StrangeRanger

A sow's ear plus a potful of parts still ain't no silk purse. IMHO the design is inherently compromised for the sake of profit on S&W's part and while it can be improved a bit no amount of fixing is going to make a thing of beauty

Now all you need to do is solve the non-indexing barrel, the wobbly stock, the crappy sights and the tendency of the receiver end cap cross pin to elongate the holes in the receiver. It's not America's answer to the Swedish K; it's not even America's answer to the Sten which had none of those issues

The crossbolt stock is a significant durability improvement. It would be unwise to retrofit a stock without

Sort of off-topic but what percentage of young Brits have ever heard of Dieppe or St. Nazaire much less any of the smaller operations? Most of American youth recognize the names but know damned little about Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, D-Day or The Bulge but don't even recognize Peleliu, Tarawa, Falaise or Mortain. Bluto's reference in Animal House to "when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor" is sadly not as humorous it was meant to be.

Very nice, IMNSHO you have the best possible configuration for a Thompson (just like mine except my upper and lower don't match)

Think of it as an homage to those who fought in the Falklands

It's better than an L85A2

Both 20s and 30s work about as well. The ones in good shape work, those that aren't don't. I only have 30s. 20s run out of ammo too soon 🤣

Standard #5 taper pins can be trimmed to length. Never could figure out what that radiused cutout in the side was supposed to do

Thomas Massie and Chip Roy will both be gone after Npvember Massie lost in the primary election for his current seat Roy lost in the primary for Texas AG

I had PISCO in Coquille Oregon do my Broomhandle but their website seems to be inactive. Don't know if they're still in business

The sights would have to be considerably out of line with the barrel axis to get you that far off point of aim. Do a quick measurement centerline of barrel to centerline of front blade and centerline of receiver to centerline of rear aperture. They should be the same. If the problem has to do with the barrel to receiver joint the barrel would be visibly far out of line with the receiver and it is doubtful that it would still function reliably. My M-30 Broomhandle had a similar (but not as severe) a problem. Having the barrel re-lined solved it.

The 2" high may be a feature not a bug. Some WWII era weapons have sights that are intended to be held on the belt line to get center of mass hits. The idea is not to have sighting the gun obscure additional threats. Don't know if that's the case with the Owen. See where the elevation prints at 50 yds.

Same seller same workmanship (or lack thereof. It's not British but it belongs in this thread https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1179485271 The receiver appears to turn up slightly at the weld behind the ejection port then the barrel turns way downward at the trunnion weld. I guess he never heard of a mandrel. Unbelievable

FWIW most, if not all, other SMGs with a readily removable barrel have some sort of device, normally a lug or a pin that engages the receiver and prevents barrel rotation. I can completely understand not wanting to modify an original S&W but clones are a different matter entirely. If I had kept my Burgess 76 working out something to index the barrel mechanically was high on my list of modifications

How many MG owners are there? How many soccer moms who think MGs should be banned are there? Politicians first priority is getting re-elected. They do a head count and vote accordingly

So if it passes (and it won't) and post-samples become transferable what happens? The states that have MG bans will keep them in place Some states that currently rely on the Feds and do not currently have MG bans will look at the potential influx of MGs and enact state bans How is this a net win?

I have a (Gen 1) Vortex Viper PST 6-24x50 FFP with the EBR-2C (MOA) reticle on my Barrett M99. Great scope zero problems. (Also available with a MIL reticle but I've been thinking and shooting in MOA for 50 years, too late to change) Go with the Barrett Zero-Gap rings and use their torque specs nor Vortex's

There are some basic differences between the 38A and the 38/4X receivers. The most difficult to resolve is the absence of the track for the cocking handle. You might be time and money ahead just buying a 38/42-44. The difference in performance is negligible

I emailed Graf's asking them: Is PPU permanently out of the US market or is this just a temporary situation? If it is temporary do you know when they may return? Their response: The delays will continue as long as Russia and Ukraine are at war. Apparently Serbia is busily supplying small arms ammo to at least one side in the conflict All I can about that say is: Slava Ukraini

oops posted to wrong thread🙄

PPU is also my only source of .268" dia. projos for my Carcano but I have a good supply of those and I shoot it very little. Worst comes to worst I can sacrifice accuracy shoot .264s. Don't really have a plan B on the Tok/Mauser bullets

Does anyone have a source of affordable .308-.309" dia. 85-90gr RN or FMJ projos? PPUs are simply no longer available Hornady long ago discontinued their 85gr. RNs and their otherwise wonderful XTPs will not feed in a Broomhandle and are expensive at 24¢ and at best marginal in my SMGs Sierra might as well gold plate their 90gr. RNs for their asking price. I'm willing to drop 40¢ per round to feed the Broomhandle but not the SMGs (PPU was 16¢.) I've checked all the manufacturers that I'm familiar with and even looked for polymer coated .30 cal projos but I found nothing lighter than 115gr. carbine projos. I'm looking for the same bullets that .30 Tokarev uses so I cannot believe that there is no source.

Apparently the bidders all wanted to "buy the gun not the story" 🤣

Looks like a Soviet era Nagant screwdriver which somehow (I don't remember the reason) ended up being called a Thompson screwdriver How it ended up in a UK made TSMG case I cannot begin to guess