1911's Pics Thread
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It's like: Where's Waldo?
Lol, yeah, little bit. It's organized chaos, I swear. - dan
Been there. Got similar going on right now with a 75 pound box of single rounds. Found about 25 different calibres and trying to sandwich bag them.
While I really enjoyed my WWII 1911 and Inglis pistol collection, which i improved and expanded over the years, I'm actually glad I sold them all when I did. I had a lot of $ tied in them and now those pistols have no cash value as they can never be resold.
I made a decision to only keep the firearms I actually shoot and sell off the remainder of the collection
Is that Thompson FA?
Post a family picture of them all together, don’t be bashful
One day when I get bored maybe do a group shot of what's left.
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I know at least a half dozen people with FA Thompsons. Some are on this site. - dan
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Seeing how this is a 1911 Thread
https://youtu.be/-bVKspBqKPc?si=LuR2BIm_DzN7XrZ4
https://youtu.be/-bVKspBqKPc?si=LuR2BIm_DzN7XrZ4
This one is in a museum now. I put it there in 1990 or so, just before leaving Canada for the first time. I last fired it in 2005 on a visit back to the museum I left it in. She still was working great, and it has always been my favorite machinegun. If I could have just one, I guess it would be this one. It was a Savage made 1928/A1 Thompson, with the English acceptance stamps and the barrel markings in "tonnes", with the two-tone receiver that -- according to Peter Kokalis -- was his most desirable version of the Thompson. This was the last photo of it I took, although I have one around here somewhere taken by a friend of me shooting it at Pepper Poppers out back of the museum in 2005. These guns had "Tommy Gun" stamped just in front of the rear sight alongside the cocking slot, but since photographs in those days were not digital, I only thought I had caught that in this photo. But I missed. Can't just retake it now.
In those days, it was just fine to take your Tommy Gun out into the back yard and take a photo of it on the windmill. My City Police neighbour once commented that our "model" of the Tommy Gun sure looked real enough. Er, yes. The gun came in a trumpet case (pretty exactly shown in "The Road to Perdition", however the front verticle foregrip does not just "click" on, it is screwed on), with 5 of the 20 round magazines, a 50-round drum and the additional standard straight "Rat Patrol" military foregrip. The 30-round magazines didn't come out until 1943 with the M-1 Thompsons. So any depiction of them being used cinematically in events dated before that time would be anachronistic.
Sgt. Troy on the Rat Patrol often used a nice 1928/A1, and I loved watching reruns of that show just to see the Thompsons. I usually shot the 1928/A1 with the straight foregrip on it because I preferred it. Also, I made sure it was on the gun when rewatching Rat Patrol episodes. As I said, the straight foregrip and it's much shorter attachment screw came in it's own compartment of the trumpet case that the gun came in. I have no photo of the trumpet case, and sold it separately to an interested party before putting the gun into the museum.
We had an M1/A1 Thompson as well, but I greatly preferred the 1928/A1. It's in the same museum, but although I looked it over in 2005, I did not shoot it. The M1/A1 is a nice, useful Thompson that shot dead-on to it's fixed sights, but I just adored the 1928/A1. I shot both Thompsons quite a bit, my Dillon 450 -- switched up to 550 through the Dillon refit offer of the day -- kept me busy feeding the two Tommys. But man, they were fun to shoot. Whether mowing bowling pins off the pin tables or shooting down plates or Pepper Poppers, Tommy Guns are just a gas. Hey, that's my old IPSC .45 there in the photo, so nobody can claim there wasn't one 1911 in this whole post....
On the wall of the main building on the Queretero Military Base in Mexico, there are several machine-guns hanging in a wall display. They have a Bergmann, an Uzi, an MP-41, a few others I don't remember and a beater Thompson M1. They also have an MG-42 in 7x57 on a static display table along with an old Lewis in .303 I think, both of which I used to like to look at while waiting to get into see whichever officer I was there to visit. On my last trip there in 2023 to help Wally register his Model 28, I found that the registration section had been moved to it's own smaller building and thus did not get to see their little collection because it's over in the mail building still, I guess.
One day, quite some time ago, while in there with some Mexican Gun Club friends, we were looking at that collection and a friend of mine asked me if I wouldn't love to have that M-1 Thompson for my very self? I told him, "I used to have two of them to play with whenever I wanted. I shot them so much, I could fire one full-auto holding it in one hand and kiss the buttstock while it was firing." I don't think he believed me. Oh, well. It would suck to never have had the chance to do it, I guess, and I realize that in his life, he'll probably never even get to shoot one, much less work on kissing it while firing it. I'm glad I had the opportunity to shoot them so much that I can not feel that I was robbed of the thrill.
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This one is in a museum now. I put it there in 1990 or so, just before leaving Canada for the first time. I last fired it in 2005 on a visit back to the museum I left it in. She still was working great, and it has always been my favorite machinegun. If I could have just one, I guess it would be this one. It was a Savage made 1928/A1 Thompson, with the English acceptance stamps and the barrel markings in "tonnes", with the two-tone receiver that -- according to Peter Kokalis -- was his most desirable version of the Thompson. This was the last photo of it I took, although I have one around here somewhere taken by a friend of me shooting it at Pepper Poppers out back of the museum in 2005. These guns had "Tommy Gun" stamped just in front of the rear sight alongside the cocking slot, but since photographs in those days were not digital, I only thought I had caught that in this photo. But I missed. Can't just retake it now.
This pic is WILD!
I always enjoy your contributions to the forum.
This thread needs a bump, even if it’s just a random phot from the internet.
That Rainbow Daytona... Yikes.
I had to sell my Colts to pay some bills during the lockdown, so when our Glorious-haired leader announced the music was about to stop on handgun purchases, I knew I needed at least one budget 1911 in the stable to fill the gap. The purists may scoff, but a Chinese 1911 in 9mm (oh the sacrilege!) still shoots pretty darn fine, especially with some TLC and a few aftermarket upgrades.
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