• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    39·
    2 days ago

    Big bullet go far. Big gun fire big bullet. Big scope see far. Big scope on big gun. Now see big bullet go far.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      Also … for something with a reciprocating barrel, it’s surprising how accurate an M2 can get if you tinker with it enough and fire it in single shots. Guess the mass of the barrel helps somewhat.

      I think I remember hearing something about an experimental sniper rifle program that used barrels from M2 HMGs as the barrel for the new sniper rifle?

      • Final Remix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        2 days ago

        My brother used machine guns in his deployment, and apparently the hardest thing to get used to was to let the weight fight the muzzle climb, don’t lean into it like with other, lighter weapons. In training they’d regularly have guys shooting into the dirt because they expected more climb and compensated even though the gun was taking care of that already.

        • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          20 hours ago

          Tbh, you still see this with pistols too. Most of the recoil is actually the slide slamming backwards, and when the spring pushes the slide forward it then slams the gun back down, mostly where it was before