Who is your holy trinity of firearms?

[SaintsNSinners]

Braddock
Rambo
Topper Harley

 

[churchmouse]

Braddock
Rambo
Topper Harley

I totally forgot about Topper Harley.

 

[EvilBlackGun]

In this order :

Glock, Stoner, Serbu.

 

[Racechase1]

Browning, Henry, Maxim

 

[BogWalker]

Kalashnikov
Maxim
Browning

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I was waiting for the landslide of emotion from the 7.62X39 folks.

Well, I don't think they can argue it when Misha has admitted that he had "help" from the Germans (aka Hugo) who were in the USSR after the Great Patriotic War.

Plus Simonov invented the 7.62X39mm so I got no beef with the CKC people.

The whole "Kalishnakov Cult" will soon collapse once Misha is dead and gone.

 

[dugsagun]

john browning
sam colt
bill ruger

 

[bstewrat3]

john browning
sam colt
bill ruger

Glad to see Bill Ruger finally make the list. I agree on John Browning and Sam Colt as well.

 

[jgreiner]

1. John Moses Browning
2. Samuel Colt
3. Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson.

S&W are overlooked, yet they were the ones that popularized the top break revolver (allowing fast reloading) of the model 3 Schofield. It was the first cartridge firing revolver adopted by the US military (1870). And they were far faster to reload than the Colt single action army.

Another thing to remember are the Ammo types introduced by S&W:

• .22 Short[14]
• .32 S&W—sometimes called .32 Short[14]
• .32 S&W Long—sometimes called .32 New Colt Police[14]
• .32-44 S&W, defined as .32 Caliber (true .32 caliber measures .323", sole use in Model 3 Revolver to 1898.[15]
• .38 S&W—sometimes called .38 Colt New Police and the 38/200 in England.[14]
• .38-44 S&W There are two distinct loads with this designation. The first was intended for use in model 3 revolvers up to 1898. The second was a predecessor to the .357 Magnum. Using the latter load in a pre-1898 gun could cause serious injury.[15]
• .38 S&W Special[14]—Usually referred to as ".38 Special"
• .357 S&W Magnum[14]—Usually referred to as ".357 Magnum"
• .40 S&W[14]—Smith & Wesson developed the cartridge but the first firearm to hit the market chambered in .40 was manufactured by Glock[16]
• .41 Magnum—While Remington Arms developed the ammunition, Smith & Wesson made the first revolvers to chamber the cartridge.[14]
• .44 S&W Special[14]
• .44 Remington Magnum[14]
• .45 S&W Schofield[14]
• .460 S&W Magnum[17]
• .500 S&W Magnum[17]

 

[SmileDocHill]

Tom Deeb didn't make anyone's list?

 

[Ryninger]

John Browning
Mikhail Kalashnikov/Hugo Schmeisser
Samuel Colt
Honorable Mention: John C. Garand

 

[Kirk Freeman]

BTW, if any smarty pants puts Ron Cohen on his list, I am putting you on the rhino list.

 

[giovani]

Benjamin Tyler Henry should be near the top, also the man from Indianapolis Richard Jordan Gatling.

 

[OneBadV8]

John Moses Browning
Hiram Stevens Maxim
Hiram Percy Maxim

 

[Greengunner]

John Moses Browning
Harvey Donaldson
Elmer Keith
and a caveat P.O. Ackley

 

[bakeman]

Browning
Beretta
Colt

 

[A 7.62 Exodus]

Well, I don't think they can argue it when Misha has admitted that he had "help" from the Germans (aka Hugo) who were in the USSR after the Great Patriotic War.

Plus Simonov invented the 7.62X39mm so I got no beef with the CKC people.

The whole "Kalishnakov Cult" will soon collapse once Misha is dead and gone.

I think it's a very typical case of "to each his own" As an AK owner, lover, and MAJOR fanboy, I'll defend the gun to the death. As a firearms history enthusiast however, I am well aware the gun was "designed" from the STG-44. However, I will go out on a limb and say that Mikhail DID "invent" the AK47. While there are clearly similarities, the internal are different. The STG44 was a prototype weapon that never reached full potential, Mikhail resurrected a dead design, and PERFECTED it. Shouldn't that quality as an invention?

 

[MG77]

John Moses Browning-adaptations of his designs are still used in large part today.

Great Thread by the way!

 

[BogWalker]

I think it's a very typical case of "to each his own" As an AK owner, lover, and MAJOR fanboy, I'll defend the gun to the death. As a firearms history enthusiast however, I am well aware the gun was "designed" from the STG-44. However, I will go out on a limb and say that Mikhail DID "invent" the AK47. While there are clearly similarities, the internal are different. The STG44 was a prototype weapon that never reached full potential, Mikhail resurrected a dead design, and PERFECTED it. Shouldn't that quality as an invention?

Not to mention the STG44 was complicated and expensive to produce, but the AK was quick and cheap. I don't think you can really say the AK was designed on the STG, but rather inspired by it.

 

[Deet]

S&W (because of the history of fine firearms) , Ruger (I like his rugged pistols at an affordable price) and Eli Whitney for developing guns that could be manufactured and assembled interchangably. (at least I think he developed interchangable parts) and Winchester (great rifles that were a game changer)