Thread: Just an interesting picture.

from U know where.

Shoots over and into trenches more betterer

I've heard that when a barrels that hot you do not have to use the trigger....as soon as a cartridge goes in the chamber, the heat ignites it and the next one gets pulled in.....luckily belts are normally only 250 long.

Impressive photo

That's a lot of brass on the ground and looks pretty oxidized
I wonder if the rounds in the chamber were cooking off even for the nano second they were in there ?

It’s steel cased and not in the barrel long enough to cook off

Bit hard on the barrel, but I guess in the circumstances use the tool beyond the limits and get to go home or not. Hard choice! With all the disasters and that going on around the world at the moment - ya kinda need to think about what our priorities are as a species dont ya!

And an 'add' there, glad it's not me that has to do that barrel change...

Unless he was being bayonet charged by 1,000 drug-crazed zombies, that soldier wants his arse kicked!

One would hope they hit the target they were shooting at.....

Barrel looks warped.
Russian or Ukrainian ??

Firing that many rounds from an unprotected defensive position would incur quite a bit of return fire, if in a true battlefield situation. And yes, all MG's come with spare barrels, so yes the no.1 on the gun needs his arse kicked.

Beautifully annealled

Originally Posted by gundoc

Unless he was being bayonet charged by 1,000 drug-crazed zombies, that soldier wants his arse kicked!

You know, I'm not actually going to discount that as a possibility. One shrugs at some of the drone footage coming out and thinks that more people than the No1 on that gun needs their arses booted - there is so much that just shouldn't be happening over there it's not even possible to work through it rationally.

Omaha beach during d day must have been similar.

Originally Posted by No.3

You know, I'm not actually going to discount that as a possibility. One shrugs at some of the drone footage coming out and thinks that more people than the No1 on that gun needs their arses booted - there is so much that just shouldn't be happening over there it's not even possible to work through it rationally.

Yes, we just dont know. There was not much info to go with the photo. Could be a range of circumstances. A private unit with a captured gun and no spare barrel, an untrained or poorly trained operator and a bad situation? Who knows.

This war is incredible for the little insights it gives that we have never had before. The video doing the rounds over the last day of the soldiers desperate defence while his mate hands him ammo and scared out of his wits. If anyone has seen the translation at the end- where the scared soldier tells him this is his first action, and he replies, "Do you think this has happened to me before?" shows how differently people handle stress and fear.

We've been doing it for Millenia, and still haven't learnt