Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Forgotten Weapons"
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@aaronwilkinson8963 And how many ammos does it has with two people carrying gun, tripod and ammos?
What's the effective firing range from the bipod, if you choose to not carry the tripod?
If you are limiting an MG to the number of rounds two (or one!) people can carry along with the gun and tripod (and a spare barrel I hope), you are seriously misusing it.
Reality is that the FN MAG, today, is rarely seen not placed on a fixed position, or mounted on a vehicle, but today is not WWII. In WWII the thousands of rounds a MG could fire in a single action had to be CARRIED BY SHOULDER.
And, as soon as a vehicle is no more available, that's still true today.
Of that 9 men crew, three carried the weapon, the spare barrel, the tripod and all the accessories needed to mantain the weapon. The other six were ammo bearers AND any of them had a carbine and ammos for it. It's not that, while the ammo fired and two people (gunner and loader) were servicing it directly, the others were doing nothing.
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Tanfoglio (imported in the US by EAA with the name "Witness") is the oldest CZ75 "cloner". They introduced the "TZ75" in the early '80s and started developing the design from there, often introducing the improvements before CZ did (firing pin block in 1988, .45 ACP in 1992, large frame in 1995, polymer frame in 1997...) Almost all the CZ75 clones out there (Jericho 941, Baby Eagle, Sarsilmaz, Springfield, Armscor...) are infact Tanfoglio clones, often made, at least at the beginning, locally assembling Tanfoglio parts. Long story short, all the Witness lineup (bar the 1911) is available in 10mm already. See https://eaacorp.com/guns/handguns?pid=1:tanfoglio&search=&order=i.name&dir=asc&cm=0#tlb
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Actually the rifle is very simple. Apart for the burst mechanism, that's an added part, not required for it to work, the parts count is the lowest it could be, and the field strip can be made in seconds without tools, that was not a given at that time.
To have access to the gas chamber and the gas ports (that's the thing that requires cleaning, there is not actually much that could happen to the piston and op rod) you only have to remove the muzzle cover. To inspect the recoil spring, you can remove it from the trap door. To remove the bolt you only have to remove the dust cover and the rear buffer ("when the dust cover is off, it just slides out") and it comes out from the rear of the receiver. It isn't needed to remove the receiver from the stock.
The bolt is made of just five parts, included one that doubles as charging handle. The trigger group is very simple too.
Like almost every bolt action rifle up to then, and several semiauto rifle after then, this rifle is simply not made to have the trigger group and the receiver removed often from the stock (that's why they were secured with screws). While the parts that require cleaning, and/or have to be replaced more often (for the second case, almost universally the recoil spring and the firing pin) are very easily reachable.
An M1 Garand, for example, is made with a completely different philosopy. The rifle can be easily disassembled, but is not really field-strippable. To reach the firing pin, you have to completely take the rifle apart (and have several small parts flying around you).
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