One of the M60s in our platoon was so unreliable that parts would randomly fall off and we would all have to go back and retrace our steps to find the part.
Both the fire control group and the nut on the end of the gas system can part ways with the weapon with great ease, especially on a shot out Pig. Those who know use wire to retain these parts. It goes back to what Admin said about machine gunners being mechanics and ersatz engineers....you gotta know how to run the pig.
The regular M60 pistol grip is Asian boy small. It makes no sense when you see and deal with it in person. When USMC got the M60E3 in the 1980s, that's one of the main improvements they enjoyed, along with the bipod mounted to the forearm and no longer the barrel. What it really needed was a MAG58 feed tray cover though, which is basically what happened with the E4.
I carried and shot the M60 in Basic Training in 1999. I never got to shoot one after that since the Army was transitioning to the M240B, but I'll never forget that iconic sound of the 60. I'll also never forget how HEAVY the bastid was...
M60 was light compared to the M240B. 23 lbs vs 27.6lbs. I enlisted in Oct of 1993, so my first 4 years were with the M60, to include some time in Weapons Squad when I was in the line. We got M240s in Oct 1997 in 25th ID. Ranger Regiment already had them since the mid-1990s, as did the Marines. After most of my junior enlisted time in various Recon Platoons and LRSC, I ended up as a Weapons Squad Leader in 82nd managing the M240 Gun Teams. Reliability was so much better with the M240, and it's just a much better-built weapon. M60 was a lot easier to carry though.
@@LRRPFco52 the balance is definitely better with the M60. First time I picked up a 240 I thought "Man, this is so nose heavy". I hear all the horror stories of how unreliable the 60 was. Never had that with mine. Maybe it just didn't have the round count on it that others had, maybe it had been properly maintained before I got it, I don't know. What I do know is I never had a failure. (Other than shitty bfa's.) Live fire mine always worked flawlessly. Unicorn? Maybe. A lot of them were probably never sent in for depot level maintenance like they should have been. That's how the 240 won over the 60. If I remember correctly the 60/s used in the test were not maintained as per manufacturer recommendations causing the 60 to fail thus the 240 won the tests. Little do people know the 240 has its own set of problems. Like Brandon said, mg's are constantly trying to rip themselves apart. We all understand that. Both are great systems but as with any other system they need proper maintenance.
In our small arms shop in Germany, i took the pistol grip of an M60, fitted the flash supressor end of an M16A2 barrel into a 1911 slide and half assed wired it together. Told everyone it was the new M9 Beretta. When they picked it up it would loudly fall appart and we would give them hell for "breaking it".
@Mike_Oxard Yeah... but the MP7 is a weird duck due to the design being way newer than the cut-off for transferable machine guns and it being an extremely rare dealer sample for demo to law enforcement personnel. Sure, Matt's got the documentation to own automatic weapons since its part of a business collection, but I can see the ATF getting grumpy over the fact that Matt's MP7 was semi-auto only at the time of purchase/transfer (admittedly due to internal mechanical issues, rather than intentional conversion) and that its full-auto capability was restored after the fact.
@@Mike_Oxard Yeah, I know. My point - muddled as it might have been - is that its a post-NFA machine gun that only was exempt due to be a dealer sample. The fact it was "broke" and parts are insanely hard to find to repair it correctly probably eased the ATF's mind fractionally when Matt bought it. It being apparently fully reactivated again will certainly make the ATF twitchy.
Used the M60 in the Australian Army in the 80s, the spare barrel was carried in a padded bag we referred to as the golf bag, it also came with a Gucci asbestos glove so you wouldn’t get burned on a hot change.
I like the writing on your helmet that says *"BORN TO LARP"* Truly the peak of our generation And also, the reason why the "pig" got that hate from most vets, *is because they fired the guns to much it wore out pretty fast and never bothered to replace parts and do maintenance/repair work, if at all*
This is the best circle of guntubers in America and I’ll proudly die on that hill. I’m never in a bad mood after an Admin, Donut, Brandon, Demo, Garand, or Kentucky vid. Unless…I’m…somehow reminded of how much the ATF sucks. Then I’m just happy that Brandon is running for office, but sad I’m not a Texas resident. So yeah. Anyway keep the badass content coming, Admin!
And how could I forget good ol "okay here we go" *BEEP* Jerry Miculek? Top Shot Dustin is one I haven''t heard of yet, @connertomaterhater6691; I'll have to check him out!
I was an M60 Machine gun specialist in the Air Force. I carried it most of the days I was posted, from Technical Training school until I left. I carried it on Patrol at EAFB, Alaska, and then again as a WSA Security Specialist in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Ive used it mounted on hummers and peacekeepers. To be honest, I loved this gun. When the "Black Hawk Down" Somalia thing was going on, the military took a quick re-look at the m60 because they felt the new SAWs might be underpowered. Myself and a couple other M60 machine gunners were called up and asked if we would be willing to train troops on using them again. Nothing ever resulted from this but it was nice to feel kind of useful. I've had great m60s and I've carried horrible ones, but the one I remember the most was a gun I had during training on Ft Dix Army base in NJ. It completely stopped cycyling during a firefight and I could not get it to work. A DI came over and poured a half a quart of motor oil in the feed tray and it worked wonderfully... until it caught on fire!
