Kicking myself to this day for not getting a Yugo M76 parts kit and OOW receiver.
don’t know if it’s the same but here’s the M240 Bravo belt fed- looks liek a handful for sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7w_gh7uY
I was very happy to be on a Weapons Squad in the Army and issued an M-60 in Germany. Nobody deserves to have has so much fun along later with the M-2,M-249 and M-3 (Grease Gun that the Tankers let us fire!).
A whole lot more to the story on how we got M240s: Maj. Jim Nelson. He was the Assistant Program Manager for Infantry Weapons at Marine Corps Systems Command and he was responsible to fix the problems we were having with the M60 machine gun.
The M60 always was a cheap lowest-bidder weapon but the latest iteration - the army’s brilliant “walking fire” version with a slim barrel to make it light enough to fire from the hip - was melting barrels.
Jim took a hard look at the problem and saw that there were 5,000 M240s in storage at Anniston, stuck there because Sen. Cohen of Maine pressured the army to use SACO Defense’s (of Maine) M60 instead.
Jim had them shipped to Albany GA and had them rebuilt as ground machine guns and voila the Marine Corps had a gun 20 times more reliable than the M60.
Then the army had to buy their own after that - which really annoyed them!
Sen. Cohen tried to block everything but the results of the firing tests could not be denied and the Marine Corps got 5,000 free machine guns..
BANG!