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what about all the guys VD shoots with the Lewis gun?

I appreciate your enthusiasm but you really should rehearse and/or write out what you're going to say before you put yourself on line. My own complaints about the FFL vs Gurkha episode include: 1)the fact that 2 out of 3 of the FFL weapons were American lend-lease weapons(the BAR and K-BAR) 2)the...

I CANNOT BELIEVE JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE BROKE UP WITH HER!!!

@hipsterical To be fair, the FAL was originally designed for a lighter assault rifle round (the .280/7x43mm). Then big ole' Uncle Sam bullied them into adopting the Big Ole 7.62NATO round( a cut down 30-06 really). We even promised to adopt the FAL(as the T48)to show solidarity. We later screwed ...

This video shows that, although the M14 was originally issued with selective fire capability, it wasn't a good idea to try to make the Garand into a BAR. Unlike the BAR, the M14 was too light to help control the kick of a full size .30 cal. round (9-10 lbs fully loaded). The BAR was designed to f...

Just to interject a non-bashing comment in all this French/BAR thread: the French SAW from the 1930s to the early 1960s was the FM 24/29 Chatterault. It was basically a French copy of the BAR but with the magazine stretched to 25 rounds and placed on top(eliminating the mono-podding danger of an...

Amazing how he can fight so well with a Big Ass hole in his hand! His shooting hand too!

Kinda hard to believe a group armed with .50 cal machineguns and other automatic weapons would be running from a bunch of guys armed with spears and bolt action rifles even if they had two mortars backing them! Isn't that how Africa got colonized in the first place?

@irobotman1 FIY: They didn't start making M60s until after the Korean War (1950-53) so no, they didn't have them in WW2. Also, its spelled 'Congressional ' and 'Banzai'.

Wonder why he bothered putting a pistol grip on it? Why not just get an FAL? Also surprised at how long it took him to realize the bolt was locked back.

@illegalclown The French experimented with making both the MAS 36 and the MAS 40/49 capable of using the FM24/29's 25 rnd box mag but dropped the idea when they realized the monopoding was a problem and that , like most semi-auto Battle rifles, the MAS 40 was never going to be as controllable as...

Much as I like the narrator's witty British patter, his information is all incredibly wrong! The Lebel wasn't prone to exploding! The rear of the cartridge had deep seating pockets for the central mounted percussion caps so that even the modern pointed Spitser type bullets could be used without t...

@demonhorse103 I'm sure you know by now that all the .30-06 Enfield 17s were made as .30-06s and not converted .303s(I don't think any .30-06 was converted to .303 ever). The sheer number of .303 Enfield P14s and WWI era Springfield 1903A1s(the official US battle rifle)combined barely equaled the...

I will never understand how the Italians spent enough to convert their Fiat/Revelli 35s to belt feed but produced the brand new Breda 37s with 20 shot feed trays instead of a belt! This makes it the equal to a overweight tripod mounted BAR! Stranger yet, they went to the trouble of designing the ...

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General comment to all. Could everybody activate their spellcheckers please?! If you're going to insult and question each others I.Q. levels at least make sure your posts don't read like a preschooler wrote them! E.g.: "MOVIE around", "Gernade" , "fuckin"? All hail Max Brooks! Guru of ghoul-slaying!

@atmos21 Better a wise-ass than a dumb-ass. Having been a REAL SOLDIER in a war, I don't have any issues against them. Yeah I know it's just some guys playing Soldier with toy guns. It just reminds too much of those videos the Columbine shooters made detailing and practicing their eventual atroci...

Sorry Eli Roth, but I think this whole movie was a joke in the end! And it was all on us, the slobs who paid too much money to watch QT and his friends play out their fantasies. Especially Eli Roth, who from his past work, probably would enjoy beating anybody to death with a baseball bat-Nazi or ...

I am amazed that Tarantino managed to fool people like me that that was a great movie. 15 minutes of firefight and over two hours of talking.If Simon Pegg is going to be in an insane parody of WW2 movies he should wait for the big screen adaption of the Rifle Brigade comic books by Warren Ellis. ...

Hmmm...I can guess which side you favor in the whole debate over the 'Saving Private Ryan' scene where they debate whether or not to shoot 'Steamboat Willie' the apologetic German prisoner. Personally, I would have shot him in the leg and left Upham to take care of him. Its not like they needed U...

I swear, only the Italians would come up with a mortar that was not only a breech loader with a pump action and use a sub-machine gun mag to load pistol blanks in order to fire it. I saw one of these used in a 1968 Italian war movie and always wondered if it was an original(it didn't have the bla...

@hunterziegelmann The M3 and the Thompson do use the same .45 ACP round! Just not the same magazine! They should have used the mag but the M3 designers used a STEN gun's mag and well for their inspiration. A bad idea as it stuck the M3 with a bad design and the supply system with two different 30...

The Garand had it all over the Johnson in durability, speed of loading and strength. Any rifle with an exposed moving barrel isn't fit for general issue. Still, it would have been a good idea for the WW2 US military to use this rifle as an alternate sniper rifle. The scope wouldn't prevent use of...

Want to know where you can see a lot of footage of these Madsens being fired? Go find an old 1950s-60s monster movie called Reptillicus. It was made with full cooperation with the Danish army. So along with all their surplus UK and US gear you can see a bunch of full auto Madsen fire. All firing ...

@JSLegoMaster I felt that I should point out to you that with the Hotchkiss, like all weapons, it is the men who use them that makes the difference. In Small Arms Review Vol. 12 # 4 Jan '09, two great articles talk about the Hotchkiss. It also tells how, during the Battle of Verdun 1916, a 2 gun ...