油管射擊運動轉載::M60通用機槍【Hickok45】

Hey, John Hickok here, just shooting the old M60 over here at 250 yards at the Long Range Gong. We're just gonna have a little fun with this thing today. As always, of course, don't forget, appreciate all the help we get from BudsGunShop.com. Please go check out everything that they have to offer over there, great selection. And also Federal Ammo, this big long belt of ammo. And all the ammo we're gonna shoot today came from Federal, so we appreciate them a great deal. And also SDI, the Sonoran Desert Institute. Go check them out, sdi.edu. You can get certified in gunsmithing, and they also have some other courses. Go check out their website, and we'll take some more shots with this. This is a lot of fun. It's really humid today, kind of reminds me of Nam. And of course, we have this courtesy of Royal Range USA. They were nice enough to bring this out. Neither of us own an M60, unfortunately. Alright. Let's see if I can hit this thing again. You know what, though? I just realized, this isn't how you're supposed to start an M60 video. And I'm not even the right guy. This is how you start an M60 video. That's pretty cool. Let's make sure we're clear and we're empty. And we're good to go. You always want to be safe with your machine gun, boys and girls. An M60. Well, I'll close it down. No ammo. So, let's go up to the shooting table and talk a little bit about this piece of hardware. It's really neat to be able to bring something like this to you. It really is. Again, we appreciate Royal Range USA bringing it out here. This rascal's for rent. Go rent the thing and shoot it at their range. Look at that beautiful thing. What a piece of history. And before we get too far into it. Again, I want to thank APMEX, the precious metal company. American Precious Metals Exchange. That is a supporter of ours. And go to the website in our link in the description. And you'll be amazed at the variety of things that they offer. So don't forget them. We're so lucky that people offer to help us. And bring machine guns out occasionally. That's amazing, isn't it? So now this is a real machine gun. It's not a submachine gun. And one reason we wanted to bring it to you. Other than the fact that John lives and breathes machine guns. I think he dreams about machine guns. And I think they're pretty cool occasionally myself. But is the fact that this one has so much history. And I'm not going to talk a lot. We're just going to shoot at some. I'll give you some basic history of it. And we've got some more things to shoot. But this, as you know, many of you. This is kind of the Vietnam configuration. The basic M60. And went into service, I think, in 57. They started developing it in the 40s. Trying to come up with something to replace the Browning machine gun. Which is heavy, a heavy machine gun. Something that a person could carry. And it's still pretty heavy. But you could actually carry it. You've seen Rambo do it, though, right? No problem at all. And so that's what was kind of the genesis of the thing. Something that kind of a crew-served medium-sized machine gun. It could be used in a lot of different applications. It could be mounted on a jeep. Or a personnel carrier. Or a boat. And it was used for all those things. Helicopter. You've seen the Vietnam movies. The thing being shot out the doors of a helicopter. A Huey. If you watch movies at all. Don't need much of an introduction to the M60. It's been around a long time. 57. Gosh, that's more than 10 or 20 years ago. And so it's been in use for a long time. It has come through a lot of different variants. Variations and upgrades. I think right now it's an E6. That's the one we shot in Texas two or three years ago. And maybe I'll link to that video. Just to make fun of myself for the trouble I had. But this is pretty much the old school M60. Which is kind of neat. One of the things I did in that video, I think. If I remember right. You've got to make sure. You've got your bolt is forward. You can raise this up first. The feed shelf there and everything. And I'm going to make sure the bolt is forward. So I'm going to kind of pull the trigger. It's supposed to be on fire, I think. In order to do that. And I can let that bolt go forward. All right. And that was the thing I did not do. I knew when I was field stripping. There's no need to go into a big field strip. But you take out this little retaining pin. Right there. And you slide the butt stock off. Right here. And you've got the buffer back there in the stock. And you've got a spring right up here. That's going to fall out. That's the op