According to accounts, the Ma-
rines detested their Reisings based on their unreliability in the jungles of the Solomon Islands in the early 1942/1943 campaigns. It’s even said that one US Marine Corps battalion commander gathered up all of the Re- isings in his unit after a fight and had them dumped in a river. Whether that is myth or truth is unsure but it is in- dicative of the feelings troops had for that weapon. What is for sure is that by 1943 enough Thompson subma- chine guns were coming out of their factories that the use of Reisings by American Marines was stopped.
Duke’s Collection Of the seven basic .45 ACP military
weapons listed above, my personal collection has samples of six. The one missing is a Reising and since a friend owns one — I’ll pass on them. My .45 ACP guns of US military heri- tage are as follows: a US Model 1911, two US Model 1911A1s, each Smith & Wesson and Colt US Model 1917s, an M1 Thompson and an M3 “grease gun.” To feed all these .45 ACPs, I’ve settled on a factory duplication load of 5.4 grains of Hodgdon’s HP38 powder under any makers’ 230-grain
FMJ bullet. To help with expenses I often substitute my own home cast 220-grain lead alloy roundnose bul- lets from a 4-cavity Lyman mould #452374 or 230-grain lead-alloy roundnose bullets from Oregon Trail Bullet Company. Oddly enough, that powder charge with jacketed bullets duplicates factory loads and there- fore gives the same cyclic rate in the submachine guns. However, with the lead-alloy bullets the same powder charge generates less pressure, hence less velocity, and results in a slower rate of rounds per minute. It’s a mi- nor point. Since this is my article, I’m now go-
ing to say what I think of these .45 ACP military weapons but not as some ex- pert on military affairs. Instead, I’m judging them from the viewpoint of one of today’s recreational shooters. First off, I love both versions of the 1911 autos. I shoot them well despite the hammer bite problem they are so well known for. That’s when the ham- mer pinches a bit of flesh from the web of the shooter’s hand. Sometimes, I just go ahead and put a piece of tape on that area before shooting because I know I’ll bleed there otherwise. As for both versions of 1917 revolvers: they
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are fine big-bore double-action hand- guns, but I freely admit not being able to hit a barn door with either shooting double action. In single action mode I can hit as well as with the 1911s. The Thompson submachine gun is
a hoot. I see its fault in that it tends to climb with long bursts of fire. The remedy is not to shoot long bursts. If I fire 3- or 4-round bursts at steel plates at about 50 yards, I’ll get at least 50 percent hits most of the time. I have fed my M1 Thompson about every sort of .45 ACP ammunition you can imagine and it has never failed to function. As for the “grease gun,” if I were going to sell one of my full-au- tos it would likely be the first to go. I think I’d even keep the British STEN longer. The M3 will only feed FMJ or hard-lead roundnose bullets. Even then it will occasionally jam. The Re- ising? Well, they are interesting guns, but the single one I’ve been able to fire upholds the US Marine Corps charge of
it being unreliable. My friend’s
sample has lots of stoppages. Not all that many years ago I was
sans any .45 ACP firearms at all. Now that’s changed and I consider it for the better. I’ve learned much about them in the past decade. *
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