[MASS-2 FAC]

I was issued a 12 gauge pump (Weatherly sp??) when I went into Viet Nam. What a great gun. Dry fire it pointed into the sky and the pump action dropped down from gravity. I never fired it off of the range.

Semper Fi

[FlyVet]

I'll bet you had a Winchester Model 12. The nice thing about that, compared to shotguns now, it didn't have a trigger disconnector. So, you could hold down the trigger and pump the slide, and it would shoot.

A friend of my brother's borrowed one from his dad, back in the 1970's, and I remember him showing us that. Hold down the trigger, and it was bang-bang-bang-bang-bang, as fast as he could rack the slide.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

"I was issued a 12 gauge pump (Weatherly sp??) when I went into Viet Nam."

I've always wondered about that. In the dense jungle, wouldn't a shotgun make sense? Maybe one guy per squad carrying one. Seems to me a 5.56 round would deflect if it hit limbs or whatever more than 50 feet out. Whereas a load of buckshot would be effective at the ranges encountered in the bush, i.e. pretty damn close.

Any Nam vets care to weigh in?