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[salt6]

We're listed in the external links in Wikipedia on the MG42 page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_42


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[anjongni]

They would do well to consult the accumulated knowledge of the members here. Congrats!

[JBaum]

The writer of the Wikepedia article states: "The [MG42] barrel had polygonal rifling..."

Has anybody every seen a WWII polygonal barrel for the MG42? I haven't.

He also states that the MG42 "lent many design elements to the American M60". I don't know what they would be, and him citing the M60 Wikipedia page as a source for his information isn't acceptable, as both pages saying the same thing simply makes them both wrong.

[salt6]

The writer of the Wikepedia article states: "The [MG42] barrel had polygonal rifling..."

Has anybody every seen a WWII polygonal barrel for the MG42? I haven't.

He also states that the MG42 "lent many design elements to the American M60". I don't know what they would be, and him citing the M60 Wikipedia page as a source for his information isn't acceptable, as both pages saying the same thing simply makes them both wrong.

Time we get some people in there to fix it.

[Roscoeturner]

M60 top cover mostly.

The writer of the Wikepedia article states: "The [MG42] barrel had polygonal rifling..."

Has anybody every seen a WWII polygonal barrel for the MG42? I haven't.

He also states that the MG42 "lent many design elements to the American M60". I don't know what they would be, and him citing the M60 Wikipedia page as a source for his information isn't acceptable, as both pages saying the same thing simply makes them both wrong.

[JBaum]

Anybody have pictures of the underneath of a 60 cover to compare with a 42 feed system?

I've seen enough misinformation about other things written on Wikipedia to not accept it as fact.

[anjongni]

I should know better not to comment...but this is "Chatter", right? I last saw an M60 in the Army at 19 in 1971. By that tender age I'd read all the library books about machineguns I could find.
On firing and tearing apart the M60, I remember noticing the similarities and differences to the German guns. And that it was SO much different than our M1919s.
The bolt slid on rails.
The feed system was in the flip-up top cover, and similar.
It was all sheet-metal, of course.
The feed-tray was similar.
The stock was a similar shape.
....Or course, there were LOTS of differences...
It had a two-speed trigger.
Gas-operated.
Barrel came off the front with the sight and bipod.
...The US Army should probably have just copied the 8mm MG42...but that's another story...Phil

[Roscoeturner]

Having owned a C&R MG42 for many years and used M60's mainly the D model many times during my 27 years in the military I can safely say there are similarities between the two with regards to the feed system and receiver construction.