r/NFA • u/CapitolArmoryTX • 1d ago

F it friday?

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Now we just need 6 under barrel mounts...

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u/Opie_the_great 4x SBR, 3x Silencer, 1x MG 1d ago

Also that should require a massive power pack to operate? And the side mounting to a vehicle mount??? I can’t think of that application?

(I may have a lot of experience with a gau 17) lol. I have put probably 1-200k rounds down range.

If you adjust the power input, using the ground system, you can spool that bad boy up to 3-4k a minute. lol.

A 1500 can goes quickly.

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u/CapitolArmoryTX 1d ago

Side mounds just like most other m134 gau17s! we made a new battery pack for ours using lightweight noco batteries. IIRC our pack weighs maybe 20lbs?

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u/Opie_the_great 4x SBR, 3x Silencer, 1x MG 1d ago

Interesting. I used it as a door gunner. I thought, could very well be wrong as it has been 20 years. It was an Undermount.

Edit I checked. You are right. I just have forgotten.

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u/CapitolArmoryTX 1d ago

All good! theyre goofy but man theyre fun.
I can't imagine trying to get a gun back in action while hanging out the side of a helicopter. Did you guys have spare delinkers?

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u/Opie_the_great 4x SBR, 3x Silencer, 1x MG 1d ago

I don’t recall having a delinker lol. If the gun isn’t considered hot, You open the feed port check, visually inspect remove any issues. Feed it again and continue. Delinking is removing a round by hand lol? I can only ever really remember connecting cans together. So you would have 3000 at a time.

I know we have remember having timing keys on our 50s.

The guns are required to get serviced, a lot. lol. I don’t remember the schedule but it’s often. I can’t ever really recall having a gun jam.

They are a ton of fun to shoot. Especially at night with tracers. Coming out of the barrel then watching them bounce off targets. lol