It was an M60. They are mostly all retired. I don’t think even the ANGs keep them around any more.
Yes, they just confirmed it was an M60 on the Talking Dead.
It would be fun to have one.
It was an M48A5, or at best an M60A3.
I rode in -60A3’s even on active duty; they were still in the inventory up until 1989. The basic M1’s were only just getting fielded.
The grenade down the pipe was all Hollywood flash-bang. If they had a round in the breech, that’s the ONLY way you would have had that kind of blast. Secondary explosions would have been the rounds cooking off, and I only saw the one boom.