[Airborne Butters]

Originally Posted by Panzerman

The BAR is a pretty typical gas-operated automatic rifle - it kicks back, but not quite as hard as a bolt action of the same caliber (30'06, in this case). Basically, whoever wrote that book is full of shit. I've fired a BAR, and it kicks up and back hard enough that it's difficult to keep it pointed at a distant target in rapid fire - the MoHAA BAR is pretty close, IMO.

It'd be pretty goddamn difficult to get any gun using a cartridge that size to "pull" instead of "kick" (even if it wieghs 19 lbs), and I'd imagine that the army would reject such a weapon out of hand, anyway. And think of the sheer rediculousness of fitting a gun that "recoils" forward with a shoulder stock - it would need a strap to keep it stuck to you, if anything.

Cheers,

Pman

I'm gonna have to disagree wit ya Bob! I have a book on weapons of all caliber, about 300 pgs+. The bar you might have fired, could have been a more recent version or a recopy. Like I said in my previouse post, why would the tri-pod legs be pointed more foward, if it kicked back?