Beautiful. Are they good quality? Are they difficult to break down & reassemble? Are they reliable like an AK or do they need to be constantly cleaned? Are they fairly accurate at close range?
I just know about the gun from "Omega Man". I'd just be using it for plinking & HD.
I'd gladly pay $201 for it if I had a credit card & FFL. I usually use cash. I'll see if there's one at the Greensboro gunshow.
My first experience with a gun mounted light was in the late 1970's when a buddy that owned a S&W 76 and I notched two wooden blocks and used duct tape to attach them and a Ray-o-Vac two D cell Flashlight to the Barrel shroud.
It was a hoot, but it sort of put me off the idea of lights on guns until I recently used a more modern design light in a couple of classes.
The folding stock on M76s tened to get sort of floppy about staying exteneded or folded after a lot of use, don't know if the same applies to the other folks' closed bolt semi auto carbine.
I wasn't planning on mounting a light on it. I've got a pretty good little SF light my dad bought for me & it works pretty well. I can hold it with one hand & the gun with the other.
I also like the folding stock, barrell shroud, pistol grip & high capacity magazine. All the wonderful features the anti's hate.
Are they good quality? Are they difficult to break down & reassemble? Are they reliable like an AK or do they need to be constantly cleaned? Are they fairly accurate at close range?
The M76 was developed in response to the Swedes prohibiting sales of the Carl Gustav M45 SMG to the US. We are a nasty combatant in Vietnam and so they wouldn't sell to us. They did, however, sell to the North Vietnamese as they weren't involved in the "civil war" within Vietnam. Go figure.
Anyway, the M45 (particularly the suppressed version of the Swedish K) was a much beloved weapon of SOG, the CIA, and the special operator community in general. So, S&W essentially copied it.
You realize that a semi-auto version would have to have a 16" barrel to be legal, right? That tends to throw off the whole balance of the weapon and definately spoils the looks. (You could pay the $200 tax and later shorten the barrel, if your state allows that, of course.)
My little brother was issued the 76 when he was in the Navy[70-74].What little I remember about him talking about it,he loved it. They had a holster sewed into the flight suit also could strap it to their forearm and fire it.
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