Originally Posted by
Herschel
No one ever had to get out of a tank with an "M1 tanker". I understand, without researching it, that that there were only a very few prototypes assembled and it never became a
production item. I have had a strong dislike for these short barreled M1 rifles since I was once squaded next to one in a hipower match. The noise was terrible and that was a time
in my life that I was frequently on the firing line with numerous M1 rifle shooters.
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Same experience here. An M1 SOCOM is just as bad.
Phillip McGregor (OFC)
"I am neither a fire arms nor a ballistics expert, but I was a combat infantry officer in the Great War, and I absolutely know that the bullet from an infantry rifle has to be able to shoot through things." General Douglas MacArthur