Owners manual and catalog contents can be found here.
Dornaus & Dixon / Peregrine Industries Literature
You sir, are a prince! Thank you so much for that.
Owners manual and catalog contents can be found here.
Dornaus & Dixon / Peregrine Industries Literature
I have done a lot of research on Bren Tens and I have never heard the 45 ACP/Jeff Cooper story before. They wanted to bring out a completely new Combat Firearm and were interested in what Cooper said about the new 40 caliber cartridge to out do the 45 ACP.
As far as the magazines go, MecGar did the original mags. D&D wanted to do both 10mm and 45 acp pistols and presented that to MecGar. MecGar said they could do one magazine that could do both cartridges. They built the prototypes and they worked fine so D&D gave them the contract and both companies went to work.
D&D started building 10mm guns. When the magaszines came in fron Italy, they would not work in D&D's 10mm pistols. So D&D had pistols to ship and no magazines to go with them. They would not pay MecGar and MecGar would not make them any new ones so D&D worked with another company to build them and you know the rest of the story.
D&D was esentially broke by the time the magazine mess was starting to get under control.
D&D made 250 Brens chambered for 45 ACP for The Marksman Gunshop in the Chicago area. They were specially marked and had different serial numbers.
The Miami Vice was Bren was a 45 ACP version with the slide marking changed is all because of the blank situation you mention. The slide was hard chromed to show up during the night firing scenes.
If you look at the picture of my Brens earlier in this thread, the two guns in the presntation cases are Dual Masters and have both 10mm uppers and 45 acp uppers.
45 acp Brens are very common.
For those of you that own one, is it ramped or throated? Thanks!
It is an "Maxi 10 airsoft" version, gas powered , shoots a 8mm plastic BB. Probably less of them made than the real Bren, very few imported into the US.
I have one of the Airsofts.
10-19-36.....the Colonel and Countess's anniversary? My parents were nearly the same age as they were, they got married in '37. Just a guess.
I knew the Colonel some, not as well as others, I never found him to be an ***, as was hinted at here by someone.
As to the Bren, I wonder how some would feel if the Glock had failed? I don't know why some people seem to celebrate a guns demise. I wish the Bren had been a success. I wish the Detonics was still around. (Sonny carried one of those too, remember?) It's like gun owners, I for one am glad to see the huge numbers of minority women, and women in general getting armed up. The only way we preserve our rights is to exercise them. The more of us that do the better.
Back to the Bren, I never did understand why Vltor couldn't pull it off. They made a lot of cool stuff that seemed high quality, they couldn't get the Bren up and running? Did Detonics suffer the same fate? How is it a guy from Austria can make a success story out of plastic but Americans can't put together what could be a very good pistol?
Eugene Stoner made a gun with a lot of flaws, and yet who doesn't own one? John Browning "improved" the 1911 in 1935 and yet which is in more holsters today? (in America anyway.)
Cursed? Perhaps. I for one would like to see someone produce the thing. Would I buy one? Sure. Put me down as a yes. I'd love to at least see a successful American company bang out something that would just say "cool."