"Love this gun, very good range, accuracy, and rate of fire. Gun sounds pretty darn good. I don't know why people complains about the weight because to my believe this is lighter that my A&K M60VN. Great gun.
"I bought one of these the day they appeared in the UK. I’d always wanted a (What we call in the UK) GPMG. Yeah, I know it’s not the same, but it’s the only FN Mag on the market and the closest I’ll come to having a real Brit GPMG ever again.
I used to be our teams support gunner and have been through M60’s (I even have 2 TOP M60’s, vintage eh, plus a few of the A&K’s and some very rare ones. Also M249’s in different configs, a couple of Stoners (Do defo buy a G&G Stoner 63 if you can, PKM, MG34, MG42, CZ, and a load of other weird MMG’s, Ha, even a BAR). This without even blinking is the best EVER!.
I used it as my day gun and used it every weekend for about 4 years. I ran it on a 350 spring but that was the only upgrade/downgrade I made. On average I’d go through about 10,000 each weekend (I didn’t say I was good, just enthusiastic).
I think I cleaned the barrel every month, the gearbox just once over all that time. The only time it was out of service was when I leant it to someone I hardly knew for one game, he managed to trip over a log, smash the mag pouch into a tree and shear all the holding lugs off. EVIKE managed to send me replacement for all part! To the UK! On such a RARE gun! I was very impressed. And she was back up and running like a bream the day I got those.
This M240 or GPMG or FN MAG, whatever you want to call it is LEGENDARY to me. When I die, I want to be buried with it.
The only downsides I found are:
You have to understand support gunning, this is NOT an assault gun.
Get to the Gym, this is HEAVY
It’s also cumbersome... Not for CQB lol
Awkward and silly to the max (You could do the same thing with an MP5K, massive external battery and huge drum mag)
Good points:
Never Ever went wrong
You can load and fire at the same time.
It intimidates
You’ll get a good workout
You can stop an entire team assault, on your own, if you have the b*lls
After doing a “Predator” style “constant fire without releasing the trigger, until everything is dead” you may find your team mate who had to hit the dirt 3 mins earlier turning to you and saying “HOLY F*** THAT WAS AWESOME”. Just smile.
All in all
This is a difficult piece to use, for sure. But when it comes together, there is nothing else I would ever want to go on to the field with! Have a FANTASTIC day :)