rod driver spring and rod. And it will fall out. It's really dirty, I'm sure. Because we've been shooting this thing. And take that out. If you're going to clean yours. And if you want the bolt back. You've just got to be on fire. Do you understand? And you get that bolt started. And you just pull it back. And pull it right on out. The op rod comes out. I think I did that in that first video in Texas. And there's no need to just get all filthy. And do it today. But that's how it comes apart. I'll show you how to take the barrel out. I'm probably not going to do that either. So put that forward. Pull the trigger. And you can get that forward. And I'll just stick it back together here. Before I get into something. It's going to take me 5 minutes. To get it back together. But obviously as with most. All military firearms. They need to be. As I've said before. They need to be kind of simple. That's not because everybody is simple minded. It's because you're in the field. And you've got to break things down. You've got to keep them clean. And field stripped. And you've got to train people. People who aren't necessarily gun people. Maybe even to begin with. And they just need to have a clever design. A smart design. Something that's not too hard to take apart. And clean. And maintain. Replace parts. And all that sort of thing. So that was basically that. And I think I. Oh yeah. Let's get it back together properly. See there we go. Demonstrating my incompetence here. I think I put that back in too soon. There we go. Alright. There we go. And get it further forward like that. Get that retaining pin in there. There we go. Now we close that down. And we're good to go. OK. So. Again I've got to be careful not to touch that barrel. Because somebody has been firing it full auto. And it is hot. If you want to take the barrel out. Speaking of that. When it gets really hot. Because somebody in the crew. And there were different ways. Generally it was a crew served weapon. You'd have a three man crew. I think most of the time. It was the squad automatic weapon in Vietnam. And I think you generally have no experience with it. But I've read you had three people men. Generally responsible for it. And one would carry the gun and some ammo. The assistant would carry some more ammo. And a spare barrel. And then the ammo bearer. They called him ammunition bearer. The third guy would carry some more ammo. And maybe the tripod. To mount it on. Different things like that. And then in a rifle squad. I read that you might have quite a few people. Everybody carrying some ammo. Depending on what's going on. Some of you all that have actually served. And with one of these. At any point. We know a lot more about that. Understatement. And it's been used of course. Through those various upgrades. E4. E6. Right on up through. The 80's. 90's. And into the Gulf War. And Afghanistan. And Iraq. And it's still in use today I think. The E6 version of it. So. There's some negatives about it. But they've improved a lot of that. On these upgrades. And it was prone to breakage. After a lot of use. The op rod. As I understand. The bolt even. A little thin. Because you're talking about. A lot of pressure. Full auto. Just a. It's a pig. As they call it right. Big hog. And heavy. To me. I don't know. I'm always surprised. Maybe I shoot too many AR-15's. Too many lever actions. I guess. I would not have wanted to be a. M60 gunner. I don't think. Just give me my. M16. My M4. Although I. I think I said in the last video. A friend of mine. I used to teach with. Had been a. He was an M60 gunner. In the military. And so. So anyway. What else about it. I'd say a lot of upgrades. It's been used all over the world. And. It's. It's just iconic. That's one reason. We wanted to look at. So let's take a few more shots. And surprisingly enough. As you. You saw. You know. From. A pretty good range. 250 yards. It's possible to actually. Get one shot out of it. And hit something. You know. So. It has a slow rate of fire. I think around 550. 