Now that the gun is 'fixed' and the bolt is not frozen, I attempted to dry fire and I don't hear that 'click'. This gun is sooo finiky and it belongs in the Smithsonian. What it should look like after I fixed it. What is it and why did it do this? I was able to work in back in place with a pair of pliers? Is this common? The bolt froze because of this piece which I'm not sure what it's called (seen below). The bolt was frozen shut and after softly hitting the bolt backwards I was able to lock the bolt and release the drum. Because the cartridges were not tight in the drum (see the above question as why) the cartridges started jamming in the gun's chamber. Is this normal? No wonder why the GI's never used the drum in WWII.
Every ten rounds I had to wound it another click. Half way through spending ammo, the drum appeared to need to be wound again? The instructions didn't say that? The spring inside wasn't tight enough to push the latter half of the ammo out of the drum. Second question, I also have a 50 round drum, I loaded the drum per the instructions and wound the spring 9-11 clicks. Is this normal on the first use? I typically except any gun to fire when ever I pull the triger. I did this inspection a couple more times and finally the gun fired. WTF? I inspected the gun, checked to make sure the safety was off and attempted to fire and nothing. I aimed and pulled the trigger and nothing. I released the bolt in it's locked position and my first round was loaded in the chamber. I used 230g 45 ACP by Remington as recommended by the manufacturer.įirst question, I used the 30 round stick to shoot my very first round. I have a few questions for anyone else that has a tommy.
I just got this Thompson 1927 A-1 T1 last week and I took it to the range today for the first time and this gun was a real pain in the ass to shoot.
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