Largest caliber you have personally fired?

Question

Keep in mind that lieing for the sake of lieing is an illness, so be honest! I had an opportunity to fire a .577 Tyranosaur but didn't, I have fired several makes and models of 50bmg rifles tho.
Knight
McMillan
Barret

Largest caliber, I don't care if it's pistol or rifle, or blackpowder, as long as it's a hand held or shoulder fired firearm.

Answer 1

.475 Wildey, .50 Desert Eagle, 30mm chain gun, M2 .50 cal machine gun.(oops, rules changed--the chain gun and M2 was on a tri-pod/ don't count)--- the one that hurt the most was a .30 cal grenade round line throwing gun with 22 oz. lead projectile. Yes, it required a cast---and to be told that you fire the gun with the rife butt on the ships deck not your shoulder. Stupidity is a good reality check--but not a painless one. Found in training, the military, and while in a a Federal Law Enforcement organization for 7 years that if you weapon is to large to retain sight picture, caused your hand to loose feeling, or caused you to wince before pulling the trigger with one hand--it's worthless in defense. Another great trick is running 1k, then open firing at a target---only a few know how to control their breathing to even hit somewhere on their target--no, I was not one of them. No bragging rights for me here--lol

Answer 2

First, in responce to 'uKantSpel', the M60 can most certainly be fired from the hip. I spent 10 weeks going through the USAF Combat Arms Training and Maintenance (CATM) Tech School @ Lackland AFB, Tx in 1983 during which I received training and live fire practice with the S&W mdl 15 rev., the Remington 870 12ga. shotgun, the M-16 with 209 grenade launcher, and the M-60 machinegun. When fired from the hip, it is used for sweeping fire while moving forward in combat.
In a handgun, power wise the .358 JDJ and the .444 in a T/C Contender; the rifles , the 375 H&H Mag and the .458 Win. Mag. For daily social purposes I carry either a .38 super or .45acp in a mdl 1911A1 of one sort or another Good evening, JD

Answer 3

A .458 Winchester Magnum w/510 grain slugs. Felt recoil is better than sixty pounds at the shoulder. Actually, I LOVE shooting this rifle but the bullets are about five bucks each. Now and then I luck out and find a box of twenty for about sixty bucks.

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H

Where you've been Connor? Nitro Express calibers start at about .470 Nitro Express, .500 Nitro Express, .600 Nitro Express, AND .700 Nitro Express. (I left out the others, like the .450 which are less known). Also, the .577 is NOT a Nitro Express caliber; it is dubbed the: .577 TYRANNOSAUR developed by A-Square as a dangerous game rifle. Nitro Express calibers are English, not American.

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H

Answer 4

The largest caliber rifle I have ever shot was a 454 Casull lever action my wife bought me (a pistol round in a rifle made by Puma)

The one with the most recoil...either a toss up between a 35 Whelen rifle or a 12 ga. shotgun. Neither has much recoil, I just haven't found the need for anything bigger.

As far as the person who is calling people liars and that a 700 Nitro doesn't exist:

Here is a link on Wiki on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.700_Nitro_Express

If you don't like that, here is a link from MidwayUSA where they are selling bullets for the 700 Nitro for reloaders:

http://www.midwayusa.com/ebrowse.exe/browse?TabID=1&Categoryid=7952&categorystring=9315***652***675***9016***

You can find brass for the 700 Nitro on Midway as well (about $13 per individual case).

There is a video floating around of a guy who had a handgun made out of the 600 Nitro round. Personally, I think the guy is insane.

Here is the video on YouTube (I think the guy's friend is shooting it in this video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lzri8dn7p0

Answer 5

Personally, the biggest one I've shot off the shoulder was my .45-70. I've shot a lot of .223's in the military, but those are relatively light, even the SAW. I did shoot the .50 cal with butterfly trigger. *SWEET*.

Funniest thing I ever saw in the service was when we were fanfiring (? Not sure if I spelt that right) for batallion guard in Okinawa. The range had been destroyed by a typhoon, so we managed to find a grassy hill by the range to shoot at, just to familiarize ourselves with the weapons. Long story short, another jarhead asked the gunny if he could 'Rambo' the M-60. Gunny came up and broke off the belt so that he only had about six rounds to shoot. He took position, fired the weapon, wound up on his *** in the mud, and the 60 half buried in the mud. ROFL!!!! He spent hours cleaning that thing, but the whole concept of hip shooting an M60 is just that; a concept. LOL

Answer 6

We made some pretty big potato guns when I was younger, and caliber would be hard to determine but 2-3 inches across was standard size.
Also had to go to the hardware store to buy panes of glass for the house pretty often too.

.50 Caliber black powder, and tried the 454 Cassul in a single action revolver twice. No thank you.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

My friend owns a Barrett M95, so I shot the .50 BMG.

Largest pistol round was .454 Cassull

I've had the privilege to actually shoot an 8 gauge (killer on your shoulder), very hard to find legally nowadays.

I've shot an MG-42 at a machine gun shoot, I don't think that it counts as largest caliber, but it was quite a fast firing gun.

Answer 9

I've fired a Barrett .50bmg, but from a bench. Guess it was on my shoulder.

I was privileged to fire one shot from a "Teddy Roosevelt-era" Purdy .577 Nitro Express.

I worked for a man who had a small, expensive collection, which he never fired but he did order custom cartridges made at around $25 each.

When he passed on, his son asked my advice on selling his father's guns and of course, I insisted we each fire the Purdy so that we could assure bidders at the auction that it worked and functioned fine. Wouldn't you?

Impressive, teeth-rattling and yes, it left a mark. His son was able to buy a new German sedan from the proceeds of that sale. Nice!

Answer 10

300 win mag.
personally I shoot .308 and .243 but a friend at the range bought one and asked if I'd like a try.

It wasn't for me and I won't be asking the police if I can have one.

I have also shot a 45-70 breach loading. Quite enjoyed that but wasn't very accurate with it over the 100ydrange with open sights.

Not really part of the question but at work I have fired a baton round gun