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The Annoyed Man wrote:http://www.notpurfect.com/main/thompson.html:

The upper receiver of the Thompson, stripped, and ready for cleaning and lubrication. The firing pin is located inside of the bolt, and is not designed to be removed for normal maintenance. Note that the current production Thompson uses a pure blowback action, with no locking of the bolt. Note also, that there is no Blish device in the current production models. The Blish device was an H shaped piece of brass or bronze which was a part of the original design. It's function was to reduce the cyclic rate of the gun. Such a device is hardly required in a semi auto firearm, and even it's relevance for the full auto version was a matter of debate.

Reassemble of the Thompson is similar to the disassembly process.

More on the Blish Device:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun

The Thompson Submachine Gun was developed by General John T. Thompson who originally envisioned an auto rifle (semi-automatic rifle) to replace the bolt action service rifles then in use. While searching for a way to allow such a weapon to operate safely without the complexity of a recoil or gas operated mechanism, Thompson came across a patent issued to John Bell Blish in 1915 based on adhesion of inclined metal surfaces under pressure.[8] Thompson found a financial backer, Thomas F. Ryan, and started the Auto-Ordnance Company in 1916 for the purpose of developing his auto rifle. The principal designers were Theodore H. Eickhoff, Oscar V. Payne, and George E. Goll. By late 1917, the limits of the Blish Principle were discovered: rather than working as a locked breech, it functioned as a friction-delayed blowback action. It was found that the only cartridge currently in U.S. service suitable for use with the lock was the .45 ACP round.

http://www.museedelaguerre.ca/cwm/exhib ... rms-f.aspx

Fusil automatique Huot-Ross
Joseph-Alphonse Huot créa la Huot-Ross Rifle Company. Huot, ancien employé de la Ross Rifle Company, transforma le fusil Ross de fabrication canadienne en une mitrailleuse légère entièrement automatique. Cette arme ne dépassa pas le stade de prototype et ne fut jamais fabriquée en série.

Carabine automatique
MCG 19940001-791

The above text translates roughly as:

Huot-Ross Automatic Rifle
Joseph-Alphonse Huot created the Huot-Ross Rifle Company. Huot, former employee of the Ross Rifle Company, transformed the Ross rifle of Canadian manufacture into a light completely automatic machine gun. This weapon did not pass prototype stage and was never manufactured in production.

Automatic Carbine
MCG 19940001-791

I am an Internet commando, and I didn't even have to go to Canada! You may all bow down, throw flowers, and burn incense in my honor now.


Sorry sapper740.... All meant in good fun.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Purplehood wrote:

sapper740 wrote: ask him what a Huot or a Blish device is. If he can't answer those questions, tell him thanks but no thanks.
Y'all have a happy Fourth!

Just so you don't have to google it,

A Huot is a fine looking woman. A Blish is what you do when she turns around and notices that you are noticing that she is Huot.

You're my new Internet Knowledge hero! So can you tell me what a "murphy bar" or a "framistram" is? Inquiring minds, and all that.....

sapper740 wrote: ask him what a Huot or a Blish device is. If he can't answer those questions, tell him thanks but no thanks.
Y'all have a happy Fourth!

Pete92FS wrote:

Purplehood wrote:Since I am not a regular at any range but simply drop into whichever one I can find in the Houston area, I get the same impression that the OP of this thread gets.
It appears to me that in general, if the range personnel don't know you they do indeed tend to give you the cold shoulder. I have frequented PSC, Shiloh Shooting and whatever the one is called that is off of Gessner and I-10. They all give me the impression that they assume you are not worthy of notice until proven otherwise.
I imagine one could become jaded when you have to deal with potentially life-threatening morons and no real shortage of potential customers. You can afford to alienate a few...
Oh, in order to clarify. It mostly appears to be the folks at the counters that have this problem. Once you get on the firing line and the range/safety folks see that you appear to know your behind from a hole in the ground they tend to loosen up.

The one in the I-10 and Gessner area is Memorial Shooting Range on Witte. I went to them two or three times when Top Gun was shut down due to fire. I found them to be fairly friendly behind the counter even on a Saturday when there was an hour + wait for a lane. You must not have used your charm on them.