I mean getting a launcher is the easy part. It's getting actual REAL grenades for it that's the hard part. Notice how he's not actually shooting explosive grenades?
@@DH-xw6jp You can form 1 it as we speak, they haven't had a cut-out date on the NFA like machine guns, they fall under the category of Destructive Devices under the BATF, same for the 40mm HE live grenades, just have to register the receiver on the launcher and pay the 200 bucks for the tax stamp, and register and pay for EACH grenade, that's the only way for civilians to own them legally
As a 17 year old in USAF JROTC, I got the chance to hang out with our Army National Guard on range day. Don't ask em how our USAF Major worked that out because it was above my paygrade.😂 On this fine morning we had the opportunity to fire 3 weapons: M16, M60, and M203. When we got to the 203 range, we were basically instructed on the weapon. We all fired our 3 rounds. (They exploded. People argue that they didn't, but these most definitely were not chalk rounds. ) Our bus driver was Vietnam Vet and he was issued the M79. He took that 203 and basically told us like some over confident baseball player at bat where he was gonna place it. He hit his mark and he hadn't fired a 203 before. I'm he figured out the geometry in his head by watching us. He did this from the hip, no sights at around 100 yards. It was crazy and awesome to see. My uncle was there too. He was also a Vietnam Vet, and he just happened to be the range master that day for the M16. He made sure he was handing ammo to us because he knew I was there. It is day I have never forgotten. This all happeened in my 94 to 95 Semester
This girl that I worked with was im the national guard. This WASN'T ROTC. This was actual training day. They had to cut the whole thing short, because the idiots in her unit were so unsafe. (Her included) Wow how times have changed. Now we cant even trust adults handling weapons that high-school kids hadno problems with in the 90s. She told me how close her round went off to where they were firing from, and I called her an idiot. She said "well I didn't know, it was my first time shooting these things". I said "yeah, that's why it's called TRAINING". Our military is doomed. She also filed complaints everytime that her CO said or made them do something that she didn't like. She even filed harassment charges against him. If you sawthis chick, you would see that this is highly unlikely.
@@sgt_s4und3r54 Good for them, and good for you, too. Being a ROTC cadet, they wanted you to have a "little taste" to appreciate the reality of it. And by having that experience, you have been "in war", and handled and operated more "weapons of war" than Walz.😉👍🇺🇸
He said that once you get used to it you can land the rounds anywhere within range without using the sight at all. Reminds me of that scene in Apocalypse Now when that dude just needed to hear where the enemy was and could drop it on their heads.. pretty sweet.
In 71-72 north of DaNang in Camp Eagle 101st loved that bloop gun, where put many hours of perimeter guard and would fire it when need. But by then the 203 had pretty much replaced it, since just having a 45 against a AK well ask you dad, and welcome him back home.
@@vietnamvet4533 my uncle was in the Army too. His tour in Vietnam was in 65'-66'... he was a door gunner on A huey using an M-60 from what I understand, he doesn't talk much about it, I don't blame him, i guess it was pretty bad there at that time. According to my dad though, he fucked some shit up... I have no doubt about that statement being true.
We need a birdshot nade i bet you thats a civilian legal cartridge for this thing until we get the real nades. A flare nade a birdshot. We cam get way better smoke grenades in these. A giant beanbag a giant nerf dart a giant paintball 😂 I can keep going. A giant firework launcher clusterbombs. T shirt cannon. Can cannon. Anyway. Molotov launcher. Burrito delivery system from one foxhole to the other. Anyway repeal the nfa abolish the atf send the messege freeedom and less taxes lets goo
I carried one of these for about a month and a half in Iraq in "06. I shit you not, one of the most intuitive weapons to shoot in my entire life, as long you don't use the sights, same for the 203. If you can throw a baseball or football somewhat, the mechanics of flight of a 40mm round seems natural, to me at least. The reason I only carried it for a month and a half, was the fact that I was carrying another rifle's worth of weight, got old, quick. Ounces equals pounds, and pounds equal pain. I eventually went with a 203, which was what I was accustomed to until I discovered we had 3 or 4 M79's in the armory at the ROC. It was cool while it lasted, but to this day, I cherish the opportunity that fulfilled a childhood fascination of Vietnam era weapons. Such a cool gun, just a little too heavy when I had a lighter option that was just as accurate/easy to operate with equal proficiency.
Gee in Iraq they kind of did away with them in the Nam since the guys who carried them only had a 45. The 203 was the next to come on line. But got to tell you that bloop gun was fun to fire. Oh and thanks for your service.
A buddy of mine (RIP Nick) was an M79 guy in Vietnam. He told me he could get 3 of them sent before the first one hit the target. I miss his stories was the 2nd toughest most fearless old school Marine I met next to my gramps who served in ww2.
I can confirm...a neat trick is to fire one very high trajectory, speed reload and fire another one direct fire. With practice, you can get both to hit the same target at the same time.
I was a grenadier with the 25th infantry in Nam in 1966 . We were stationed outside of Pleiku. We would go out on search and destroy missions in the central highlands and had to carry a double combat load of 36 rounds for my M-79. The straps that held the bags with the plastic cups that held them would dig into you between your neck and shoulders. So I ripped off the canvas cover of the supply Sargent jeep and made zarape type vest and sewed the cups on it. My platoon Sargent had a contest with 21:41 me and the other grenadier to see who could fire the fastest . I was more than twice as fast. I got wounded and never went back to Nam. I always wondered what happened to that pancho like vest
You were there the same time as my great uncle. He was artillery. I myself was infantry in Afghanistan. The 320 is okay, they try to under mount them on m4s for some reason. I'm not a fan.
I carried a thumper in Fallujah in the Marine Corps. The Marines didn't have enough money to provide us with enough M203's and other equipment needed for war so they broke those M79's out of storage. I agree with grand thumb, it's far more accurate than the other launchers. we also had non lethal rounds for it. Those non leathals absolutely could kill someone too 😅
The Marines didn't have enough money? While Cheney, Halliburton, and all the other "contractors" made billions in profits. And now the Republican party has degenerated from mere war profiteers, to actually nominating a draft dodger candidate, who has openly mocked POWs and vets......
Many moons ago when I was in the Marines, I stopped by the armory for some business. I saw a one of the armorers walking around with a Thumper strapped to his back. I said that was really cool and asked what they were doing with it. Turned out, the military was getting rid of it and it was due to be destroyed the next day. Broke my heart.
