Biggest problem with the Resing was the maintenance, quite literally.

The guys were firing corrosive ammo and would make up a bit pot of water at the end of the day, strip all the guns and dump the parts in, then take them out, dry them off and try to assemble their guns. BIG hassle was that Reisings were not completely serialled and bolts DID get mixed up and they were NOT interchangeable.

Some came up here a few years ago from Venezuela. I got one, a buddy ended up with another. Mine worked beautifully but his ABSOLUTELY REFUSED to cycle properly. Traced the trouble to the fact that his bolt wasn't able to close completely and a Reising can NOT fire without the bolt properly locked into place. Trimmed about 5 thou off the locking-shoulder on his bolt and the thing went without a bobble up until the Evil Day when you could no longer shoot these things in this Free Country of ours.

The problem, of course, was parts mix-up. A gun with a too-short bolt would be unreliable, sometimes miss ignition; a gun with a too-long bolt could not go into battery. Either way, if you had had some nice chap shooting at you with a Nambu, you were in very deep trouble.

It's getting on for 70 years now and I still cannot for the life of me figure why somebody didn't tell those guys, "Hey! Make sure your own bolt goes back into your gun!"

That must have been too much trouble.

Reising was dumped, given a bad rep for the next 2 generations and they are actually a darned fine gun: reliable, accurate and hard-hitting.

Hard-hitting? Yeah. That extra length of barrel gives you an extra 200 ft/sec by my Chrony!

Can't even IMAGINE a better 'special ops' gun; all the advantages of a de Lisle Carbine and semi-auto to boot! And FA on demand, should yours not have various parts cut out of its guts.

I really think that somebody should do a production run of Reising Model 60s: strict semi-auto.
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