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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: mudman on July 31, 2009, 01:31:38 PM
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MAIL CALL NOW HISTORY
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Bummer, that was a good show.
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Yeah, but he is on a new show tonight, I think, on History called Lock and Load. Check it out.
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I think what mudman, in his own elegant way, is trying to say, is that there is a Mail Call marathon on the History Channel today.
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yeah i think the show was hsitory in 05.
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As was mentioned above, the Gunny has a new one: Lock and Load, tonight at 9EST. The DVR is standing ready.
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I want one of each of these machine guns ;D
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I think what mudman, in his own elegant way, is trying to say, is that there is a Mail Call marathon on the History Channel today.
Nice lead in to Lock & Load. Appears to be the same episode they ran last Sunday night. Still most excellent - they are shooting the Parrot gun at 4 barrels of water lined up. Very cool.
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Good shows plus the mail call marathon before it. Did anyone see the weird weapons show that was on before Lock and Load? They had a lot of "non letal" anti personnel weapons for breaking up demonstrations and crowd control; area denial and stuff like that. I wonder what they are planning on using those for?
My favorite machine gun is still the old Ma Deuce. That gun just rocks!
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Is it me or were there a few things teh gunny said that were a hair off? Inaccuracies and such... like omissions and stuff... i dont know teh show just seemed incomplete...maybe due to time constraint. Like when the went into the whole assault rifle thing, they went staright for the M-14 like thats where it all started...skipping StG44 and AK... i dont know.. myabe i am juts being picky cuz i am in a bad mood.
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They only have an hour. The Arty show featured more guns than the MG show. I am surprised they showed 2 shows this week.
Should a show like this warp, or at least be selective, about history in order to feature the guns they have on hand?
I wonder why they didn't mention the m2 MG is actually the M1919, and cover it in chronological order after the m1917. No mention of the BAR.
I expect they'll do a separate episode on automatic rifles.
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The M1919 Browning is the .30 cal light machine gun, The .50 Cal was originally the M 1921 water cooled .50 Cal the M2 was the same receiver with an air cooled barrel replacing the water cooled one
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If the 1919 is the .30 Browning, what was the 1917 I saw on the show?
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If the 1919 is the .30 Browning, what was the 1917 I saw on the show?
The 1919 is the AIR cooled .30 cal LIGHT machine gun. The 1917 was the WATER cooled .30 cal HEAVY Machine gun
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Maybe a show on small arms is coming up soon, and side arms as well.