He totally watched it get destroyed himself Taken down to its base components then shipped to a proper disposal location where it would *TOTALLY* be melted down and *ABSOLUTELY* not reassembled
Being a young 11B at Ft Ord in 1992, I remember one of my sergeants telling us that there were hundreds of M79s in the warehouses on the base, and that if the balloon went up in Korea, they'd be handing them out with bandoleers of 40mm like candy as we were getting on the planes. Those, and older M72 LAWs. Both were officially not being issued any more (I think maybe some NG units were still using the M79, but I'm not sure), but there were tons still in storage, and I guess in an all out war with North Korea, it'd be a "we got it, so we might as well use it!" situation. Plus, we were light infantry and the North Koreans would be invading with armor, so having LAWs would help, even if they weren't as good as our AT4s. A LAW hitting a BMP-1 from the side would get the job done better than just an M16A2 would...
Ft Ord remember it well goning and coming back from the Nam. If you have to be in the army it sure is one of the nicest places to be. Was until they sent me to Camp Hunter Liggett, what a shit hole that was. They must have thought the army that is that I need to suffer some more, since 10 months in the Nam wasn't enough.
In the 70's we called it the Blooper as well as the Thumper. My 1st permanent duty station in 77, our Vietnam vet armorer had fixed the ladder sight wobble by installing small O rings in the mechanism. How, I don't know. But we never had an issue with sight wobble.
Glad you said that brother . I was a medic in RVN / Bode 70-71 as a grunt , recon and Blue . Most guys called it a Blooper , even my 75th guys . One carried a chopped 79 and a CAR , until we got the XM whatever the fuck it was with a blooper under . Then we had two 79 capable weapons . .. doc lll Corps
I trained with the M79 while in Infantry School at Ft Lewis, Washington in early 1968. Fun weapon to shoot. We were given 3 rounds each. Most could get at least the third round though the bunker firing slit at 50 yards. Then they cross trained me as a tanker, M60s. Thanks for the video memory. You guys areca lot more fun than our instructor was!
My dad was an artillery gunner in Vietnam and one of the rounds they used to fire was mean as hell, when it exploded little metal darts called "flechettes" would cover an area about the size of a football field and every living thing in that area would be completely shredded and or pinned to the surrounding trees by those things... badass round.
I'm a Viet Nam era vet. That is, I enlisted during the war but was never deployed there. In fact in jump school we would normally jump 3 C-130s and 2 C-141s but all of the 141s were being used to pull out of country. I remember the M-79 in basic training, our instructor was deadly accurate with that thing. You just gave a more detailed class on it than we had. We didn't get to shoot it though. But I wanted to.
I knew a guy whose dad was EOD in Vietnam. One day a medic grabbed him and brought him to a medical tent because a patrol had been out in the woods and one of the ARVN guys with them had walked up to a huge downed tree and looked over just as a VC did the exact thing on the other side. Both of them were completely shocked and the VC fired a captured M79 at point blank range. The grenade had lodged itself in the guy's eye socket. They brought him back with the round still in his face and the guy fully conscious. They were able to pluck the round out easily since it had only flown a few feet and hadn't had the chance to arm and the guy ended up living.
Growing up in the military I knew a lot of VN vets. Some of whom claimed they would spin the shells by hand to reduce the safe distance. These were the same guys who claimed they opened their grenades and cut their own lengths. Not sure if true but crazy if it was.
My uncle used the M79 in Vietnam. He said arming distance on the grenades was around 20-25 meters you wouldn’t blow yourself up with a point blank shot.
Honestly, when the NFA gets abolished, machine guns are cool, but I'm here for destructive devices. The "request" to "get off my lawn" should always be a bit unhinged.
There has been feedback from the Ukrainian boys, that a dedicated, simple grenade launcher - just a stock, grip and a pipe - is much preferred over the under barrel style. Basically: a rifle is for rifle stuff, and grenade launcher is for grenade launching, and the "effort" of switching weapons is usually much less than having to wave around some mall-ninja equivalent of a "kitted out battle rifle".
Having grown up around Vietnam veterans the bloop gun was held in high regard. The man who got me into the military ret. Light colonel James Berry . Big Jim did not play around and taught many things that helped in my military career. God Bless you Jim . Highly appreciated and respected for what you did. Forever grateful for the opportunity and being able to teach my students in the military. Has saved many lives since. R.I.P. OLD SOLDIER.
My uncle carried the M-79 in Vietnam. He talked about what an absolutely incredible weapon it was in the right hands, but it required at certain amount of artistry.
My father's business partner used one in Vietnam, he said you had to be careful in the jungle with these things, it hits a vine or a branch and things can go bad real quick.
Ah, the first grenade launcher I was ever trained on… I liked it. We used grenadier vests for the rounds. Had the Thumper and M148 grenade launcher also
Its the m1 garand of grenade launchers. Low capacity but its more about what you load into it that actually matters think about the last part carefully.
My grandfather carried an m79 and an m1911 in Vietnam. He loved using the thing. He said it was super accurate, super deadly… and about 3 times as heavy to carry on patrol compared to the guy next to you with an m16/m14.
What? An M79 is light weight..... seriously....lol..... so light that full auto firing what uncontrollable, three round bursts maximum. Most guys modified them so they could take 40mm glock mags
How terrible they didnt also give him an m16 though. Gave this poor guy a 1 shot gun and a pistol with 8 bullets.i mean yeah they just dont want to give us the grenades we are going to have to invent our own. Anyway, tannerite is technically.. hmm. Anyway first thikg id do is buy 10 of these thumpers and a huge ass piece of land thats way open with elevation amd shit and id have someone make m79 sized paintballs and wed play one in the chamber from call of duty if you hit you get to reload if youre out of ammo youve gotta use it as a club for beating
As a young Navy Corpsman stationed in Camp Pendleton, my first mass casualty was from a 40mm HE round. An idiot found a dud 203 round at the range, so he picked it up and took it back to the office. He said, “Hey Catch” to his buddy to show it to him. His buddy failed to catch it and exploded when it hit the ground. 7 guys inside a small office and a couple standing outside, in front of the window, were injured. One died.
The M-79 man (before the M-203/AR 15 was issued) on our LRRP teams in Vietnam cut the stock off below the pistol grip, removed the ladder sight and cut off the barrel down to the fore grip. An eye bolt was attached to the grip and a D Ring attached. The D ring could be attached to the web belt. The launcher could be fired from the hip. He also carried an M-16. Thanks for the video.
The M79 is one of the best weapons the US made. It’s very accurate. I carried it in the Australian Army circa 1998. It was my secondary weapon, I was a section machine gunner on a Minimi also known as the M249 SAW. HE rounds out to 400 metres no problem.
@@hazza734 SDI has just been ripping people off for basically a weak made up gunsmithing program that preys on soldiers GI bills and peoples passion for guns.
@hazza734 i tried working for an FFL, they didnt have an opening, but I asked "just hypothetically, if I went to SDI, would that make you more or less inclined to hire me?" And they said we wouldnt hire you. They heard too much bs about it. My buddy just graduated from Modern Gun School and that *seems* to be better
@@ru5ty829 yea there’s a channel called cow poke that exposed them official and brought all that up. One will not get a better or higher paying job by getting a cert from SDI. That’s ultimately the biggest part of this scam. Their credentials don’t really mean anything at all.