I'm a bit overweight, and really just been lazy with my fitness over the last few years. Found your channel last night at like midnight, binged a few videos, came across this one at like 1:30 and decided I was gonna lose weight and start working out. I could not let my boys die because I couldn't carry an M60 when we get ambushed in the mf jungle by Charlie. This morning, I worked out for the first time in a long time and feel positive I'm gonna continue. BORN TO M60, FORCED TO PIG.
I wass assigned the M60 during BASIC and instantly fell in love with this weapon. The sound it makes when you fire it, the heaviness and size this thing made me feel like a badass holding this thing! It felt to me like not everybody could wield this thing, and for the few that could, it was something special. The ease of operation and maintenace was so easy I could disassemble and reassemble this thing blindfolded. Every unit I was assigned to, I always volunteered to be assigned the heavy machine gun. Qualified Expert at the shooting range every time, since the heaviness of the weapon and it's barrel reduced muzzle climb, so whatever you were looking at down it's sights, you're putting a hole in it! I frikken love this weapon!
This intro is a masterpiece man, really with every video the quality gets better and better(and those 2 trunks too). You're one of the best of guntube right now(not meatriding, I'm serious). Greetings from Italy🇮🇹 admin.
I loved the m60, when I first got in the marines I carried it the first year and a half. But I HATED cleaning it. The amount of parts in disassembly was always a pain in the ass. That reason is why the 240 won us over. So much easier to disassemble and clean. Also it’s not hard to melt the barrel, did that a couple times lol
Another great video admin. It was awesome that Brandon loaned you that M60. Having Congressman Herrera on this episode was awesome. Thanks again Admin.
I love that on top of all that roleplaying action with his friends, making various movie references left and right, he was wearing a Fallout Vault Boy embroidered on his uniform, such a cultured gentleman ❤
It was a little humorous to see Brandon walking through the woods with his finger on the side of the M16 in a recreation of patrolling in Vietnam. That is so not the way we were trained and operated in the army in the 1960s or even the 1980s. We usually kept our fingers on the trigger and weapons off safe when on patrol. If you ever wondered why a military trigger usually is around a 6-8 lbs pull, it's because your finger usually was on the trigger and the weight of the trigger was your safety. Of course, there always was that one guy who ND'd just as we got off the objective and back at the objective rally point, forcing us to do a hasty move. It wasn't until the 2000s did you see putting your trigger finger along the side of the rifle being trained.
I was an 11 Bravo in the mid-70s I was assigned to a weapons squad as an M-60 gunner for most of my time in service except when I was in the 1/75th Inf. The whole time in service our M-60's never had a sling. It was carried by placing a towel around your neck, opening 1 bipod leg, and placing the gun on your shoulder using the bipod leg to balance the gun. The spare barrel was carried in a waterproof bag along with an asbestos glove. The bag had a sling to carry it. We rarely carried the tripod unless we were digging in and staying in one place for a while. The ammo belts had to be carried in their cloth/cardboard shipping boxes and the ammo cans were carried among the platoon members. Nobody would carry the belts across your chest as you would stand out and be a target for a sniper. Nobody carried Kabars or other large knives, one dude had a bowie knife, but that only lasted a week as ounces became pounds when moving through the bush. Most people including the Vietnam vets carried nothing bigger than a buck 110. Also, every piece of equipment had to be tied down with a "dummy cord", we used parachute cord or "hundred-mile-an-hour" tape as vines tend to rip everything off of your body at some point. When I was in the 1/75th our M-60 gunner had a sling. He would put the sling on his left shoulder or "static line" side and hold the gun in the port arms position close to his body on parachute jumps as there was no weapons case to fit an M-60. Also, we were trained to only fire 3-4 round bursts to conserve ammo.... It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. I did hear that the M-60 was called a pig in Vietnam, but the name never "stuck", It was only referred to as "the 60".
I loved that gun when I served. I will say that the short tri-pod we had was heavy af. I googled myself once, it said I was crazy…I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room with rats. The rats were chewy.
The nam larp has to be my favourite so far, the vest, the helmet, the ammo belts around the shoulders and of course the M60 *chefs kiss* keep it up man I love your enthusiasm and enjoy every single larp!
Dude, your editing skills have increased immensely and I have enjoyed witnessing your MUCH deserved growth. In fact your the only youtuber I've bought merch off of. Keep 'em coming brother and God Bless your work!
I hate to be "that gamer nerd", entering a comment, but the M60 literally carried me through all of Division 2. I always had one on me at all times. Granted I would dive into various other guns to try out, like the infamous F2000. That thing is insane. But when it comes to bread and butter, what gets you through hard times.. the M60. Tried and True. And 90% of other players love you for it. Because mostly they use smaller capacity weapons, and have alot of reload times. Because of this me throwing down range constantly, because of it's huge capacity, keeping things from rushing us etc, helps alot and is generally loved by all. Granted, I've never shot one IRL, I will always have a love and RESPECT for real-world version of this weapon, as I do in that game. Thank you, Sir, for this awesome video. With respect to you as well, Thank you again.
The old M-60 was great when it worked. I used it in the infantry in the 90's and as a door gunner with the M-60D from aircraft. We still had them into the mid 2000"s and later in the Guard units. They just got worn out. The M240's came in and had a faster fire rate and were much more reliable. However I still love the 60. I remember in the day hearing them fire over your head when we used to do realistic training... pucker factor!!!
You didn't have to be all buff and swole to be the squad machine gunner. I was 5'10" and weighted 145 pounds. Skinny as a rail. The M60 was so easy with its recoil that I could run it no problem. It helped that my company had a top who ran the M60 in Vietnam. He showed us all the tricks and used the scrawniest guy in the company (i.e., me) to demonstrate its ease of operation. I came to absolutely love my M60.
