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What is the most fun/ biggest stress relieving firearm you own?

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I voted semi-auto rifle but anything is fine with me. I go with a friend to the range with settl at 200 and 300 yards. Most of mine are iron sights while his AR has a scope. We'll shoot for a while and then swap guns. Hits on steel with his are pretty easy with the optics, mine can be more challenging. The last time we went we shot ARs, M1, a scoped Remington 742 Woodsmaster (dad's old deer rifle) and the Camp 45. All are semi-autos, but it's also fun to get out the old bolt guns, some of which are over 100 years old, and do the same with them. That M1 gives you immediate feedback when you connect.... Bang-Whack, Bang-Whack. The 300 yard plates are getting harder since I need reading glasses now, but still fun. We sprayed them with a fresh coat of yellow paint to help on that account. Maybe next time I'll get some florescent green or orange and see how well that shows up.
 
My favorite for stress relief is probably the single-shot/sidelock pistol i have. Loading it is half the fun, literally.
 
Actually, it doesn't matter too much what it is. Best when the target goes clang when hit. Doing most of it with a pair of Ruger New Vaqueros. But anything will work...
 
Shotgun, paper shells through a shotgun. I don't have to sniff the smoking hulls, but it is more relaxing that way.

John
 
Voted shotgun. For me nothing else (that I own at least) can make quite so much BOOM and simply make targets disappear :D

Close second place is the muzzle loader though, loading and cleaning that thing is almost therapeutic.
 
Shooting... holding a pistol or rifle that contains a cartridge the size of your finger to send lead flying at something to be destroyed at my will. And when I release it, it goes faster than people, cars, trains, planes for a TINY amount of time. The bullet that I've made fly was mined from the ground and is heavy and never meant to be in the air. It has the potential to save and destroy... start wars (Wilhelm), end wars (Hitler), strike the morale of a nation (Colonel Nguyễn Ngọc Loan). To think that lead is so cheap.

To sum it up, shooting is stored up power being released.
 
it's power...it's control...it's an escape...but also an intense focus...I focus on that little target...everything else disappears

I know, sounds intimate
 
My SAR-48HB is quite relaxing, but has quite a boom. The GSG-5 is probably the most fun but I expend the most ammo in the least amount of time, even though it's rather cheap. The Mossberg 930SPX is also fun, but spendy. Nope the most relaxing is my Stevens 34 bolt-action .22 being fired at 100 yards. I can sit there all day taking the "perfect shots" and spend practically nothing. I've done this several times, at least 3 hours each time, and went home totally at peace.
 
I shoot handguns 99% of the time, but there's just something about vaporizing targets with shot or leaving a really big hole in a target with a slug that is very satisfying, so I voted shotgun. 2nd place for me would have to be the big bore revolvers (.44 mag and .45 ACP in my case).
 
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