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Unread 10-11-2009, 06:24 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by klw View Post
All that I remember is that it was a wonderful machine pistol. As long as the trigger was depressed the gun fired in full automatic...
I had a brand-new High Standard Supermatic w/6 3/4" bbl back in the 70's; did the same thing...I was at a sandpit, shooting at cans, loaded up the mag, squeezed the trigger and it made a lazy baaang...and when I squeezed the trigger again, nothing happened...the mag was empty...

Not really much fun...unless you count watching the shells arc across the sky, all in a nice lazy crescent...

Traded it in for a S&W Mod 41 to a smith in Curriers NY...Don't recall if he ever figured it out or not...
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