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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
 
Cap, that Sterling was awesome. I do like the MP5 and I got to shoot a buddy's MP5SD (department issue). That was fun too. Real easy to keep in the target at 25 yds. But that Sterling...If Hughes was repealed, or if I got a big payout, it would be my first.

And the 203 slung under an M16 is a lot of fun too. We were on our way overseas some years ago. The troops were doing some live HE rounds for quals. There were some left over and they called a few of us over. Of course I couldn't say no. It wouldn't have been polite. I got to fire off 4 or 5 HE rounds at various targets on the range. That was fun and impressive!
 
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Chicago typewriter would be my number one though. Some day....
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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.

Vanilla as it may be, I think the M16 is the most fun aside from belt feds. Pretty substantial ROF, but very controllable, particularly when suppressed.

I do enjoy our little PPS50 shop post sample, though. Mostly because you don't see $20 bills evaporating in a couple seconds with .22 LR!

As for .308 full auto battle rifles being uncontrollable, I respectfully disagree. With a suppressor or decent brake, they're not bad at all. Sure, they move around more than a 5.56, but if you know how to handle FA fire, you can definitely keep them down and about as on-target as most assault rifles. The G3 is the most abusive, the FAL and AR pattern fairly pleasant IMO. Never fired an M14 FA, so can't comment there. Nor a SCAR, which I don't much care for in semi-auto anyway. I suppose it may be different for guys with a more slender build, but I'm also not a big guy at 5'10" 185#. More fit than the average person that height and weight, but not a bodybuilder or boxer.
 
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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.
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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.
 
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No Blish lock?
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No idea, was a long time ago, and I knew little about them then. All I know is it had pretty well emptied the mag before any cases hit the ground, had to be around 1,300 RPM, maybe more. It was faster than a MAC-10 or G18. Those 20 round sticks were gone in less than a second.
 
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.
 
The most interesting guns to me are the amnesty guns that were stolen from US army later registered during the 1968 amnesty period I think it was 1 month. I ran into a guy at gun show many years ago had a Thompson he said it was his grandfathers from WW2 he kept it in an attic in the 1960's he heard about the amnesty at the local gun shop he registered the Thompson. Another guy said he registered a belt fed 1917 that had been handed down from WW2 in his family. Those guns which have a story and saw action in WW2 are so cool just to touch a gun that killed Nazi's. Lot of Vietnam M-16's were tucked away and later registered some of them say govt property although that's not all of them as many were sold to prisons and police later sold to dealers.
 
entropy said:
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.
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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.
 
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