"what if" BAR pic

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What if there were a BAR 1918 carbine? Boredom and photoshop and my inner bubba got the better of me tonight and I did this...

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the "tanker BAR". Super rare! Only one known to exist and it just so happens to be the gun that killed Hitler!
 
Just keep in mind the BAR was designed BEFORE WW1, but the BREN Was a product of the 1930's. One would assume firearms designers learned a few things in the interim.;)
 
No self respecting armoured crewman would be caught dead with anything but a pistol and an SMG. Maybe an M1 Carbine in a pinch. A BAR weighs 20 pounds, empty. You might get it down to 15 by buggering the barrel, but leave 'em to the PBI.
 
Was the barrel on a Colt Monitor any shorter than on an issue rifle? When comparing a BAR to something like the Bren, keep in mind that it was an automatic rifle, not a lmg.
Incidentally a M1918 was selective,semi and auto. A M1918A2 was selective slow auto, faster auto. Singles could be triggered easily enough on slow auto. Saw a night photo of a 20 round burst of tracer being fired at a target 600y away. Cone of fire was pretty tight.
BAR was pretty well thought of by the men who used them.
 
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I fired a M1918 in full auto and found it to be incredibly accurate from the shoulder. It was easy to fire three round bursts that would consistantly hit a 24"x30" steel plate at 90 yards. If a five round burst waqs fired it would, naturally, climb off target. There was felt recoil though not like an m1903.
A shortened BARt would be two things;
First incredibly nasty to shoot, muzzle flash, recoil and most likely un-reliable.
Second cutting down a perfectly good m1918 BAR is just plain stupid!!
Now, the photoshop work was really good, the picture is pretty cool.
Cheers
 
ollie said:
oh god-it's a "BARbine"! ahaahahaaaa. No BAR's were harmed in the making of this picture...
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Introducing Mattel's new "RAMBO BARBIE"...Outfitted in spandex camo sporting designer mag pouches and jungle high heels. Plus the all new experi-MENTAL one of a kind US Army Barbine machine gun. Terrorists of the world beware...Rambo Barbie will find you.:ar15:

OR

Just the thing for Pam Anderson's Barberella comic character.:rockOn:

Either way it is just WRONG.
 
A Captain in the USMC proposed a very similar weapon in the 1930's for jungle fighting. Needless to say it was never adopted. Clyde Barrow was one of the best BAR men of his day and used it to shoot his way out of several major gun battles with the law. Except for the last one, of course!
 
I shot one in semi mode at a refigerator out in a field at 300yd .
WoW !...
I also felt the recoil was very smooth and mild.

ahh , the good ol' days...
 
There was a short BAR in western Canada at one time. He made it himself. The owner called it a BARK .....Browning Automatic rifle K(c)arbine..... I do not remember the barrel length, but the muzzle blast would almost singe your eyebrows when fired from the hip.. The blast was horriffffficccc.....and in the twilight it was just like a firework display. "Them's was the good old days.."
I always wondered what happened to it, as it was almost 50 years ago..... Owner also had a Monitor..
 
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