MAC- time to reminisce

[jack the toad]

Military Armament Corporation
if you were around in the 1980's world of semi-auto open bolts and auto weapons, you have to remember these.

The MAC-10 Submachine Gun: Everything You Need to Know - Firearms News

 

[JayCeeNC]

In about 1977 I bought an original, NIB, Powder Springs MAC-10 in .45 Auto from a local Class III dealer.
The gun cost me $125 and the tax stamp was $200.
I could have bought the suppressor for another $125, but it would have required a separate $200 tax stamp and I didn't have the money.
Fun gun at the range!

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Somewhere in the Eighties a Buddy of mine bought one.
Pretty sure he paid more than $125!

 

[jeeps]

Got a 45 acp M-10 suppressed in 1971 $400 in tax stamps and about $300 in gun and can. Sold it it 1990 for $3800 and he paid the tax stamps.

 

[quinn]

I had an original Powder Springs MAXC 10 that I enjoyed for a number of years. I never had the suppressor buy used the barrel extension regularly. The gun would reliably fire anything you offered it... probably because it was originally designed for the Vietnam swamps. Wife bought me a Dillon progressive press so I could afford to feed it. Over a number of years and untold amounts of 45acp, it never broke or wore out any part. Sold it a few years back for about 5 times what I paid for it. It was the perfect alley cleaner but I ran out of alleys need cleaning.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

In 1983 I bought a 9mm MAC-10 by RPB/S.W.Danials. The gun and can were $800, The tax stamps were $400 and the sheriff's department had a scam for a "State Fire Marshel Dangerous Ordinance permit" at $50 each item)

I hadn't shot it in 15 years and sold it about 12 years ago.

Accuracy wasn't too bad. Using sub-sonic loads, I could squeeze 4 to 5 shot bursts. At 50 yards, kneading and wire stock extended, the suppressed bursts were about 2.5 to 3 inches. Firing at a half size man steel silhouette, all shots/groups easily hit the target.

I had one box of tracer 115 gr ammo. When I fired at 50-yard paper targets, I noticed the tracers hit the ground at 200-250 yards and ricocheted another 300+ yards. Be sure of your backstop!

Ivan

ETA: When I started loading on my Dillon 450, The first 2 batches of ammo were 9mm, 5000 rounds each. After a couple years of 10000 rounds my friends and I got bored with it. Then it just sat in the vault! I still have several mags to sell but not a lot of interest!

 

[021]

There is a book "The Mac Man, Gordon B. Ingram and his submachine guns", on the subject. Good read.

 

[JohnRippert]

I remember it in John Wayne's "McQ".

 

[310Pilot]

I carried one with a sionics suppressor on several ops "somewhere" in SE Asia during that unpleasantness. Both the weapon and suppressor were quite effective, especially at close range. Nuff said.

 

[kwill1911]

Here's another MAC/Sionics product from that era:

 

[GF]

In the early 90s I bought a Powder Springs MAC 10 in 45 acp. Got a Sonics suppressor with it.
The suppressor took neoprene (sp) wipes that were quiet for a magazine or so.
It was a hoot to waste ammo in, back in the days of surplus cases.

Photo bucket took a dump and I lost about a thousand pictures, a few of them of my bullet hose.

 

[Farmer17]

In about 1987 I was living in Dallas and went to a party at Eagle Mountain lake. The guy who threw the party was in his early 20s and lived on the lake and had a boat dock and a big cabin cruiser behind his house. A bunch of us were standing on the dock and the drinking was really heavy and the host pulls out a little rectangular black nylon case. He opens the case and it held a MAC .380, Suppressor, and several magazines. He screws on the can then aims it up in the air and fires the whole magazine. It was pretty quiet and the rounds weren't much louder than the brass cases hitting on the dock floor. I knew what the gun was because I saw one in the Movie "Mc Q" with John Wayne.

 

[digi-shots]

Here are a couple of pics…

First one John Wayne and the second one features Gordon Ingraham in the center and Mitch Werbell on the right..