I've blank fired the M1 Garand and M1A1 Thompson Sub Machine Gun and I've live fired a version of the M2 .50Cal Heavy Machine gun.
I own a deactivated .303" Lee Enfield No4 Mk1* rifle and a deactivated M1 Garand which I use for my WW2 Living history hobby. I used to own a deactivated 9mm STEN Mk2 SMG but sold that to help fund my WW2 US Army equipment purchases.
Marc Newell "Screaming Eagles" Living History Group. C Company, 326th Airborne Engineer Battalion, 101st Airborne (Re-enacted)
quote:Originally posted by KG2323: Two questions to Gamers:
1. Have u ever held or fired a ww2 weapon? 2. If so, wut weapon and where did u do this?
jus wonderin...
I found in a barn an old Luger (I'm living in Belgium so it could happen). I was 7 years old and I lost it because I said it wasn't real (because a luger is a weird gun for a revolver loving boy of 7). I now will seek the barn agian, hoping to find a karabiner 98k or something . I couldn't fire the luger but if I will find the luger again, I will look for ammo and fire it, that's for sure
really only interested in brit guns so go to our local musueum to see guns such as sten,enfield,webley,bren,obviously you cannot fire them.lol......p.s man the bren looks very,very heavy
I own a M1 Carbine, K98 Mauser, M48 Mauser, Mosian Nagant 91/30. I fired the M2 Browning 50cal when I was in the military. Also have fired many 1911 colt handguns....but my ulitimte weapon that I will own someday...a full auto MG-42....1100 rps...ohhh yea
quote:Originally posted by uniballer63: I own a M1 Carbine, K98 Mauser, M48 Mauser, Mosian Nagant 91/30. I fired the M2 Browning 50cal when I was in the military. Also have fired many 1911 colt handguns....but my ulitimte weapon that I will own someday...a full auto MG-42....1100 rps...ohhh yea
the weapons i have fired, from reenacting are all blanks, but still just as nice..they are colt 1911, garand, carbine, 30cal, thompson, BAR and p17 (ww1) i am getting my own live firing springfield very soon though. i also own a deactivated thompson and used to have a deac garand.
I've never fired a bullit with a ww2 weapon, but I did with a diemaco c7 (standard weapon for the dutch infantery). Burst, and full automatic, that's realy cool. Also with a "buks"
"We fight together... We die together" -=[U|F]=-Torpex [NL] since june 2004