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tombogan03884

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Re: Easy way to add a rail to a 1911
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2017, 03:12:41 PM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on January 16, 2017, 02:02:39 PM
I was thinking about this comment last night and came to the conclusion that although JMB didn't put an attachment for an oil lamp on the 1911 he didn't anticipate high intensity weapons lights that are small enough and light enough to mount on a handgun. Tyhe man was a freakin' genius but couldn't predict what would happen 100 years in the future.



LOL I'm not so sure about that, we're still using 2 of his pistols and his machine guns, Hiram Maxim can't say that.  His only competitor is Richard Gatling.
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Re: Easy way to add a rail to a 1911
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2017, 04:39:30 PM »
That was my first thought too, Tom!

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Re: Easy way to add a rail to a 1911
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2017, 04:47:40 PM »
the m 2 is not going away any time soon.


its used land, sea and air. 
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Re: Easy way to add a rail to a 1911
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2017, 05:56:00 AM »
Not bad for a gun that started out with a water jacket.
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Re: Easy way to add a rail to a 1911
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2017, 02:25:16 PM »
I worked on a lot of M2s in the army and almost all were made at A.C. Spark Plug in my home town of Flint, MI during WWII. I also worked on M85 .50 caliber machine guns. There were some things better about the M85 but the M2 was a better all-around gun. Wikipedia says the M85 was extremely unreliable but I didn't see that problem. It wasn't a complicated design like they said either. It had about the same number of parts as the M2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M85_machine_gun
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Re: Easy way to add a rail to a 1911
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2017, 04:01:29 PM »
the main reason they made the m85 was to make it smaller....  the bad part is they have different links, so if you get the wrong one you are screwed.   
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Re: Easy way to add a rail to a 1911
« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2017, 06:37:31 PM »
IIRC on the M2 the round is pulled backward out of the link before it feeds and on the M85 it just pushes through like most other machine guns.
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