Outlaw75
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WW2 Ball Turret with Twin .50 Cals at the Big Sandy Shoot
New old stock! Just add hydraulic fluid, power, and bullets!
New old stock! Just add hydraulic fluid, power, and bullets!
I obviously need to win the lottery...
If I won the lottery; it would be quad .50 and enough land to let Ma rip.
You left out slipstream roaring in the ejection ports at 350kts depending on which way you have the thing turned.Sure it looks like fun....
Not at 30,000 feet.
Not 60 below zero.
Not being shot back at by the sons of the Axis.
In any case, I'd love to give it a go especially if you were male to try to track targets.
Todd.
Throw in a White Motor Company M16 MGMC Half-Track vehicle and I'd be all set!
WW2 Ball Turret with Twin .50 Cals at the Big Sandy Shoot
New old stock! Just add hydraulic fluid, power, and bullets!
Downside being the 35mph top speed on paved roads.A half track would be the icing on the cake!!!
TikkaShooter
My Dad was in the Armored Infantry (12th Armored Division), doing WWII and they had a water cooled M1917-M1919 on their half track. A Quad 50 would have been the Cat's Meow!
Downside being the 35mph top speed on paved roads.
The M-16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage is also a bit drafty when cold, and not nearly enough when hot out. Doubly so for the two loaders who wer wedged into the back with all the tombstone 500 round mags.
The straight six under the hood is very reliable, though. The Military vehicle collectors' only real gripe is finding replacement track (they are a continuous rubber with a couple of endless steel cables moulded inside--last batch to come in was from Israel).
There was a version, the M-15 MGMC which only had a dual M2 mount, and is excedding rare. There were a bunch of "T" series test vehicles that used Bendix and Sperry turrets mounted in the back, complete with perspex, but they did not offer anything that the built-to-purpose turret didn't do better.
There was an M-14 which went the the SW Pacific. It used a "flat bed" version of the M3 half-track with a sort of "bathtub" turret, which mounted a 37mm AA cannon with a pair of coaxial water-cooled M2. A few of those were modified, in theater, after battle damage, to mount a single 40mm Bofors salvaged from either Army stores or Navy ships.
Hung out with a bunch of military vehicle collectors/restorers.Whoa there Captain, you really know your "stuff."
Make mine a CCKW.TikkaShooter
Throw in a White Motor Company M16 MGMC Half-Track vehicle and I'd be all set!
A half track would be the icing on the cake!!!
I've seen quad 50s mounted on the M35 deuce and a half escorting convoys..
Hung out with a bunch of military vehicle collectors/restorers.
So, I've ridden in an M16 MGMC. Never had any trigger time, but did hump ammo boxes to keep the beasts fed.
Mind, I used to own a "burma jeep" the 1.5 ton 4x4 low profile truck built for the Navy Department in the 40s, so I could help haul stuff.
Those were called "Gun Trucks." They were an in-theater, field expedient modification. There is a documentary about them out there somewhere. I was a 63W truck mechanic on M35s at the end of their service life, not long before they were phased out.
With all that added in, I am out. I don't like heights. I can force myself to deal with it. But I don't want to.Sure it looks like fun....
Not at 30,000 feet.
Not 60 below zero.
Not being shot back at by the sons of the Axis.
In any case, I'd love to give it a go especially if you were male to try to track targets.
Todd.
Mine would be the dual full auto 10 gauge that was on the military weapons show in the early 2000's.If I won the lottery; it would be quad .50 and enough land to let Ma rip.
https://olive-drab.com/od_other_firearms_mg_m2_quad50.php