Browning 1919 in 7.62x51 NATO, Pic Heavy

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I had the absolute pleasure of getting to know this awesome little belt fed today. Here's a bunch of pics and a the video footage I took of this gun.

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One thing I noticed was how you felt the recoil in the ground, the tripod does a great job of keeping the gun perfectly steady on target and transferring any force directly into the soil.



The bolt travels quite a bit inside the receiver, so when you shoot it, you feel two very distinct little nudges. One when the round goes off and one where the bolt hits the back of the receiver. To give you an idea of what it was like, it felt like shooting a awesomely exaggerated AR-15.




38 pounds without the tripod makes this thing very controllable but it would be a pain to carry around all day, that's for sure.








I'm glad it has a nice big barrel shroud like it does, it's way too easy to burn through a hundred or more rounds and one would instantly burn themselves on the barrel if they happened to touch it.




Interestingly enough, the trigger isn't pulled to the rear like in normal guns, it's pulled up. A bit strange at first, I don't exactly know why they did that. It might be due to the trigger on some of these being that "double thumb paddle" or something, but that's purely coming out of my arse. I know too little about the 1919 to give a definitive reason for why the trigger has to be pressed up.













Has a pretty nice set of sights too.




All in all it was wonderful and I'm very glad to have had the chance of seeing and shooting this firearm.
 
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You had a LOT of fun, friend!

Those guns were built during the Second War, used again in Korea, converted to 7.62 and served for ANOTHER 30 years.

I only ever fired one from the Gunner's seat in a late-model Sherman. The tank makes a really good soundproof (nearly) room, with all the muzzle blast outside. INSIDE the critter, though, you hear every single click and clack and chunk and ching that gun makes, about 9 times a second. It really sounds as if the thing were self-destructing!

Really, it's a minor miracle that they held together at all, much less served half a century!
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i dont know if its true of these but the M2HB with disintegrating links can have a new belt loaded by shoving it in the feed slot, no need to open the top cover
 
Basically the same as the GPMG I used in the Army in 1983-84, but of course our was full auto. It's been a long time but I remember having to check the headspace and timing quite often with ours.
 
Meph said:
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38 pounds without the tripod makes this thing very controllable but it would be a pain to carry around all day, that's for sure.


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Yes it is. I had my turn for a day on my TQ1 infantry course on a militia concentration several decades ago. We didn't learn to use it and there wasn't even any ammunition for it, :(, but we learned to carry it. :wave:
 
The "G"pig was a ##### to carry, but fun to fire
and you did stop crying about the weight of the C2:).
 
I miss those quite a bit.
It was a work of love doing the pre-fire checks and keeping them going.
I remember still having 18 of those in our lock up, besides the C6s, until the early nineties before being forced to turn them back in.
That traverse and elevating mechanism was a great tool and assistance.
 
Found this pic of a Canadian machine gun crew with a 1919A4 .30-caliber machine gun, participating in a mock battle during the combined U.S./Canadian NATO exercise Rendezvous '83.

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just bought a m38a1 saturday hehe just need the mount to put it on lol




=Hawkshadow;6996859]No, no what you need is a jeep to mount it on![/QUOTE]
 
IM bringing my m38 with 1919 mounted on saturday to eohc anyone who wants to shoot it bring some .308 sized to 2.77in or mfs ball
Moohaha
 
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