Re: SG-1 in SG2

At 1:10 PM -0400 7/16/04, Flak Magnet (Tim) wrote:
>
>What might not be widely known to civvies and thus creating the
impression
>that deploying the bipod is a chore is that the M249 has a
spring-loaded
>bipod assembly that stows into the foregrip.  Deploying the bipod is as
>simple as squeezing the stowed legs together and "throwing" them
downward. 
>On a properly maintained weapon they'll swing downward, spread out to a
>deployed "stance" and lock into place.  The bipod is very quick and
easy to
>deploy.

The Bren is the same way, just with out a handy foregrip. You're 
grabbing a hold of the lower gas tube that can become hot, but there 
is that handy wooden barrel handle if the lower part is hot...

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