{"id":2097,"date":"2013-08-04T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/08\/04\/ways-to-spend-rainy-afternoon\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:22:39","slug":"ways-to-spend-rainy-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2097","title":{"rendered":"Ways To Spend A Rainy Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12968,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.visualkiai.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12969,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ncgunblog.com\\\/2013\\\/08\\\/03\\\/i-get-to-shoot-a-tommy-gun&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ncgunblog.com\\\/2013\\\/08\\\/03\\\/i-get-to-shoot-a-tommy-gun&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThere are many different ways you could spend a rainy afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>You could curl up with a good book.<\/p>\n<p>The rain on the roof could make a nap even more enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>Or, you could shoot a full-auto Thompson submachine gun.<\/p>\n<p>This past Wednesday, Sean Sorrentino and I did the last on the list. Thanks to one of Sean&#8217;s readers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualkiai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">artist Guy Smalley<\/a>, we had a great time with Guy&#8217;s Thompson Model 1928 W.H. We also shot a number of other rifles and pistols but the Thompson was the highlight of the afternoon. You can see Guy holding his Thompson with its 50-round drum magazine below. Sean has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgunblog.com\/2013\/08\/03\/i-get-to-shoot-a-tommy-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video of him loading the drum magazine<\/a>. Through the wonders of editing, it came out OK despite me being the one taking the video.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Smalley-004.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Smalley-004.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\nDue to the weight of the Thompson plus the Cutts compensator, the Thompson at full auto is very controllable. The muzzle didn&#8217;t rise that much and it was very easy to keep on target regardless of whether you were firing in short bursts or letting it run.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other firearms we had available to shoot range from Sean&#8217;s Templar Custom AR-15 to my IBM M-1 Carbine to a whole ton of Guy&#8217;s firearms. You can see some of the assortment in the next two pictures.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/smalley-001.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/smalley-001.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 1<\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Smalley-003.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Smalley-003.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 2<\/td>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nUnfortunately, we didn&#8217;t have time enough to fire everything but we did get to fire quite an assortment.<\/p>\n<p>We ended the afternoon firing Guy&#8217;s AR-50 .50 BMG rifle. The muzzle break reduced the felt recoil tremendously. It kicked less than the Mosin-Nagant Model 44 pictured above. They both tore some big divots into the hillside in which we were shooting.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Smalley-005.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Smalley-005.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nOne of the more interesting aspects of the afternoon is that Guy and I live less than a 5 minute drive apart but had never met before even though we live in a little town. I think we&#8217;ll be doing some more shooting together in the future.<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank both Sean and Guy for providing great company on a wet afternoon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many different ways you could spend a rainy afternoon. You could curl up with a good book.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2931,1726,803,2932],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-guy-smalley","tag-plinking","tag-sean-sorrentino","tag-thompson-submachine-gun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9380,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/9380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}