Spoilers Breaking Bad Final scene M60 MG SPOILERS

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5.56RifleGuy

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This has to do with the gun in the last scene of Breaking Bad, somif you havent seen it you might not want to read this.



What did you guys think about that wobble mount for the M60 in breaking bad? Any chance of that working? I would think that the recoil would tear it apart.

There was about 40 seconds of fire, so i figure it was about 400 rounds. Any chance that it really get all those guys? Is it possible to string belts on an m60 like that? I was thing the only limiting factor was fitting the ammo in a can, so if its in a car, it wouldnt matter.

Is 400 rounds a burden on an m60? I know heat can cause issues, but I dont know what that threshold is.

Great end to a great show.
 
It's Hollywood, so I don't over think it but since you asked and I was a M60 gunner back in the day, I'll give you my 2 cents:

The mount could work if it was built well enough with the right materials. Recoil on a 60 really isn't bad b/c the gun is so heavy. Walt was always able to manufacture superior products, so we could assume that this was no different.

Yes, you can string very long belts of 7.62 ammo. Would the set up get all the bad guys? Probably not but again, it's TV. It did seem to be chewing through cinderblocks easily enough, so we could assume AP ammo, just to put out hearts at ease.

A well-maintained 60, which the one in BB appeared to be, could put out 400 rounds continuously without a failure so that's plausible.

Man, now I want to shoot one again!
 
Well to be fair, it did miss 1 and only gravely injured 2, so hey, maybe it could happen.

That wobble mount was a cool idea. I bet he read that whole manual too.
 
It seemed to me that the rounds were some kind of AP or tracers... they were bright red. Vince Giligan is the type to put that kind of thought into it.

On the other hand, I think a standard .308 would do about the same :D

Heat causes damage with barrels but I think the only affects he'd have with the ammo used might be loss of accuracy... which he obviously didn't care about.

For the most part they've portrayed guns relatively accurately in that show. One scene I didn't get at all was the shootout in the desert -- I think the producers said there were 144 rounds shot at what looked like 30 yards by hardened and trained killers, yet nobody was hit? Other than that, though, everything else has seemed well handled.
 
"It seemed to me that the rounds were some kind of AP or tracers... they were bright red."

AP with a tracer every 5th Id say. I cant imagine the look on the cops that would have found that thing waving around in the back of that car.
 
For the most part they've portrayed guns relatively accurately in that show. One scene I didn't get at all was the shootout in the desert -- I think the producers said there were 144 rounds shot at what looked like 30 yards by hardened and trained killers, yet nobody was hit? Other than that, though, everything else has seemed well handled.
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That scene sort of irked me too. One of the guys had an AA12 with a huge drum, and they were at a very short distance. The previous firefight that team had, seemed flawless, yet they couldn't hit two people out in the open from 30 feet. I had actually though they did it on purpose, at first, to let Walt escape without killing two cops, but the next episode, you find out that was not the plan.

I think the final shootout was fairly realistic, the only thing I didn't really understand, was how Walt got hit the way he did. He was on the ground before the shots and the MG was aimed several feet over him and Jesse. My only theory is that a bullet ricocheted and hit Walt, there were those metal bars in the window, and it looked plausible that it could've deflected a bullet down. But then when you look at where Walt was hit, it doesn't make much sense. He was laying on his stomach, and the hit seemed to come from the front, with no exit wound, unless I'm mistaken.
Either way it was a pretty damn good scene if you ask me.
 
The M60 GPMG has a 500–650 rounds a minute sustained rate of fire, or cyclic rate. So yes, 40 seconds of continuous fire would get you about 400 rounds of fire down the barrel.

As Mike said, 400 rounds of continuous fire would have the barrel cooking pretty good. That being said, if the gun was in decent shape you could do it. I have seen video of some guys cooking a barrel on purpose just to see what it could take and it was surprising how long the gun kept firing.

I haven't seen this scene, in fact I haven't watched a single episode yet. But I suspect some Hollywood time distortion at work as short of facing the Chinese Hordes there are not many reasons it should take 40 seconds to kill everyone that needs killing with an M60. The "Pig" was a fine piece of war material and has been reincarnated for exactly that reason.
 
there are not many reasons it should take 40 seconds to kill everyone that needs killing with an M60.
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You stated that you didn't see the episode, so I'll explain. The gun was on an auto trigger and had a wobble mount attached to the MG in the trunk of the main character's car, aimed at the building. It was activated by the car's remote alarm, so the main character had no control over the trigger to stop the MG from firing, once it started. It would just sweep back and forth until there was either a jam, or the gun runs out of ammo.
 
Ahhh, well. Sure then, I'd say an M60 would be the perfect choice for such a thing. It's not that M60s never have stoppages or anything, but they are pretty much as reliable as most any other and they were durable, they could take some abuse and continue to function but you still had to keep them clean and oiled. I don't think that an M60, in serviceable condition, would fail to fire 400 rounds continuous. It would get the job done more often then not.
 
400 continuous rounds through a gun like that with no pause and the barrel would be glowing like nuclear gopher.
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Smoke was coming out of the trunk long after the firing stopped. Yeah, he gave them the whole nine yards.
 
Smoke was coming out of the trunk long after the firing stopped. Yeah, he gave them the whole nine yards.
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More than smoke. I saw a small fire burning after it was done firing.
 
Vanya, there are legal ways of capturing frames from video, without violating copyright laws. ;)

Even so... there still wasn't even a link in the thread.
 
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