600. Rounds per minute. And so. It's pretty easy to control. The trigger. Even though it's not a. Wonderful trigger. You can. And I'll do that. I'll do a little more of that here. Before we go too crazy. Full auto. Now I always have to rethink. On the thing. OK. So. We've got. The bolt's got to be back. All right. Bolt is back. Safety's on. And. We're going to feed some ammo. Into it. After we close the. Charging handle. That's something to always remember. Now. I know a lot of you are in the market. For one of these. So keep in mind. I have trouble. Keeping that in mind. When you buy yours. Be sure. When you pull the bolt back. You retract the. The charging handle. You can break that. So. It's something. I've had trouble remembering. Of course. I have trouble remembering. Almost anything. Must be my brain. I think. OK. Get that in there. Like that. And close. Down on it. And. Yeah. All right. So. That's a thing. It's a belt fed. Weapon. So. It's ready to go. Except for being unsafe. I mean. All the jokes. You hear about. Belt fed. Weapon. And. Most people. Have never shot. A belt fed. Weapon. Firearm. Right. So. It's kind of cool. To have fired. A belt fed. Weapon. And here's one. Right here. OK. We have some other. Accoutrements on the table. As you see. The. The old World War 2. Well. They were used. Right up to. What? 1986. Wherever. You know. Vietnam. Or anywhere. You know. 1911. Got an Uzi. Mini Uzi. Got a. An AR. That. This is a. An SP1. John's SP1. Which is most like. Much like. The ones they used back. In the day. Except for auto. They were. OK. Let's. Let's just show again. And. And again. I've kind of learned as I go. I don't shoot this thing a lot. Of course. I'm going to. Try to hit something over there. Like a red plate. OK. With a machine gun. And. It will not shoot. Semi-automatic. There's no. It's not a select fire. It's. It's full auto. So. You've got to manipulate your trigger. And. We've had a little issue. With some of the ammo today. But. It's. It's doing pretty well. All right. Let's get the ears on. Take a couple of shots over there. Just for kicks. OK. All right. So. Once I pop the safety off. It's ready to go. I'm going to try to hit that red plate. On the left up there. See where it goes. See if I can get one shot out of it. I'm not sure where I'm hitting. But I think I'm close. I'll try the middle plate. Kind of fun. I know. That cinder block on the barrel. Let me take a couple of that. All right. I did. I took a couple. How about this bowling pin. Right here swinging. We got it. I'm going to put the safety on. Bring it over here and shoot the paper target. How's that? I've got safety on. I can get the belt on my arm. Properly here. I'll just take a couple of shots at it maybe. There we go. It's kind of awkward. That's OK. So am I. All right. Safety off. Let's hit that two liter. Got the trash can. Burned barrel. Yeah. Got the ammo in a bind. That's OK. Got that back. Yeah. All the way back. Charging handle forward. Let's try it again now. It's working. I'll try that cinder block. Nothing like having a few extra rounds. Oh, there's another two liter. Let's blast it. Let's put the safety on. Setting back down for a second. So it's a beautiful thing. It's hard to rein it in. You want to just keep that trigger down and just shoot, shoot, shoot. And generally you can do that. On that first array of buckets, I don't know where those buckets came from, but there they were. So I was able to do that. But on our range, all the steel, close steel and everything, have to be careful about that. But we're going to cut it loose here in a minute. I've got some other targets down there. What else did you want to know about it? Well, let's see. What do I know about it? It's, like I said, it was a crew-served weapon and it's been used, my gosh, from the 50s right on to today, the E6 version of it. And I've read some interesting things about it, how the Navy SEALs have used it, of course, and I think the E6 version of it. And they'd have backpacks, although it was interesting, with 1,000 rounds or more in their backpack and the belts feeding out. They had some special channels so it would feed out and feed properly because you can't get that thing all twisted up or you saw it just doesn't want to feed reliably. The newer ones might be a little more forgiving in that regard, I don't know. But having 1,000 rounds or more in your backpack with an M60, that would make you a pretty effective person out there, right? Pretty dramatic package there, especially a Navy SEAL carrying it. Because one thing about a real Navy SEAL is they know their firearms and they can shoot, right? Not those Navy SEALs you see on the Internet all the time, but real ones can. Just cool. I mean, all of you have seen a lot of movies featuring these things and it's one of the cool things about firearms like this that once you have fired one, whether it's an old muzzleloader or anything, you have a better feel for what it's like when you see them in action, whether it's in war footage or it's in a movie. Of course, they're firing blanks in movies. I'm sorry to break the news to you. So anyway, pretty cool gun. Pretty expensive. Not