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**Mike Irwin** · January 13, 2001, 02:04 AM

Dave McC,

I'll see your Tommy Gun and PPsH and raise you one Finnish Suomi!

I've also fired full-auto a drum-fed (ok, so it's actually a "pan") Lewis gun, a drum-fed Soviet light machine gun, and one of those funky .22 rifles by Ilarco(?) that was out in the 1980s.

Coolest drum-fed auto gun I ever fired? An Artillery Luger. Full-auto, you say? That's what we (owner and I) said when it broke as I was firing it!

Luckily, there were only 8 rounds in the magazine at that point, so it didn't get too spectacular.

But, you're absolutely correct about the handling characteristics of drum-fed guns. I'd not be interested in a shotgun so equipped.

January 13, 2001, 02:04 AM	#9
Mike Irwin Staff Join Date: April 13, 2000 Location: Northern Virginia Posts: 41,390	Dave McC, I'll see your Tommy Gun and PPsH and raise you one Finnish Suomi! I've also fired full-auto a drum-fed (ok, so it's actually a "pan") Lewis gun, a drum-fed Soviet light machine gun, and one of those funky .22 rifles by Ilarco(?) that was out in the 1980s. Coolest drum-fed auto gun I ever fired? An Artillery Luger. Full-auto, you say? That's what we (owner and I) said when it broke as I was firing it! Luckily, there were only 8 rounds in the magazine at that point, so it didn't get too spectacular. But, you're absolutely correct about the handling characteristics of drum-fed guns. I'd not be interested in a shotgun so equipped.