[M14E2]

Anyone else read the excellent article in the Am. Rifleman on the incredible AN/M2 .50cal machine gun , designed by , who else , John Moses Browning?!?!

Simply a MUST READ!

https://www.americanrifleman.org/ar...rowning-machine-gun-the-gun-that-won-the-war/

 

[Wasted ammo]

John Moses Browning is my hero! No BS

 

[Lurp]

Now I have

 

[Deek]

Great article! Unfortunately, I will never have the opportunity to fire one, unless one falls off a truck in my driveway!

 

[IH 1026]

In fact, in 2015 the 324th M2 ever produced was finally removed from service—after 94 years in the inventory. The old warhorse was being retired because current standards would require extensive modification. Army Materiel Command quoted an armorer at Anniston Army Depot who said, “Looking at the receiver, for its age, it looks good as new and it gauges better than most of the other weapons.” Said John Clark, a small arms repair leader, “I’d rather put this one on display than send it to the scrap heap.”

If this weapon could only talk....

 

[SteedGun]

Yes, I read the article a few weeks ago. Probably one of the best I have ever read and only a few of which I have kept. I live not far from Morgan Utah. We are very proud of the genius of JMB. Every time I take apart a 1911 I have to pause and say "thank you". I think I would do a full on meltdown if I had a chance to shoot a "Ma Duce". Can you imagine firing the four mount version? Hot dog!

 

[Wasted ammo]

Carlos talked about one a good bit. He turn one into the first 50 cal sniper rifle ever. And was pretty bad ass with it!

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Ahhhh....memories of firing 3-5 round bursts at floating pallets off the fantail.......walking those tracers in!

 

[High Hat]

Great article, thanks!

 

[SA762]

Ahh yes the M2 50 cal. While on squad level missions in Baghdad with 3 M1114's it would be lead vehicle M2, middle M240B, and of course a M2 at the 6. Nothing is better.

 

[Instructor]

My neighbor of only couple houses away had such a gun, and we would shoot it at a farm location available to me whenever and glad he was feeding the thing. He had built a square steel tube that fit in his trailer hitch, come out a foot or so, then straight up and back a bit with an old butt shaped tractor seat on it and the gun mtd. just in front of you.
It literally shook the truck when we set it on full auto to shoot at the big boulder some 1000yds. away painted white so we could see the bullet strikes. Only thing he would ask of me was to let him use the property for shooting it and to help him reload during the week so we would be ready to go for the weekend. He ended up buying a press from some outfit in California to reload and that press was something near 4' tall but that is one big boy cartridge. He had several machine guns, all legal, but the "ma duce" was definitely his favorite. He passed away few years ago but we had some times together in those days, miss him.

 

[Guest]

I set a junked truck on fire with one out in the desert, talk about a thrill...

 

[XXIV Corps]

Loved firing the "Ma Duce" in the states as well at Summer Camp!

Getting the Ma Duce ready just below FSB Rakkasson April 1971.
On the right side of the road you can see 10-20 175mm powder canisters in the dump and wood.

 

[Clark]

I was an NCO helping to run a .50 caliber range at Camp Shelby, Mississippi many years ago. We had maybe 10 or 12 M2's on the firing line at any one time. Towards the end of the last class to come through, someone realized that we had maybe 1500 to 2000 "excess" rounds to dispose of. So, they were "disposed" of all at once. Every weapon on the line received at least one full box of ammo and the shooting stopped when the ammo was gone. It was quite the experience.

 

[Rich D]

Carlos talked about one a good bit. He turn one into the first 50 cal sniper rifle ever. And was pretty bad ass with it!

I've mentioned this before. In mid 1967, in Phu Bai, VN, I was a Seabee. We had a complete machine shop in trailers, and our machinist mounted a scope on a .50 for a couple of Marines. I don't think it was Carlos, though.

Off topic, I dropped my 1911 off yesterday to have FO sights installed, and he had an M60 sitting on the floor. That was fun to shoot in the service, especially since my rich uncle paid for the ammo, and I didn't have to pick up brass.

 

[tnw50cal]

<----Even in semi auto I love it.

 

[Harleystoo]

HE was a brilliant man.

Like the 1911, the ma duece has been around for a 100 yrs.

 

[M14E2]

Ahhh yes , an M2 with an M-14 for a back-up!




Or is that the other way around?

 

[bustedknuckles]

Picture of my grandfather behind the water cooled gun in the foxhole in that article. Funny thing is my cousin is in the armed citizens section for defending her home in the same issue.
I wonder if when they ran her name they found that photo of my grandfather. I was raised by him and both cousin and grandpa made me proud

 

[hurryinhoosier]

Yes, I read the article a few weeks ago. Probably one of the best I have ever read and only a few of which I have kept. I live not far from Morgan Utah. We are very proud of the genius of JMB. Every time I take apart a 1911 I have to pause and say "thank you". I think I would do a full on meltdown if I had a chance to shoot a "Ma Duce". Can you imagine firing the four mount version? Hot dog!

Dad was a qualified anti-aircraft heavy machine gunner when he was in Corps during the Korean War. He had many hours in the Quad .50.