USGI M3 surplus mags are way too pricy these days. I use the new grease gun mags from keepshooting.com. Cheap at 15.95, they work wonderfully, and are indistinguishable from surplus.
(Hmmm....must be the NSA and Google - 1st post went sideways - oh well - FBHO!!!)
I'll contact my friend who is going - he will be looking for Star PD45 mags for you. He'll have to mail them before he returns home, we're behind enemy lines in NYS.
Not for this mother's son. The ATF has known of my love for the M-3 for almost twenty years and has previously tried to set me up with one. Momma raised ugly kids, not dumb ones. No, these are for a semi-auto project carbine that is being built on a PPS-43 kit, only rebarreled in .45ACP with a MAC10 mag well and other ergonomic changes.
Yeah, I was (mostly) kidding. I always wanted my own M3 since I owned a Mattel 'Burp gun' which was a spring-driven full-auto cap gun. The original prototype M3, FYI, was built in a basement workshop in Brooklyn NY whence I hail.
Sometime back, however, somebody (it might have been you) remarked on the efficacy of aimed semi-auto rifle fire and I stopped lusting over full auto anything (save for the bragging rights accruing from ownership).
I, too, would be vewwy vewwy careful about anyone offering me exactly what I first suggested ;-)
I had a guy offer to sell me a browning hi-power he had brought back from iraq. from his description it was slotted for a shoulder stock and I was interested. nothing illegal about a BHP, how he got it back is not my concern.
then he started talking grenades..and I told him to go fishing with them and talk to me when they were gone.
funny thing is, the next day he got "moved to another division" and I never saw him again. funny how that works...
April 5, 2015 at 11:48 PM
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I discover I have need of a dozen or so USGI .45 ACP M-3 grease gun mags for myself. The best place to pick these up in my experience is dickering with vendors at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot. Unfortunately I will be at the NRA conclave that weekend. Are there any readers who are going to Knob Creek that weekend who might pick me up some? It ought to be a buyer's market this year for a whole variety of reasons. Of course I'll reimburse you for the expense. Please drop me an email if you can.
"Knob Creek & 30 round grease gun mags."
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USGI M3 surplus mags are way too pricy these days. I use the new grease gun mags from keepshooting.com. Cheap at 15.95, they work wonderfully, and are indistinguishable from surplus.
April 3, 2015 at 12:50 PM
(Hmmm....must be the NSA and Google - 1st post went sideways - oh well - FBHO!!!)
I'll contact my friend who is going - he will be looking for Star PD45 mags for you. He'll have to mail them before he returns home, we're behind enemy lines in NYS.
April 3, 2015 at 3:55 PM
Oops, an email. Well that put me on another list - LOL!!
Who said that? - "A man is judged by the number of governemnt lists he is on." Sam Adams I think.
April 3, 2015 at 3:58 PM
...and if there's an unpapered M3-A1 floating around, I know somebody who'd be interested ;-)
April 3, 2015 at 4:29 PM
E-mail inbound to aol address.
April 3, 2015 at 7:13 PM
Rexxhead,
Not for this mother's son. The ATF has known of my love for the M-3 for almost twenty years and has previously tried to set me up with one. Momma raised ugly kids, not dumb ones. No, these are for a semi-auto project carbine that is being built on a PPS-43 kit, only rebarreled in .45ACP with a MAC10 mag well and other ergonomic changes.
April 4, 2015 at 3:44 AM
Yeah, I was (mostly) kidding. I always wanted my own M3 since I owned a Mattel 'Burp gun' which was a spring-driven full-auto cap gun. The original prototype M3, FYI, was built in a basement workshop in Brooklyn NY whence I hail.
Sometime back, however, somebody (it might have been you) remarked on the efficacy of aimed semi-auto rifle fire and I stopped lusting over full auto anything (save for the bragging rights accruing from ownership).
I, too, would be vewwy vewwy careful about anyone offering me exactly what I first suggested ;-)
April 4, 2015 at 10:18 AM
I had a guy offer to sell me a browning hi-power he had brought back from iraq. from his description it was slotted for a shoulder stock and I was interested. nothing illegal about a BHP, how he got it back is not my concern.
then he started talking grenades..and I told him to go fishing with them and talk to me when they were gone.
funny thing is, the next day he got "moved to another division" and I never saw him again. funny how that works...
April 5, 2015 at 11:48 PM