[Buffalo Head]

"I used that up in about the first 20 minutes of contact"

And 200 dead VC, right? Or were you just spraying for affect because it made you feel better?

[mad_as_he$$]

Never did get an accurate body count but most likely 4 -500. ;-)

The jungle is an interesting place to fight in. It seems like literally every plant or tree is shooting at you. The M-60 gunner would pick a spot and spray it and it it got quieter he moved on. While we were fairly good at ammo conservation I completely understand spray and pray in the jungle - simple suppression fire. i know guys from WW2 that said they did the same thing in France on the hedgerows. In Iraq different story; my sons who both spent lots of time there are still amazed at the terrorist need to spray and pray it just marks them for accurate return fire.

[DuncanWaring]

200 rounds in 20 minutes is only one round every six seconds, on average.

Hardly “spraying”.