M249S Semi-Auto Announced
- Thread starter Marcelm
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You guys have not read my Newbie FAQ Section thing, have you?
Cloth or metal is irrelevant.
Disintegrating or non-D is irrelevant.
The only thing that matters is age. 1945 or prior.
As the M249 fires .223/5.56 NATO, it is doubtful that any belts existed prior to then.
FIVE rounds at a time.
Phat Eagle
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Fraser Valley, BC
C9s were terrible feeding from mags, don't see this being any better. Huge expense for 5 rounds.
That said, I'll happily play with yours when you get it!
That said, I'll happily play with yours when you get it!
.30/06 FTW
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Thunder Bay, Ontario
Really? When I shot a SAW in Minnesota the instructor said that it was more reliable to feed from mags (we were using PMags) than it was from a belt. He also said that the safety was unreliable so we didn't use it. Has that been your experience as well?
Gunnerlove
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Vancouver Island
The M249/ C9 is in my experience sewing machine reliable from mags........but only when shooting ball ammo (blanks create all sorts of stoppages) and the user should #### the action to the rear before seating the mag.
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angryeyebrows
CGN frequent flyer
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- Oscar Mike
This. I had issues with first gen Pmags I tested overseas. They wouldn't lock into the mag well. You could hold them in place and fire no problem. Issue mags work great.
Same problem with all Pmags tested, prior to gen 3's (didnt test those, supposedly they work just fine now). The problem is that the over travel stop on the mags is stopping full engagement. the only thing I've done is grind the over travel stop and the problem vanished. That problem occured with nearly all NATO 5.56 weapons I've tried, Colts, HK's you name it.
mudgunner49
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
In my experience, the issue with mags and the LMG was spring related. I routinely replaced all my mag springs with Wolff +10% springs and they ran like a champ every single time. When I had the C9 as a personal weapon I had a quartet of steel 40 rd AR-180 mags that I put Wolff +20% springs in and they were my "go-to" for the first couple of extended bursts to get thing settled down, also great for clearing patrols as they didn't rattle and thump like the plastic boxes...
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Which dealer is going to submit the sample?
I figure saving $200 a month for three years - then finance the rest should about do it... (joking of course)
Seriously - this will be held up because it takes modern linked ammo.
I figure saving $200 a month for three years - then finance the rest should about do it... (joking of course)
Seriously - this will be held up because it takes modern linked ammo.
Using the old plastic C7 mags was a bit$&@. The weapon cycled so quickly that the rounds couldn't feed fast enough and the front of the mag got chewed up. Never tried it but doubling up on the mag spring was supposed to solve the problem. Likely a stronger spring would have solved the problem better. The plastic mags were the idea of one,unnamed, small arms engineer. It go so bad that some soldiers bought their own metal mags (when could still legally buy 30 Rd mags) because they didn't trust the plastic ones.
