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BonzoG said:
TJD2003 said:
I also seen a lad pick up a hot gun by the barrel and weld his hand shut around the barrel which had to be removed via surgery.
Nothing to add except 
Yowsers! That had to hurt.Another fella tripped with his and knocked his knee cap round oher side of his leg, sounds like keystone cops lol
TJ
alfa pint said:
That was a Bren, assuming it fed from the top. Very very simple, generally reliable bit of kit.
Advantages of belt fed include feed rate, which means a higher rate of fire as you don't have to rely on gas expansion to push the mechanism back to feed the next round in from a magazine. It does also mean less jamming generally.
A higher rate of fire means there's more hot gas going out the barrel, which means that the barrel on a gpmg glows virtually white hot after a lot of weight of fire and you can actually see the rounds flying down the barrel. I s
t you not. It also means that the barrel will droop slightly, so it becomes less accurate. Which is one reason why you see these multi-barrel machine guns as loved by the likes of Arnie in predator - spread the heat load.
At the time the Bren came out, it was the only machine gun you could change a hot barrel without burning your hands, the handle was wooden.Advantages of belt fed include feed rate, which means a higher rate of fire as you don't have to rely on gas expansion to push the mechanism back to feed the next round in from a magazine. It does also mean less jamming generally.
A higher rate of fire means there's more hot gas going out the barrel, which means that the barrel on a gpmg glows virtually white hot after a lot of weight of fire and you can actually see the rounds flying down the barrel. I s
t you not. It also means that the barrel will droop slightly, so it becomes less accurate. Which is one reason why you see these multi-barrel machine guns as loved by the likes of Arnie in predator - spread the heat load. Used it a few times in my service career, lovely piece of kit.
Edited by Vipers on Thursday 18th November 09:07
Edited by Vipers on Thursday 18th November 09:08
Silent1 said:
10JH said:
pastrana72 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABGIJwiGBc&fea...
This is what I call lucky after this chaps 50. cal round deciding to come back at him to say hi after he fired it.
What on earth was he shooting at to get that much ricochet? This is what I call lucky after this chaps 50. cal round deciding to come back at him to say hi after he fired it.
We had a couple of lads who set there gun up badly causing the gun to rock back on the tripod in Otterburn, they kept the finger on the trigger watching the pretty tracer shoot into the sky till the gun nearly came back on them, had to slap them to stop.
Grenades are the worst, limp wristed throw by a soldier in Canada had the grenade roll back down the mound they were supposed to throw it over causing to us to scatter and eat dirt as shrapnel whizzed past us, officer left his arse up and left on a chopper with shrapnel embedded in his bum.
Oh happy days, nothing like nearlly dying to make you feel alive and laugh like a drain.
TJ
Castrol Craig said:
Ranger 6 said:
Castrol Craig said:
Ranger 6 said:
...this is a gun......
awesome. claim to fame, im inside that as90.Edited by Castrol Craig on Thursday 18th November 09:22
ellroy said:
Castrol Craig said:
Ranger 6 said:
Castrol Craig said:
Ranger 6 said:
...this is a gun......
awesome. claim to fame, im inside that as90.Edited by Castrol Craig on Thursday 18th November 09:22
actually spent most of my arty career as an op ack with 1st RHA, 7 RHA & did tours with 32cmdo battery.
During Royal Marine training at CTC RM back in 1976, we did indeed fire the GPMG from the hip whilst on the move during live fireing exercise , we were shooting at pop up targets , and great fun it was too, I did not get very good grouping,and the training team taking the excercise were standing well behind, on a one on one, 
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