cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/centuriichan/p/879201/americans-in-general-are-a-different-breed-of-human
be sniper
brings a heavy machine gun
cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/centuriichan/p/879201/americans-in-general-are-a-different-breed-of-human
be sniper
brings a heavy machine gun
Also … for something with a reciprocating barrel, it’s surprising how accurate an M2 can get if you tinker with it enough and fire it in single shots. Guess the mass of the barrel helps somewhat.
I think I remember hearing something about an experimental sniper rifle program that used barrels from M2 HMGs as the barrel for the new sniper rifle?
My brother used machine guns in his deployment, and apparently the hardest thing to get used to was to let the weight fight the muzzle climb, don’t lean into it like with other, lighter weapons. In training they’d regularly have guys shooting into the dirt because they expected more climb and compensated even though the gun was taking care of that already.
Tbh, you still see this with pistols too. Most of the recoil is actually the slide slamming backwards, and when the spring pushes the slide forward it then slams the gun back down, mostly where it was before