@@WayStedYou Well, I had an assistant gunner who carried spare barrels and more ammo, helped with swapping barrels and kept the Pig fed during firing. In lieu of the standard M-16 (which I detested and was the reason I volunteered for the M-60), I carried an M-1911, a couple of spare magazines of .45, the M-60, and a 100-round belt of 7.62 for the Pig. And my ruck. Still heavy, but if you distributed the weight well, it wasn't horrible. My top taught us all kinds of tricks for managing all the crap we had to carry. I will say that I have horrible knees now, though.
I was a 60 gunner for a long time and absolutely love them. It was a sad day when ours were sent away to be replaced by the SAW. (Worst part was is I was the one to load them up to be sent away. Felt like I was betraying a old friend. lol) Best time was my unit was at the range and we had all four 60's set up for familiarization fire. Of course the priority was individual weapons qual but anyone that wanted time on the 60 could come down and fire. By noon we had only had maybe 4 people come down and here we are setting on about 4k rounds. One of the Lt's came down and said all the ammo needed to be burned by 17:00 hrs. We waited until 15:00 hrs (By that time we were still sitting on around 3k rounds) so we just started running belt after belt. Run a belt through one, switch to another. After firing the 4th 60 go back to the 1st, switch barrels, start over. Best range day EVER!
I carried the pig in the 80's for 27 months. My AG was a tiny little guy who looked just like the leader of Haiti at the time so I called him Baby Doc. Baby Doc was a site with a Alice large, 400 rounds, tripod, ta-50 and M16A1.
Baby Doc got over. When I was an AG, I was also the AB (2-man gun teams). I carried: Tripod T&E Spare barrel in bag 800rds linked 7.62 Steiner binos 5.56 basic load M16A2 Winter packing list. I had modified my LBV with an Eagle 1000D Woodland Cordura pouch sewn to the side of the LBV, so I could carry a lot of rounds in there for my gunner for quick access. The rest of the rounds went in my buttpack and ruck.
First off I love the crew! Matt, Brandon, Cody all the bois. Secondly I love the kit worn especially by you with a helmet with your mic on it which I found funny, alongside it written on the side "Born to LARP" which I also found enjoyable. I will say this video was awesome as a Vietnam nut who found the war extremely interesting. I will leave with a fun fact, M60 gunners would clip a B3 ration can to the feed tray so that is would be an "auto-adjuster" of sorts for the linked ammunition as it entered the gun.
haha this is so uplifting to watch + i effing love the bloopers. just friends having a good time , trying to keep a straight face saying the weirdest stuff known to man. 10/10
Scout platoon M60A1 gunner. How I loved the Pig. When properly maintained, it was a flawless MG. I also fired the MG3 in Germany with our “sister” counterparts. That was one helluva nice MG too. We really liked the ease of the barrel replacement & their ammo wasn’t linked, utilizing a re-usable canvass belt.
I carried one for 3 years in the Army Infantry in the 80's. Had 3 different guns. One was so worn out that I could squeeze the receiver together with two fingers, but it still ran like a clock. They replaced it for me with a brand new Maremont gun after I wrapped a new M249 SAW around a tree (3 digit serial # 4xx). The Hollywood theatrics make for good film, but I'd really like to see you do high-crawl, low-crawl, rush and shoot from the prone with it like we did back in the day. For authenticity, no kneepads or elbow pads, either. We carried our ammo inside cardboard boxes in the cloth bandoliers they came in, which you could hang on the feed tray of the gun. Rarely did we carry the spare barrel. The spare barrel would come out if we were dug in a defensive position/bunker. The tripod, T&E, and pintle weighed enough on their own, along with the spare ammo. I don't recall ever having an assistant gunner, let along an ammo bearer. While I was issued a M1911 weapon card, I rarely drew it from the arms room except for inspections or to qualify.
Never had a problem with the ‘60 in the mid 80’s Army. It was the newly introduced FN 5.56 belt fed that would jam every other round. I heard a few years later that they fixed the problem with the FN.
That's why mine got wrapped around a tree at Baumholder training area, and I got re-issued the '60 - same time period, but before they had the belted ammo for the M249 and we had to shoot them with M16 mags and M193 ammo.
I love it. Thank you for this video. My dad used this weapon on ground in Vietnam from 1966-1967. He has since passed away due to agent Orange. R.I.P dad.
I carried a M60, aka Pig, when i first entrrrd the Army Infantry in thevyear of our lord 1995, my brother in Christ. Then the 240B became its replacement. I hated change back then just as i do now. The 240 has some big improvements, but the PIG still reigns Supreme in my God fearing heart. While ibwas on my 1st deployment in Iraq, the "Helo Guys", aka whirlly bird peeps, were looking for volunteers to be door gunners. The only catch was you had to know how to operate the M60 (Pig). Yup they still had the M60s in the whirlly birds. Unfortuntately my Liutenant deenied my request to door gun between missions saying "we need an experienced door kicker/CQB Warrior. Nobody has your level of experience in this Platoon". Thank you for the video, please keep them coming.
