Sir , by any chance did you serve in Vietnam ? A few of my clients did tours in Vietnam , as well . They recalled pump shot guns of 12 calibre / bore being used against the Vietcong in the jungle some times . The ammunition was , if l recall correctly 9 pellet SG ? (Which you American gentlemen know as 00 buck ) .
From 1 service man to another , l salute you. I served in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 . If l recall correctly , the M 60 LMG ( Light Machine Gun ) was called the " pig " . We saw some of them in use during the Liberation War by the West Pakistani forces and captured a few for our own use , when the Mukti Bahini overran the Pakistani fortification in Jessore . They used a 7.62 calibre cartridge , which used to come in metal link belts . We never saw the M 60E3 ( which has a pistol grip in the front ) though.
In the Middle East it was often good to be reminded how effective a 7.62 MG could be chewing its way through walls and debris - worked equally well chewing its way through trees and brush on the other side of Asia. But it was a bitch to carry. Now if you had a vehicle nearby with a Ma Deuce, that was like bringing a tactical nuke to the festivities.
The Browning Model 2 HMG ( Heavy Machine Gun ) in .50 calibre was 1 of those fire arms which could mutilate entire corpses , sir. Very effective weapon . During the war , l saw 2 versions of this weapon. 1 had a heavy barrel and could sustain prolonged periods of fire without the barrel overheating. There was another version which was used in Pakistani air craft. It had a lighter barrel and a faster rate of fire . However , when these versions ( with the light barrel ) started getting mounted on top of jeeps , we discovered that they cannot sustain prolonged periods of gun fire without the barrels needing to be changed or time being given for them to cool .
Oh , l remember the M1 Garand all too well , New Boomer. Many of our American clients used to bring them to India for shikar. After 8 cartridges were expended , the metal " clip " which held the cartridges popped out with a loud " ping ! " sound . In muddy terrain , or at night , it was some times extremely difficult for our coolies to recover the expended " clips " which had fallen on the forest floor . A coolie once almost lost a finger by trying to load 1 of the " clips " into a client's M1 Garand semi automatic rifle , when he came with us to cull wild boars . If l recall correctly , you cannot top up a partially expended " clip " inside the rifle .
This time , I am 1 step ahead of you , Crs . I sent an e mail to a gentleman who operates a web site called " Belgian guns " and took a photograph of the barrel flats 3 weeks ago . The gentleman said that the proof marks are indicative of " Robar & Sons " . The sole purpose of the web site is to identify old obscure Belgian fire arms.
