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Originally Posted by HOLLiS
As far as the poor quality of the M60, I wonder if they were old used up ones? I just can not remember anything bad being said about the M60. Hearing, "Guns up" was nice sound.
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IN 1970, my platoon carried 2 M60's. We did not have problems with the mechanics nor ammo. Daily cleaning of all our weapons kept the dirt and rust to a minimum. Contact was a couple time a week..
When we were rotated into the FB,, maybe every 4-5 weeks(??), we would have Mad Minutes at night where we would fire everything into the wood-line to discourage Charley. The guys would link 4 or 5 belts together, in a neat pile, and sandbag the barrel and let it rip. There were mini-contest to see who could fire the longest belt. We also did the same with the M16, They would truly glow after 10-12 20 rd mags.
No Problemo..
Now it was heavy and mechanically complicated so I would vote for something like the MG3/MG-43,,, belt fed,, 7.62x51..
Belt fed and 7.62 cal,, the bar the 5.56 can't reach..
