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As a semi-auto, a fun range toy. I had a chance in Los Vegas to shoot a full auto...very nice!
I've had my West Hurley semi-auto for 25 years. Added the 1928 butt-stock adapter to it and purchased it for ~ $800 dollars back then, with two L-type drums for $175 per. Too bad that Auto Ordnance or now Kahr arms can't provide a decent FBI or Indiana-style case. |
They're cool but *heavy* like you wouldn't believe. I mean, even my Volunteer Arms partial-polymer Tommy clone is weightier than most of my ARs by at least 2 or more pounds. That adds up after a while. 
ETA: either way, F whoever of those Limeys just threw them into the channel when WWII was over. 
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They're cool but *heavy* like you wouldn't believe. I mean, even my Volunteer Arms partial-polymer Tommy clone is weightier than most of my ARs by at least 2 or more pounds. That adds up after a while.
ETA: either way, F whoever of those Limeys just threw them into the channel when WWII was over. |
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My 10mm Thompson barrel. If only I could find the rest of it. 
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Thompsons are icky. This is my M1 Savage with a .22 conversion kit made by Merle Bitikoffer. http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h367/cheesebeast1/Kit3_zpsdeaffbcb.jpg Edit:. Oh, grease gun mags not possible. |
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Iiinteresting. Did the original take Thompson or grease gun mags? Edit:. Oh, grease gun mags not possible. You need to insert drums carefully as you can (if the catch doesn't click home the first time) send a drum right out the other side of the receiver. If it is a loaded one you can easily drop it due to the weight, and that can lead to a dent in a VERY expensive magazine. Scuba Ed sounds like he has the answer on Grease guns. I don't know much of anything about them. I remember the first time I got to try one, though. I was handed the weapon with the bolt closed, and instead of a cocking handle you were supposed to put your finger in the Grease Gun bolt. Something about putting my finger into a full auto open bolt SMG seemed odd. The thut thut thut of the Grease Gun was worth it, though. My Thompson runs about 850RPM in 45ACP, maybe 750 in .22lr. |
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My range has some sweet c3 rentals, lotusgunworks. They have Thompson, my wife's fave to burn ammo thru, MP5, AK47 and M16. I shoot the Tommy monthly for 200 rds or so.
I told this story somewhere, maybe here. I grew up here in S Fla where we would simply drive a few miles west of West Palm and go to the shell pits or the swamps of Lake O...we were about 12 or 13 and had a diasaster. One of my best friends dad was killed along with his older brother and his uncle. All in one shot. The owned an underground utility comp...They hit a gas pocket about 8 or 9 ft down. His dad fell over, the uncle jumped in to the he and passed out, his 16 year old brother followed suit. We we next to jump in, it was summer when teens did real work like this  . Thank God one of his guys saw this and pulled us back.
Anyway Bob had a great gun collection, we shot his FA..Thompsons every weekend, along with Garands, M1s..etc..He had 10 FA Tommies in a case on the wall in the basement. His wife HATED guns, fuking eanted nothing to do with them. Fast Fwd..25 years. I ran I to the wife, Ann at a funeral for her son, my friend. I was now a gun nut and had to ask about the Tommy collection. She was like, oh those old things, I got some big boxes from Publix and put them out with the trash.  This was in 1991 or so. So I am was always curious if they simply got run over at the landfill or they got snapped up.
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