I enlisted in 96 we still had the M60 in 2nd Cav...I'm from Maine and the M60 we had strapped down in the back of our humvee (main weapon was either a .50 or Mk19) was built by Saco Arms in Saco, Maine
I was on a detail to clean out an old armorment room inside of a motor pool in Louisiana, we found m60 parts and scopes for rifles we do not use anymore. It was cool to see these little parts of our history floating around lol
6:10 A machine gun is pretty much an internal combustion engine where the piston is shot out of the cylinder and a new one is loaded in to replace. Working on one is really like a mechanic tuning an engine.
any tips on getting more fit and controlling recoil? i dont have any gyms around, and most of the guns i shoot are .22s or shotguns. sick video too, btw
We had one in in hhc that was basically a single shot at times. It was so unreliable. Then one of the guys took one to the mess hall after we went to the range and ran ot through the dishwasher where force 5 ate the finishe off the top cover. That's when I was in hhc 2nd bde 25th I'd in the 80s. When I got to 3bn 505th pir and was in weapons squad ours worked great, and we had our drills down, ag and gunner. Good and bad memories with them. Cool video, brought back memories .
Here is reminder number 2 that Arc'teryx LEAF gear, including the balaclava, is no longer being sold to civilians. I request that you do something about it.
Ah yes! The dynamic trio. My 3 favorite goofballs in one video. Thank you guys so much! I'm grateful for the content yall do and the laughter that comes with it. Sincerely. Thanks fellas.
My dad carried a lot of different weapons when he served and the pig was always his favorite fire arm. And the M72 law rocket was his favorite AT system. According to him.
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My favorite part was when he said “It’s M-60 time!” And then M-60’d all over the place.
M-60 time: Nooooo
Cant wait for the political op research team to explain this statement to a 90 year old politician.
Exactly, peak tier M60 content.
Like yes sir he is refering to his penis.
Brandon going to be the first candidate to ever get in trouble for misappropriating campaign funds to drunk buy machineguns online 😆
One of the M60s in our platoon was so unreliable that parts would randomly fall off and we would all have to go back and retrace our steps to find the part.
Many such cases my lord
@@AdministrativeResultsWe're all peasants, so it's ma lord. LOL
skill issue
That would fucking sick. Have a machine gun just to find out there’s a part missing somewhere back there in the JUNGLE!!!! Holy shit
Both the fire control group and the nut on the end of the gas system can part ways with the weapon with great ease, especially on a shot out Pig. Those who know use wire to retain these parts. It goes back to what Admin said about machine gunners being mechanics and ersatz engineers....you gotta know how to run the pig.
Came for the admin, stayed for the results
This is the way
nice one
THE OUTCOMES
@@AdministrativeResultsMANAGERIAL OUTCOMES!?!?!?!
@@trevorm0329Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh
Could you nerds imagine if Legolas had this at the battle of Helms Deep lmao
I _feeel_ like Elves would dispise such weapons. They seem more Orc like. ZOMG! Humans _are_ Soace Orcs!
Sauce orcs?! I mean SPACE ORCS!
Legolas runs the whole belt in one go on top of the wall.
Gimli: This counts as ONE!!!
This sounds like Eldari propaganda...
He'd still be struggling to top the Bowmaster's count
Brandon fits disturbingly well in a 'Nam setting...
The cia spook suits him
@@AdministrativeResults
Hey, if he wants to do some extra curricular gangster shit. That is wholly his prerogative.
@@juletid99 I mean, he IS running for congress....
@@AdministrativeResultsNah he feels more like the KGB under cover American
I never realized how toy-like the pistol grip assembly looks on these until now.
Them space age plastic gyzmos
The regular M60 pistol grip is Asian boy small. It makes no sense when you see and deal with it in person. When USMC got the M60E3 in the 1980s, that's one of the main improvements they enjoyed, along with the bipod mounted to the forearm and no longer the barrel.
What it really needed was a MAG58 feed tray cover though, which is basically what happened with the E4.
It’s so weird not seeing his absolute tree trunks of muscles being covered up by his sleeves
Them dawgs gotta bark every once and a while
Love the video, love the blooper reel at the end, LOVED THE RESULTS!!!
@@gregoryhelton6646the administrative results
Lad's got legs where his arms should be.
@@AdministrativeResultsi recently re-watched Fmj, this video feels like a tribute to it. Nice
Teach small town sheriff departments to respect our veterans with this one weird trick.
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I carried and shot the M60 in Basic Training in 1999. I never got to shoot one after that since the Army was transitioning to the M240B, but I'll never forget that iconic sound of the 60.
I'll also never forget how HEAVY the bastid was...
M60 was light compared to the M240B. 23 lbs vs 27.6lbs. I enlisted in Oct of 1993, so my first 4 years were with the M60, to include some time in Weapons Squad when I was in the line. We got M240s in Oct 1997 in 25th ID. Ranger Regiment already had them since the mid-1990s, as did the Marines.
After most of my junior enlisted time in various Recon Platoons and LRSC, I ended up as a Weapons Squad Leader in 82nd managing the M240 Gun Teams.
Reliability was so much better with the M240, and it's just a much better-built weapon. M60 was a lot easier to carry though.
@@LRRPFco52 Oh, I never said the 240 is lighter. I know it's heavy. I had one mounted on my M1133 Stryker my first tour in Iraq.
@@seancallaway5204 I would love something that had the profile of an M60E4, reliability of the M240, but smaller and chambered in 6.5 Grendel.
@@LRRPFco52MK48 SOCOM might be reconfigured but you'd need millions before you'd have FN's ear.
@@LRRPFco52 the balance is definitely better with the M60. First time I picked up a 240 I thought "Man, this is so nose heavy".
