Machineguntony
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Does anyone have leads on an M240B?
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No, not practically at least. The M240 ejects brass straight down, so putting your support hand below the receiver will block ejection. So that means you need to put your support hand forward more, and the gun is just too long and heavy to make that a practical shooting position.Machineguntony said:Theo, can the M240 be shot in the standing position? It doesn't seem balanced in a way that it would be very amendable to shooting from the shoulder.
I don't know, all I can tell you is that the 240 is built like a tank and so is the bipod. And we shot ours from the tripod 95% of the time anyway.Machineguntony said:Thomas Hoel, author of the Civilian M60 Guide, says that you should never shoot a civilian transferrable M60 off the integral bipod because it eventually causes loosening of the trunion and barrel socket. I would think that the same advice applies to the M240. The military shoots it from the bipod because it can just throw it away and get another gun for $5000. We civvies can't do that.
The only real issue we had was sometimes the sear would wear down and we'd get a runaway gun because of it. But if you're going to have a malfunction with your machine gun, it's not so bad to have the kind where it won't stop firing, right?
Ha, I love it.SPEMack618 said:Later that night I asked him who had taught him that trick and he said he had read it "Red Dawn" by Larry Bond.
I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry.
Sweet! Keep us posted for sure!Machineguntony said:I have decided that this thread is going to document my journey, from the initial search to form 4 approval. I hope to one day have an end pic, with me at the range with my gun.
Pics will come with this thread.
Machineguntony said:I have decided that this thread is going to document my journey, from the initial search to form 4 approval. I hope to one day have an end pic, with me at the range with my gun.
Theohazard said:Ha, I love it.
Yeah, twisting the belt either so it jams up or breaks is pretty much the only way to stop it. But we usually just kept it on target and let it run out of ammo.