Yeah, but Kirby always looked so cool with his ...
Will it shoot after its dragged through the dirt?
Tell you what. I knew a colonel in the Brit army that fought in WW2 in the India theater of operations. Know what they wanted more than anything? A 30 carbine or a Tommy gun along with a SW revolver. He told me it was about being reliable. The Tommy guns were for the armored guys and the 30 carbine for the front line troops-if there was a front line. Couldnt see the enemy over half the time so they cover shot the whole place.
I told him that if he liked the 30 carbine, what the hell would he have done if he got the 30-06? Said they had the 303 for the sniper stuff. So, they carried three types of ammo. Must have been a real bugger for supply.
It wasnt about accuracy in the Jungles like in Europe.
That guy had stories to tell. And they werent nice. The BAR? I havent talked to anyone who was a WW2 Vet that liked it. Matter of fact, one said they had the Garand and why in the hell did they need the BAR anyways.
Yeah, but Kirby always looked so cool with his ...
I carried the M60 machinegun for the three years that I was in the infantry. All 5'6" and 135 pounds of me ...
When I joined the unit, I told the platoon sergeant that, if they were going to send us to Vietnam, I wanted something that could really reach out and touch someone ... and then they never did send us.
The BAR was an interim solution to squad automace weapon. It still hasn’t really been figured out but the M-60 was close. Damn close.
Lots of people bag on the M-60. I went to company armorer’s school and got taught why the M-60 had problems. Most of it had to do with GI’s slamming the feed tray cover down when the weapon was not charged. The “actuator” (you’ve got to forgive me, it’s been about 27 years) would smash into the feed tray lever which would bend it. Eventually everything would get out of whack.
I was in a Finance Company and we got depot refurbished M-60’s when I was the armorer. I made sure to train the guys I personally chose to be M-60 gunners on its quirks. I LOVE the M-60 because I thought it was so easy to keep on target while shooting a whole belt. It was for me just ridiculously easy. The M-240 is more GI proof, but to me isn’t as easy to shoot, the weight distribution is ridiculous, and the rate of fire makes it hard to control off the biped.