Anyone here like machine guns........
 

I visited a friend this week with deep pockets and a passion for machine guns. You are looking at about a million bucks worth of guns. He has 5000 rounds of ammo for each gun you see.

Please enjoy I did,
Harry

A few more.......
 

A great place to spend the day......

That's amazing!!! :eek:

That you have a friend, I mean... :D

















Seriously, nice collection! ;)

I'm really not as bad as you may think, just don't like to be picked on............

Harry

Does he have a FG 42 Fallschirmjaegergewehr rifle??? Specifically, the one with the sharply raked pistol grip???

Man, you just blew by me at 150 MPH, sorry I have no idea what you are asking, but I can find out the next time I talk to him though.

Harry

That would be a first model. There are none in the photos and at $100K, plus. There are not many out there.

Awesome collection. Stuff that a man's dreams are made of.

Charlie

Wiki link -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FG_42

and a pic - magazine goes in left side, 90º to the receiver -

That Lewis Machine Gun is an interesting firearm.

My father was in the Navy, and trained at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. I stopped by the Center in Illinois a couple of years ago when they were renovating their museum. When I walked in, it was apparent that it wasn't quite open yet...

Some of the Navy cadets were cleaning firearms from the museum collection. The curator saw me, and after we chatted, I offered to help...

You see, they had the Admiral's personal Lewis Machine Gun out and apart on the table, as well as a Spencer Rifle that had been modified as a line thrower.

I spent the afternoon with the cadets learning about both firearms up close and personal.

The museum is at: http://www.greatlakesnavalmuseum.org/ on the web...

That's me with the Spencer rifle on their volunteer page:

http://www.greatlakesnavalmuseum.org/en/volunteer/

Marc

Back in the late 70's/80's, my partner Jim and I would take an MG-34 'parts kit' MG (from Golden Enterprises - Sarco's back door) w/dummy receiver to gun shows as a table display...There was another vendor who had a raked-grip FG-42 on display...(this was way before AirSoft had models)...Really interesting; he'd come over and look at our MG-34 and we'd go look at his FG-42... :D

Sadly, BATF leaned on the organizers and they banned MG displays...Even dummy displays... :(

I recall reading that Rheinmetall-Borsig had only made ~5,000 FG-42's...Back in the 70's, they were selling for ~$5,000... :eek:

Looking at my inflation calculator http://146.142.4.24/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl that translates to ~$20,000 now...

Yeah, I liked that one too, that's why I took a picture of it by itself. I'm going back in a couple of weeks and I told him I wanted to shoot the BAR and I would clean it.....:thumbup:

Harry

Harry..I'm tellin ya..shoot the MP40 and the Thompson! If you can..shoot the MP40 long range, They are amazingly accurate at 200 yards!

I would love to shoot a Thompson, but he sold his, didn't like it, go figure............:confused:

Harry

I can't imagine anyone not liking a Thompson!! They are just.......well awesome. Yuor firend has some very nice pieces. Thanks for the photos.

I have a 28 Thompson and an MP40. I prefer the MP40 hands down. The Tommy is not really ergonomic and sits awkwardly when brought up for sight aiming. It is heavy and the ammo is now expensive. I agree that the MP40 is very accurate. My group has informal shoots where we toss dayglo clay pigeons on the berm at 100 yards. The object is to hit at least 25 out of thirty with a 30round load in your subgun. I regularly win by single shooting the MP40 through trigger control. After much practice it is easy to hit each target with a single shot.

[QUOTE=The Tommy is not really ergonomic and sits awkwardly when brought up for sight aiming. [/QUOTE]

I thought that was the point of a Thompson, you didn't have to aim.......:)

Harry

Harry..I thought that was the point of a Thompson, you didn't have to aim.

That's a rookie Soldiers mistake. Spray and pray. One hit is worth more than a hundred misses.

And Doug has a VERY good point..where I fought ammunition was precious. You could only carry so much and you didn't waste it. Getting more was not assured.

Without getting too windy if you study the development and use of the submachine gun it was used for specific purposes, Trench sweeping, going forward thru an ambush..Only the squad leader generally carried an MP40 in the German units. Everyone else carried rifles.

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That's a rookie Soldiers mistake. Spray and pray. One hit is worth more than a hundred misses.QUOTE]

Ask those cats in the Chicago garage on St. Valentines day if aiming is necessary. I agree with the one hit statement, but if that's what your seeking in battle, use a M1Garand.......:thumbup:

Harry

Harry the submachine gun was not developed for urban warfare. However it DOES work well there as you say!

Only the squad leader generally carried an MP40 in the German units. Everyone else carried rifles.