something that many people are going to get their hands on. And that's one of the advantages of one of the cool things about doing what we do and being able to do that. Being able to get our hands on it. Oh, I was going to show you too. If you want to take the barrel out, I'm not going to do it. You just push this button right here, lift this lever, and you make sure the bolt is back first and the barrel just comes out. They would use an asbestos glove to pull it out. Do I need to tell you why? Because it's very, very hot. So it's sitting here on safe. And that's kind of the thing about it. It's not really that convenient to just keep unloading and loading back up. So you just make sure you've got it pointed down the range and you've got it on safe and you're not pulling on the trigger and messing with it, of course. And it's a safe firearm. It's heavy. It's a .308, 7.62x51. So normally you get a little recoil with that round and you get a little bit with this. And in full auto, of course, you get a little more. But the weight of it, the gas system, it helps it maintain it as a controllable firearm. So with that said, I'm going to maybe put a little more ammo in it and go down there in a minute. One thing I wanted to point out, too, John's got his Uzi out here. Again, thanks to Royal Range because that's where the paperwork's being done and they own it right now, or sort of own it. And I wanted to demonstrate a little bit about the difference. We tend to just call anything that fires full auto and you can see that's not loaded, but a machine gun, don't we? So even we who know better, we tend to do that sometimes, but that's a machine gun. This is a sub gun, a submachine gun. So there's a difference as far as a pistol cartridge and it's pretty cool. I'm going to fire it. All right. Now this, since it's 9mm, I can fire at anything I want to here, basically. I might put one on this paper target, a couple. Hey, it fires a little faster than that one, doesn't it? Yeah. Or I can fire at that coffin, put a couple on it. Yeah. Or the cowboy, maybe. Yeah. We can just spread them around, can't we? Put the rest of them on the burn barrel. So this is a sub gun and it's an Uzi, mini Uzi. Pretty cool, pretty cool. There is a difference. And this is much easier to handle, much easier to control, much more pleasant for me. So the M60, and this is kind of the original configuration, like I said, lots of variants through the years. And you've got your bipod, of course, built in. And one of the crew members would carry a tripod quite often, as I understand. If you're going to set up and be doing a lot of shooting, a tripod, something really stable would be advantageous, wouldn't it? And very desirable, as well as lots of ammo linked together. So let's put a I don't know how much we'll need down there, but let's put a longer link in here. That ought to be enough of this. Yeah. We've got a couple of things down there we've not shot yet. If we don't get it all with this ammo, that's okay. We can live with that. I'm going to get this started just right. Okay. And we've got it on safe. We've got the charging handle forward. We've got the bolt back. Let's make sure. The bolt's all the way back. Yep. It's locked up. Okay. It's something that I forced myself to remember. And like I said, this is viable information for some of you. You think it's not, but most of you will probably have one of these one day, and you want to know how to use it, right? You want to understand a little bit more about it. Yeah. It's just the education we provide. No extra charge. Okay. All right. This is cool. All right. So here we are. We're on safe. Okay. Still have to be careful. Just because you're on safe, you have your safety turned on, doesn't mean you are safe, right? All right. So this is not as easy as Rambo makes it look, wrapping these around your arm and wrist and everything else because, you know, you get it out of sync or twisted at all, and it just doesn't necessarily want to fire. So come on down with me. We'll just leave the bipod out. And go hunting. Oh, already found something. Just happens to be some 12 ounces and 2 liters and a garbage can full of water. Well, I'll be darned. We spared no expense for you all today. So we should be about ready to fire. Let's put a few rounds on it. You want to? Okay. Here we go. I think that's why they call it the pig. Look how it just dug up the dirt and the mud. Pretty cool. And I know that barrel's hot now. So a lovely piece of hardware. And it's our pleasure to bring it to you. So, but we're not finished. I think John has a little something for you. Never not shoot an M60. It took it down. Oh, man. That was a lot of fun. Look at that. M60. All right. Well, that was a lot of fun. The final hurrah of the M60 for the day. You should be ashamed of yourself. Look at the damage you did, John. Yeah, I know. Wow. Perfectly good concrete blocks. Yeah, I know. We'll have to rebuild it. What am I doing shooting it up? That's what an M60 is built for, though. Yeah. When you got one of these around, you know, you got to destroy some stuff. