Thompsons are a piece of American history, and despite the ergonomic issues, there's a mystique about them that can't be denied.
I got to shoot one many years ago, when I was a youngster. I don't remember what type it was, but I know it worked with drum magazines, so it had to be a 1928 or earlier model. We were burning up some old 200gr SWC hand loads through it, and found a curious pattern. It would run like a scalded-ass ape in full auto, gobbling up mag after mag. But as soon as we switched to semi-auto, it would have failures-to-feed all over the place. It seemed to run OK in semi with 230gr ball, but that was expensive at the time and we had very little of it. So we just loaded up the 50-round drum and let loose with the SWC.


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