LadyEllen -> RE: Deadliest shoot gun in the world.A gun lovers orgasm times ten (2/23/2008 12:24:16 PM)
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250 Ron, correct, you'd have to be humping that shit for 5 or 10 or however many miles and you'd need 5 guys to carry ammo! On ships or patrol boats that's not a problem but it is for "gravel agitators." Similar with one of the German army's machine guns in WWII. Its rate of fire was something like 3000 rounds per minute - I heard one at a reenactment once and my first thought was "who's the idiot revving a moped?", not realising it was this gun making the sound. This gun was one of the elements in the Germans' successes - after all, who's gonna hang around in the way of it? And really, one only needed the two guys operating the thing - except that it needed another ten guys from the platoon to carry the ammo. Yes, they had rifles, but their primary function was to carry belts and keep the machine gun fed. E
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