This is me shooting the M240. The guys linked together 300 rounds and let me blast away at some old cars. It is amazingly accurate even out to 800 yards. I found it is a lot easier to shoot from the air - just easier to see the target and you don't get all the hot casings building up around your arms but all in all it was a lot of fun.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
This is me shooting the M240. The guys linked together 300 rounds and let me blast away at some old cars. It is amazingly accurate even out to 800 yards. I found it is a lot easier to shoot from the air - just easier to see the target and you don't get all the hot casings building up around your arms but all in all it was a lot of fun.
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The shooting sounds like fun. I remember being impressed with the BAR. It was an auto but only had a 20 rd. clip & weighed 16#. But prone w/bipod I could put 2rd bursts in a half man target at 500 yds time after time. Also got to shoot a 30 cal. machinegun. You didn't aim, just walked the rounds into the target Never shot a 9MM - think I would rather have a 40 cal. Thanks for all the photos. Makes you feel closer somehow. Love you DAD
That sounds like a great moose gun to me. You should slip one into your bag when you come home. ;-)
DAVE
The shooting was fun but not enough to spend my own money on it :). The 9MM didn't shoot too bad but our weak link we have found are the clips. If you don't rotate clips on a regular basis the springs get compressed and it will double feed every time. I even tried pulling the springs out and stretching them every so often but that still didn't work. Our guys know this but they still don't do it. So I don't have a lot of confidence if we actually had to use them. We also carry M-4s (the new version of the M-16) on the aircraft which would be our primary defensive weapon (away from the aircraft).
Dave,
It could certainly put down a moose but I don't think you would want to carry it around - it weighs about 30lbs empty :)
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