I hear all the horror stories of how unreliable the 60 was. Never had that with mine. Maybe it just didn't have the round count on it that others had, maybe it had been properly maintained before I got it, I don't know. What I do know is I never had a failure. (Other than shitty bfa's.) Live fire mine always worked flawlessly. Unicorn? Maybe.
A lot of them were probably never sent in for depot level maintenance like they should have been. That's how the 240 won over the 60. If I remember correctly the 60/s used in the test were not maintained as per manufacturer recommendations causing the 60 to fail thus the 240 won the tests. Little do people know the 240 has its own set of problems. Like Brandon said, mg's are constantly trying to rip themselves apart. We all understand that. Both are great systems but as with any other system they need proper maintenance.
In our small arms shop in Germany, i took the pistol grip of an M60, fitted the flash supressor end of an M16A2 barrel into a 1911 slide and half assed wired it together. Told everyone it was the new M9 Beretta. When they picked it up it would loudly fall appart and we would give them hell for "breaking it".
Brilliant Junge
That's some brilliant Teutonic engineering. Be careful. The US will "import" you.
Jesus.......that sounds so cursed...can we see it?
@mahogany7712 I wish I had a photo. That was 1989 so the parts are long scrapped. Maybe I can photoshop something sometime
Awesome
Anyone who runs is a vc anyone who stands still is a well disciplined vc, GET SOME GET SOME
YOU SHOULD WRITE A STORY ABOUT ME SOMETIME
@@AdministrativeResults Why’s that?
@@spehhhsssmarineer8961its a line from fmj
@@spehhhsssmarineer8961cause I’m soo fuckin good
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Cuz I'm so *expletive* good!
I love how Matt is just glued to his MP7 at all times now
Considering the possible SOT legal trouble that might be headed his way, can you blame him?
He's got to protect it from Donut. EYES OPEN 360.
@Mike_Oxard Yeah... but the MP7 is a weird duck due to the design being way newer than the cut-off for transferable machine guns and it being an extremely rare dealer sample for demo to law enforcement personnel. Sure, Matt's got the documentation to own automatic weapons since its part of a business collection, but I can see the ATF getting grumpy over the fact that Matt's MP7 was semi-auto only at the time of purchase/transfer (admittedly due to internal mechanical issues, rather than intentional conversion) and that its full-auto capability was restored after the fact.
@@Mike_Oxard Yeah, I know. My point - muddled as it might have been - is that its a post-NFA machine gun that only was exempt due to be a dealer sample. The fact it was "broke" and parts are insanely hard to find to repair it correctly probably eased the ATF's mind fractionally when Matt bought it. It being apparently fully reactivated again will certainly make the ATF twitchy.
He deserves it, it's a major flex
Used the M60 in the Australian Army in the 80s, the spare barrel was carried in a padded bag we referred to as the golf bag, it also came with a Gucci asbestos glove so you wouldn’t get burned on a hot change.
Mmm, asbestos.
That bag is great for carrying your seriously cut down m16.
And the first thing that gets lost is the damn glove, every time.
0:11 Peter Griffin should have appeared dancing among the Vietnam Flashbacks
been super cool to see you grow and see your production quality go up, love what you do man
Thank you my sir, I appreciate that greatly
I like the writing on your helmet that says *"BORN TO LARP"*
Truly the peak of our generation
And also, the reason why the "pig" got that hate from most vets, *is because they fired the guns to much it wore out pretty fast and never bothered to replace parts and do maintenance/repair work, if at all*
Vietnam really was a case of great guns gaining a bad reputation because the users never maintained them lol
THE LARP IS IMMACULATE.
(Long live the Admin btw)
This is the best circle of guntubers in America and I’ll proudly die on that hill. I’m never in a bad mood after an Admin, Donut, Brandon, Demo, Garand, or Kentucky vid.
Unless…I’m…somehow reminded of how much the ATF sucks. Then I’m just happy that Brandon is running for office, but sad I’m not a Texas resident.
So yeah. Anyway keep the badass content coming, Admin!
Top shot Dustin is a good channel as well.
Hickock too!
And how could I forget good ol "okay here we go" *BEEP* Jerry Miculek? Top Shot Dustin is one I haven''t heard of yet, @connertomaterhater6691; I'll have to check him out!
I appreciate each of their unique flavors of autism
Appalled by the lack of blackface disguised as camo body paint
That’s what we have Judy Garland for
metal gear solid 3: snake eater?
I was an M60 Machine gun specialist in the Air Force. I carried it most of the days I was posted, from Technical Training school until I left. I carried it on Patrol at EAFB, Alaska, and then again as a WSA Security Specialist in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Ive used it mounted on hummers and peacekeepers. To be honest, I loved this gun.
When the "Black Hawk Down" Somalia thing was going on, the military took a quick re-look at the m60 because they felt the new SAWs might be underpowered. Myself and a couple other M60 machine gunners were called up and asked if we would be willing to train troops on using them again. Nothing ever resulted from this but it was nice to feel kind of useful.
I've had great m60s and I've carried horrible ones, but the one I remember the most was a gun I had during training on Ft Dix Army base in NJ. It completely stopped cycyling during a firefight and I could not get it to work. A DI came over and poured a half a quart of motor oil in the feed tray and it worked wonderfully... until it caught on fire!
I'm a bit overweight, and really just been lazy with my fitness over the last few years. Found your channel last night at like midnight, binged a few videos, came across this one at like 1:30 and decided I was gonna lose weight and start working out. I could not let my boys die because I couldn't carry an M60 when we get ambushed in the mf jungle by Charlie. This morning, I worked out for the first time in a long time and feel positive I'm gonna continue. BORN TO M60, FORCED TO PIG.
