoot it has 9mm, .45 and 22LR conversions for it. I shot the .22LR version. That was at least a "hoot and a half"! Maybe two hoots! I was trying out my new 22 suppressor on a rock about 90 yards out. This guy comes over where I am and we start talking about suppressors. I let him shoot mine and he brings out his Uzi and offers it to me. I was surprised how good the trigger was on it. Peppered that rock! Immediate big grin!

I'm lucky to have a shooting spot close by to shoot out to about 1,100 yards. I try to get out once a week with my .260AI and shoot a few rounds at 700+ yards. Especially if it's really windy. I probably enjoy that the most.

Bob

The neatest civilian rifle I ever shot was a Rem 700 chambered in .450 Marlin shooting load that held 3 round lead balls with a piece of thin cardboard between the 1st and 2nd and the 2nd and 3rd balls - not much recoil and the 3 balls would each typically hit a large paper-plate at 50 yards or a 36" square at 100 yards - not a lot of recoil and the balls would hit a piece of plywood with a resounding thump, thump and thump.

One of several wished I had kept.

My Ruger 10/22 with its 24inch sporter weight barrel and box of sub sonics is about as much fun as I want with a rifle.

My Grandson and I both enjoy the Winchester 62A.

Coach

I said M1 Carbine earlier but had a chance a few years back to shoot 50 rounds through an M249 SAW....that was amazing.

Ya know, now that you say that, I totally agree (though I had a pump Crossman). I don't know how many thousands of BBs I sent downrange as a kid. Puts a smile on my face even today.

A Henry 22 lr, there is just something about a slick lever.

My funnest guy would be my stainless MKII, 5.5" BB with a red dot scope. Super accurate and quick enough sight acquisition to hit hand thrown aerials when I'm on my game.

My youth model Henry .22LR lever-action is pretty darned fun too, especially with 21 CB shorts in the magazine.

It's not hard to enjoy time with the 10/22 or the 22/45. Liking the SP101 in .22. Plinking with .38 special loads in a revolver. AR's are fun enough.

All those mentioned, I think the first .223AI I had was the most fun. First wildcat, learned more about reloading playing with it than any other gun, learned about ballistics, drop, and dialing while twisting elevation on it, killed lots of stuff from crows to deer, get to see it happen in the scope with no recoil at close and long distance, introduced lot of new people to shooting with it....I probably shoot 5 .223/.223AI rounds to every 1 round of all the other calibers combined. Bolt action .223AI is my choice for the most fun gun.

Marlin 1894 357/38 hands down.

28 gauge O/U on a skeet range or dove field.

.22 target rifle for serious shooting, Colt Woodsman for whiling away a summer evening plinking off a back porch.

Model 1899 Savage .303 or .22 HiPower loaded with mild cast bullet loads for putting a big grin on my face after making an empty beer can dance along the back stop.

The two most fun guns I have shot were both suppressed. One was a Ruger 77/22 that had the barrel replaced with an integral suppressed barrel (looked like a bull barrel. All you heard was a tic and then the bullet hitting the target/backstop. The other was a Sako in 338 lapua, Nightforce scope, and big can. Took the recoil away, and at about 500 yards and beyond, things got really interesting.

I could shoot either all day.

One of my Colt Woodsman's

Youth model RWS Diana .177 air rifle with Bushnell Sportview 4x. I think it's a Model 24? No telling how much stuff perished at the hands of us kids back in the day. We could have fed the neighborhood with half a tin of pointed RWS pellets.