M249 Build

[sigbrown1297]

Still working on getting the rest of the weldment pieces in for the receiver but hopefully I can have this up and running by the end of the year.

[Alleycat72]

What's is run building it? I've looked at getting one from FN. They take a H&K auto sear. An H&K binary trigger in it may work. 

[Johnny Rotten]

 

 

[Johnny Rotten]

2 hours ago, alleycat72 said:

What's is run building it? I've looked at getting one from FN. They take a H&K auto sear. An H&K binary trigger in it may work. 

you mean these guys I think

http://www.machinegunarmory.com/

 

[Alleycat72]

1 hour ago, Johnny Rotten said:

you mean these guys I think

http://www.machinegunarmory.com/

 

Yes. 

[Alleycat72]

https://www.sportsmans.com/shooting-gear-gun-supplies/modern-sporting-rifles/fn-m249s-para-semi-automatic-rifle/p/p52836

It sucks that they limit you to two.

[Johnny Rotten]

11 minutes ago, alleycat72 said:

https://www.sportsmans.com/shooting-gear-gun-supplies/modern-sporting-rifles/fn-m249s-para-semi-automatic-rifle/p/p52836

It sucks that they limit you to two.

That's not that bad of a price for these times, cheapest one I seen was like 6500 maybe a yr ago, also I think FN discontinued them as well. 

[Alleycat72]

Todd huey has been killing hogs with a 240 lately. LOL 

[Alleycat72]

A MG42 or M53 would be a fun one also. 

[Johnny Rotten]

10 minutes ago, alleycat72 said:

A MG42 or M53 would be a fun one also. 

your not playing around anymore..

https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.asp?armor_id=620

 

[Alleycat72]

11 minutes ago, Johnny Rotten said:

your not playing around anymore..

https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.asp?armor_id=620

 

LOL

 

https://www.sdsguns.com/products/semi-automatic-yugoslavian-yugo-m53-by-wise-lite-numbers-matching-build-8mm-belt-fed-semi-auto

[Alleycat72]

[xtriggerman]

This all reminded me to check for some extra 100rd mag bags.  Last time I bought some they were 35 bucks each. Now I see a couple outfits asking $69 for one! And that's no links. These run 75 rds nicely in my RPD.  Good luck on the build. Oh, by the way, I bought a number of the plastic 200 round boxes and now I see why the grunts hated them. Pure garbage plastic latching on them. Don't waste your money on those P's OS. Good luck on the build.

[sigbrown1297]

On 9/26/2020 at 1:58 PM, alleycat72 said:

https://www.sportsmans.com/shooting-gear-gun-supplies/modern-sporting-rifles/fn-m249s-para-semi-automatic-rifle/p/p52836

It sucks that they limit you to two.

Factory M249S have been discontinued for quite some time.  The ones on GB are fetching 10K or more.  The one Im building is a post sample.

[sigbrown1297]

On 10/9/2020 at 3:14 PM, xtriggerman said:

This all reminded me to check for some extra 100rd mag bags.  Last time I bought some they were 35 bucks each. Now I see a couple outfits asking $69 for one! And that's no links. These run 75 rds nicely in my RPD.  Good luck on the build. Oh, by the way, I bought a number of the plastic 200 round boxes and now I see why the grunts hated them. Pure garbage plastic latching on them. Don't waste your money on those P's OS. Good luck on the build.

Thanks.  yeah i picked up some new NATO 100 nutsacks (the reinforced sides) off GB and paid like $80 (no links) Having to link up my own 556 right now cuz linked 556 is so expensive.

[Johnny Rotten]

10 hours ago, sigbrown1297 said:

Thanks.  yeah i picked up some new NATO 100 nutsacks (the reinforced sides) off GB and paid like $80 (no links) Having to link up my own 556 right now cuz linked 556 is so expensive.

If your looking for more nutsacks shoot me a PM I'd be will to sell 3 "new in the wrapper" woodland camo with starter tabs and around 2-3k worth of LC links used once..

Linking is not so bad, I run a sweat shop, you want food, I want linked ammo..

 

[Alleycat72]

10 hours ago, sigbrown1297 said:

Factory M249S have been discontinued for quite some time.  The ones on GB are fetching 10K or more.  The one Im building is a post sample.

And that's why I've been looking at mg42s. LOL 

[xtriggerman]

On 11/7/2020 at 7:09 AM, alleycat72 said:

And that's why I've been looking at mg42s. LOL 

Back when I was looking for a belt feed, I thought the RPD was my best option with the mint Polish kits running under $300 at Sarco and DSA semi receivers for $350. Pretty much a no brainer there. Only thing I hated was the way these were being built with a sliding hammer made up FCG. That brain fart system is about as far from mil spec as you can imagine, so I figured out how to fab in a HK G3 lower with a HK91 FCG that slips into the G3 frame and is removable. With a heavy finned SS barrel and M2 bipod it weighs in at about 20 lbs but shoots nice. A couple guys wanted to do conversions like this so I spec'ed out all the work and put it here. Maybe not a everyone project but food for thought for belt fed fabricators.

https://www.weaponsguild.com/forum/index.php?topic=69139.0