My BIG SMG Rework 🔫 (USSR,JAPAN and ALLIES)

Thompson and Reising magazines are not interchangeable, they got completely different feeding mechanisms, and there is nothing to suggest that Soviets attempted to fit Thompson magazines to Reisings

Yeah I know this but why the author made the mag to have 22 bullets the standard mag for Thompson wont be able to be used cuz its double feed but if you some how modified it it can become single feed with 22-24 bullets cuz the mags are double stack and one is double feed the other one is single feed but double stack mag can be modified to be single feed so the mag instead of 30 will hold less bullets…or he wanna show some movement of bullets and has put 2 extra.

there is nothing in the manual that mentions 22-24 rounds in the magazine though? in the picture it got 10 bullets shown from one side specifically, since the magazine is double-stack

no its 11 bullets each side so presume he is showing the movement of bullets maybe ?

It seems the 20 round mag DOES have holes in it, just on one side :

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So this is a 20 round mag, since it appears to be the same length as the magazine above and has the same number of holes :

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M55 Reising with 20 round mag :

The M55 Reising with 20 round mag we have in game is not modeled properly, the holes should be on the other side of the magazine :

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This magazine looks longer, so I assume its the 30 round mag :

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I think they are referring to this part of the picture :

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oh

yeah, got railroaded into the x-ray of the gun’s internals and missed this one

no idea about it, but yeah, no mention of the capacity in the text beyond the “six 20-round box magazines” that I linked earlier

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Thats why im confused maybe they are mags that USSR modified after the war ? cuz they are mags with one hole more and presumed they are the 20 round mag since the 20 round and the 12 turned out to be same in size those mags are a bit bigger but I have no idea what they are but I was surprised to see them in Russian literature but there is nothing in English about them and I thought they are 30 rounds but maybe its some mistake and they are also 20.

memo is from 1942, no way it’s post war

honestly, considering how low the last 2 rounds sit in the picture, I am just gonna assume that this is the absolute maximum capacity you can get if you overload the magazine beyond the intended capacity

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There is few mags about this gun that we dont know when they are produced there is this strange 22 24 mags but it seems they are 22 or again 20 there is 30 rounds that we also dont know and there is also 30 curved mags and there is the modern drum mag.
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What is stated here about the gun there is nothing about mags column 8?


And this is the strange mags they are a bit bigger but they are not 20 so I thought they are the 20 round ones but it seems they are some 22 - 24 mag or another modification of the 20 round. Cuz this ones are supposed to be after market 30 rounds but they are smaller then the regular 30.

And funny enough from the 1941 Harrington & Richardson Reising Sub Machine Gun Sales Catalog:


So you had this catalog in Russian in 1941 ? this is the after-sale catalogue but how it ended up in Russia with the same pictures? Or its your own book?

And there is also the 25 police version WW2 mags but they are very rear:


And it seems there is reproduction 35 but they are not original.

Could they be modified 25 rounds that are holding only 22 ?

There is also a variant with suppressor since tou liked it I just turned my PC off to go have a late dinner after it I will showcase it

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@Life_burns I dont think soviets need M50 TBH they had multiple self made weaponary here for instance a PPT-31 ( second gun in the picture first one is PPT-27)
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As far as I know, it is not suitable for fully automatic shooting; in fact, it is a carbine for pistol cartridges for use in semi-automatic mode.

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Well it looks exactly the same as PPD :smiley:

Pechalka:(:(:(((

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nothing, column within which column 8 is contained is about the number of certain guns per extermination battalion (Polish rifles, Russian dragoon rifles, Ross rifles, Berdan rifles, , American Reising “machine guns”, various revolvers and pistols, total number); column next to it is about the available cartridges for the aforementioned firearms

So. I took the photo of a 20-round magazine from your image and overlayed it over the SMG with a 20-round magazine to show you how deep it is supposed to be seated.

By the same logic I overlayed the magazine in green. Result - it fits perfectly to be just a 30-round magazine, same for the ones still covered in the film.

It’s available online for free. Considering that Thompson memo was made with the help of Amtorg, I won’t be surprised if Reising one was also made with their help by translating the existing materials.

I overlayed Reising with a 20-round magazine on top of the image of an SMG that seller claims to be fitted with a 25-round magazine. They match perfectly, perspective aside, so I have a reason to believe its the exact same issue as with the magazine that you’ve linked earlier, which said 30 rd. when it was a 12-round one; that this is still the same 20-round magazine as everywhere else, and seller either made a mistake, or is bullshiting.

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Then could bout manuals for this 22 round mags be wrong ? And you just copied the same mistake ?