"Thompson Submachine Gun in .30 Carbine" Topic
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| Steve Wilcox | 17 Oct 2016 1:39 p.m. PST |
Video of an interesting-looking gun over at Forgotten Weapons:
link I hadn't been aware of these, myself. :) |
Marc33594  | 17 Oct 2016 2:26 p.m. PST |
Nice find, very interesting, thanks Steve. |
| HidaSeku | 17 Oct 2016 3:25 p.m. PST |
Forgotten Weapons is great. |
 Legion 4 | 17 Oct 2016 3:55 p.m. PST |
I thought some Thompsons were designed to use 9mm during WWII. For partisan/guerilla forces. As since the Germans used 9mm, the ammo was more readily available. |
| LostPict | 17 Oct 2016 3:58 p.m. PST |
So one of my buddies (a long retired SF officer from Vietnam) was commenting this weekend on how popular the carbines had been with SF and the indigenous troops. I wonder how this compared with a M2 carbine in the small caliber assault rifle role? |
| Blutarski | 17 Oct 2016 4:04 p.m. PST |
"Forgotten Weapons is great." Ditto on that. LostPict – The M1/M2 family of carbines (captured, stolen or bought on the black market) was very popular with the Viet Minh and Viet Cong as well, at least until Chicom and Soviet SKS/AK47s began to reach them in sufficient numbers. B |
| Weasel | 17 Oct 2016 5:21 p.m. PST |
Everything I've ever read have suggested that the carbines were quite popular with anyone that didn't need long-range shooting (or who lacked the skill for it). Low recoil, high rate of fire, good ammo capacity. Not sure how stable it is for automatic fire but they seemed to be popular for patrols in Korea. |
| badger22 | 17 Oct 2016 5:31 p.m. PST |
In my copy of cartridges of the world they list a .45 Thompson. This is what Thompson wanted to chamber his SMG in, but was convinced that as .45 ACP was so available it would sell better in the existing round.It has about twice the powder capacity of the ACP, making it a very powerful round. What I dont know is if there was ever a Tommygun produced that chambered it. Anybody know, or even better have a pic of one? Owen |
| john lacour | 17 Oct 2016 9:39 p.m. PST |
When my Father(27months with 5th Special Forces Group) was first sent to Vietnam, he armed himself with an AK47(my Father was fond of saying "AK's always work"). On his second tour, using AK's was frounded upon, and he was offered a choice between a colt commando and an M1 carbine. An hour at the gun range showed him the commando(nothing but a shortened M16) was as prone to jamming as its big brother, the then new M16. He chose the M1.On his 3rd tour(of which he only served about 3 months. He was shot through the left wrist, and came home) he tried a newer colt commando, and as it had the bugs worked out, he used that. He did always sing the praises of the AK, and said how the AK saved his life at least a half a dozen times. I guess its one of the reasons that my one and only rifle is a RedJacket AK74. The other reason beng that while in Afghanistan, I saw how AK's did indeed "always work". |
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