I wass assigned the M60 during BASIC and instantly fell in love with this weapon. The sound it makes when you fire it, the heaviness and size this thing made me feel like a badass holding this thing! It felt to me like not everybody could wield this thing, and for the few that could, it was something special. The ease of operation and maintenace was so easy I could disassemble and reassemble this thing blindfolded. Every unit I was assigned to, I always volunteered to be assigned the heavy machine gun. Qualified Expert at the shooting range every time, since the heaviness of the weapon and it's barrel reduced muzzle climb, so whatever you were looking at down it's sights, you're putting a hole in it! I frikken love this weapon!
The hog will always be a badass weapon.
massive hog
"Hog good! Hog All Wheel Drive! Hog has Armor! Hog has big Gun! Cool Green Men use Hog!" - Sgt. Johnsön
This intro is a masterpiece man, really with every video the quality gets better and better(and those 2 trunks too). You're one of the best of guntube right now(not meatriding, I'm serious).
Greetings from Italy🇮🇹 admin.
Gratze my Italian brother
I loved the m60, when I first got in the marines I carried it the first year and a half. But I HATED cleaning it. The amount of parts in disassembly was always a pain in the ass. That reason is why the 240 won us over. So much easier to disassemble and clean. Also it’s not hard to melt the barrel, did that a couple times lol
I love the little bits of acting between admin and brandon
My first unit I was in still had M60s and unfortunately we fired more blanks than live ammo. We then changed to Minimis and Mag58s
Euro army?
@@bb5242 Australian
"i need more .30 cal!"
*still has 2 belts hanging over his shoulders*
thats the spirit
He was anticipating a long firefight and knew that the guy he was sending for ammo would stop for coffee.
Another great video admin. It was awesome that Brandon loaned you that M60. Having Congressman Herrera on this episode was awesome. Thanks again Admin.
I love that on top of all that roleplaying action with his friends, making various movie references left and right, he was wearing a Fallout Vault Boy embroidered on his uniform, such a cultured gentleman ❤
It was a little humorous to see Brandon walking through the woods with his finger on the side of the M16 in a recreation of patrolling in Vietnam. That is so not the way we were trained and operated in the army in the 1960s or even the 1980s. We usually kept our fingers on the trigger and weapons off safe when on patrol. If you ever wondered why a military trigger usually is around a 6-8 lbs pull, it's because your finger usually was on the trigger and the weight of the trigger was your safety. Of course, there always was that one guy who ND'd just as we got off the objective and back at the objective rally point, forcing us to do a hasty move. It wasn't until the 2000s did you see putting your trigger finger along the side of the rifle being trained.
POV: Grandpa when he forgot to take his meds and suddenly the walls start speaking Vietnamese
I was an 11 Bravo in the mid-70s I was assigned to a weapons squad as an M-60 gunner for most of my time in service except when I was in the 1/75th Inf.
The whole time in service our M-60's never had a sling. It was carried by placing a towel around your neck, opening 1 bipod leg, and placing the gun on your shoulder using the bipod leg to balance the gun. The spare barrel was carried in a waterproof bag along with an asbestos glove. The bag had a sling to carry it. We rarely carried the tripod unless we were digging in and staying in one place for a while. The ammo belts had to be carried in their cloth/cardboard shipping boxes and the ammo cans were carried among the platoon members. Nobody would carry the belts across your chest as you would stand out and be a target for a sniper.
Nobody carried Kabars or other large knives, one dude had a bowie knife, but that only lasted a week as ounces became pounds when moving through the bush. Most people including the Vietnam vets carried nothing bigger than a buck 110. Also, every piece of equipment had to be tied down with a "dummy cord", we used parachute cord or "hundred-mile-an-hour" tape as vines tend to rip everything off of your body at some point.
When I was in the 1/75th our M-60 gunner had a sling. He would put the sling on his left shoulder or "static line" side and hold the gun in the port arms position close to his body on parachute jumps as there was no weapons case to fit an M-60. Also, we were trained to only fire 3-4 round bursts to conserve ammo.... It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. I did hear that the M-60 was called a pig in Vietnam, but the name never "stuck", It was only referred to as "the 60".
If smiles were bright you could see mine from space.!!! With Brandon and Matt with the mp7. Life is good
Absolute raddest opening sequence you've done yet, keep it up!
I loved that gun when I served. I will say that the short tri-pod we had was heavy af.
I googled myself once, it said I was crazy…I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room with rats. The rats were chewy.
The nam larp has to be my favourite so far, the vest, the helmet, the ammo belts around the shoulders and of course the M60 *chefs kiss* keep it up man I love your enthusiasm and enjoy every single larp!
Dude, your editing skills have increased immensely and I have enjoyed witnessing your MUCH deserved growth. In fact your the only youtuber I've bought merch off of. Keep 'em coming brother and God Bless your work!
I hate to be "that gamer nerd", entering a comment, but the M60 literally carried me through all of Division 2.
I always had one on me at all times. Granted I would dive into various other guns to try out, like the infamous F2000.
That thing is insane. But when it comes to bread and butter, what gets you through hard times.. the M60. Tried and True.
And 90% of other players love you for it. Because mostly they use smaller capacity weapons, and have alot of reload times.
