I had a coworker who was a humvee turret gunner, and he used one of these guns in Fallujah, he became known as black satan because the shit he saw during combat made him incredibly pissed off, at some point he started wearing two .50 cal rounds on the sides of his helmet, and those were his devil horns. Nowadays hes one of the chillest dudes I've ever met.
Machine guns are used in 5 to 8 round bursts with a second or two between for sustained rates of fire, either this was to train using cyclic rate of fire to cover a retreat(mag dump for the less informed) or had a special case reason to run it like that
@@jakegrube9477As someone who has participated in many dozens of gunnery courses/trainings (admittedly I'm only qualified on the 249 and 240, but the concept is the same) I can tell you exactly the reason why this gunner isn't firing in bursts: he's purposefully trying to burn through ammo. The paperwork and logistics of trying to turn in unused ammo after a range/training day is an absolute f***ing nightmare. Absolutely every single round of ammo has to be accounted for, and the 89Bs will keep you scouring the field for hours for the slightest discrepency. It is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay less of a headache to just burn through all of the excess ammo that has been signed off for than to try and return said ammo. I have seen guys literally turn M2 barrels glowing red just trying to burn excess .50 cal ammo rather than go through the process of turning ammo back in.
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@@ВладимирПлаксий-и2о yes but he’s (probably) referring to the fact that there’s Browning 50 cals from the 30’s and 40’s are still in service to this day. AK’s are still in production and have been improved on over time. These brownings changed very little if any. We dropped the MG3 and so many other machine guns throughout the decades. But the Browning 50 Cal still being used is crazy to think about.
John Browning really rolled up, dropped two of the most successful firearms in American history, arguably human history, and just dipped. The M2 and the M1911 are literally so old our great grandfathers probably used them when they were still new, and they're still with us.
Great weapon if you could see what your hitting through muzzle flash and particulates, like the GAU 21 doesn't bounce around but the they still use the old style mounting in the feild
Nahh bro you’re absolutely right… my grandpa RIP🙏🏾 was in the Mexican military and as a sargento he was issued a 45-70 lever action rifle and inc she got out he was rocking a 45 1911.. it’s been a long time since he’s had it but we got to shoot it on the ranch for new years and it still ran like a champ
@@osteazo yeah if you don’t keep up with maintenance with cleaning and setting the head space and timing and have a shitty armorer then yeah I can see it needing lube and jamming and having a slow rate of fire
@osteazo at least there's no more headspace timing on the new gen m2. I will say I preferred the mk19, you have to have the magic touch to that squirrelly thing operational, goes down more than the m2.
I was in Armor. We fired short bursts to not overheat the barrel. We never had a dirty .50 cal like this. We unmounted the Crew Served Weapon, field stripped it, and cleaned it with LSA.
La arma esta chida. Los que no está chido es el soldado. Eres muy lento. En combate. Eres hombre muerto. Debes ser más rápido si no me corres ve a la guerra y compruébalo
Accuracy isn’t important when you’re chucking that much lead downfield. Hell, just the sound of that being fired in your direction is enough to turn most armies around.
Mowing the lawn, trimming hedges, Pest Control, felling trees, making acceleration holes in the car, putting the woodpecker out of work, showing directions for people who got lost, making holes in Swiss cheese and giving my German grandpa PTSD, this thing can do it all
Never charge the weapon overhand. There’s a retention pin that has a cotter pin in the path of the charging handle and it will shred your knuckles every time; even with gloves.
I was on the .50 cal. Team in the guards. Truck mounted. It was very casually organized. Just keep the barrel between two safety posts and let er rip! I couldn’t hit shit, but I had a shit eating grin on my face the whole time! Like a drug. One of the highlights of my 20 years in.
It has a lot of kick. But it’s mounted ,so it doesn’t hurt. But it makes you hold on tight. I think it would be very accurate with an experienced gunner operating it. Once a year qualifying is not enough!
@treyebillups8602 no when u change barrels there is a headspace and timing guage that has a fire and no fire side. The timing is a knob inside the gun at the top...u take off the back of it where the handles and trigger at abd its there. The knob u twist it and the barrel u gotta tighten it or loosen it its not just screw the barrel in all the way n start shooting. Each guage goes in and the fire side needs to fire no fire side not be able to fire so u gotta do 4 checks with the guage minimum. Once I get the timing set it will stay good fir a while so u only have to mess with the barrel. I got it down to a point where I'd screw the barrel in all the way and then loosen it 2 or 3 clicks and that was the correct head space.
The 0.5 Browning was one of the weapons that I had used during my 2.5-year National Service duty as an armoured infantry soldier. This is my favourite in firing but not in cleaning it, and certainly not during all vehicle breakdown drills. Thanks for stirring up my fond memories.
That would be the thirty caliber version. M1917. M2 was invented I think in 1921. My best guess is the US manager in ahold of the German Tankgewehr rifle during the war. The bullets were about thirteen point two millimeters bigger than anything else at the time. So they reverse engineered them an invented the fifty caliber round.
@@Darth234Ravenous.50 had been around for a hot minute. The M2 specifically had been developed as anti-aircraft gun, and it was really only the Coast guard that was using it early on when it was still water-cooled
This gun wasnt invented until after ww1. It was finally put in service in 1933. They did however have the m1917 chambered in 30-06 which was a water cooled version of the m1919, which is the same thing, just with an air cooled jacket instead. The US marines were still using the outdated browning m1917 in the battle of guadalcanal in ww2.
In case anyone was curious sustained rate on the m2a1 is a 6-9 round burst with a 10-15 second pause < 40 rpm barrel change at end of day and rapid is 6-9 round burst with a 5-10 second pause > 40 rpm barrel change at half of day. Hot barrel is 200 rounds or more in 2 minutes or less, if it’s deemed hot by the a-gunner, after a long continuous burst or it’s been less then 15 minutes since being deemed a hot barrel. This is most likely an admin dump and his overhand charging made me die a little inside. Over 8 years as a 0331 with CAAT plt we know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two
It still blows my mind that after nearly 100 years and all the insane advances in technology, that this gun is still going strong and used by most armies around the world!
I can't ever forget my first introduction to to this gun. Walking through a valley in Brecon and our instructors wanted us to know the sound of rounds flying close over head at night without warning and with shit loads of tracers.
If you noticed he set the ammo in the tray the normal way then grabbed the link and pulled it over and it clicked. That movement is what the first charge normally does. This allowed him to charge it once and be ready to go. The edit was likely just the time between loading and engaging. Watch again closely as he loads.
It's a very common misconception that the M2 50 "NEEDS" to be charged twice. If you watch the video closely you can clearly see him put the belt into position and engage the extractor on the first round. This allows you to only need to charge it one time. If you do not position the belt under the extractor, then yes you do need to charge it twice, once to position the round and once to feed the round.
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I love firing the M2 and have worked on them and all military weapons when I worked for the department of defense for 30 years on the Army base Fort Drum New York I loved that job😊
Don't know if there is an editing glitch or not but with a MA Duece you have to charge it twice to position the first round for firing. Edit; Watching it again, the placement of the first round would only require charging it once.
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See, this weapon WAS just a .380 pistol until they put a pistol brace on it, which increased its rate of fire and power!!! Now I understand why the ATF makes their silly little club rules banning these pistol braces 😬
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