Spectacular Machine Gun Collection(Jealous much?)

thefirearmblog.com ^ | 3/4/2016 | Nicholas C

[jmacusa]

There she is. “Ma’’ is one mean bitch. Not so much a machine gun as more of a kind of light artillery.

[archy]

First motor cars ever to ride there. PPA. Popski with a hook for a hand by then.

The only previous wheeled vehicles at all were reportedly Roman chariots during the days of the Caesers.

[archy]

There she is. “Ma’’ is one mean bitch. Not so much a machine gun as more of a kind of light artillery.

In our M48 tanks we carried 6000 rounds for the Browning .30 co-ax mounted in the turret of our tanks, with around twice that in ammo cans for reloads or topups as the day/s went on.

We only carried around 1000 rounds- about 10 ammo cans worth- for the tank commander's .50 M2, with maybe another five cans or thereabouts for reloads. There were a couple of reasons for that.

But the main one was: with a .50 that was all we needed.

[Lurker]

I’d just like to have the ammo budget for that bad boy.

L

[archy]

I’d just like to have the ammo budget for that bad boy.

L

Concur. But there's a fairly sad story that goes with it.

Friday Oct 13th 1995, West Point KY.
Fatality at Knob Creek Machinegun Shoot

A fatal accident occurred when a young girl/woman was killed when firing three miniguns simultaneously, which were owned by Mr. Neil Smith (below), which caused the M3 Tripod, upon which they were mounted, to flip backwards. She was killed when the guns and mount struck and crushed her skull.

The M134 minigun used in Predator and T2 was built by Neal E. Smith of Mentor, Ohio, and is owned by Stembridge Gun Rentals, Glendale, CA. ... .

Recoil from one M134 putting out 100 7,62 Nato rounds per second is bad enough. Times three was seriously worse.

[Travis McGee]

LOL, chariots to PPA. You gotta love the man’s spirit. I’ll buy a round for PPA in Valhalla any day.

[Travis McGee]

Popski in 1945. Thank Odin he wrote his book before he died of brain cancer in 1950. He was 40# overweight in Egypt when he decided he had to join the British Army, and invent a new kind of warfare by hook or by crook. (He got the hook in Italy.) There was nobody like him, they broke the mold. Spoke 8 languages, etc.

[Travis McGee]

Popski in 1945. Thank Odin he wrote his book before he died of brain cancer in 1950. He was 40# overweight in Egypt when he decided he had to join the British Army, and invent a new kind of warfare by hook or by crook. (He got the hook in Italy.) There was nobody like him, they broke the mold. Spoke 8 languages, etc.

[jmacusa]

Ma Deuce shot the Luftwaffe out of the sky. Thank you for your service.

[archy]

Ma Deuce shot the Luftwaffe out of the sky.

But not until after the Royal Air Force chewed the wings off their bombers and fighter escorts with Ma Deuce's little brother, the .303 aircraft type, of which eight were fighted in the early RAF Spitfire and Hurricane fighters.

They didn't have the range of the heavier German light automatic cannons, but in close their effect was rather like that of a great big shotgun, 20 rounds per second, times eight, 160 holes a second in a heavy machine trying to fly.

Thank you for your service.

The pleasure was mine, I assure you.

[archy]

There was nobody like him, they broke the mold.

There rarely seems to be but one or two per generation or war, and it's a tossup about which side they'll turn up on. But during the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark pulled off a pretty good Popski-style raid, by virtue of which the upstart colonials gained the later-day Northwest Territories that covered all of the modern states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as the northeastern part of Minnesota. The area covered more than 260,000 square miles.

All with the capture of one solitary river fort, which, of course the British garrison knew couldn't be taken during the February Winter floods. Until Clark and his 172 light infantrymen of the Virginia Militia did it. Pity Popski wasn't around with his Jeeps to give them a ride, but they got 'er done anyway.