Because of this me throwing down range constantly, because of it's huge capacity, keeping things from rushing us etc, helps alot and is generally loved by all. Granted, I've never shot one IRL, I will always have a love and RESPECT for real-world version of this weapon, as I do in that game.
Thank you, Sir, for this awesome video. With respect to you as well, Thank you again.
I love the smell of a new Admin video in the morning!
The old M-60 was great when it worked. I used it in the infantry in the 90's and as a door gunner with the M-60D from aircraft. We still had them into the mid 2000"s and later in the Guard units. They just got worn out. The M240's came in and had a faster fire rate and were much more reliable. However I still love the 60. I remember in the day hearing them fire over your head when we used to do realistic training... pucker factor!!!
Vietnam Era Brandon Herrera is coolest Brandon Herrera no contest
These two are an unbeatable duo
You didn't have to be all buff and swole to be the squad machine gunner. I was 5'10" and weighted 145 pounds. Skinny as a rail. The M60 was so easy with its recoil that I could run it no problem. It helped that my company had a top who ran the M60 in Vietnam. He showed us all the tricks and used the scrawniest guy in the company (i.e., me) to demonstrate its ease of operation. I came to absolutely love my M60.
Isnt it more a matter of hauling it and all the ammo around rather than the recoil
@@WayStedYou Well, I had an assistant gunner who carried spare barrels and more ammo, helped with swapping barrels and kept the Pig fed during firing. In lieu of the standard M-16 (which I detested and was the reason I volunteered for the M-60), I carried an M-1911, a couple of spare magazines of .45, the M-60, and a 100-round belt of 7.62 for the Pig. And my ruck. Still heavy, but if you distributed the weight well, it wasn't horrible. My top taught us all kinds of tricks for managing all the crap we had to carry. I will say that I have horrible knees now, though.
I was a 60 gunner for a long time and absolutely love them. It was a sad day when ours were sent away to be replaced by the SAW. (Worst part was is I was the one to load them up to be sent away. Felt like I was betraying a old friend. lol)
Best time was my unit was at the range and we had all four 60's set up for familiarization fire. Of course the priority was individual weapons qual but anyone that wanted time on the 60 could come down and fire. By noon we had only had maybe 4 people come down and here we are setting on about 4k rounds. One of the Lt's came down and said all the ammo needed to be burned by 17:00 hrs. We waited until 15:00 hrs (By that time we were still sitting on around 3k rounds) so we just started running belt after belt. Run a belt through one, switch to another. After firing the 4th 60 go back to the 1st, switch barrels, start over. Best range day EVER!
Been loving the Vietnam vibe lately, this is icing on the interesting tasting jelly
Oh, I'll ice your jellies! _Wait!_
Boi
One of the best intros I think I’ve ever seen.
I carried the pig in the 80's for 27 months. My AG was a tiny little guy who looked just like the leader of Haiti at the time so I called him Baby Doc. Baby Doc was a site with a Alice large, 400 rounds, tripod, ta-50 and M16A1.
Baby Doc got over. When I was an AG, I was also the AB (2-man gun teams). I carried:
Tripod
T&E
Spare barrel in bag
800rds linked 7.62
Steiner binos
5.56 basic load
M16A2
Winter packing list.
I had modified my LBV with an Eagle 1000D Woodland Cordura pouch sewn to the side of the LBV, so I could carry a lot of rounds in there for my gunner for quick access.
The rest of the rounds went in my buttpack and ruck.
First off I love the crew! Matt, Brandon, Cody all the bois. Secondly I love the kit worn especially by you with a helmet with your mic on it which I found funny, alongside it written on the side "Born to LARP" which I also found enjoyable. I will say this video was awesome as a Vietnam nut who found the war extremely interesting. I will leave with a fun fact, M60 gunners would clip a B3 ration can to the feed tray so that is would be an "auto-adjuster" of sorts for the linked ammunition as it entered the gun.
haha this is so uplifting to watch + i effing love the bloopers. just friends having a good time , trying to keep a straight face saying the weirdest stuff known to man. 10/10
Scout platoon M60A1 gunner. How I loved the Pig. When properly maintained, it was a flawless MG. I also fired the MG3 in Germany with our “sister” counterparts. That was one helluva nice MG too. We really liked the ease of the barrel replacement & their ammo wasn’t linked, utilizing a re-usable canvass belt.
I was a 60 gunner at my second unit. I'm amazed that nobody ever talks about the buttstock flap that you flip up for shooting it from the shoulder.
PKM also had that sometimes
Except for your token black politician. These people rule our lives. FCK!
@@Nein1ron never got my hands on a PKM. Thanks for the info.
The shoulder rest is also found on the M-14 and most M1As.
I carried one for 3 years in the Army Infantry in the 80's. Had 3 different guns. One was so worn out that I could squeeze the receiver together with two fingers, but it still ran like a clock. They replaced it for me with a brand new Maremont gun after I wrapped a new M249 SAW around a tree (3 digit serial # 4xx).
The Hollywood theatrics make for good film, but I'd really like to see you do high-crawl, low-crawl, rush and shoot from the prone with it like we did back in the day. For authenticity, no kneepads or elbow pads, either. We carried our ammo inside cardboard boxes in the cloth bandoliers they came in, which you could hang on the feed tray of the gun. Rarely did we carry the spare barrel. The spare barrel would come out if we were dug in a defensive position/bunker. The tripod, T&E, and pintle weighed enough on their own, along with the spare ammo. I don't recall ever having an assistant gunner, let along an ammo bearer. While I was issued a M1911 weapon card, I rarely drew it from the arms room except for inspections or to qualify.