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Pretty cool to be able to shoot an M60 because a lot of people don't get to. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's really cool. Also, historical gun, of course. Yeah. You know, so many movies that we've, you know, seen these things in over the years. And, you know, it's something we bring up all the time in videos that there's so many guns that are so iconic to so many of us and we've just never had the experience of shooting them. Yeah. All the years I've been into guns, I had never shot an M60 until a few years ago and we did that M60E6 and that was just an amazing experience. I had neither. It's one of the things that I know we both deeply appreciate because of our large audience. We're just able to do things that we weren't able to do in the past. Right. It's just really cool. Thank you all, you know, and Royal Range USA for bringing this out here. Yeah, so cool for them to bring this out and let us shoot it. It's been an education, you know. Like, obviously, you see us kind of fumbling with this thing because, you know, we don't have one so we're not very familiar with it or comfortable with it. If I had one, trust me, I would be a pro on it. I can guarantee you that. It is a humbling experience because we both mess with so many different firearms that we can kind of figure them out. Right. And we probably even look smooth with a lot of guns, but we have trouble. Yeah, and it's heavy on top of that, so that kind of, like, compounds it. Like the Barrett is a perfect example because I have a Barrett, you know. I can handle one of those and I know what I'm doing with it and everything. Whereas someone who's never shot one, they're going to look awkward, you know, so. Yeah, unlike an AR-15, whatever you're doing with it, you can hold it with two fingers if you need to. Right, yeah, exactly. But I can definitely see, though, how, I mean, it's heavy, but it's a machine gun. It's, you know, they're all heavy. I can see how this was an improvement over the Browning 1919. Yeah, because I think you couldn't even use that without a tripod, could you? No. They put, like, a handle on some of the later ones and stuff, but this is a huge improvement over that for sure. And, you know, we had some problems with it, of course, today, but, you know, it's an older gun. It's been shot a lot, you know. Ammo-related or link-related or whatever, you just don't know. It seems like with machine guns, anything full auto, it always brings out any little weakness whether it's the magazines, the ammo or the gun or any of those kinds of things. Yeah, you're demanding a lot more out of the piece of machinery. Right. Yeah, but it was a lot of fun and I hope you guys enjoyed the destruction that we put forth for you guys today. Yeah, we're glad to be able to bring it to you. And this is an icon, an iconic firearm, no doubt about it. And it's just great to be able to shoot the thing. Yeah. And hopefully you got a little bit out of it, fun and, you know, a little bit of the history. You know, you folks who have been in the military and you have fired one of these, maybe you're an M60 gunner. You have an extensive experience with it, you know. Share your thoughts on it. I don't know. Well, we may have some folks that have carried this version of it. Right. You know, that watch. So, you know. Absolutely. What do you think? Other than that we're awfully klutzy with it, right? Yeah. Well, anyways, it was a fun video. Hope you guys enjoyed it. And I'm sure Dad will be buying one of these soon. Yeah. Well, most of you will, I'm sure. And we appreciate all the support we get, you know, able to do things we do. You know, from buttsgunshop.com, federal premium, SDI, Sonoran Desert Institute, APMEX, you know, precious metal dealer. Everybody that helps us out. The talent groups, you know, even Ballast Opera helps us some. And we just, we don't deserve it. But we'll take it. Yes, we do. We do? But a lot of fun. And we've talked enough. I'm tired. Yeah. It's a heavy gun. It is. It's a lot of fun. But life is good. See you guys.