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Posted: 10/25/2023 10:04:45 PM EDT
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A few years ago I got to play around with one of the Crosman AR-style BB machineguns and had a great time in the back of my old warehouse. That being said, they always seemed like a couple/few hundred bucks that could go to something way more practical. That is until I just learned that there was a "Legends" series, including an M1 Thompson, and MP40, and a M3 "Greasegun". They all look SUPER cool, and I have to admit that the M3 and MP40 are REALLY tempting. has anyone messed around with these, and can you provide some practical experience (and gratuitous pictures)? |
| No pics but a few years ago I bought one of those Umerex Mk18 clones that shoot semi and 8 round burst .177cal round BBs. It’s fun and with a few modifications you can install a Magpul MOE stock on it replacing the crap factory stock. I also mounted a cheap Bushnell red dot on it. It’s pretty accurate at 25 yards but that’s it. I’ve been using it to plink and shoot Iguanas and citrus rats in the back of my property. I would like to upgrade to the Sig Rattler BB sub gun. I hear good things about it. |
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Originally Posted By jackinil: Have the MP40 and M1A1 Thompson. Go through CO2 like water but a fun change of pace from springers,multi-pumps. MP40 is currently"on loan" to a grandson downstate. https://i.imgur.com/2bGSQJ9.jpg https://i.imgur.com/X3cNLLW.jpg Those are both SUPER cool. Gah, I'd LOVE all three!!! Question on the furniture, the Thompson's stock is plastic, right? I guess with these you just buy CO2 by the hundred pack... |
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Originally Posted By SnaitN: Those are both SUPER cool. Gah, I'd LOVE all three!!! Question on the furniture, the Thompson's stock is plastic, right? I guess with these you just buy CO2 by the hundred pack... Originally Posted By SnaitN: Originally Posted By jackinil: Have the MP40 and M1A1 Thompson. Go through CO2 like water but a fun change of pace from springers,multi-pumps. MP40 is currently"on loan" to a grandson downstate. https://i.imgur.com/2bGSQJ9.jpg https://i.imgur.com/X3cNLLW.jpg Those are both SUPER cool. Gah, I'd LOVE all three!!! Question on the furniture, the Thompson's stock is plastic, right? I guess with these you just buy CO2 by the hundred pack... Id go broke buying CO2 and BB’s. I can just imagine the trouble and trauma I could have caused as a kid if I’d had access to one of those fun guns. My Red Rider got me into enough trouble. |
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Originally Posted By sparkyD: Id go broke buying CO2 and BB’s. I can just imagine the trouble and trauma I could have caused as a kid if I’d had access to one of those fun guns. My Red Rider got me into enough trouble. I got in enough trouble with my Daisy Model 25! 
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I wonder which model would work best with a Picatinny rail installed after drilling and tapping the upper receiver? Do any of them come from the factory with scope mount holes already drilled? Is there any way to recycle the CO2 cartridges, or are they a one and done proposition? |
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Originally Posted By borderpatrol: I wonder which model would work best with a Picatinny rail installed after drilling and tapping the upper receiver? Do any of them come from the factory with scope mount holes already drilled? Is there any way to recycle the CO2 cartridges, or are they a one and done proposition? No scope mount holes. CO2 cartridges are one and done. |
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Originally Posted By Yea-Right: I got the DPMS M4 BB gun last year on black Friday for $99. It's a blast. That's the kind I've messed around with before, one of our customers sent us one at my previous office and we spent an afternoon shooting random junk in the back of the terminal... was too much fun. |
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