Nov 182010
Finally got around to fixing the webpage for the “manuals and historical documents” page, and added three more. First up: How to operate and maintain your M-60.
Yours for only $2.50.
4 Responses to “M-60 Machine Gun Operators Manual”
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Been there and done that.
Make sure you keep your asbestos glove handy…as well as the coffee can you’re going to tape to the side of the gun to keep the ammo belt feeding into it without jamming when you are carrying it around and firing it.
It takes real brains to take a machinegun as formidable and reliable as the MG-42 and turn it into a new version that’s less reliable than the original.
Pat
I carried the M-60 for 18 months 12 of which were in Vietnam and in tha period I only had two problems. One was my fault with a double feed and the other was it was in the water to long and the gas tube filled with water.
Love the gun.
Dad
I used to use one. It was a POS. Prone to stoppages and occasionally even falling apart. It was badly designed with the requirement to use an asbestos mitten to change barrels, the bipod was attached to the barrel, instead of the weapon. The trigger sear was defective and prone to wear, resulting in a “runaway gun” condition. It was fiddly and difficult to keep clean and mud, dust and debris had easy engress into its working parts. It was a bad compromise design. In the end we replaced it with the FN-MAG58 – the weapon which had actually beaten the M60 in the original competition but hadn’t been chosen because of political considerations to our “great and powerful friends” across the Pacific.