by swimpat16 » Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:39 pm
Saw this video and 95% of my being said that it was a really bad idea if I wanted the gun to last... however, the last 5%, the tinkerer (is that a word?) in me said that it would be a really fun thing to try to do.
I did a little poking around and found that someone had did it and had run 3k rounds through the gun with no problems at the time of his post (~2 years ago). Also found a couple of videos with similar Thompson and M14 modifications.
While I wouldn't have time to do this right now, I thought it would be a fun little project to attempt in the near future. As far as I can tell, do right, the modification shouldn't harm anything internally, except add a little more stress to the internals. Anyone ever done anything of this nature? Has the gun lived to tell the tale? Just curious.
Thanks