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This Is What a 700-Round Burst Out of a M249 SAW Does to a Suppressor



This Is What a 700-Round Burst Out of a M249 SAW Does to a Suppressor | Blade City

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Music/Sports/Beer fan

Looks like he might need a new barrel too.

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No baby we aint

Looks like it became a muzzle brake at time 0:29 in the video.

I fully expect clips from this video to appear in the next Alien vs Predator remake.

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Release the Kraken

Seemed a compete waste of time and money. And here they thought it was cool.

Agree 100%
And just what did they 'expect' the outcome to be?
I do not even see any entertainment value here, but there are some that will I'm sure.

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NRA Endowment Member

An interesting demonstration.

A good example of the reason we always carried a spare barrel for the M60 MG (7.62mm) in Vietnam. It doesn't take a long sustained firing, even repeated short bursts will overheat a barrel pretty quickly. I have seen barrels glowing dull orange/red several times. Invariably they are completely shot-out, no longer useful.

Since the suppressor consists of a canister capturing the expanding gases at the muzzle it is understandable that the heat build-up could be extreme.

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Life of the party until 8:00PM

Not that I probably live anywhere near them, but I don't believe I'd EVER drop a penny for any of their goods or services. Obviously either never had-or paid attention to-the tender instructions of any armed forces weapons instructors.

An old quip just came to mind, don't recall who from..maybe Mark Twain: "No man is completely useless, they can always serve as a bad example."

I agree. Seems like a total waste in several ways and for what???

6C9C674C-B202-4ADF-B98A-646200067E6F.jpgIMHO just a “ reason” to make a video, they don’t care about cost. Normal folks would never think about it.I’ll wait to try this out with a suppressor.

For the same amount of money I could buy a bottle of Balvienie 25 and sit out by my firepit and as a bonus the noise would not piss off the neighbors (at least until I started singing). Plus given the price of ammo, I'd have some change left over.

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Forum consigliere

At prices today one could take the cash and pay outrageous prices for primers and powder!….

I counted only 672 rounds. Who are they trying to kid??

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SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

Why 700 rounds.............

that baby was toast at just 350 rounds............

and the barrel might have been saved ?

Rusty is that how you light your fireplace?

Reminds me of the old saw, 'There is no such thing as bad publicity'.

Not only is the suppressor taken out of service, but also a major component of a combat unit. Which in turn puts the entire unit at risk.

The high heat effect on the relatively thin barrel of the AR/M4 and 249 is not a secret. As I recall, one of Gunner Wade's videos before he retired showed the ability to cook bacon on an M4 barrel. Even significant training in a few Pat Rogers classes with my M4-gery resulted in a pretty hot barrel.

A friend of mine was a SAW dude in his unit. He much preferred the 240 because the barrel would stand up to a lot more hard use. Not my lane, so I'll accept that pronouncement.

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NHI, 10-8.

I think only stupid people deliberately tear up stuff to get their pic taken or mentioned in a book or paper.....Folks like that I don't even give them a backward glance.

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S&W Accumulator

Only shot the 1st generation SAW with the fixed carry handle. I don't believe they issued spare barrels at that time. I was a M-60 gunner and could so the 6-9 round burst but the M-249 cycle rate was about 300 rpm faster on the slow setting and 600 on the fast so you got about a 20-30 round burst.

OK, now what?