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<img src="http://www.deprosse.com/brian/KFOR/2005 ... MG1095.jpg">

Look closely and you'll see a child hood dream about to come true!!


We did the schutezenschur (sp?) today, fired the G36 and the Lord and Master of Machine Guns (pictured above) and I got the dirty gold.

It's had 3 major modifications since WWII...
1- plastic stock
2- barrel is made of better metal so it doesn't smoke so quick
3- ROF cut in half. Now it's only 1200 rounds per minute.

and it seriously takes about 4 seconds to swap barrels.

ONLY 1200 rounds per minute. And since i am pretty new BD, what part of the Military are you with? I am pretty sure im going to the Marines anfter College.

Greg Boyington wrote:ONLY 1200 rounds per minute. And since i am pretty new BD, what part of the Military are you with? I am pretty sure im going to the Marines anfter College.

He's in the Charley Sierra portion, LOL.

An MG42 is a damn good weapon. How accurate was it? Were you able to control the bursts to 5-6 rounds per?

GB-
Rico is correct in that I am in the lazy Army: California National Guard. Marines are different but I dig Infantry, you get a lot of flair producing schools like Ranger, Airborne, Air Assault, Pathfinder, EIB, etc... (flair =uniform patches and the military is all about having flair on your uniform.) Either way, the best thing you can do now is run your ass off. Run, run, run. Any military service and job you do will benefit from running, the military is big on that.

R-
Accuracy on it was good. As you know it fires 7.62 like our 60/240 however I did better the first time firing this under pressure than I did the 60 relaxed. they call it the "Bonesaw" did I mention that?

Before you are going to fire it you have to do the eagle, where you go prone behind it, put your shoulder into the rifle and put your weight against the bipod with your hands in the air... like your flying... weeee. So your weight is pressing against the bipod (to the point where our SAW bipods would break) Otherwise it will wreck you.

The Germans fired off the last belt of 1-200 rds from a standing position. The guy firing was a strong 6'5" and he had another big guy pushing him onto the gun... not holding him so he wouldn't fall back, he had to PUSH him forward when he fired. Wild.

That also helps with recoil as your body takes it and steadies the gun.

For our qualification we had to fire 4 rd bursts. This meand letting go of the trigger as soon as you realized it had fired the first round.

If you ever see a movie with this weapon laying down accurate fire and the gunner isn't trying to tackle the gun while he's shooting... don't believe it.

BD wrote:GB-
Rico is correct in that I am in the lazy Army: California National Guard. Marines are different but I dig Infantry, you get a lot of flair producing schools like Ranger, Airborne, Air Assault, Pathfinder, EIB, etc... (flair =uniform patches and the military is all about having flair on your uniform.) Either way, the best thing you can do now is run your ass off. Run, run, run. Any military service and job you do will benefit from running, the military is big on that.

R-
Accuracy on it was good. As you know it fires 7.62 like our 60/240 however I did better the first time firing this under pressure than I did the 60 relaxed. they call it the "Bonesaw" did I mention that?

Before you are going to fire it you have to do the eagle, where you go prone behind it, put your shoulder into the rifle and put your weight against the bipod with your hands in the air... like your flying... weeee. So your weight is pressing against the bipod (to the point where our SAW bipods would break) Otherwise it will wreck you.

The Germans fired off the last belt of 1-200 rds from a standing position. The guy firing was a strong 6'5" and he had another big guy pushing him onto the gun... not holding him so he wouldn't fall back, he had to PUSH him forward when he fired. Wild.

That also helps with recoil as your body takes it and steadies the gun.

For our qualification we had to fire 4 rd bursts. This meand letting go of the trigger as soon as you realized it had fired the first round.

If you ever see a movie with this weapon laying down accurate fire and the gunner isn't trying to tackle the gun while he's shooting... don't believe it.

LOL - I was just kidding about the CS - you know that. Flair, LOL. Office Space really has invaded popular culture. There are only two pieces of flair that mean anything anyway. MOH, CIB. Even multiple stars on the collar stand back.

Since recoil is proportionate to the mass fired x muzzle velocity / time, a MG with a lot of lead flying a large distance = recoil, baby. In the movies, there is no mass - they aren't actually firing any rounds. So, no (not much) recoil. In WWII, German MG teams used MG42s with tripod mounts. I've seen pictures of sandbags used as weights on the legs.

I guess in DoD when I'm running along with my MG42, I can't really fire from the hip, huh?

That's damn cool, man. So yer saying a cupola-mounted cal .50 doesn't hold a candle to it?

Nice!!!

Rico wrote:There are only two pieces of flair that mean anything anyway. MOH, CIB.That's damn cool, man. So yer saying a cupola-mounted cal .50 doesn't hold a candle to it?

I agree.

The 50 has nice reach out and touch but "Bop, bop, bop" seems unfulfilling after "brdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrap"