LMG collection! (with pics)

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So, continuing the photo sets from my friend's rather impressive firearms collection, tonight was LMG night (see previous links for 223s and 308s). Not nearly as many guns here as the last couple, but oh well.

Tonight's challenge isn't to ID the guns (that would be way too easy), but rather to guess which are semis and which have the fun switch. :)

So without further ado, the photos.

Allied:
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Axis:
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He also has a Chauchat that is at the dealer still transferring. Current projects include a semi PKM and RPD.
 

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Actually that's a Lewis. The DP-28 is different but also has a pan magazine. :)
 
strangelittleman - Nope, but you're in the right ballpark (the magazine is a clue).

metrotps - It's in 303.

One of the really interesting things (to me, anyway) is how different the Lewis and DP pan mags are. The DP mags work like conventional magazines, with a spring and follower that push the rounds out between the feed lips. The Lewis drum is pretty much nothing but a hollow shell (there's not even a bottom plate on it, the ammo is all exposed). The action of the gun physically rotates the whole mag with each shot, to bring the next round into position.

Destructo6 - You're about 50-50. Here's a hint:

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said:
Tactical_Rubber_DuckSeeing these pics makes me want to build MG nests around my house!
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You mean you haven't done that yet? Boy you are behind the curve. Better get your etool and get to working. I want 3 crew serve milspec fighting position done by tonight.

Pic #1
1. Bren
2. Jap Type 72 naval machine gun
3. BAR
4. M1919

Photo #2
1. No earthly clue
2. Brenn
4. German MG42
 
Mg30 in 7.92? If so did it take the same mags as the FG42?
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Nope, and nope. The FG42 used straight, 20-round mags.

The top one in the Axis photo is a water-cooled variant of the MG15. They were originally designed as aircraft-mounted, air-cooled guns but because obsolete in that role as planes became more heavily armored. So the Germans retrofitted them as ground LMGs. If I understand correctly, a bunch ended up in Czech hands, and the Czechs were unsatisfied with how quickly they overheated (the cooling worked a lot better at 10,000 feet and going a couple hundred mph). So they further retrofitted them with water jackets.

This particular one is a parts kit work in progress, destined to become a semi.
 
50% right, huh?

Well, if it's a FN model 30, it probably is NFA.

So that leaves me pulling the BREN off the auto list.

Any warmer?
 
Please tell me that the MG42 is full auto.

Mostly because you would have to screw up the beautiful, nigh perfect mechanism to make it semi.
 
Ok, the final scoop is that the Bren, Lewis, 1919, BAR, and MG42 are full auto. The MG15 is a not-quite-finished semi, and the mystery Axis gun is also a semi. It's a ZB-39, in 8x56R.
 
I need machine guns to actualize my pursuit of happiness. Where's Madison when you need him?
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I've actually used that one ("the pursuit of happiness") as the stated reason for needing a machinegun on a couple of my form 4's.
 
I'm really glad that MG-42 is original--not one of those ATF-mandated, butchered monstrosities. Awesome collection (of your friend's)!

Could I borrow your friend? Do you know where I could get one like that? :neener: :D
 
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