![]() There is a bit of recoil (and climb) reduction from a moderator, both due to additional weight up front and due to the reduced jet reaction from the muzzle blast.Various underground resistance group factoriesģ.7–4.6 million (all variants, depending on source) There had been some other gunny books in the shop, but someone had snitched and the local cops had stolen them “You don’t want these, do you (said with the intonation of an ominous threat, rather than a question)”.Īnyway, about the most effective moderator tested was the original, asymmetric Maxim moderator. I got an old copy of the reprint of united state tests on moderators, from a second hand bookshop in HarrogateĪpparently the book had been in Rhodesia during the Smithy UDI years. IIRC, the sionics suppressor was overly complicated to make, with a spiral baffle after a wire mesh filled expansion (and heat sink) chamber. He had quite a lot of space devoted to Mitch WerBell (a self described “exceptionally quiet American”). Memories of reading Truby’s books on moderators when I was in my late teens. ‘fraid I’m on a terrible mobile connection, and having to use a VPN to even get FW to loadĭidn’t the M10 have a lead filled bolt to reduce the rate of fire within the limited size of the receiver and bolt? Many imitations and copies would follow, but Powder Springs was the home of true original Ingram M10 and M11 submachine guns!Īpologies in advance if Ian has covered this, I haven’t seen the vid. MAC would have a short life, with all its assets sold at a bankruptcy auction in April 1976 – but it had plenty of time to create what would become an iconic gun – the Big MAC. 45ACP M10, a 9mm version of the M10 (made for use with subsonic 9mm ammunition), and a scaled-down. He would create the Military Armament Corporation based at his farm in Powder Springs, GA and entice Ingram to join as his chief engineer. He thought the combination of Ingrams submachine gun and his suppressor would be a fantastic package, and he found plenty of interest in special operations personnel in Vietnam. WebBell was an ex-OSS man who had started a company called Sionics, selling suppressors to the US military. It found little interest until a meeting between Gordon Ingram and Mitch WerBell resulted in WerBell demonstrating it to excited military audiences in Vietnam in 1969. Instead of a Thompson lookalike Ingram’s M10 (the M7, M8, and M9 doing experimental prototypes only) would be a boxy and compact affair with a Czech-style telescoping bolt. M10/45 (lot 1069), M10/9 (lot 1070), and M11 (lot 1067)Īfter the commercial failure of Gordon Ingram’s M6 submachine gun in the early 50s, we would radically change the layout of his designs. These Ingram SMGs are selling in the April 2019 Morphy’s auction: ![]()
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