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Posted: 9/9/2004 5:50:21 PM EDT

I would like to have one, just don't know which one is better. More reliable, durable, smooth operating, and trigger pull. I know accuracy is not expected, but which is better? Preban type.
Where can I find info on these pistols?

Posted: 9/9/2004 5:56:26 PM EDT

[#1]

I hope you mean Mac-10, or Tec-9 airsofts......as I'm almost certain, there's aren't PRK legal.

In any event.......Mac-10, and aftermarket parts are more abundant.

I dont' remember the last time I saw any place, selling other than threaded barrel extensions, or magazines.

Mac-10, IMHO

Posted: 9/9/2004 6:03:05 PM EDT

[#2]

I'm not a resident and am leaving soon for good. I'm militay. I hate this &*$(#WR&**%*#*IE*#&*@#* state!

Posted: 9/9/2004 6:34:43 PM EDT

[#3]

i would get an M11 before a tec 9. i heard too many stories about pieces breaking off while firing the tec 9. kimel ap9 is another option. i had one but never shot it. looks like a tec9 though.

Posted: 9/10/2004 5:41:02 AM EDT

[#4]

TEC 9s are POSs

M11s are just slightly better.

Posted: 9/10/2004 10:44:28 AM EDT

[#5]

Go here....

Check out the MPA 30. A redone Mac11/9 that uses extremely cheap and reliable sten mags. I kinda want one for CCW....

Posted: 9/10/2004 10:49:07 AM EDT

[#6]

I have a kimel ap9, I love it, but I am frightened that one day it will go belly up. Almost no parts are ever available. I even spoke to the person in charge of the parts when the company dies...there ain't much left. I HAD a tec-22...jam-o-matic.

Posted: 9/10/2004 2:02:09 PM EDT

[#7]

Get an UZI!

Posted: 9/11/2004 8:06:20 PM EDT

[#8]

The TEC`s are supposed to be good paper weights, lousy guns. The MAC has a better track record for reliability but fires from an open bolt so the accuracy is nothing special. If youre just looking for a blaster I`g go with the MAC.

Posted: 9/11/2004 9:12:11 PM EDT

[#9]

Macs have not fired from the open bolt for a number of years now.

Posted: 9/11/2004 10:58:31 PM EDT

[#10]

Open bolt MAC's cost a pretty penny, closed bolt postbans run under $300 though. I havent seen a tec in a while, dont really care to either. Looked cool in "Big Trouble in Little China" though.

Id buy a Mac 10/45 if I could find one, seems like the only ones up for grabs are 9mm or .380.

Posted: 9/11/2004 11:00:48 PM EDT

[#11]

I couldnt think of two more worthless handheld bullet chuckers to waste money on...

But then again thats just me

Posted: 9/12/2004 5:30:10 AM EDT

[#12]

Mac-10
A couple hundred rappers can't be wrong!

Posted: 9/12/2004 6:08:34 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Mac-10
A couple hundred dead rappers can't be wrong!

Posted: 9/12/2004 6:16:42 AM EDT

[#14]

Mac 10 or Tec 9?

None of the above.

Posted: 9/12/2004 6:49:17 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Go here....

Check out the MPA 30. A redone Mac11/9 that uses extremely cheap and reliable sten mags. I kinda want one for CCW....

I will vouce for MPA.

Masterpiece Arms

I have met the owner and own an MPA971. I had a weird problem with mine that they had never seen before and he stood behind the gun 150%. They have some seriously innovative stuff they are working on and gary runs a first rate operation from what i saw.

here is mine

Posted: 9/12/2004 7:24:50 AM EDT

[#16]

Hahaha, that thing looks outageous. Does it come ready to accept a 249 buttstock or was that a custom job?

Posted: 9/12/2004 7:33:50 AM EDT

[#17]

it's a mac style upper with a reciever made to attach it to a standard metric fal lower. MPA uses DSA lowers and parts.

You can get just the upper and use your own lower or the complete rifle. Mine was the complete rifle.

