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To: digger48

Maybe grease guns? Tankers used to have them. They’re fairly crude weapons.


51 posted on 11/25/2015 8:02:41 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

I was a tank commander on an M48A3 tank in Vietnam. As part of the OEM equipment, every tank had 2 M-3A1 SMG’s on board. It was VERY controllable on full auto. (due to the slow cyclic rate of 450 rpm) I could easily keep a 30 round burst on a man sized target at 50 yards. The thing would shoot after dropping it in mud, scooping out the excess mud with your little finger from the chamber so a round could enter, (it fired from the open bolt) and the mud would be ejected along with the empty casings as it fired.


54 posted on 11/25/2015 9:16:47 PM PST by DMZFrank
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