Guns and Ammo Thread

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The "belt fed" part is a bit of a misleading because it's also chute-fed, but there's a belt (non-disintegrating, I think) that runs inside the chute. The chute is made so that it won't bend in any configuration that might prevent the belt inside from feeding properly.

And in an infantry squad, everybody carries somebody else's extra ammo, whether it's the machine gunner's ammo cans or the mortar section's mortar rounds and base plates. The grunts long ago stopped carrying sleeping bags or shelter halves (pup tents) because the weight of the killing hardware took precedence over the weight of comfort items.


Which is one reason why:

LOL, yes I've lugged more than my fair share of cans and comms.

I knew the belt ran in a tracked chute, but as soon as I saw it, I was just trying to figure out if those beauties ever got tested for running away and what in the f*ck would be the immediate action.

Setting the headspace and timing on a .50 was one of my first tasks I learned when I hit the PLDC/ noncom course on the back of Ft. Jackson...long ago...in July....and I'm fairly decent with most firearm internals, but I had to ask the "runaway" question.