Sling attachment WW2 Bond poster

[joseph12297]

Does anyone know if this was artistic license or did someone manufacture a front sling attachment similar to this??

 

[jim c 351]

Joe,

I have a movie poster from the movie Sahara, staring Humphrey Bogart as M/Sgt Joe Gunn. He is holding a Tommy with a similar front sling swivel. May be a Hollywood invention.

Jim C

[ThompsonCrazy]

I thought I saw an advert with this style sling swivel attachment as being offered. I want to say it was from the 1920's era. I'll look around but no promises. Maybe while doing research for Mills and Rusco gun carry bags/pouches I saw something similar.

 

TC

 

Apparently Stembridge had one

 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yNOLfgt3QzA/T-Y8ooSky1I/AAAAAAAAAkQ/Hh5otnmcbZw/s1600/BogieModel1928.jpg

Edited February 18, 2014 by ThompsonCrazy

[Raining Brass]

Is it just me, or does that Stembridge Cutts look huge to anyone else too?

[jim c 351]

Is it just me, or does that Stembridge Cutts look huge to anyone else too?

The Cutts has to be drilled out so the Blank restrictor can be installed in the barrel.

Jim C

[Mike Hammer]

This type of sling attachment was covered in a old thread here some years ago, I think I showed some of the same photos. The blank compensator has been covered in many different threads regarding the film Thompsons.

 

Here is another photo from "Sahara" with Bogy. This time Bruce Bennett as "Waco" is brandishing it. There is also a close-up of it. I don't know if these were Hollywood made or if they came off of some other type of weapon.

 

That film is my second favorite Bogy film next to "Casablanca". Bogy considered "Sahara" his favorite film. Over the years I was fortunate enough to contact a few cast members from the film and have them autograph some of my film memorabilia, Bruce, Lloyd Bridges, Kurt Kruger, Dan Duryea, (they are all gone now)

 

If you are interested in a similar sling attachment for your Thompson, (but a bit more modern) here is one pictured put out by Uncle Mike's which I had on my Thompson for a few years.

 

Mike Hammer

 

 

 

 

Edited March 5, 2023 by Mike Hammer

[Rogue]

Any more information on the Sahara barrel / swivel attachment. It looks interesting.

How well does that Uncle Mikes QD clamp work on the barrel? Did it scratch up your barrel?

 

At first I was thinking of attaching a swivel on the front vertical foregrip of mine,

but I am not sure how well it will hold given the heavy weight of the gun. I'm afraid it may just bent the whole front end attachment

any advice?

[reconbob]

I would assume that the artist who did the poster used Hollywood sources as a guide. It would be

interesting to know if this poster was created after the movie Sahara. But certainly this would explain

the artist copying the non-military swivel in his painting.

I posted this years back - one of my favorite examples of artists just copying what they see as opposed

to having any real knowledge. This is the cover of an old Doc Savage book. The Doc Savage books were

originally printed in the 1930's and then reprinted with new attractive, colorful covers in paperback form

in the 1960's - right when the Mattel Tommy Burst - a cap gun - was a popular toy. Apparently the cover

artist for this book used one when he did the cover as he was so attentive to detail he even painted the little

door on the front of the magazine where you loaded the paper roll of caps! Of course Doc Savage was

supposed to have a real Thompson, not a Tommy Burst...

 

 

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f392/reconbob/Doc.jpg

 

Bob

 

[mnshooter]

Any more information on the Sahara barrel / swivel attachment. It looks interesting.

How well does that Uncle Mikes QD clamp work on the barrel? Did it scratch up your barrel?

 

At first I was thinking of attaching a swivel on the front vertical foregrip of mine,

but I am not sure how well it will hold given the heavy weight of the gun. I'm afraid it may just bent the whole front end attachment

any advice?

Looking at your photo:

You have to stop storing your Thompson in the same drawer with the Viagra.

[Rogue]

 

 

Any more information on the Sahara barrel / swivel attachment. It looks interesting.

How well does that Uncle Mikes QD clamp work on the barrel? Did it scratch up your barrel?

 

At first I was thinking of attaching a swivel on the front vertical foregrip of mine,

but I am not sure how well it will hold given the heavy weight of the gun. I'm afraid it may just bent the whole front end attachment

any advice?

Looking at your photo:

You have to stop storing your Thompson in the same drawer with the Viagra.

I know, I know. I live in the Peoples Republic of CA. Out here we have to pretend we have short ones unlike you guys in Minn. can have

I'm just happy I have one..who cares?

Of course I can always Photochop it

[Mike Hammer]

Rogue, I had the Uncle Mike's clamp on my Thompson for several years and only took it off because I was not using a sling, it actually looked like it belonged to the gun. It did not affect the finish of the barrel, here is a blown-up section of the only photo I have of it on my gun, ( the gun is slightly on an angle). The "Sahara" gun attachment was most certainly a made-up part, either by the studio craftsman or Stembridge rentals who owned the gun. If you don't want to mount a clamp to your front vertical grip, this would be an easy alternative.

 

Mike Hammer

 

 

 

Edited March 5, 2023 by Mike Hammer

[Banjo]

Had one on a 1928 for over ten years. It never hurt the barrel, but I was never comfortable with it. You feel like if you make it tight enough so it can't slip it might damage the barrel just from compression, so you hold back and don't tighten it too much. Then you worry that if you pull on the sling, it will slip and damage the barrel. I finally couldn't stand it any more and took it off. On close inspection I could see no marks of any kind; you couldn't tell it had ever been on there but as I said, I was never fully confident that it wouldn't do some damage at some point.

[Mike Hammer]

Bob: Don't know if James Bama did that Doc Savage cover but I think so as he did most of the 60's covers for them, Bamas work as an illustrator got better as the years went on. For those of you unfamiliar with Doc Savage, it was one of the greatest pulp magazines of the 30's and 40's. The creators of "Superman" got the idea for their comic character by reading Doc Savage pulps. The man who wrote most of those Savage stories was named Lester Dent, AKA Kenneth Robeson, (publishing house name) probably the most prolific pulp writer of the day who could spin a great yarn and use his own fascination with the latest scientific gadgetry of the 30's, they are still great fun to read and that is why they are still being published.

 

Over the years I have collected not only the bantam paperback editions of the 60's & 70's but also have some of the original pulps, here is one of them. The artwork on the 30's & 40's pulps are great, in 2005 I found out that one of the artists who painted the original Doc Savage pulps of the 30's was still alive, I contacted him and he signed a couple of prints for me. This cover from a 1937 edition was painted by him, Robert G. Harris. Trying to keep the history alive, those must have been great days.

 

Mike Hammer

Edited July 30, 2014 by Mike Hammer

[Rogue]

Thanks for your input guys

 

Yeah I was thinking it may slip out than scratch it up.

How about if I put some sort of cushion or buffer in between where the clamp and the barrel meet?

 

or Just purchasing 2 items: a Thompson swivel and then attaching it to a new front vertical foregrip

But would it hold or bend given the weight of the gun?

[anjong-ni]

"Sling barrel band..$10"

 

There is one is still in the D.R. Catalog, Page 37...Phil

Edited August 2, 2014 by anjong-ni

[OCM]

Sahara....