M60E4 - 850 Rounds Non-Stop (now that's a LOT of hammerin'!)!

Strategy Page ^ | January 24, 2006 | n/a

[cweese]

M60E4 - 850 Rounds Non-Stop

http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20061230.asp

[cweese]

I could use one of these for dove hunting.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Yep...and it's claimed that they can go 15,000 rounds without changing barrels. Sure would've liked that when I was humpin' the Pig (couldn't resist) and when I was AG.

[MineralMan]

Not much info at your link. Just a photo.

[roaddog727]

Bump for later

[cweese]

Hehe...them barrels gonna be smokin' hot.

[cweese]

Did you try clicking the picture or the video link?

[coloradan]

Click that photo ... it's a video.

[cweese]

Try this : http://media.putfile.com/M60E41

[RightWhale]

That'll kick up some dust.

[MineralMan]

Thanks.

[cweese]

And perhaps a few jihadists :-)

[2001convSVT]

ElectricStrawberry, how many rounds do the older M60s handle before changing barrels? Also, is the M60 still a standard combat weapon or has it been replaced? Thanks for your answers.

[in hoc signo vinces]

Service replaced the M60, post gulf war, with the M249 SAW...I think.

[Riley]

I once had an A-gunner insist on standing on the right side of the gun when I was doing air-guard, in the back hatch of a 113. I filled his shirt with casings, and he had a nice cross-hatched pattern of welts on his stomach after he got done trying to run backwards out through the side armor and dumped all the casings out of his shirt.

[RetroSexual]

OK, if my math is correct, the M80 ball weighs 392 grains=.9 ounces. .9 ounces x 850 rounds=765 ounces or 47.8 pounds of lead! That's going to leave a mark!

[Blood of Tyrants]

To demonstrate the reliability of his new machine gun, John Browning fired an M1917 machine gun CONTINUOUSLY for 45 minutes stratight without a single failure. If you figure the engineered firing rate of 600 rpm, you get 27,000 rounds.

[NormsRevenge]

[beltfed308]

Sometimes I wish I was not air cooled :>(

[cweese]

Wow! I'd never heard that.

[2001convSVT]

Thanks, in hoc signo vinces.