You can get a 37mm "flare launcher" with similar aesthetic delivered to your door. Non rifled barrel though. Lots of guys load their own "firework" shells for them and you can get kits.
Repeal the nfa abolish the atf and legalize the grenade launcher ammunition revolution. Same with the shotgun shells. We need an anti drone specialized shot. Among other things. A drone a shell with a slug that has wings that deploy i mean we gotta get crazy man i think how else are we going to get to 100 trillion gdp unless we take everything weve got and 4x it. We gotta baby boom and find more oil and all the things that are not tyrannical in nature like for example human enslavement for labor.
After the Vietnam war, the Americans left tons of these in the country. The Commies picked them up and love them so much, they started producing an unlicensed copy of it en masse, and issue to every squad. It is now part of standard-issue small arms in the Vietnamese army. Just imagine every infantry squad in that country has a guy with this. Now you know how much they love it
Space Marine: *randomly shows back up on earth mid mission* “Moon’s haunted.” Nasa intern: “What?” Space Marine: *loads Thumper 40mm* “Moon’s haunted.”
I thought that you were talking about warhammer for a moment, but yeah, very funny! Also the 40mm would be an excellent lunar combat weapon, with its arc being mitigated by the low gravity, and only a single fragment of the HE being needed to disable an enemy combatant.
@@KarlDRGIf you’re in a spacesuit in combat and don’t have a roll of duct tape for quick suit patches that’s just a Darwin Award at that point. Maybe the bleeding would be much harder to deal with in a spacesuit so that’s where the casualties come from. Would definitely want a bullet resistant visor because that shattering would be much harder to deal with than some holes in a suit.
This prompted me to find out if the M79 could fire shells into lunar orbit - and the answer is no, not even close, the moon's escape velocity is much too high. It would still have a massive range though. And without any air it would probably be pretty accurate as portable artillery.
@@submachinegun5737 all valid points. I don’t know if this is universal but my school in order to graduate, you have to write a paper about something of your choosing. I might want to write mine about a theoretical lunar combat spacesuit.
My papa was a Nam vet and they had a dude in their squad that they called "The Surgeon" because of how accurate he was with one of those. I miss him telling me stories.
Aussie ADF Slang Wombat gun - M79 grenade launcher. Because of the large bore, like looking down a wombat hole. Combat Wombat Term used to describe infantry soldiers away from home location as he "eats, roots, shoots, and leaves". Combat Wombat is a 2020 Australian animated superhero film directed by Richard Cussó and written by Matthew James Kinmonth.
The Thumper/Blooper/M-79 has been one of my favorite Nam-era tools since childhood. Tour of Duty & Hamburger Hill sealed that deal for me in junior high!
Detonate a C4 on the wall, set a Claymore on the floor, and put one round of this into a Juggernaut's helmet. That's how you get three stars for High Explosive.
@@somethingfunnyig as someone who has printed one and an orca (3d ar15) it's perfectly safe as long as you assemble everything properly. Pla pro is far stronger than people think
There's a story John Stryker Meyer(MACV-SOG vet and author) told me about his cut-down thumper. He had a custom made holster for it and he was WIA on an op. The team medic cut his gear to treat him and he left the holster in the field. He was quite upset when he found out. We also discussed the XM-148 and how his pal Lynne Black favored it but he preferred "his little Thumper".
@TheSpongeDoc Yes,but you understood it . Bad grammar or not, how could you possibly say for definite that he didn't speak with Mr Meyer? You can't. Don't be jealous of someone else's great experience.
Grandpas Vietnam loadout was a world war 2 era trench gun made by savage, a 1911, and a m79 thumper. He ran river boats out of da nang starting sometime into 67 then was wounded during tet and then came back for another 9 months in 69.
I always heard it referred to by Vietnam vets as the blooper, or bloop tube. Never heard a vet call it the thumper, but I only talked to a couple. I believe they said the arming distance was 30 meters back then.
I handled several M-79 in Basic Training when my platoon was cleaning up after ROTC range days. Later in the reserve I had a lot of fun with HE rounds using the M201 I always used the clamp on tangent sight. One range was supposed to be only for chalk rounds, and we got only almost out date HE totally wrecked the cheap sheet steel targets with direct hits. On one range we had a lot excess HE rounds after the Drills took the trainees to the next range, I fired around a case at the 430-meter target with very consistent hits showing fragment damage to the target and berm.
My grandpa was a jet fighter and nuclear bomber mechanic during Vietnam. I didn't understand why he was weapons qualified on the M1 carbine and the M79 as a mechanic until he said what he was doing in the UK when he met my grandma. In the event of war with the USSR, he was supposed to go into Russia with special forces to capture a Russian airbase to repair and refuel US bombers that exceeded their fuel range.
That's a tall tale your grandfather told you. I guarantee you that your Air Force mechanic grandfather was not going to be invading Russia with Special Forces. Especially to capture and hold a Russian airbase, since that's not what Special Forces' mission was or is.
Love the wombat gun. I once explained the arming mechanism for the HEDP round with interpretative dance to a room full of armourers. Was one of my finest moments.
I was a young basically trained Marine in the fall of 1968 when I fired the M79 at Camp Lejuene. Not being a 0300 MOS "grunt", that was the only time that I ever fired it but, it was a hoot. Being able to have that round impact out there at about 75 yards or so was a whole different feeling than having a live grenade (with the pin pulled) in your hand that you had to throw far enough to not kill yourself in the process.
In Vietnam we called it the "Blooper." We sawed off the wooden down a bit and we even had beehive rounds for it. 40mm HE grenades were standard issue and the reason this weapon was developed for the jungle environment. Grenades thrown in heavy jungle often his brush and limbs and bounced back. The Blooper allowed us to aim better and the grenade had to rotate to be armed so if it hit a limb and bounced back, the grenade wouldn't detonate. Standard issue in Vietnam! The BLOOPER!
Awesome! My grandpa carried the M79 in Vietnam along with the M14, he wouldn't carry the M16. He had several stories about the M79 and how effective it was
A trained grenadier with a good sense for arcs and trajectory and a honed 6th sense is worth his weight in gold. Dug in infantry, Thumper. MG postion, Thumper. Bird on the roof, Thumper. Need to deploy smoke, Thumper. Deny the enemy cover, Thumper. Light vehicles, Thumper. Being on youtube because of the full auto ban, .... Thumper. It does it all.
When a normal frag grenade doesn’t say fuck you loud enough
Or when your shoulder is a little too stiff to throw a grenade 70 yards 😊
@@GeorgeOrwell-yz6zx also that
Nice profile pic
Agreed
Good Sir, I would beseech you to check out the PIKE by Raytheon. Double charge, 1.2 Miles in 20 seconds and fire and forget....
