Sub machine gun ammo

[hemiram]

I always figured it was something like that. I never saw any 92 variant that had any major problems unless it was very old with a lot of rounds through it, like 10's of thousands. Both my 92s got shot a lot, and had zero issues of any kind. The only gun I've had that was more trouble free was my S&W 5906, that thing will eat anything that will chamber, the Berettas were slightly pickier. Just slightly, anything decent worked fine.

 

[Gun Master]

9mm SMG Ammo

In the 1970's, I bought some Canadian 9mm SMG ammo, in a brown box that I believe had a headstamp with a 1940's date. Once I shot completely through a 4"x4", 3 times, and don't know how far the bullets went after exiting. This was done with a WWII vintage P-38.

I know BHP and CZ-75, and possibly Chinese TT-33 clone (model 54) can handle 9mm SMG ammo.

Does anybody know of other pistols able to successfully shoot SMG ammo?
Also, where can I buy such MilSurplus ammo?

 

[highlander 5]

The Ruger P series owners manual states that their pistol is
is rated for just about any 9x19 ammo you can find.
There was some 9mm ammo from Hirtenberger in the 80s or 90s that was supposed to be smg ammo but the info on it was confusing,one writer would claim it was others said no.

 

[moxie]

I've owned (sort of) several M3s and M3A1s and seen many more back in the day. But all were in .45. Anyone actually see or shoot a 9mm version?

 

[JimC]

In the 1970's, I bought some Canadian 9mm SMG ammo, in a brown box that I believe had a headstamp with a 1940's date.

Back in the late '60's, I worked at a LGS. We bought cases of this stuff thru one of our distributors. The headstamps were more current that the 1940's but I don't recall exactly what.
The ammo we had was in fact Canadian. It came in 64 rd. unmarked brown boxes, a couple of thousand rds. or so per case.
We were told at the time that it was for the Sten guns used by the Canadians. 64 rds., two mag loadings. Never confirmed but sounded good at the time.
This stuff was HOT! We recommended that it only be fired in all steel 9mm handguns in new or excellent condition. Thinking about it now, that may have been bad info at the time.
I put hundreds of rounds of this thru a Browning Hi-Power as did a couple of shooting buddies at the time w/o any ill affects.

 

[justin22885]

i dont think theres much difference in ammo.. but i do think submachine guns, or at least their semi auto counterparts make great firearms everyone should have.. you wont find a simpler, easier to maintain weapon than a straight blockback.. not even a bolt action, thats why ive been having such an interest lately in SMGs, mostly old WWII stuff and i have a feeling im going to be starting a collection of them.. including the MP40, M3 grease gun, thompson, sten, sterling, uzi, mac 10, SA26, suomi K31, PPSh-41, PPS-43... list just goes on.. theyre rapidly becoming one of my favorite class of firearms

problem is with all the great options out there its hard to decide where to start

 

[DougW]

I have some of the Hirtenberger 9mm +P+ 100gr truncated cone sp that I bought in the early 90's. Only fired 5 rounds, it was supposedly for the H&K MP5. I think I fired it through a Ruger P85 that I has at the time. It didn't seam any hotter than other 9mm 115gr, and I would have figured the light bullet would be running hotter and would be a bit more snappy.

 

[Deaf Smith]

I have a box of British L3somthing 9mm submachine gun ammo. Clocks out of my Glock 17 at 1350 fps.

Deaf