I Have This Old Gun: American Lewis Light Machine Gun

[@keithmoore5306]

the problem with the 30-06 version was the gas port size once fixed it ran good!! you forgot the Madson LMG being available back then and PT boats at pearl harbor engaging attacking torpedo planes with them!!

[@mohammedcohen]

...my first introduction to the Lewis Gun was in John Ford's 1934 flick 'The Lost Patrol' with Victor McLaglen & Boris Karloff that I watched as a y9oung boy with my dad ca' 1954 - '56

[@classicgunstoday1972]

I saw a lot of Dutch (Arnold) from Predator in Victor MCLaglen in Lost Patrol. Predator is really kind of a sci fi remake of it. The Lewis gun’s use by him has a lot to do with it in a particular scene as he moves towards the camera as Dutch does with his M16 purposefully exposing himself to danger

[@Imabananna1]

Just nonchalantly mentions “I have this Lewis gun”

[@sionsoschwalts2762]

Did he really say brilliantly made Chauchat?

[@Panda-gs5lt]

OMG … the Chauchat was the worst gun ever, period, full stop

[@SeanDahle]

Prone to jamming, exposed magazine, non interchangeable parts, horrible accuracy, violent recoil, unusable sights, etc... the only reason why the French used it was because it was the cheapest option, plus a lot of French factories and railways were bombed by the Germans

[@loneranger5349]

They keep saying the 30 caliber 303 and 30-06 are both 30 caliber so which is it 🤔 apparently the didn't know either

[@JP-xh4fq]

Every .303 bullet I have ever measured was .312 caliber. Maybe that's what you are missing here... Meanwhile "30 cal" has been a nickname for -06 pretty well since the day it was created.