Slick
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Have just spent 2 hours looking through this. I suspect a few of you will do the same.
http://www.lonesentry.com/blog/category/weapons
http://www.lonesentry.com/blog/category/weapons
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Wished I hadn't run across this one
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pointblank0
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Thanks for the link. I haven't got time to look throgh today bt have saved it on my favorites.
Slick
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John,
Yes, the real thing is slower, by about half. One of the frequent visitors to the old range had a number of surplused "Stembridge" guns. His father had worked for them in '60s-'70s. Anyway, all of his examples were originals converted to blank-only use. In addition to barrel modifications(internally threaded BFD/BFA), different springs were used to facilitate full-auto fire with blanks. They were a hoot to shoot, but sadly, blanks were very expensive in comparison to the real stuff, so they were mainly brought along for the "Hey, look at this!" option and only a few "rounds" were expended. All of the cyclic rates were much higher; some near MAC-10 speeds, I suppose due to "softer" springs.
Pointblank0,
Yea, I'm still going thru it. Lots of neat stuff in there.
Rick
Yes, the real thing is slower, by about half. One of the frequent visitors to the old range had a number of surplused "Stembridge" guns. His father had worked for them in '60s-'70s. Anyway, all of his examples were originals converted to blank-only use. In addition to barrel modifications(internally threaded BFD/BFA), different springs were used to facilitate full-auto fire with blanks. They were a hoot to shoot, but sadly, blanks were very expensive in comparison to the real stuff, so they were mainly brought along for the "Hey, look at this!" option and only a few "rounds" were expended. All of the cyclic rates were much higher; some near MAC-10 speeds, I suppose due to "softer" springs.
Pointblank0,
Yea, I'm still going thru it. Lots of neat stuff in there.
Rick