dchi said:
I have found several transferable MK 760's at $4000. Way over priced compared to 2 years ago but seems to be a good lower end SMG since MAC's/M-11's are about $2600 and Stens are close to $4000 now. I know the uzi is better but I already have one. So can anyone tell me if they are any good? And if so which company should I look for? Not interested in a real S&W 76. They cost too much $6000. I would get a AC556 1st at that price.
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First things first......machinegun prices are not and rarely have they ever been stagnant and if you think they are "way over priced" now....wait another year. Those STENS will be $6000 and the MACs will be $4000.
Not meaning to flame you, but everything on the lower end of the machinegun totem pole has gone up a couple or three grand in the past two years. Demand is high and prices follow accordingly.
Since you already have a pistol cartridge subgun, maybe its time to add a rifle caliber to the mix. Ac556s are going up like all the rest and will be out of reach by many in a few years.
I find mine to be very enjoyable to shoot and other than expensive factory mags, it performs very well for what it is and I'm real glad I bought it. I do have several aftermarket mags that function fine in it, so mags are really not an issue. Ruger will also service them, many times for little or nothing.
The MK-760 can be problematic,......just ask Jimmy2Times, BUT theres nothing that can't be fixed to make them run right. Many times they run too fast and need to be slowed down. Mag lip drag on the bolt is another problem which is easily fixed by adjusting the feedlips. Stock flex, extractor tension, chamber polishing, buffering, ect. All just things that need to be tweaked and once tweaked, the guns run great.
We got J2T's gun running perfectly in about a half hour at a shoot and it ran and ran and ran all day without a hitch after we methodically figured out what was going on with it. Most of that time was spent hamering down the feed lips on mags that were dragging on the bottom of the bolt.
All Mgs will run, given a bit of TLC and methodical diagnostics. As J2T said....you have to be 20% smarter than the machine. Well between the two of us, we were 40% smarter and that gun performed well.
$5 mags are a real incentive too......kinda like the STEN.....you can load a pile of them and not have to waste range time reloading mags.
Its all what you like. Often times, the cruder the gun, the better they work.