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Peter Kokalis use to write about them a lot in Shotgun News. I guess he was an M60 armorer in El Salvador.
Gun had a lot of problems, one of the worst, IMO, is that it can be assembled incorrectly. I always thought a good gun design required that it could not be field stripped and reassembled incorrectly. |
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M240B all the way. It sucks to hump, but when I get to put my 145 on target, it's a very beautiful thing to behold. Just wait until the M240B is about four decades old.  My first M60 was so loose that we tied shoe strings to hold the buttsock onto the reciever. The USAF taught me to field strip by raising the cover and pulling that piece that held the butt stock and gently let the pressure go. The US Army told me to depress that little detent outside the butt stock. When she screamed she roared. Most of the time, unfortunately I often drew the old weed/twig/branch hook that grabbed at every wait a minute vine out there. As to incorrectly assembliing this weapon, armorers often wired the gas piston down so it could not be removed or dissasembled. The one that I did not see this way became dissasembled before I could stop one of my fellow cadets in college. BTW my M240C I belive, in my M2 Bradley INFANTRY fighting vehicle never dissapointed me.
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