RUclips: "No machine guns!"
Mike: "Grenade launchers are surprisingly easy to acquire."
Lmao!
Gotta lubb eet
(To music) "Good to know."
@@bertram-ravenIt's a tube. The ammo do all the works, the weapon is just a tube with a handle.
Its a rifled tube with specific sights but that aside im better that explosive rounds for this are much harder to acquire and definitely expensive
Dad was in Air Force security forces in the late 70's. They called it "The Bloop Tube". He loved watching me play with it in MW2.
I thought that's what it was called.
I've personally never heard of it called the Thumper til this video. Always Bloop gun/tube or Blooper.
@@Jaronius Same
That's what I recall as well. I never heard thumper. It was the blooper.
Mike: “Charles how far can you throw a grenade?”
Charles: “Fuckin over that mountain dude” 😂😂😂😂
If only coach put Charles in for that final quarter in senior year of high school
He was trained by uncle rico
@@null-xf9pd
Al Bundy scored 4 touchdowns in a game for Polk High.
He woulda won state. Then he’d be somewhere soakin’ it up in a hot tub with his soulmate
Quoting Uncle Rico.
“I love every grenade launcher I have” is such an amazing sentence. What a country.
Technically they are illegal, but a 37mm flare launcher? Can buy em all day
@@nickhenley1338no they aren't.
If they are made before 1986 and registered they are legal just like pre-ban machine guns.
I mean getting a launcher is the easy part. It's getting actual REAL grenades for it that's the hard part. Notice how he's not actually shooting explosive grenades?
@@DH-xw6jp You can form 1 it as we speak, they haven't had a cut-out date on the NFA like machine guns, they fall under the category of Destructive Devices under the BATF, same for the 40mm HE live grenades, just have to register the receiver on the launcher and pay the 200 bucks for the tax stamp, and register and pay for EACH grenade, that's the only way for civilians to own them legally
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As a 17 year old in USAF JROTC, I got the chance to hang out with our Army National Guard on range day. Don't ask em how our USAF Major worked that out because it was above my paygrade.😂
On this fine morning we had the opportunity to fire 3 weapons: M16, M60, and M203.
When we got to the 203 range, we were basically instructed on the weapon. We all fired our 3 rounds. (They exploded. People argue that they didn't, but these most definitely were not chalk rounds. ) Our bus driver was Vietnam Vet and he was issued the M79. He took that 203 and basically told us like some over confident baseball player at bat where he was gonna place it. He hit his mark and he hadn't fired a 203 before. I'm he figured out the geometry in his head by watching us. He did this from the hip, no sights at around 100 yards. It was crazy and awesome to see.
My uncle was there too. He was also a Vietnam Vet, and he just happened to be the range master that day for the M16. He made sure he was handing ammo to us because he knew I was there. It is day I have never forgotten.
This all happeened in my 94 to 95 Semester
This girl that I worked with was im the national guard. This WASN'T ROTC. This was actual training day. They had to cut the whole thing short, because the idiots in her unit were so unsafe. (Her included)
Wow how times have changed. Now we cant even trust adults handling weapons that high-school kids hadno problems with in the 90s.
She told me how close her round went off to where they were firing from, and I called her an idiot.
She said "well I didn't know, it was my first time shooting these things".
I said "yeah, that's why it's called TRAINING".
Our military is doomed.
She also filed complaints everytime that her CO said or made them do something that she didn't like.
She even filed harassment charges against him. If you sawthis chick, you would see that this is highly unlikely.
@@sgt_s4und3r54 Good for them, and good for you, too. Being a ROTC cadet, they wanted you to have a "little taste" to appreciate the reality of it. And by having that experience, you have been "in war", and handled and operated more "weapons of war" than Walz.😉👍🇺🇸
Best feeling is having a painful toilet moment and seeing GrandThunb uploaded a video long enough for my mission on this toilet.
Literally me cause of takis
Bwahahaha
I do not need to hear these sounds coming from a bathroom stall.
eat more lentils and pumpkin seeds. It falls right out, no struggle
I wish you luck on your mission big dog
10:47 "As every girlfriend always said, , 'I don't get there but I get close.'" Man Charlie is the gift that keeps on giving.
Apparently, he doesn't "keep on giving" long enough.
He certainly doesn’t meet the criteria to be termed ‘indecent’.
Charles..Just keep"in it real.
I was gonna say that shit bro lol 😂
My Dad carried an M79 in Vietnam along with a 45 for his sidearm. He's a Marine, was there in 69'-70', Artillery gunner stationed near Da-Nang.
He said that once you get used to it you can land the rounds anywhere within range without using the sight at all. Reminds me of that scene in Apocalypse Now when that dude just needed to hear where the enemy was and could drop it on their heads.. pretty sweet.
In 71-72 north of DaNang in Camp Eagle 101st loved that bloop gun, where put many hours of perimeter guard and would fire it when need. But by then the 203 had pretty much replaced it, since just having a 45 against a AK well ask you dad, and welcome him back home.
@@vietnamvet4533 my uncle was in the Army too. His tour in Vietnam was in 65'-66'... he was a door gunner on A huey using an M-60 from what I understand, he doesn't talk much about it, I don't blame him, i guess it was pretty bad there at that time. According to my dad though, he fucked some shit up... I have no doubt about that statement being true.
@@Scorpio1351 Yea if he was in a chopper as a door gunner he's the real deal for sure.
@@vietnamvet4533 yea, they didn't have a long life expectancy during combat From what I read about it. Crazy shit.
I honestly have no idea how any work gets done when Charlie is there. Holy shit, dude.
"work"
We need a birdshot nade i bet you thats a civilian legal cartridge for this thing until we get the real nades. A flare nade a birdshot. We cam get way better smoke grenades in these. A giant beanbag a giant nerf dart a giant paintball 😂 I can keep going. A giant firework launcher clusterbombs. T shirt cannon. Can cannon. Anyway. Molotov launcher. Burrito delivery system from one foxhole to the other. Anyway repeal the nfa abolish the atf send the messege freeedom and less taxes lets goo
It sounds like you're talking into my sister. 😂🤣😂🤣😂
You just watched and then commented on the video because of him. His work is done.
one liner after one liner
I carried one of these for about a month and a half in Iraq in "06. I shit you not, one of the most intuitive weapons to shoot in my entire life, as long you don't use the sights, same for the 203. If you can throw a baseball or football somewhat, the mechanics of flight of a 40mm round seems natural, to me at least. The reason I only carried it for a month and a half, was the fact that I was carrying another rifle's worth of weight, got old, quick. Ounces equals pounds, and pounds equal pain. I eventually went with a 203, which was what I was accustomed to until I discovered we had 3 or 4 M79's in the armory at the ROC. It was cool while it lasted, but to this day, I cherish the opportunity that fulfilled a childhood fascination of Vietnam era weapons. Such a cool gun, just a little too heavy when I had a lighter option that was just as accurate/easy to operate with equal proficiency.
