Ah long words...

@PripovednikYou gonna post?

@Error Want me to? xD

@PripovednikI bored. I need something to do and currently we are having a one on one. I help you and you never know who I am tll later

@Error Your helping me..?

EDIT: Ohhhh, your shooting at the zombie in my roooom. Okay yeah I'll post xD

Notice how I shoot the zombie that happens in the room you are in. Yes. I am helping you.

@Error Alright Mr, sarcasm levels reaching critical! done.

@PripovednikPosted

I never said it was a drum mag.

Oh, good... Happened to get a few stories from my neighbor who used those things quite a bit back in '42.
-His battalion suffered higher casualties on that little island than any other battalion during the entire war.
*"On Guadalcanal, one in 37 died, while troops in New Guinea had a one in 11 chance of dying"

2/126 of 32nd div: Walked in with 1300 men, walked out with 158, of which only about 20 were still fit to fight.
-See also: Huggins Road Block

The dovetail to guide the mag in is still a pain, though.

Yes. They have more ammo but they are heavy and cumbersome. Also I do belive the jam and are hardr to fix.

Off for the night. Cya you later!

Tell me when the RP hits nightfall.
-Oh, and I'm going to encounter a UAV near the airport, and like seasons 3-4 in the series, it'll be a bad omen.

Yes. They have more ammo but they are heavy and cumbersome. Also I do belive the jam and are hardr to fix.

Heavy, expensive, the mainspring breaks easily, and the 'can shaped drum was made of thin metal and could easily get dented.

Oh, and if you reloaded the drum incorrectly (to do it right, you had to release the mainspring without breaking it, and disassemble the drum, then place the bullets in the drum correctly, then re-assemble the monster, in the dark, starving, wet, literally covered in mud and shit, while being shot at.) The spring also had to be re-wound up just-so and often needed to be given a "boost" about halfway through or the lack of spring-pressure would cause a failure to feed.

The inside of the drum also had to be kept oiled and clean. But oil attracts dirt and mud, see also method of topping-off a drum and how much it sucked.

If you tried to crank it down all the way to avoid the need to crank the drum halfway-through, you'd often be rewarded by hearing the spring snap-off inside the drum. Now it's just an inert twenty pound steel ammo-box/paperwieght. Twigs getting into the drum-arms could also jam the feed.

Drum weighs nearly five-to-ten pounds once loaded (depending on 50 rd or 100 rd drum). Although the drum is beefy enough to take some abuse when empty... imagine hitting the mag of an M16 with a sledgehammer... that's what happened to a fully-loaded Tommy-drum nearly every time you fumbled and dropped it in combat.

Stick mags... weighed quite a bit less (a quarter of a 50 rd drum), and were a lot less likely to smash themselves like a snow-globe when dropped, they also didn't need to be disassembled nearly as often, so less mud in the mechanisms.

The PPSh-41 mags and the soviet insistence upon using them is another matter; for one, the ammo weighed quite a bit less, and they never tried stuffing 100 rounds into a single can. (in fact, many times the drum wasn't ever quite full due to supply issues)

Sorry for the late post, busy couple days.

@Remipa AwesomeThe shot ringing out, are you talking about me or issac. Becase if you look at my pos I have a flash suppresor. You know its over there but you cant see the flash nor the scope glint.

@Remipa Awesome

I Posted to Hunter :)

@Error Where you firing your rounds at buddy?

@PripovednikAt the wall behind you. They have a message on them. Read the post.

How is everyone :)

I am so happy this started up.

Sorry I disappeared, I was in a training accident an just got out of the hospital

I'll try to post in a few after I catch up

oh my gosh are you okay?????