30-06 Thompson video

[benedw60]

A video of the prototype 30-06 thompson

 

 

[Frank I.]

The late Mike Free once owned that 30-06 Thompson. He never fired it either. There are pictures of it in all editions of the American Thunder books.

Who is the guy in the video?

[Merry Ploughboy]

1 hour ago, Frank Iannamico said:

The late Mike Free once owned that 30-06 Thompson. He never fired it either. There are pictures of it in all editions of the American Thunder books.

Who is the guy in the video?

I believe that's John Bush, who also did the Thompson AGI video.

MHO, YMMV, etc.

[SP Sarge]

Cool video, that must have been a bear to shoot with such a big bullet. It would be interesting to hear what problems and issues they came across that led them to scrap the project.  I imagine that recoil system must be pretty robust. I wouldn't want to have to take the recoil spring out of it.  I have a hard enough time if I'm running a Wolf performance Spring on the regular Thompson lol.

[Melvin]

I was very lucky to handle and have this 30.06 Thompson in a few of my displays. I have often wondered what happen to it ???.

[Ryo]

I want to fire one..