Gee in Iraq they kind of did away with them in the Nam since the guys who carried them only had a 45. The 203 was the next to come on line. But got to tell you that bloop gun was fun to fire. Oh and thanks for your service.
I've never been in combat, but I can imagine that the simplicity of this launcher would be tremendously helpful under those conditions.
A buddy of mine (RIP Nick) was an M79 guy in Vietnam. He told me he could get 3 of them sent before the first one hit the target. I miss his stories was the 2nd toughest most fearless old school Marine I met next to my gramps who served in ww2.
Have seen this done, maybe 4 depending 0n range.
I can confirm...a neat trick is to fire one very high trajectory, speed reload and fire another one direct fire. With practice, you can get both to hit the same target at the same time.
My father carried one in Vietnam.
Thank you primary arms (I’m a child soldier in a third world country)
So you're ahead of the curve? Nice.
You have a more thrilling childhood than most of us in the west do.
Based
Good luck lil buddy
"Duck Lumps"? African names are weird.
I was a grenadier with the 25th infantry in Nam in 1966 . We were stationed outside of Pleiku. We would go out on search and destroy missions in the central highlands and had to carry a double combat load of 36 rounds for my M-79. The straps that held the bags with the plastic cups that held them would dig into you between your neck and shoulders. So I ripped off the canvas cover of the supply Sargent jeep and made zarape type vest and sewed the cups on it. My platoon Sargent had a contest with 21:41 me and the other grenadier to see who could fire the fastest . I was more than twice as fast. I got wounded and never went back to Nam. I always wondered what happened to that pancho like vest
You were there the same time as my great uncle. He was artillery. I myself was infantry in Afghanistan. The 320 is okay, they try to under mount them on m4s for some reason. I'm not a fan.
"Lectric Strawberry.
“You kinda don’t want a grenade launcher to go off accidentally” Did you just assume my discharge preference???
that preference is "often" btw, in case someone is asking
I have an infection, lots of discharge
lol 😂
based username
Pronouns
right now/god damn it
I carried a thumper in Fallujah in the Marine Corps. The Marines didn't have enough money to provide us with enough M203's and other equipment needed for war so they broke those M79's out of storage. I agree with grand thumb, it's far more accurate than the other launchers. we also had non lethal rounds for it. Those non leathals absolutely could kill someone too 😅
We had a few in Al Anbar 2006, 1 Battalion 7th Marines
They are called "less than lethal" nowadays for a reason, aint such thing as non lethal going off a barrel, all where it hits :D
The Marines didn't have enough money? While Cheney, Halliburton, and all the other "contractors" made billions in profits. And now the Republican party has degenerated from mere war profiteers, to actually nominating a draft dodger candidate, who has openly mocked POWs and vets......
Non leathal rounds pretty much mean. To quote Rocky 4... if he dies, he dies...
In my service I used to love this grenade launcher, beautiful, and I can agree non lethal rounds can kill easy 😅
Thank you, T-800, for engraving this beautiful machinery into my memory.
Many moons ago when I was in the Marines, I stopped by the armory for some business. I saw a one of the armorers walking around with a Thumper strapped to his back. I said that was really cool and asked what they were doing with it. Turned out, the military was getting rid of it and it was due to be destroyed the next day. Broke my heart.
I bet it was not destroyed
dont worry it was donated to the CIA where the serials were scrubbed then it was handed out to terrorists in the middle east or south america
Knowing a couple marine armorers i guarantee it was never to be found but still not destroyed
He totally watched it get destroyed himself
Taken down to its base components then shipped to a proper disposal location where it would *TOTALLY* be melted down and *ABSOLUTELY* not reassembled
Absolutely disgusting to hear. @chupacabra304
We.called the M-79 the Blooper in Vietnam in 1970. I was a grunt there. Usually, we took the sights off of it because they kept snagging on foliage.
Same same , lll Corp medic .
Good work gentlemen. Thanks for your service and welcome home
I never served, but I've always known it as the blooper too.
Aussies called it the Wombat Gun. (Not to be confused with the 120mm Wombat recoilless rifle.)
@@firstnamelastname6216 blooper or blooker?
Being a young 11B at Ft Ord in 1992, I remember one of my sergeants telling us that there were hundreds of M79s in the warehouses on the base, and that if the balloon went up in Korea, they'd be handing them out with bandoleers of 40mm like candy as we were getting on the planes. Those, and older M72 LAWs. Both were officially not being issued any more (I think maybe some NG units were still using the M79, but I'm not sure), but there were tons still in storage, and I guess in an all out war with North Korea, it'd be a "we got it, so we might as well use it!" situation. Plus, we were light infantry and the North Koreans would be invading with armor, so having LAWs would help, even if they weren't as good as our AT4s. A LAW hitting a BMP-1 from the side would get the job done better than just an M16A2 would...
Ft Ord remember it well goning and coming back from the Nam. If you have to be in the army it sure is one of the nicest places to be. Was until they sent me to Camp Hunter Liggett, what a shit hole that was. They must have thought the army that is that I need to suffer some more, since 10 months in the Nam wasn't enough.
In the 70's we called it the Blooper as well as the Thumper.
My 1st permanent duty station in 77, our Vietnam vet armorer had fixed the ladder sight wobble by installing small O rings in the mechanism. How, I don't know. But we never had an issue with sight wobble.
Glad you said that brother . I was a medic in RVN / Bode 70-71 as a grunt , recon and Blue . Most guys called it a Blooper , even my 75th guys . One carried a chopped 79 and a CAR , until we got the XM whatever the fuck it was with a blooper under . Then we had two 79 capable weapons . .. doc lll Corps
The ‘Nam vets I knew as a kid mostly called the M79 a “Blooker”, “Bloop Tube”, or a “Blooper” when they came home.
I'd always heard it called a blooper. Thumper is a new one.
Came here to call it a "Blooper" or "bloop gun", glad to see I'm not the only one. "Thumper" is a new one on me.
Yea we called it a bloop gun in the Nam in 71-72, nice weapon.
The “are you reStarded?” from Micah killed me 😭
Why you put an S in there
@Mud_Monkey so youtube doesn’t delete it
@@Mud_Monkey youtube censors comments sadly
@@i_basl so your saying 90% of my comments get deleted
@@FusionTrain Let's test that.
I trained with the M79 while in Infantry School at Ft Lewis, Washington in early 1968. Fun weapon to shoot. We were given 3 rounds each. Most could get at least the third round though the bunker firing slit at 50 yards. Then they cross trained me as a tanker, M60s. Thanks for the video memory. You guys areca lot more fun than our instructor was!
