Klint Beastwood
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- Jul 12, 2017
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Pssh in today's war, it's been all about the m32. Make rain HEDP. Although it's not really new, i think it's been in service since 80s
I second trying the m79.View attachment 763001
Chicago typewriter would be my number one though. Some day....
No Blish lock? I got to fire an M1A1 Thompson when I was 11 years old, first FA ever for me. I had a poop eatin' grin for a month. The M16A1 and M60 came a few years later at 16, when I was in ROTC. And a live M72A1! The sub-caliber trainers in Basic six years later really sucked in comparison.I got to play with a pre-A1 Thompson years ago, ridiculously high ROF. It was actually a bit of a handful, especially since I hadn't shot much FA before that.
No Blish lock?
A 1921 or 1928 Thompson won't run without the Blish lock, which (besides providing the dubious "delayed blowback") also is the link between the actuator (cocking handle) and the bolt. One of the most wrong-headed myths of all time, in the gun world, is that the Brits, in the desert, removed the Blish locks from their Thompsons to make them run better in sandy conditions. This simply wouldn't have been possible. Now, their armorers could have ground the ears off the Blish locks -- but they couldn't have removed them completely.Sounds like an M1921, or M1928 without the Blish Lock in it, which was an "H"-shaped delayed blowback device used to slow rate of fire down. It ran in a cam slot in the breech block at an angle.