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    Thanks one and all for your input one would imagine with SMG's like the Owen, Thompson and the Grease gun that having more in the mag is better insurance that say 25+- rounds.

    No better place to test it than in the field but one would want 100% reliability before going out.
    One thing with the Owen it could fire even after being immersed in mud literally there was some footage of it being tested and I think it may have been the great man himself dunk the thing in a mud pool pull it out and then rip off a full mag.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CINDERS View Post
    dunk the thing in a mud pool pull it out and then rip off a full mag.
    That's a standard test...
    Regards, Jim

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    How about this one?

    At least one of the sample-made OMCs was made and tested in .380 Revolver, as DEMANDED by the loonies at the pointy end of Defence bureaucracy..

    It featured an appropriately "bent" magazine and IT WORKED.

    Fortunately, wiser heads prevailed and 9mm was the way to fly.

    Anyone know when and where that photo was taken. That the closest Digger has a Unit flash on his shirtsleeve may be some clue.
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    Bruce I should imagine that it would have been not that long after the battle granted the guys are looking pretty clean; Battle of Beaufort - From the 26th to the 28th of June 1945, Australians of the 2/43rd and 2/32nd diggers pictured after the battle.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Beaufort_(1945) - (Picture is at the bottom of the page.)
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    Good spot Ron! What a fascinating image!

    It has to be at least a 60 round magazine and it must have been 'very' top heavy!

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    Watched a movie on the Battle of Long Tan the other night, good shots of the Owen, M60, L1A1 and M16icon in action.

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