My grandfather will always tell the story of dropping a HE on a VC at 75 yards in the jungle in 69. “Turned him to jelly”
Did the HE on The VC make him KIA? So he was SOL PDQ! Likely reported as MIA!
My dad was an artillery gunner in Vietnam and one of the rounds they used to fire was mean as hell, when it exploded little metal darts called "flechettes" would cover an area about the size of a football field and every living thing in that area would be completely shredded and or pinned to the surrounding trees by those things... badass round.
@@Scorpio1351 Area weapons are a hell of a thing lol.
Perfect tool for a "Too far for a grenade, too close for artillery" situation. It also had shotgun loads.
And flechette's
Ive played enough rising storm 2 to know how fun those buckshot rounds are
yes, the people who watched the video know it had shotgun loads as he talked about them.
@@indycharlieouchie
Cool, bet those flechettes were just destructive as hell 🤣
I'm a Viet Nam era vet. That is, I enlisted during the war but was never deployed there. In fact in jump school we would normally jump 3 C-130s and 2 C-141s but all of the 141s were being used to pull out of country. I remember the M-79 in basic training, our instructor was deadly accurate with that thing. You just gave a more detailed class on it than we had. We didn't get to shoot it though. But I wanted to.
Many slurs were spouted in Modern Warfare 2 lobbies with this thing.
truly a better time. I miss talking shit in lobbies that carried over game after game.
Man nothing felt better then timing and arcing the first spawn shot and getting that beginning of round bloop multi kill good times....good times
Nowadays people sit in parties of mute their mics the entire game until the last 10 seconds of the game. Doesn't hit the same.
Agreed it was my favorite rage weapon until that fucking rocket launcher jihad glitch came around.
The ultimate troll camper weapon. Every game its in, it causes havoc lmao
I knew a guy whose dad was EOD in Vietnam. One day a medic grabbed him and brought him to a medical tent because a patrol had been out in the woods and one of the ARVN guys with them had walked up to a huge downed tree and looked over just as a VC did the exact thing on the other side.
Both of them were completely shocked and the VC fired a captured M79 at point blank range. The grenade had lodged itself in the guy's eye socket. They brought him back with the round still in his face and the guy fully conscious. They were able to pluck the round out easily since it had only flown a few feet and hadn't had the chance to arm and the guy ended up living.
Growing up in the military I knew a lot of VN vets. Some of whom claimed they would spin the shells by hand to reduce the safe distance. These were the same guys who claimed they opened their grenades and cut their own lengths. Not sure if true but crazy if it was.
I may have met that Victor Charlie
I call bs, that thing hits with around 750 fpe, you take that to the face you are really not gonna be conscious, you gonna be dead.
@@antongonist8294 I call bull as well. Maybe if it was really far away and the round was a dud. .... but at point blank range... nah
@@antongonist8294 it's possible is bounced or went through enough brush to lose energy
My uncle used the M79 in Vietnam. He said arming distance on the grenades was around 20-25 meters you wouldn’t blow yourself up with a point blank shot.
Honestly, when the NFA gets abolished, machine guns are cool, but I'm here for destructive devices.
The "request" to "get off my lawn" should always be a bit unhinged.
A man can dream
You can own a cannon in any meaningful calibre if it is any consolation.
if you don't get off my lawn I will get the lawn off you
This comment is severely underrated
Not going to happen, but that would be cool
That "thoink" sound is so iconic
If you had to only pick one to hear for the rest of your life? The m1 garand's "ping" or the "thoink" by the thumper.
iconic to T2 movie haha
@@neverendingonslaughtu get used to the ping, but i never get tired of hearing the THONK
“THOONK!”
Ah, that hollow 'bloop' is so good - wide tube good.
There has been feedback from the Ukrainian boys, that a dedicated, simple grenade launcher - just a stock, grip and a pipe - is much preferred over the under barrel style. Basically: a rifle is for rifle stuff, and grenade launcher is for grenade launching, and the "effort" of switching weapons is usually much less than having to wave around some mall-ninja equivalent of a "kitted out battle rifle".
Having grown up around Vietnam veterans the bloop gun was held in high regard. The man who got me into the military ret. Light colonel James Berry . Big Jim did not play around and taught many things that helped in my military career. God Bless you Jim . Highly appreciated and respected for what you did. Forever grateful for the opportunity and being able to teach my students in the military. Has saved many lives since. R.I.P. OLD SOLDIER.
Yep...we always called it the Bloop Gun...good times! :)
You forgot about the most iconic M79 scene in movie history...as far as I'm concerned! Apocalypse Now - Roach! "He's close man. He's real close!"
It had tiger stripes painted on it right?
Hey Soldier, Do you know who's in command here?
YEAH!!!!! 🪖
You can learn that skill bro. I watched a youtube training video on it.
Isn't this the thing they used in Terminator 2? The minigun scene?
@@BrianJ. Yep, that's uber-iconic.
My uncle carried the M-79 in Vietnam. He talked about what an absolutely incredible weapon it was in the right hands, but it required at certain amount of artistry.
My father's business partner used one in Vietnam, he said you had to be careful in the jungle with these things, it hits a vine or a branch and things can go bad real quick.
My Grandfather carried one in Vietnam. Just before he passed he told me all the good times he had with his M-79 😅. I was NOT disappointed. 🤯
Ah, the first grenade launcher I was ever trained on… I liked it. We used grenadier vests for the rounds. Had the Thumper and M148 grenade launcher also
RUclips: you cant show full auto fire on your channel :'(
Mike: ok imma shoot my granade launcher
Having carried an M203 for a year in Afghanistan, it will always hold a special place for me. But the classic M79 just has a way bigger cool factor.
Its the m1 garand of grenade launchers. Low capacity but its more about what you load into it that actually matters think about the last part carefully.
M1 Garand rifled grenade launcher those were fun
Love all its nicknames. Blooper is my favorite, after the BLOOP sound it makes during ejection.
Nice, lets see paul allens M79
No can do, he has a res at Dorsia at 8:00
Oh my God, it even has a roll mark
Paul Allen has an m320
Our family friend is a 6'3" Vietnam Vet and his combat loadout was an M16, M79, and 100 round belt for the M60 gunner
what a fucking chad
Protect Charles at all costs. He IS this community. Period. That and I heard his sister is EXTREMELY “friendly.”
I love her
@@liamulrich5274what’s her OF?
I love her as well
"We dont have insurance...what are they gonna say" 💀
"I love evrey grenade launcher that I have" is a sentence I hope to be able to say someday
As an Australian I can attest that some Australian soldiers earn the moniker Combat Wombat
My grandfather carried an m79 and an m1911 in Vietnam. He loved using the thing. He said it was super accurate, super deadly… and about 3 times as heavy to carry on patrol compared to the guy next to you with an m16/m14.
