Anyone want an M240?

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Ohio Ordnance Works M240-SLR 7.62 X 51 20" Barrel Belt-Fed-Rounds

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Ohio Ordnance Works M240-SLR 7.62 X 51 20" Barrel Belt-Fed-Rounds

Are you looking to be prepared for anything? GrabAGun has the best semi auto rifle selection for you with options like the Ohio Ordnance Works M240-SLR. Whether you use it as a long range rifle among your hunting rifles or for home defense, this rifle will benefit your arsenal. Features for this...
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Not semi-auto.

we were issued the M240B in the winter of 1997 in the 82nd Airborne. I remember turning in my beloved M60 and pulling into the range hearing the M240B's shooting on gas setting 3. It was one of the fastest rates of fire I ever heard until we went to Germany and shot the MG-3
 
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My first unit still had legacy M60E3s. I shot it, loved it, and like a week later they were gone. I liked the M240 a lot, but given my job not my TO weapon. But it's a great gun.

I never really served in a weapons company, I did do one 3-week AT when I was in the reserves attached to a weps company, I humped the mortar baseplate for one of the mortars (81 or 60, I don't remember...alls I remember it was effing heavy...).
 
It's way too much for a semi...........................
 
We never got the 240’s in the corps by the time I got out in 96. We were still toting the pig.

From what I understand there were still units running 60’s all the way up into the 2000’s.

Of course there were marine units that still ran the 1919 in Vietnam too.
 
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The 240 is a great gun. I was raised on the M60 and only saw 240s as tank coax guns. The units I served with only had 60s up until the mid 90s.
 
Never got to play with either the M249 or the 240B. I re-classed out of the mech Infantry with the Pig & the Ma Deuce into the medical field & crew serveds were a NOGO for us. Then, when I went PSYOP, I had enough rank that there was no way they were putting me on a crew & every MG range I attended, I was either the ammo NCO, an RSO, or the RO & had no chance to play.

Cliff Clavin moment- German machine gunners reckon it a mark of their their skill when they can squeeze off a single round with the MG3. That thing is a frikkin' bullet hose.
 
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