[PJammers]

I guess there is no cncern with accuracy, the 30 round magazine is in your field of view. It says you spray and pray the first 30 rounds, go prone and switch to belt feed. It weights like 30 pounds, who is carrying ammo belts?

[Svartalfiar]

It weights like 30 pounds, who is carrying ammo belts?

That's not that bad. My Guard unit just played opfor for a bunch of 82nd guys down at Ft. Polk. My troop was attached to our Charlie company for the duration, which is a bunch of Ranger retard infantry guys. I got stuck in a weapons squad, as the gunner. The M240B weighs in around 27.6 lbs. You have a nutsack attached carrying 50-75 rounds, which is another couple pounds.

A gun team is usually 2 guys, sometimes 3. So all your extra ammo (between 600 and 1500 rounds, depending on mission) needs to be carried by just those guys. so I would generally have my starter belt (50ish), and carry another 200 or so rounds in my ruck. The AG/AB would split up the rest of the ammo and the tripod. That stuff does get pretty heavy walking through miles and miles of swamp!

[schurmann]

“I guess there is no cncern with accuracy, the 30 round magazine is in your field of view. It says you spray and pray the first 30 rounds, go prone and switch to belt feed ...”

The magazine does not interfere with the sight.

Sights are offset to the left (shooting right handed is the only position permitted). It would be much more obvious had the editors not cropped the image behind the front sight.

Offset sights were a feature of the original design, ZB26 of Czechslovakia. The offset carried on into Britain’s Bren Gun and Imperial Japanese versions.

The British have had a very long love affair with offset sights. Some Vickers guns have them, though they are not as badly needed on that design.

Though as an open-bolt gun it was not as accurate as closed-bolt guns mounted on a tripod, the ZB26 and its descendants enjoyed a reputation for accuracy.