linked surplus

[crashgordan]

seeing more of the linked ammo at the shows.....

anyone know why and what's your experience with it?

and is it ok to own?

[nightrunner]

Dont see why it wouldnt be legal. I know at least one company that makes a belt fed ar15 upper in 5.56

[gjohnsoniv]

Should be legal. I know several people with belt feds. I also know a gunstore that had probably close to 5k linked rounds for sale. The Shrike, Nightrunner?

Edited September 13, 2012 by gjohnsoniv

[nightrunner]

After googling, yes the shrike upper or valkyrie does conversions that require modding the lower receiver

[1gewehr]

Linked surplus is exactly the same as unlinked surplus, except it also has metal links. If you have a belt-fed weapon, that's a good thing. If you don't, you will need to spend some time de-linking the ammo.

There is absolutely no difference between modern ammo made for rifles and that made for machine guns. During WWII, the Russians and Brits made ammo with heavier bullets designed to fire longer ranges than normal ball ammo. The Japanese made lighter loads for the T-96 LMG to keep from ripping case heads off since it didn't have primary extraction. The Brit and Russina ammo was on Maxim belts. I doubt that you will run into any of that ammo.

[87toy]

Any idea what links they are on? If they are on m60 links then its just a pain to d link as there arent too many m60s floating around.

If the ammo looks older, it may be on 1919 links. If thats the case id like to know where. I have a hungry 1919 and pre linked ammo is one step closer to shooting.

Edit: thats assuming its 7.62x51

Ive also got some linked .50 bmg. It makes it easy to pull one round out and grab as long or short of a link section as i want for the range.

Edited September 13, 2012 by 87toy

[TMF]

Any idea what links they are on? If they are on m60 links then its just a pain to d link as there arent too many m60s floating around.

If the ammo looks older, it may be on 1919 links. If thats the case id like to know where. I have a hungry 1919 and pre linked ammo is one step closer to shooting.

Edit: thats assuming its 7.62x51

Ive also got some linked .50 bmg. It makes it easy to pull one round out and grab as long or short of a link section as i want for the range.

M240s eat the same disintegrating links that M60s did.