[Zschneider]

Originally Posted by TheDesertFox

The M249 SAW fires the 5.56mm cartridge
The M240B fires the 7.62x51 cartridge

The guys up at the national gaurd armory told me the m240B is a .308

[Evil_Angel]

Originally Posted by TheDesertFox

I don't own a Desert Eagle, but I think it just takes popping out a few pins and changing the barrel. So your looking at around 2min if you know what your doing

I think I know what you mean. And if I am correct, then depending on how difficult taking the actual barrel out and putting in a new one, I could do it fairly rapidly, maybe as little as a minute.

[TheDesertFox]

Originally Posted by Zschneider

The guys up at the national gaurd armory told me the m240B is a .308

7.62x51 and .308 are the same round. 7.62x51 is just the metric designation for the .308.

[Zschneider]

Originally Posted by TheDesertFox

7.62x51 and .308 are the same round. 7.62x51 is just the metric designation for the .308.

Ok did not know that now I do

[TheDesertFox]

Originally Posted by Zschneider

Ok did not know that now I do

Always a pleasure to help out and spread some gun knowledge :-)

[Evil_Angel]

Oh. So they are different rounds to... ok.

Hey, I saw on tv once a long while ago a machine gun, much like the saw, but smaller with a greater rate of fire. If memory serves, it was supposed to replace the saw, for a special operations unit, or something like that. Anyone know anything about it?

[DFlynt]

Originally Posted by Evil_Angel

Good god, do all you people have a mossberg 12 gauge?
All you people refers to everyone except me.

Mossy 500 and the Rem 870 are most common pump shotguns around (at least in the USA).

The firearm in Desert Fox's avatar is most likely an MG 42 principle LMG of the Germans in WW2

One thing the fine folks on this forum are not real fond of are BS artists, never make a claim about yourself or anything that you can't backup.

[Zschneider]

Originally Posted by TheDesertFox

Always a pleasure to help out and spread some gun knowledge :-)

Guns are my passon always fun to learn stuff about them

[TheDesertFox]

Originally Posted by Evil_Angel

Oh. So they are different rounds to... ok.

Hey, I saw on tv once a long while ago a machine gun, much like the saw, but smaller with a greater rate of fire. If memory serves, it was supposed to replace the saw, for a special operations unit, or something like that. Anyone know anything about it?

Not sure, but I know that the Marines are phasing out the M249 SAW in favor of the M27 IAR.

[Zschneider]

Originally Posted by TheDesertFox

Not sure, but I know that the Marines are phasing out the M249 SAW in favor of the M27 IAR.

Here is the m27 IAR