Re: Cave Gun Part II
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Whats the story on that .45 Kraig?</div></div>
I fell in love with the 1911a1 while in SE Asia. Reliablity mainly, didn't seem to care how much mud and gunk you got on it (and you get gunk crawling on your hands and knees with the 1911a1 in one hand and flash light in the other) it still worked.
So one of the first things I got when I got home was that 1911a1. Its a Colt with a US&SC slide. It shoots good. I used it a time or two when I shot the AK NG's Combat Pistol Team.
As too concussions. Sometimes if you remembered, you stuffed cig filters in your ears. In reality, you were so frggin scared you didn't hear the gun.
Maybe the soft mud sucked up some of the concussion, I don't know.
As to the M-7....that wasn't for fighting. I was a small guy (scrawny) but the little guys who dug the tunnels were smaller then me so the bayonet was to dig the holes so I could fit them.
Understand, we didn't have tunnel rats per se (I doubt many units did), they just grabbed the smallest guy standing around.
That's why I liked the M-60. When it came to "drafting" people to go down the holes, the gunner was normally down the trail providing security.
Like I said, not taticool by todays standard, but it would be my first choice today (except I'm too fat now).