Believe it or not the thing is DAMN accurate and FUN!!! The only draw back is it weighs in at 15lbs loaded with the drum. I have actually run a few tac courses with it and it balences pretty well and is FAST to shoot. I have replaced the red dot with an eotech.

It's da BOMB!!

mike

Posted: 9/12/2004 9:08:22 AM EDT

[#18]

damn that looks like a photo shop special. What does that thing cost? 71 round drum mag?

J

Posted: 9/12/2004 2:45:28 PM EDT

[#19]

uppers run about 350 complete gun about 600.00.

uses 71rnd suomi MG drums and stick mags. Currently only in 9mm. I am trying to talk them into a .45acp version as well. They build a mac style subgun in .45 and this would be the shit in this carbine. Something that takes thompson drums and mags would be SWEEEEEEEET!

Posted: 9/13/2004 1:16:05 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
I couldnt think of two more worthless handheld bullet chuckers to waste money on...

But then again thats just me

+2

This goes for any neutered machine pistol derivative. They don't do anything a Glock 17 won't do, except suck and rust, and maybe act as an anchor in the case of the Mac.

I once traded for a Steyr SPP, and it was cool for about a week. Then I realized what I had done, and then I couldn't get rid of it fast enough. Fortunately that was easy.

Posted: 9/13/2004 8:43:28 PM EDT

[#21]

I don't really know what I was thinking, maybe a phase of some sort. Lost the feeling to buy either.
Decided to do an AK build instead.

Posted: 9/13/2004 8:53:28 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Hahaha, that thing looks outageous. Does it come ready to accept a 249 buttstock or was that a custom job?

Look a little closer...

It's an FAL in 9mm with a drum conversion... So it accepts FN furnature...

Posted: 9/13/2004 11:52:04 PM EDT

[#23]

neither

buy a bushmaster or a m1911

Posted: 9/14/2004 5:03:01 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Hahaha, that thing looks outageous. Does it come ready to accept a 249 buttstock or was that a custom job?

Look a little closer...

It's an FAL in 9mm with a drum conversion... So it accepts FN furnature...

The only thing FAL on this gun is the lower and stock. The upper is a completly different gun with a special reciever to mate it to the fal lower.

Posted: 9/14/2004 10:41:42 PM EDT

[#25]

I had a a interdynamic KG-99 the original tec nine and the thing looked mean as hell and since I was young at the time it was a big hit with my friends but other than that it was junk I sold it for what I paid for it and then some and bought a couple ab-10 pistols from a friend who was only willing to sell them as a pair one. Your probably like why the hell would you sell your kg-99 and buy a ab-10 and to be honest the only reason I bought the thing was because like the mpa rifle that takes those cheap sumi drums (sorry bout spelling) this ab-10 had been converted the same way and I couldnt resist being one of the only ones if not the only one to own one. I still have it laying around and would probably let it go fairly cheap email me for pics if interested. Also buy a m11 theres no point of buying a tec9 its not like the prices are gonna drop anytime soon considering the preban ones are the only one available due to the fact that they went out of buisness years ago. You can get m11's for less than $200 all over the net I plan on getting a sm-11 the stainless model as soon as it comes out with the threaded barrel. Not that I need the thing or even really want it that bad but I love to piss off liberals plus I will have to admit that it is pretty cool looking.

Posted: 9/15/2004 9:40:15 AM EDT

[#26]

Well... I have a Tec-9 .... I've never had any problem with mine......
Sure it isn't accurate .... I didn't buy it for that..... It's just a "fun" gun.... Something cheap to
fool around with.... ammo is cheap and easy to get.
I had a mac 10 before.... It was good too.... for the $

Question ---- Why are the Open bolt Macs so much more $$$$$ than the colsed bolt ones?

Posted: 9/15/2004 10:02:56 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Question ---- Why are the Open bolt Macs so much more $$$$$ than the colsed bolt ones?

supposedly much easier to convert to full auto.

i think with the money spent on a worthless pos like a tec/mac you could get a full auto glock
www.fullautoglock.net/

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