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JG300-Ascout · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:24 pm Post subject: M2 .50cal failure mode test....

This is why the headspace/timing gauge is SO important...and why mine was always close at hand in RVN...

www.myweb.cableone.net...934/m2.wmv

"All, Please take a moment to look at this short video clip and feel free
to use it for training, etc...it was put together by one of our Senior TACOM
Small Arms Equipment Specialists at Rock Island who operated our Small Arms
> Support Center(SASC)in Balad, Iraq; essentially a "mini Depot" repair
> facility for all Small Arms...his comments are below.

> USAMC LAO Ft Riley

> This was done at the XXXXX here at Rock Island to re-create the
mistakes that continue to occur in Iraq. The troops screw the barrel into
the 50 without pulling the bolt back to release the locking spring. They
then loosen the barrel up 3 to 4 clicks and attempt to fire it.
> I would see between 5 to 8 of these guns a week at the SASC in Balad.
> It destroys the gun, and can injure the soldier."

Combat · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 06, 2005 Posts: 1035

YIKES!!!!! Thank goodness that doesn't happen to me when I jump behind my MG-34 or Browning .30 Cal in Call Of Duty! LOL

Very cool clip there Ascout!

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