Machineguntony
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I would like to bring closure to this thread.
Sometime around February, 2015, I started a search for a transferable M240. Part of my search was posting a query in various forums, including this forum. As you can probably guess, transferable M240s, no matter if they're FNMI, which are the rarest, or DLO or MAG58s, are all exceedingly rare, maybe one of the rarest transferable MGs available. So it took a lot of digging, a lot of false leads.
Eventually, I found a transferable factory M240 for sale.
The prior owner had two, the number 1 gun and the number 0 gun that came out from the FNMI factory. I convinced the representing agent to sell me both, so that I could keep the guns together, rather than separate them. I argued that keeping the guns together would make sense from a historical and collectors perspective. Sequentially serialed FNMI M240s is about as rare of a pairing in the gun world, period, MG or not MG.
After much thinking, the agent, who had already bought the 1 gun for himself, decided to sell me both guns, so that they would stay together.
The number 1 gun is unfired, and still has the factory cosmoline on it. I have that one wrapped up and will never shoot it. The 0 gun is my range gun.
Here are the guns together.
Here is one of the M240 on an M192 Lightweight Ground Mount. I do not shoot my beltfeds off the bipods, ever (see Thomas Hoel's article as to why). The gun in front is my Maremont M60 upgraded to E6 configuration. The M60E6 is actually a lot smaller than the M240. The perspective of the two guns makes the M60E6 appear bigger than its real size.
Here's a better picture of the size comparison, from a top perspective.
I would like to thank all the members of this forum for your help, guidance, and information along the way. A big shout out to guys like a Sharkbite and Theohazard (the zen master of silencers).
Sometime around February, 2015, I started a search for a transferable M240. Part of my search was posting a query in various forums, including this forum. As you can probably guess, transferable M240s, no matter if they're FNMI, which are the rarest, or DLO or MAG58s, are all exceedingly rare, maybe one of the rarest transferable MGs available. So it took a lot of digging, a lot of false leads.
Eventually, I found a transferable factory M240 for sale.
The prior owner had two, the number 1 gun and the number 0 gun that came out from the FNMI factory. I convinced the representing agent to sell me both, so that I could keep the guns together, rather than separate them. I argued that keeping the guns together would make sense from a historical and collectors perspective. Sequentially serialed FNMI M240s is about as rare of a pairing in the gun world, period, MG or not MG.
After much thinking, the agent, who had already bought the 1 gun for himself, decided to sell me both guns, so that they would stay together.
The number 1 gun is unfired, and still has the factory cosmoline on it. I have that one wrapped up and will never shoot it. The 0 gun is my range gun.
Here are the guns together.
Here is one of the M240 on an M192 Lightweight Ground Mount. I do not shoot my beltfeds off the bipods, ever (see Thomas Hoel's article as to why). The gun in front is my Maremont M60 upgraded to E6 configuration. The M60E6 is actually a lot smaller than the M240. The perspective of the two guns makes the M60E6 appear bigger than its real size.
Here's a better picture of the size comparison, from a top perspective.
I would like to thank all the members of this forum for your help, guidance, and information along the way. A big shout out to guys like a Sharkbite and Theohazard (the zen master of silencers).
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