Funny you mention aiming at the bottom left of the target. When I was a private preparing for our first deployment to Arghandab back in the beginning of 09 I zeroed my M145 with massive adjustments low and to the left to compensate for this. Well, fast forward a few months and a handful of firefights later during our deployment and I was pretty damn good on handling the recoil of my SAW at that point, so I kept on shooting low and to the left and would constantly have to aim high and to the right of people to splash near them. So remember privates, do not over compensate on your zero. It almost cost me dearly, and it caused me to have to fire more than 150 rounds at a guy who was running through open desert 400 meters away before I hit him in November of 09.
Hey man, I had to give a class on machine gun theory and your video was very informative and broken down thank you. You made it easier for me to learn and for me to teach others
Don't know about how Batt guys do it (I'm sure they do much better), but for the "normal" infantry I recall we always had the AG be the GTL. It was far easier to train a new guy to crank some steel than to have him be good at managing TRPs, callouts and all the other TL things while manning the gun. I think "your AG tells you where to shoot anyway" was the thought process there.
Omg! I cringe whenever I see some idiot get behind a MG and just dump a belt but not hit a fricken thing. Most think it’s “cool” but you just lost all of the power the weapon possessed. I’ve spent time behind the M60, SAW and M50A2. I prefer the newer M60 for firepower and accuracy if you can keep it running without a soup can wired to the side! Semper Fi!!!
Haha you're welcome. This info will be more useful post OSUT though. You really don't do too much with machine guns there aside from familiarization fires and using them during a few FTXs.
First time seeing you. Got fantastic information here, thank you. I was aviation, so while i was the mk19 gunner i never really got to play with it. And i always loved the 249. Now i got a MCR with a couple great triggers on tap, so ive been studying up again on my MG theory.
How do you even see a target at 1000 meters? How do you align the binocs to the barrel? Optic seems useful, but I don't usually see an optic paired with a machine gun
With the advent of drone spotting for infantry do you think well see a return of indirect fire tactics with machineguns? Seeing maxims in bunkers in ukraine has had me wondering about that use.
Hey brother, Great information and I love your classes. At your rates of fire slide. You are talking about 240 correct? Are you going off personal experience or TC 3-22.240? The rates of fire there are different, it says sustain 6 to 9 rounds bursts every 4 to 5 seconds and for Rapid its 10 to 13 rounds every 2-3 seconds. Just requesting confirmation. Thanks
Hey have you had a lot of experience on fixing the T&Es? The mil adjustments for search and traverse always are failing on them. Tips on troubleshooting would be great before I completely take it apart and fuck it up.
Idk about y’all’s SOP but in the middle of a raid or assault there’s not really any armorers handy when you need to get the gun back up ASAP. Obviously in the rear/training/at the range that’s the correct answer.
Of all the guns to runaway it had to be an MG3, clench moment.
Bro for real hahaha
Funny you mention aiming at the bottom left of the target. When I was a private preparing for our first deployment to Arghandab back in the beginning of 09 I zeroed my M145 with massive adjustments low and to the left to compensate for this. Well, fast forward a few months and a handful of firefights later during our deployment and I was pretty damn good on handling the recoil of my SAW at that point, so I kept on shooting low and to the left and would constantly have to aim high and to the right of people to splash near them. So remember privates, do not over compensate on your zero. It almost cost me dearly, and it caused me to have to fire more than 150 rounds at a guy who was running through open desert 400 meters away before I hit him in November of 09.
great stuff! learned a lot
ayyy
Great to see same faces around your interests
Better use all that gamer strength to get that gun up
Hey man, I had to give a class on machine gun theory and your video was very informative and broken down thank you. You made it easier for me to learn and for me to teach others
Awesome man, I love to hear that!
We’re an 07/02, we have open bolt 249 and 240, along with a bunch of other MGs. We also specialize in FRT triggers. 👍
Another thing to note about safeties on the 249/240, you can’t change them with the safety on, this is a great way to damage the sear.
