June 7, 2017, 12:51 PM | #26 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 27, 2006
Posts: 2,313
|
Bill Donovan, head of the OSS, supposedly demonstrated a suppressed High Standard 22 pistol in the Oval Office for FDR.
__________________
The past is gone...the future may never happen. Be Here Now. |
June 7, 2017, 05:10 PM | #27 |
Senior Member
Join Date: June 8, 2016
Location: Cleveland, Ohio Suburbs
Posts: 1,750
|
Beyond clandestine spook type stuff I believe the US Government used 22 LR for training purposes. Matter of fact didn't the government have 22 LR adapter kits made for use on the 45 ACP 1911 pistol? These were actual GI conversion kits. I believe at one point the CMP was selling 500 round white box bricks of 22 LR which was US Government surplus stuff. I have one buried around here somewhere.I think the box I have was Remington manufactured.The government also used 22 LR rifles for rifle marksmanship training I believe. So while all the special ops stuff is cool I think that basic 22 LR served much more for more normal applications.
Ron |
June 7, 2017, 09:18 PM | #28 |
Junior member
Join Date: February 2, 2010
Posts: 6,846
|
"I believe at one point the CMP was selling 500 round white box bricks of 22 LR which was US Government surplus stuff..I think the box I have was Remington manufactured.The government also used 22 LR rifles for rifle marksmanship training I believe. "
I shot a lot of that on the 10 meter range back in 1970. "Bill Donovan, head of the OSS, supposedly demonstrated a suppressed High Standard 22 pistol" A very quiet piece of equipment. Pulled my butt out of a bad spot once upon a time. |
June 7, 2017, 09:30 PM | #29 | |
Junior member
Join Date: October 20, 2012
Posts: 5,854
|
Quote:
|
|
June 8, 2017, 01:42 AM | #30 | ||
Staff
Join Date: March 11, 2006
Location: Upper US
Posts: 28,817
|
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better. |
||
June 8, 2017, 06:25 AM | #31 |
Junior member
Join Date: February 2, 2010
Posts: 6,846
|
In theory, dropping the officer below the level of fire would prevent him being killed and disabling him to prevent him running away made capture easier. Generally speaking, the claymores simply "cleared the area" in front of their location so precise "get some but leave one" set-up would be hopeful at best.
I didn't have much to do with them as that was the duty of the security team and most often used trip wires or time delay(vs command detonation) to discourage folks from following our trail. |
June 10, 2017, 08:00 PM | #32 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 4, 2001
Posts: 7,478
|
Many of the services used .22 rifles for training.
I remember that Mossberg made a trainer bolt action that felt like and resembled an M1 Rifle for training. A number were sold through the CMP a few years ago. The services also used full-on .22 Target rifles. My old gun club was a DCM affiliated club and the Army lent us .22 Remington 513T, Winchester 52, and Remington 40X rifles. All of them were recalled and fed into Captain Crunch under orders of Bill Clinton. The Army used to shoot .22's on a 50 foot range they called the "1000 inch Range" in boot camp. Some Vietnam tunnel rats were issued WWII era High Standard .22 autos with silencers for clearing tunnels. I also seem to remember that there was a .22 conversion kit made for the 1903 Springfield called a "Gallery Practice Kit" back in the pre-WWII days. |
June 10, 2017, 08:05 PM | #33 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 4, 2001
Posts: 7,478
|
I read the story about Special Forces doing prisoner snatches by popping the officer in the kneecap in a book written by a SF soldier who served multiple tours in Vietnam with SOG.
He claimed that when it worked and they successfully grabbed one, they got a free weekend in Hong Kong. There were far stranger things then this that went on back then. |
June 11, 2017, 03:56 AM | #34 |
Senior Member
Join Date: April 7, 2006
Posts: 10,981
|
Hi Standard HD Militarys were never issued weapons. The HDM was a post-war civilian pistol. The military used model HD pistols, not HD Militarys.
|
April 16, 2022, 06:35 PM | #35 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: February 13, 2006
Location: Washington state
Posts: 15,248
|
Quote:
__________________
Never try to educate someone who resists knowledge at all costs. But what do I know? Summit Arms Services |
|
April 16, 2022, 06:59 PM | #36 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 29, 2010
Location: Hampstead NC
Posts: 1,450
|
Quote:
I cannot find any reference to it online right now, but in the book "Iron Fist From The Sea" which covers South African maritime raids in the 70s they mention a full auto .22, it wasn't suppressed. |
|
April 16, 2022, 07:18 PM | #37 |
Senior Member
Join Date: June 8, 2016
Location: Cleveland, Ohio Suburbs
Posts: 1,750
|
Sorch, you enlisted the last year I was a USMC Recruiter. 72 through 75 I recruited out of Cleveland, Ohio. I rotated out of Vietnam in early 72, went to recruiters school at MCRD San Diego and ended up in Cleveland.
My humorous memory of the Claymore Mine M18A1 was the large bold face print "Front Toward Enemy" not that anyone ever wanted to be directly behind one. Ron |
|
|