Posted: 1/20/2008 7:29:17 PM EDT
| So I was sitting here to watching tv and flipping through an old Delta Force catalog and I see this book. It tells you how to convert a 1911 to select fire. Lets play hypothetical for a moment. Lets say you have the proper licensing to do such a conversion. What is the point? I mean the highest cap you could practically carry would be ten rounders...unless you use one of those 40 round drums...but would that even keep up with the rate of fire? Am i just missing something? |
The bad guys from that time frame were actually doing things that were way ahead of their time. They took their jobs very seriosly. Dillinger had some bad ass equipment. One of which was a full auto 38 super with extended mags and a foregrip. Sounds an awful lot like a pdw to me Bad Ass Gun Collection |
Ok, good points both of you, and the John Dillinger thing is fucking sweet. A full auto 1911 would be sweet. My point is without having a mag capacity of at least 15 to 20 rounds or being able to reload in the blink of an eye. Isn't it kind of impractical as a combat weapon? |
it's VERY easy to make a 1911 run full auto and lets just say the cyclic is off the damn hook when i first started getting in to 1911's i was trying to do a trigger job on one of my kimbers. it was fun AFTER it was over. lets just say it surprised the shit out of me. fun yes, but 8 rounds goes WAY to quick. |
The gun pictured is one of two known 22 round magazine equipped machine pistols that were confiscated in a raid on John Dillinger's apartment in St. Paul, MN. in April of 1933. The modified .38 Supers belonged to Nelson and were assembled from kits made at the Monarch Gun Company in Hollywood,CA. by the infamous underworld gunsmith H. S. Lebman from San Antonio Texas. Lebman built quite a few machine pistols for Nelson and Dillinger, most were 1911s and most all were chambered in .38 Super. |
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Yes they are out there. The problem with them however is magazine capacity. They are barely controllable with the addition of stocks and fore grips. That being said I think I would love to have one. Here's a link: 1911 Full Auto w/ Stock |
So did everyone from that era have a Stevens single shot? 
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Damn... |
40 ROUND DRUM MAGS for the 1911 are out there. |
Short answer yes. Just like the glock 18. Although these guns could be reloaded pretty quick and as osprey stated he had a few extended mags. I think the main thing that makes them difficult is the high bore axis. The gun must want to roll up pretty hard. |
