Tommygunn
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Having fired a Thompson M1a1, the recoil isn't bad. It is controllable. Too bad it is a dammed boat anchor.
Also many years ago I made the mistake of buying a semi auto Thompson. An even worse boat anchor. [/b]
............I'd take a M1 or M2 any day over a Thompson.
The ammo is lighter, flatter shooting, has greater penetration and generally more accurate.
Ha ha! Many years ago as a kid I asked my father, a Navy vet who served in the Korean War, if he'd ever used a Thompson. IIRC we were watching a WW2 tv show which prompted the querry. He said only at a range in San Diego, so I asked what he thought of them. He paused a second and said, "they'd have made great anchors for those rubber zodiac boats we ran around in."
As I said in the above post I bought a Kahr Thompson, plus I've handled real ones (but never fired one unfortunatly) so I "get it" about the anchor analogy.
It's still a really cool gun though.