May 192010
On full auto. Oh my, yes indeed.
FUN.
Expensive, though. Not near as much recoil as expected; easy to keep more or less on target when fired from a standing position.
Highly recommended.
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Oh, yes. I have always have said, happiness is a belt-fed weapon.
I guess the weight makes for the recoil. After all it’s a 7.62, sin’t it?
(and shootign a M2HB or a GAU2A must be mystic? Cosmic? Way more expensive?)
Indeed, the mass of the machine-gun allows for lower recoil. When I was in the military I shot both FAL (assault rifle, I had the foldable-butt version, since I was in recon) and the MG-3 (basically a MG-42 with the standard NATO 7.62 bullet). Firing both with a bipod in a prone position, the MG recoli was half the FAL. It is true that my FAL had less mass than a normal one, since the butt was made of steel frame and not of seasoned wood, but nevertheless… but the fire-rate of the MG-3, like that of the MG-42, was, er, impressive.
E. Martin:
>(and shootign a M2HB or a GAU2A must be mystic? Cosmic?
>Way more expensive?)
Definatly “more expensive” last I recall .50cal rounds were about $5.00 each 🙂
I don’t know about the GAU-2A (I only got to deliver the ammo to them, not shoot them 🙂 but I CAN say that firing a GAU-8 is quite impressive…
Even if you “only” push a button in the control room 🙂
Skybolt:
On the MG-3:
When stationed in Germany I got a chance to go to a “shooting match” with the German Army and got a chance to shoot the MG-3 as part of the match for the AF team. Though it and the Uzi were full-auto weapons you actually got more points for being able to “single” each shot at different targets. I was (at the time) the only person who was managing to get single shots out of the MG-3 and the referee(s) actually apologized to me as they kept stopping me and checking to see that I hadn’t done something to the weapon in order to manage single shots as it seemed no one else could manage it 🙂
(We were “winning” the match until the Politzi showed up, dang it! 🙂 )
Randy
Eh eh eh, you had a very “light” finger, to spill out single shots with that monster.
One more reason to move out of Cali…
On a little different note, does anyone remember those old T-shrts with
Mr.Rogers sitting crossleged on the floor with a revolver in his lap and
the words on the T-shirt saying “Welcome To My Hood.” It’s funny that
I just thought of that recently.
sorry about the misspelling of crosslegged.
Where’d you do this? Impact?
No pics or video? 🙁
7.62 how quaint. Anything less than 105mm rifled guns is just such a let down.
Two weapons I absolutely _lust_ over being being the opportunity to fire:
1: The Mk 19 full-auto grenade launcher…imagine being able to blow an entire building into rubble with something around the size and weight of a .50 caliber machine gun.
I know I do… often.
2: The M134 Minigun…screw that noise about every 4th round being a tracer…I’m going to make _every_ round a tracer, so that whoever’s getting shot at thinks that they are getting a Martian heat ray out of George Pal’s “War Of The Worlds” turned loose on them.
This is _so_ fucking cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juUJdzFFORs
This appealed to me also:
http://www.impactguns.com/store/640832000375.html
Of course it would take a very big holster to carry it…but I can guarantee you that anyone who saw _that_ hanging off your belt would certainly give it, and you, a careful reconsideration before annoying you.
“I’m your huckleberry…” as Doc Holliday said in “Tombstone”. 😉
“Get Some” Guns in Murray. Did it sort of on the spur of the moment… no cameras on hand.
I can think about around a hundred guns I would love to fire…without, as yet, being given a chance to fire.
The German MP-40 and the Mars pistol would be right a at the top of that list.
..and, of course, a Thompson sub-machine gun on full-auto with the big drum magazine attached.
Got me?
Yeah…yeah…
Time to write a little new news for the papers with the “Chicago Typewriter”.
Yeah…yeah…
Little Caesar
…yeah…
I got to fire the M3 Submachine gun ever year while in the army as it was on each tank. I never got it to one round oer trigger pull, but I could do 2 rounds per pull.
Ah, the good ol’ “Grease Gun” – it took a lot of effort on the US government’s part to manage to come up with something less accurate, but more costly to make, than the Sten gun, but through dint of effort, they succeeded in their quest. 🙂
No reason for civilians to have access to such weapons.
What, really?
Even though I’m an avid practitioner of sarcasm, things have gotten so weird it’s hard to tell sarcasm from ideological douchebaggery sometimes.
M60 is nice, I always liked firing from the hip, the classic trench sweep. And I also can drop single shots from an M2HB, its all in the thumbs, babe! The first full auto I fired was a Thompson M1A, and still love a chopper, low rate of fire and accuracy, all in one chunky and reliable package.
Huron? Yes, American citizens do have “reason” for accessing such weapons. Socialist idiots such as you clearly do NOT have a reason, to possess firearms or exist.
Remember it’s draw muhammad day everybody 🙂
Skybolt:
“Light” finger indeed, I was actually puzzled as to why everyone seemed to think it was ‘difficult’ 😀
On the other hand I wasn’t informed about the scoring until afterward, I thought you HAD to shoot singles 🙂
(Otherwise I probably WOULD have ripped off all 25 in a burst)
Randy
M-60’s are a great deal of fun. When I joined the Guard as the new guy I was assigned to the M-60. I was also the assistant gunner for the 90mm Recoilless Rifle at the same time. Now that was a fun shooter.
Didn’t they use to attach a can of some sort to the side of the M60 for the ammo belt to feed over in Vietnam when they were firing it from the hip?