Posted on 09/15/2017 7:58:55 AM PDT by w1n1
Carried one for a while. Damned boat anchor when carrying six mags. Good brush chopper and never had a failure.
It was a novelty and I went back to my trusted M-14. If you’re going to pack that kind of weight might as well go with a battle rifle.
Something which I always wondered about is Simo Hayha the Finnish sniper’s favorite gun was a Swedish made submachine gun.
Not his sniper rifle.
Quite a few soldiers might still be alive if they had these rather than those awful M16A1s.
A Swedish K if I remember correctly.
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A simple effective design. And thirty rounds of 45 ACP is always a handy thing.
Soviet PPS-43 > Grease Gun??? Pretty sure the British Sten Gun was the worst of the mass produced stamped metal Submachine guns.
I can’t remember but you are probably right.
He also preferred iron sights.
They were designed to be carried in tanks for crew weapons. Soldiers like them because it knocked people down if you were close enough to them. My dad said they were good for clearing trees of snipers.
Daddy’s battalion was one of the first sent into Berlin after the Russians captured it.
I had just purchased a Chinese made Mosin Nagant and was curious about them.
I asked Daddy about what he thought about them. He told me he never saw a Russian carrying a bolt action rifle. They were all carrying those sub machine guns.
The ultimate “spray-n-pray” weapon.
I have a successor (indirect), my S&W M76 with Gemtech SG9 suppressor. Talk about fun, accurate, and HROF!
My dad, a Korean war vet hated it, and spoke with derision of its very poor accuracy and inability to stay on target.
Too light for fully auto .45.
He did concede it never failed to fire.
He absolutely loved the M-1 and sung its praises until the day he died.
1942. Way before Korea. A cheap and dirty answer to the very expensive Thompson. GM stamped them out like headlight bezels.
Couldn't agree with you more! I carried an M3A1 as my local security patrol weapon for about two weeks and the weight, the difficulty in loading magazines, the slow rate of fire and the limited range made me beg for my M-14 back.
The M-14 tore through stuff just fine up close and gave you the option to hit things hard at 500M +, all for the same weight load. No contest!
Hah, I forgot about loading the mags. That would give you a blister on your thumb in no time.
Those were the days.
They were still a crew served weapon carried in M60A3s in 1984 in my battalion.
Always thought they were pieces of junk. When firing, you could see the bullets kind of doing corkscrew out of the barrel while the kickback walked the line of fire in it’s own desired direction. It definitely could be walked onto target though...
German Schmeiser was the bet.
Our mechanized unit had them in Germany in 1989. I was in a line company but I was good friends with some of the mechanics who were assigned to the M88 beasts. Along with their M-2 50 cal. and side arm M-1911 .45 they had M-3 .45 Grease Guns (All arms that served in WWII!). I was a M-249 SAW gunner and saw the simplicity of the M-3 from maintenance to use was ingenious. The belt/drum or in an emergency magazine of the relatively heavy SAW could spit 5.56 rounds at a hellacious rate but was not close to the simplicity of the M-3 take down,reassemble and maintenance. I do understand they did completely different roles.
I inherited several boxes of 9x19mm US Government issue ammo that I thought was for this gun, thinking the .45 was for the Thompson sub-machine gun. The date on the ammo is 1968.Anyone know what US gun used 9mm in 1968?
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