Five guns
Robb asks the question, and it’s a good one.
Money being no object, of course, and me having painfully expensive tastes, my five guns would be (in no particular order of preference:
1: A Holland and Holland Royal Double rifle, made by hand for me. 500 nitro, or 577 nitro. Full leather recoil pad, single trigger, automatic safety, Royal scroll. Packed in a “Motor” style case with silver oil bottles and rhino-horn spare firing pin and spare ivory sight bottles.
2: A Browning Auto 5. There are faster shotguns. There are lighter shotguns. There are prettier shotguns. I do not think there can be a better shotgun. And I don’t want just any Auto 5, I want Serial Number 1, in the Browning Museum. I want to have the actual one held and used by JMB himself.
3: A 275 Rigby. Not just any 275 Rigby, this one.
4: an engraved Savage 99. Preferably engraved by one of the masters at Abercrombie and Fitch. (or Griffin and Howe) Something like this
5: A muzzle/breech loaded 25-20 by Harry Pope.
H/T USC
All excellent choices.
Nice Og.
Painfully expensive taste, indeed!
My list here, looks beer budget in comparison.
Mine:
1 — MP44/StuGwr44 with lots of 7.92 kurz ammunition;
2 — MP40 submachine gun with lots of 9mm ammunition;
3 — M1 Garand with lots of 30.06 ammunition;
4 — Moisen Nagant tricked out in sniper mode with lots of ammunition;
5 — PPSh 41 submachine gun with lots of ammunition.
Rather boring list, but they come from the History that I so love to study.
Well, my poor little ’58 Savage 775A is an Auto-5 clone, so when I’m having to break it down and flip the friction ring so the fucker will eject low brass I can pretend it’s an Auto-5. Plus, it has the Long Dong Silver of Cutts compensators on it, so the chicks dig it.