The M14 weighs double the M79, and the combat load of the M14 had 2-3x the ammunition weight of the combat load for an M79.
The A1 was a thing of beauty because of it's low weight. My first issued rifle was an A1.
Did your grandfather also tell you that he routinely shot soda cans off the hood of a truck at 700 yards with a cheap Ruger .22?
What?
An M79 is light weight..... seriously....lol..... so light that full auto firing what uncontrollable, three round bursts maximum.
Most guys modified them so they could take 40mm glock mags
How terrible they didnt also give him an m16 though. Gave this poor guy a 1 shot gun and a pistol with 8 bullets.i mean yeah they just dont want to give us the grenades we are going to have to invent our own. Anyway, tannerite is technically.. hmm. Anyway first thikg id do is buy 10 of these thumpers and a huge ass piece of land thats way open with elevation amd shit and id have someone make m79 sized paintballs and wed play one in the chamber from call of duty if you hit you get to reload if youre out of ammo youve gotta use it as a club for beating
As a young Navy Corpsman stationed in Camp Pendleton, my first mass casualty was from a 40mm HE round. An idiot found a dud 203 round at the range, so he picked it up and took it back to the office. He said, “Hey Catch” to his buddy to show it to him. His buddy failed to catch it and exploded when it hit the ground. 7 guys inside a small office and a couple standing outside, in front of the window, were injured. One died.
I assume the thrower got a dishonorable discharge?
@@lilfattcatt7758Probably, but they had to find enough of him first.
"Hey catch"
He, in fact, did not catch it
And then everyone clapped
This is widely documented, genius@@cheekibreeki4638
“SLUUHT!” Took me the fuck out 😂😂 thank you. I’m literally at my uncles house while he’s being wheeled out by the coroner. I needed that laugh❤
The M-79 man (before the M-203/AR 15 was issued) on our LRRP teams in Vietnam cut the stock off below the pistol grip, removed the ladder sight and cut off the barrel down to the fore grip. An eye bolt was attached to the grip and a D Ring attached. The D ring could be attached to the web belt. The launcher could be fired from the hip. He also carried an M-16. Thanks for the video.
Bloop!
The thing that made the MW2 lobbies turn into a klan meeting
It was worth every second.
Even better with Scavanger added.
@@thefrogking481one man army perk
I'm so grateful for the memories because those days aren't coming back.
The M79 is one of the best weapons the US made.
It’s very accurate.
I carried it in the Australian Army circa 1998. It was my secondary weapon, I was a section machine gunner on a Minimi also known as the M249 SAW.
HE rounds out to 400 metres no problem.
Thank you for dropping SDI as part of your sponsors!!
ive been trying to find an answer what happened?
@@hazza734 SDI has just been ripping people off for basically a weak made up gunsmithing program that preys on soldiers GI bills and peoples passion for guns.
@hazza734 i tried working for an FFL, they didnt have an opening, but I asked "just hypothetically, if I went to SDI, would that make you more or less inclined to hire me?" And they said we wouldnt hire you. They heard too much bs about it. My buddy just graduated from Modern Gun School and that *seems* to be better
@@ru5ty829 yea there’s a channel called cow poke that exposed them official and brought all that up. One will not get a better or higher paying job by getting a cert from SDI. That’s ultimately the biggest part of this scam. Their credentials don’t really mean anything at all.
These should be legal under the 2a and not an nfa item.
You can get a 37mm "flare launcher" with similar aesthetic delivered to your door. Non rifled barrel though. Lots of guys load their own "firework" shells for them and you can get kits.
Repeal the nfa abolish the atf and legalize the grenade launcher ammunition revolution. Same with the shotgun shells. We need an anti drone specialized shot. Among other things. A drone a shell with a slug that has wings that deploy i mean we gotta get crazy man i think how else are we going to get to 100 trillion gdp unless we take everything weve got and 4x it. We gotta baby boom and find more oil and all the things that are not tyrannical in nature like for example human enslavement for labor.
@@TheAnnoyingBoss absolutely!
After the Vietnam war, the Americans left tons of these in the country. The Commies picked them up and love them so much, they started producing an unlicensed copy of it en masse, and issue to every squad. It is now part of standard-issue small arms in the Vietnamese army. Just imagine every infantry squad in that country has a guy with this. Now you know how much they love it
My father told me that he used one of those in Vietnam. RIP dad.
They always say, "You'll never hear the round that kills you." If it's a 40mm grenade coming, you absolutely will.😉
Space Marine: *randomly shows back up on earth mid mission* “Moon’s haunted.”
Nasa intern: “What?”
Space Marine: *loads Thumper 40mm* “Moon’s haunted.”
I thought that you were talking about warhammer for a moment, but yeah, very funny! Also the 40mm would be an excellent lunar combat weapon, with its arc being mitigated by the low gravity, and only a single fragment of the HE being needed to disable an enemy combatant.
@@KarlDRGIf you’re in a spacesuit in combat and don’t have a roll of duct tape for quick suit patches that’s just a Darwin Award at that point. Maybe the bleeding would be much harder to deal with in a spacesuit so that’s where the casualties come from. Would definitely want a bullet resistant visor because that shattering would be much harder to deal with than some holes in a suit.
@@submachinegun5737I’m not an astronaut, but I think for the VAST majority of suit punctures in space, you’d die pretty damn fast
This prompted me to find out if the M79 could fire shells into lunar orbit - and the answer is no, not even close, the moon's escape velocity is much too high. It would still have a massive range though. And without any air it would probably be pretty accurate as portable artillery.
@@submachinegun5737 all valid points. I don’t know if this is universal but my school in order to graduate, you have to write a paper about something of your choosing. I might want to write mine about a theoretical lunar combat spacesuit.
I used one of these in 2010 in Afghanistan. I loved every bit of it 😁
wow, i didnt know ISIS was a fan of GT. Mashallah
Doubtful.
My papa was a Nam vet and they had a dude in their squad that they called "The Surgeon" because of how accurate he was with one of those. I miss him telling me stories.
Did not expect to see an m79 review this Sunday thank you
Aussie ADF Slang
Wombat gun - M79 grenade launcher. Because of the large bore, like looking down a wombat hole.
Combat Wombat Term used to describe infantry soldiers away from home location as he "eats, roots, shoots, and leaves".
Combat Wombat is a 2020 Australian animated superhero film directed by Richard Cussó and written by Matthew James Kinmonth.
Aussie classic….wombat gun or sometimes know as the wombat f….r……..depending on your generation and Bn.
@@shad9379 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@shad9379 Yerp, the F...er it was.
check that out thanks.
Also they are the only weapon you can legally hunt wombats with apart from boomerangs.
