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Poco Loco

On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:18:19 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:36:40 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:31:03 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 23:25:38 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

The .50 cal machine gun can shoot a mile off. Being a machine gun, it can put a lot of rounds on target. Why they don't put one on every ship is beyond me.

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It seems to work for the Coast Guard.

We had six M2s and a 5"/38. That will really reach out there and put a
50 pound projectile on target up to 10 miles away.
The 83 footers carried an 81mm
That will get your attention too.
I think they also started using the 20mm chain guns.

Chain guns or 5"ers may be a little expensive to mount on all those ships, but M2s or M85s should be
reasonably priced. They'd definitely keep the fishing boats out of RPG or AK-47 range.

I was just referring to what the Coast Guard had.

We did it with a few gunners mates keeping the guns running and
regular members of the crew did the actual operation.
Half of the "gunner's mates" were actually FTs although I was
officially cross trained (passed the GM3&2 courses) and carried an FT
rate.

I could strip down a .45, an M1 or an M2 in the dark and put them back
together again

You can get bored at sea. ;-)

BTW the last time I heard of one being sold here, a transferrable M2
was going for $30 grand or so and that was a while ago. Ammo is well
over a buck a round for ball.

Cheap!
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Hope you're having a spectacular day!

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