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Good day fellow Gunnutz :) New day new picture picture !!

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Cheers
Joe
 
I remember a memoir or comment by a senior German officer who said that after the Western Front in 1944, they "longed to return to the East, where it was man against man, and tank against tank." The overwhelming Allied air and artillery superiority was not an experience they enjoyed sharing with their previous victims.
 
Hmmmmm.......

Look like an MP-40, 1928A1 Tommy and an M-3 on the firing line for some fun.

We used to be able to do that here, but Canada is such a Free Country that it got stopped.
 
jwhc said:
Good day Gunnutz :) New day new picture :)

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Cheers
Joe
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This is a still from an American film made to show the superiority of the M3 over the Thompson and MP40. The Thompson goes first, doesn't do too good. Then the MP40 which is just a little better but not much. Then the M3 devistates its' target! Wow, you have to think that is some fine piece of pipe ..... I expect the film was sponsered by the manufacturer of the M3. It is pretty hokey.
 
Actually, the old Tommy was the best SMG the Americans built in huge quantity.

The M-3 had that cute little crank on the right side, but it was susceptible to damage if you beat the gun around.

M-3 was replaced by M-3A1, which got rid of the crank and had NO cocking mechanism. You had to stick your FINGER inside the thing and reef back on the Bolt to #### it! I emphatically do NOT like putting my hands inside an operational firearm which happens to be loaded! At 350 rpm cyclic, you could just about have a smoke between shots!

America's forgotten SMG was the Reising Model 50, a .45-cal gun with 12- and 20-round magazines and a concealed cocking-bar under the barrel, hidden in the stock. Reisings fired from a CLOSED bolt and are blistering accurate. For some idiotic reason, the Bolts were never numbered....... but the gun REQUIRED the correct Bolt in order to function its best. I have fitted Bolts to a couple and they have come up super-reliable. My own gun's Bolt fits fine; the gun is accurate and reliable. The 11-inch barrel gave you an extra 200 ft/sec as well. Somebody should have done a quick redesign on the Reising to give the trigger mech a metal cover, then added a folding stock a la Schmeisser. It would have made a superb gun. As was, they only built just over 111,000 total. Last sale was to Venezuela, which got the highest-numbered guns. Pity.
 
Thanks smellie. Just looked up the Reisling smg, cool gun. I have seem pics of it in a coulple of my atlas of war 2 but always thought it was a modified M1 carbine or a jap capture smg. I would love to have one, but alas as I dont have the 12X I will only ever get to look at pics on the net.
 
Very, very nice photo.

ALWAYS nice to see the Old Ladies coming out to play!

Wish we had this photo poster-size!
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