On 12/23/97 11:07 PM, Igor Chudov @ home (ichudov@algebra.com) passed this wisdom:

the problem is the wear of the barrel

ignoramus

no questio about wear, but I saw the barrel after it colled and it had a warp to it. I said 1000 rounds straight and I meant it. They kept linking onto the belts and I will bet he didn't let up on the trigger a dozen times through the ten belts .... my LRRP team had stumbled into a bit of hornets nest and half the NVA in that end of the province were chasing our asses by the time we hitthat LZ. the guy just kept firing til the barrel glowed and it did warp slightly when it cooled, enough that he didn't want to chance another round down the barrel. my guess is that it had been abused more than a few times and the overall temper of the metal had chnaged , but for sure there was probably very littel rifling left in the barrel as well. I have seen M-60 barrels so worn that they appeared to the naked eye as smoothbores. Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For my PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "...error reading WinOS. (A)bort, (R)etry, (M)acintosh?"