Loading a New Belt onto a Belt-Fed MG

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As for the .50 with the quick-change barrel

Ours were painful too, old guns with new parts. The FN guns worked great and everyone thought we could do the same. They had new made guns with FN made ammo specially produced for the job. We had neither. As soon as they took my headspace and timing gauges, we were hooped.

change the barrels on the air versions of the Browning 50 cal MG

Those guns only had a limited amount of ammo when they went up and would never exceed the guns capabilities while in flight. No ammo resupply, like us on the ground. We could just keep bringing ammo until the gun melts. Up there they only had a few hundred per gun or a thousand...not very much. The barrel was new on takeoff and gun would be completely overhauled upon landing. No barrel changes needed. The internals of the guns were a bit different too. Some of the externals differed as well.