The m60 is one of the machine guns of all time
Not even close
M60 is a true legend in the world of machine guns.
Never had a problem with the ‘60 in the mid 80’s Army. It was the newly introduced FN 5.56 belt fed that would jam every other round. I heard a few years later that they fixed the problem with the FN.
That's why mine got wrapped around a tree at Baumholder training area, and I got re-issued the '60 - same time period, but before they had the belted ammo for the M249 and we had to shoot them with M16 mags and M193 ammo.
That intro rocked.
good video as always! i have been waiting for this one since you teased it on Instagram. Greetings from Sweden!!
Greetings Swedish friend
10:45 It's the shoulder thing that goes up! 🤣
Honey wake up new admin video
So good to see you supporting senator Herrera
Epic and hilarious video. Your channel just gets better and better.
Seconded.
I love it. Thank you for this video. My dad used this weapon on ground in Vietnam from 1966-1967. He has since passed away due to agent Orange. R.I.P dad.
Vietnam Flashbacks kickin in when I see the M60 308. "Pig" 🤣 and when I hear Fortunate Son.
That's some 10/10 larping at the intro.
And Matt is gonna be glued to that MP7 for ever.
admin rocks that m60 perfectly ngl
I carried a M60, aka Pig, when i first entrrrd the Army Infantry in thevyear of our lord 1995, my brother in Christ. Then the 240B became its replacement. I hated change back then just as i do now. The 240 has some big improvements, but the PIG still reigns Supreme in my God fearing heart. While ibwas on my 1st deployment in Iraq, the "Helo Guys", aka whirlly bird peeps, were looking for volunteers to be door gunners. The only catch was you had to know how to operate the M60 (Pig). Yup they still had the M60s in the whirlly birds. Unfortuntately my Liutenant deenied my request to door gun between missions saying "we need an experienced door kicker/CQB Warrior. Nobody has your level of experience in this Platoon". Thank you for the video, please keep them coming.
As a fan of M60, Brandon, Donut and Family Guy I approve this video
All the best toobers in one Results vid, score.
Your honor, im my clients defense yes he did all those things… but freebird was playing
Your honor, you wasn't even there
I enlisted in 96 we still had the M60 in 2nd Cav...I'm from Maine and the M60 we had strapped down in the back of our humvee (main weapon was either a .50 or Mk19) was built by Saco Arms in Saco, Maine
"you should really wear some earpro"
"WHAT?"
"EARPRO!!"
"WHAT??"
WHAT
WHAT?!
“Hey who let the kooks play the Indians?” My favorite quote of any war movie, just because it shows the bond between the soldiers.
Admin bro, take me to the range. Let's have a range date😚
👁️👄👁️
It takes at least 3 dates before he'll take you to the range
That was amazing movie you just produced.
Fortunate Son INTENSIFIES!
I was on a detail to clean out an old armorment room inside of a motor pool in Louisiana, we found m60 parts and scopes for rifles we do not use anymore. It was cool to see these little parts of our history floating around lol
Me buying aura to have an admin with a M60 in my computer
We play a little defense
6:10 A machine gun is pretty much an internal combustion engine where the piston is shot out of the cylinder and a new one is loaded in to replace. Working on one is really like a mechanic tuning an engine.
I see Matt hasn’t put down his emotional support MP7 yet
"EVERYONE THAT RUNS IS A VC!"
"BUT ANYONE THAT STANDS STILL IS A WELL DICIPLINED VC!"
Humped "The Pig" for a few years as a "Grunt". Loved that thing!!
Carried the 60 in the mid-90's. Love it!!!
This video kind of feels like a 7 year old Admin found his Dad's gun in the closet and is running around playing with it
Thank you for the video ! ☺♥
any tips on getting more fit and controlling recoil? i dont have any gyms around, and most of the guns i shoot are .22s or shotguns. sick video too, btw
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This is my favorite larp of all time. You and Brandon fit the nam larp so damn well too. This is one of my top 10 favorite videos on RUclips now.
Where is that shirt from?
"I godda find Brandooon!"
Holy shit that turned me into a seagull. I haven't laughed that violently in a while. Ouch.
Real?!
Honestly the sound that the M60 makes is one of the absolute best features. One of the top sounding weapons.
besides being at demo ranch this entire video is sex appeal
That one guy Charlie... absolutely perfect!
bren forever
Bren is still a must to get on
“I NEED more 30cal!!!”
My guy your wearing it
We had one in in hhc that was basically a single shot at times. It was so unreliable. Then one of the guys took one to the mess hall after we went to the range and ran ot through the dishwasher where force 5 ate the finishe off the top cover. That's when I was in hhc 2nd bde 25th I'd in the 80s. When I got to 3bn 505th pir and was in weapons squad ours worked great, and we had our drills down, ag and gunner. Good and bad memories with them. Cool video, brought back memories .
Here is reminder number 2 that Arc'teryx LEAF gear, including the balaclava, is no longer being sold to civilians. I request that you do something about it.
love Full Metal Jacket movie, so damn awesome. I also like the M60 because of the show A-Team whenever Hannibal Smith pulls out the M60
Ah yes! The dynamic trio. My 3 favorite goofballs in one video. Thank you guys so much! I'm grateful for the content yall do and the laughter that comes with it. Sincerely. Thanks fellas.
My dad carried a lot of different weapons when he served and the pig was always his favorite fire arm. And the M72 law rocket was his favorite AT system. According to him.