New to the forum, but not new to the MAC platform. I've owned a M11/9 since 1998.
Back before the turn of the century, I started looking around to try to get into the machine gun world. I became good friends with a local FFL/SOT, and he ran across a deal of 10 NIB M11/9. He didn't want to tie up that much money on them, but the deal was you had to buy all 10 for $1,000 each. At the time the M11/9 was bringing $1,200 to $1,500 each on the market. He made a deal with me that I could buy them, and he would keep them in his inventory until I sold them (to keep me from having to pay the $200 tax times 10). All he wanted out of the deal is the transfers. I went ahead and sold 3 of them, and I did the transfer on one of them for me to keep.
After the first 3 sold rather quickly, I was starting to sit on the remaining 6 for awhile. Then, my FFL buddy called me up one day and said he saw a ad where a guy had a Colt M16a1 and was open to trades on other machine guns. I offered the guy 6 NIB M11/9 for the M16, and he took me up on it.
The M11/9 was fun for a first machine gun, but lets be honest, it isn't the ideal machine gun in stock form. Once I got the M16, I pretty much lost all interest in the MAC. Never even considered selling it, because a transferable machine gun is better than gold as far as a investment, but it pretty much just sat in my safe collecting dust.
Fast forward to a few months ago, I stumbled a video featuring the Lage Max-31. When I saw that I saw where I could turn the M11/9 into something not only cool looking, but also turn it into a practical gun. I ordered the Max-31 upper, and in the meantime started hunting for mags. I quickly found out that the Suomi drum mags aren't as plentiful and cheap as the Lage website makes out. I did find 4 that weren't too expensive, but I'd like to have more.
My Max-31 upper finally came in and it is indeed a game changer. Now I just have to find a optic for it. What is everybody running for optics? I've got a Eotech on one of my ARs and really like the reticle on it, but battery life is awful. I'm leaning toward trying a Aimpoint on the M11.
Back before the turn of the century, I started looking around to try to get into the machine gun world. I became good friends with a local FFL/SOT, and he ran across a deal of 10 NIB M11/9. He didn't want to tie up that much money on them, but the deal was you had to buy all 10 for $1,000 each. At the time the M11/9 was bringing $1,200 to $1,500 each on the market. He made a deal with me that I could buy them, and he would keep them in his inventory until I sold them (to keep me from having to pay the $200 tax times 10). All he wanted out of the deal is the transfers. I went ahead and sold 3 of them, and I did the transfer on one of them for me to keep.
After the first 3 sold rather quickly, I was starting to sit on the remaining 6 for awhile. Then, my FFL buddy called me up one day and said he saw a ad where a guy had a Colt M16a1 and was open to trades on other machine guns. I offered the guy 6 NIB M11/9 for the M16, and he took me up on it.
The M11/9 was fun for a first machine gun, but lets be honest, it isn't the ideal machine gun in stock form. Once I got the M16, I pretty much lost all interest in the MAC. Never even considered selling it, because a transferable machine gun is better than gold as far as a investment, but it pretty much just sat in my safe collecting dust.
Fast forward to a few months ago, I stumbled a video featuring the Lage Max-31. When I saw that I saw where I could turn the M11/9 into something not only cool looking, but also turn it into a practical gun. I ordered the Max-31 upper, and in the meantime started hunting for mags. I quickly found out that the Suomi drum mags aren't as plentiful and cheap as the Lage website makes out. I did find 4 that weren't too expensive, but I'd like to have more.
My Max-31 upper finally came in and it is indeed a game changer. Now I just have to find a optic for it. What is everybody running for optics? I've got a Eotech on one of my ARs and really like the reticle on it, but battery life is awful. I'm leaning toward trying a Aimpoint on the M11.