Yep always karate chop that safety off first
newly minted gun team leader, thank you so much!
Was hoping for more field tactics, setup positions, good (ambush) positions in general. But I guess that's for the army.
Amazing content
Hell yes!I want a machine gun sooo bad........super informative ty
Don't know about how Batt guys do it (I'm sure they do much better), but for the "normal" infantry I recall we always had the AG be the GTL. It was far easier to train a new guy to crank some steel than to have him be good at managing TRPs, callouts and all the other TL things while manning the gun. I think "your AG tells you where to shoot anyway" was the thought process there.
@@joshuaeah yeah! Some platoons run it that way as well. Most of the time the GTL will be the gunner but occasionally they’ll run as the AG
Excellent video.
Omg! I cringe whenever I see some idiot get behind a MG and just dump a belt but not hit a fricken thing. Most think it’s “cool” but you just lost all of the power the weapon possessed. I’ve spent time behind the M60, SAW and M50A2. I prefer the newer M60 for firepower and accuracy if you can keep it running without a soup can wired to the side! Semper Fi!!!
Thank you so much for making this!! Super helpful for me in the future at OSUT🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Haha you're welcome. This info will be more useful post OSUT though. You really don't do too much with machine guns there aside from familiarization fires and using them during a few FTXs.
Bro, where were you when I was a private? This would have saved me miles of hitting the ropes
Ahaha just trying to pay it forward
It's like I'm back at the COF....
Lmao just no whiteboards and I can't smoke people if they aren't paying attention 🤣
@@zachthedangerranger damn. Looks like I have to conduct physical correction alone in my living room 🤔😭
Nice presentation!
First time seeing you. Got fantastic information here, thank you.
I was aviation, so while i was the mk19 gunner i never really got to play with it. And i always loved the 249. Now i got a MCR with a couple great triggers on tap, so ive been studying up again on my MG theory.
Thank you for this
How do you even see a target at 1000 meters? How do you align the binocs to the barrel? Optic seems useful, but I don't usually see an optic paired with a machine gun
With the advent of drone spotting for infantry do you think well see a return of indirect fire tactics with machineguns? Seeing maxims in bunkers in ukraine has had me wondering about that use.
Paintball fingers, hb 1022 and a drum mag. Gopher army beware.
Hey brother, Great information and I love your classes. At your rates of fire slide. You are talking about 240 correct? Are you going off personal experience or TC 3-22.240? The rates of fire there are different, it says sustain 6 to 9 rounds bursts every 4 to 5 seconds and for Rapid its 10 to 13 rounds every 2-3 seconds. Just requesting confirmation. Thanks
awesome
Very interesting.
*light infantry squads
Bro got out of Ranger Batt to kill viewers of youtube with death by power point!
@@davidhenry7484 😂😂😂
@@davidhenry7484 don’t have a full weapons squad with three 240s anymore to run live demos unfortunately 😂
Great class RLTW
Thanks man!
Hey have you had a lot of experience on fixing the T&Es? The mil adjustments for search and traverse always are failing on them. Tips on troubleshooting would be great before I completely take it apart and fuck it up.
Shoot man, wish I knew more to be able to help. Never disassembled a tripod that far
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All the way
Thoughts on sigs new m250?
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Enfilades never happens.
Please enlighten us with your experience and why you think that’s true
if your barrel gets stuck, take it to the armorer. DO NOT smack the front sight post.
Idk about y’all’s SOP but in the middle of a raid or assault there’s not really any armorers handy when you need to get the gun back up ASAP.
Obviously in the rear/training/at the range that’s the correct answer.
@@zachthedangerranger are PMCSs not a thing anymore?
@@zachthedangerranger heard of PMCS?
@@smhs1262 I have, smartass. How many rounds have you personally shot through a 240 or any beltfed for that manner?
@@zachthedangerranger is that what this is really about? who fired more rounds?
👍❤️ I'm ol skool gun tm.preach.RLTW