The Thumper/Blooper/M-79 has been one of my favorite Nam-era tools since childhood. Tour of Duty & Hamburger Hill sealed that deal for me in junior high!
"Why's the stock upside down?"
Bro, he said Australians at the beginning.
Detonate a C4 on the wall, set a Claymore on the floor, and put one round of this into a Juggernaut's helmet. That's how you get three stars for High Explosive.
my poppop was a truck driver in a supply and support battalion in vietnam and he carried a 1911 and a M79. this is neat that you covered this
0:25 mitosis
You have no idea how much I want one of these bad boys. The under barrel M203 is such a headache
You can 3d print an nt79 for like $100 worth of materials
@@SuperXrayDoc I wouldn't wanna use it
@@somethingfunnyig as someone who has printed one and an orca (3d ar15) it's perfectly safe as long as you assemble everything properly. Pla pro is far stronger than people think
Glad you guys have finally dropped SDI as a sponsor -- honor above all else! 🤘
What happened to SDI?
There's a story John Stryker Meyer(MACV-SOG vet and author) told me about his cut-down thumper. He had a custom made holster for it and he was WIA on an op. The team medic cut his gear to treat him and he left the holster in the field. He was quite upset when he found out. We also discussed the XM-148 and how his pal Lynne Black favored it but he preferred "his little Thumper".
You didn’t talk to Tilt.
@@TheSpongeDoc He might have done
@@TroyTempest777 your grammar is horrific.
@TheSpongeDoc Yes,but you understood it . Bad grammar or not, how could you possibly say for definite that he didn't speak with Mr Meyer?
You can't.
Don't be jealous of someone else's great experience.
“his little thumper”
Daddy G with his 40MikeMike
"He's out there on the wire, man."
"....yeah."
"You need a flare?"
"No.... He's close, man. He's reeeeal close."
"Thumb. Thumb. We got zips on the wire man, you hear 'em?"
An old Vet of the Brown Water Navy told me that he hit a running VC square in the shoulder blades at 50-60 yards. Surprisingly accurate.
"You need a flare!?" "No.. he's close man, he's real close"
“get the roach!”
@@i_basl hey soldier, do you know who’s in command here?
@@rb264ag yeah....
my uncle had one of these issued to him in vietnam, double purple heart recipient James Forsyth. Hes my favorite family member for stories and advice.
Grandpas Vietnam loadout was a world war 2 era trench gun made by savage, a 1911, and a m79 thumper. He ran river boats out of da nang starting sometime into 67 then was wounded during tet and then came back for another 9 months in 69.
I always heard it referred to by Vietnam vets as the blooper, or bloop tube.
Never heard a vet call it the thumper, but I only talked to a couple.
I believe they said the arming distance was 30 meters back then.
depends on the round for arming distance
I handled several M-79 in Basic Training when my platoon was cleaning up after ROTC range days. Later in the reserve I had a lot of fun with HE rounds using the M201 I always used the clamp on tangent sight. One range was supposed to be only for chalk rounds, and we got only almost out date HE totally wrecked the cheap sheet steel targets with direct hits. On one range we had a lot excess HE rounds after the Drills took the trainees to the next range, I fired around a case at the 430-meter target with very consistent hits showing fragment damage to the target and berm.
My grandpa was a jet fighter and nuclear bomber mechanic during Vietnam. I didn't understand why he was weapons qualified on the M1 carbine and the M79 as a mechanic until he said what he was doing in the UK when he met my grandma. In the event of war with the USSR, he was supposed to go into Russia with special forces to capture a Russian airbase to repair and refuel US bombers that exceeded their fuel range.
That's a tall tale your grandfather told you. I guarantee you that your Air Force mechanic grandfather was not going to be invading Russia with Special Forces. Especially to capture and hold a Russian airbase, since that's not what Special Forces' mission was or is.
dude the primary mission of the Airborne troops and Rangers _is_ capturing airfields lmao
That sounds always evokes Terminator 2 for me 🦾
Absolutely!
As a kid the combination of silly sound followed by exploding bad guys made me laugh every time. I'm sure every else in the theater agreed.
if he’s done the m79 he has to do the china lake
it’s just the way it works
i carried one in the Nam. Ico 3rd Bn. 5th Marines. and called it a "bloop gun". the reason i stopped, was because it identified me as a squad leader.
Charley is a riot. Thank you for bringing him onto the internet for the world to see
I've always loved the "Thumper", easily my favorite grenade launcher, thanks for this! It's always a joy to see it in action.
00:00 video starts
i think it’s actually at 0:00
Hey, it’s you again!
You dropped this king ⛑
Fake news
Why are zoomer jokes so unfunny?
"We don't have insurance so...., what are they gonna say" LOL had me dead
Love the wombat gun. I once explained the arming mechanism for the HEDP round with interpretative dance to a room full of armourers. Was one of my finest moments.
New record: least amount of rounds fired in a grand thumb intro
The AN-94 had more shots than this and they only got 150 rounds allowance
I was a young basically trained Marine in the fall of 1968 when I fired the M79 at Camp Lejuene. Not being a 0300 MOS "grunt", that was the only time that I ever fired it but, it was a hoot. Being able to have that round impact out there at about 75 yards or so was a whole different feeling than having a live grenade (with the pin pulled) in your hand that you had to throw far enough to not kill yourself in the process.
“He’s close man. He’s real close.” -The Roach
Great video! The M79 is truly a legendary piece of military history.
In Vietnam we called it the "Blooper." We sawed off the wooden down a bit and we even had beehive rounds for it. 40mm HE grenades were standard issue and the reason this weapon was developed for the jungle environment. Grenades thrown in heavy jungle often his brush and limbs and bounced back. The Blooper allowed us to aim better and the grenade had to rotate to be armed so if it hit a limb and bounced back, the grenade wouldn't detonate. Standard issue in Vietnam! The BLOOPER!
"About 25 feet"
"There's no-" 😂 man i know Charles is the GOAT, but that line made me crack up the most 😂
Awesome! My grandpa carried the M79 in Vietnam along with the M14, he wouldn't carry the M16. He had several stories about the M79 and how effective it was
A trained grenadier with a good sense for arcs and trajectory and a honed 6th sense is worth his weight in gold.
Dug in infantry, Thumper.
MG postion, Thumper.
Bird on the roof, Thumper.
Need to deploy smoke, Thumper.
Deny the enemy cover, Thumper.
Light vehicles, Thumper.
Being on youtube because of the full auto ban, .... Thumper.
It does it all.
The thumper was gonna be my 🌽⭐️ name but over time the girls started to call me “one thump”
cornhole?
You know, they also called it a "blooper."
😂
T2 Arnie made this weapon an ICON 😎🔥
Arnold “screw your freedoms”
"Do you need a flare?"
"No, he's close man"