150 Rd Drum for M4

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Re: 150 Rd Drum for M4

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I can think of two very good (and one marginal) reasons why you wouldn't want to use it:

1. 150/200 rounds is over half of your basic load what happens if the drum jams? Sand fucks up everything.

2. How do you cross-load ammo?

3. How well does it feed into a M249? (like I said marginal)

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Re: 150 Rd Drum for M4

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Tough,

You pretty much answered any reason why not to have that stuff.
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Anything that holds bullets, costs $650 and doesn't have it's own trigger and firing pin is a waste of money.
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Plus it kinda of defetes the purpose of a "light" weapon......

We already put all kinds of shit on a weapon, why add more?
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imagine tring to reload that bitch. Or even better when you IMT and it explodes all of your ammo out of the bottom
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Re: 150 Rd Drum for M4

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Rangerguru wrote:Anything that holds bullets, costs $650 and doesn't have it's own trigger and firing pin is a waste of money.

And THAT is the most profound comment yet....

and then....
Plus it kinda of defetes the purpose of a "light" weapon......
Yep. 8) With all the shit they put on em now, they are starting to look like those fat water guns with multiple water tanks on em...
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Some 3 Gun competition shooters use them. Even when they're babied and used under ideal circumstances, they can still have reliability issues.

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Re: 150 Rd Drum for M4

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There was another contractor I worked with a few years back with too much money on his hands that bought one. Made no sense to me since we had plenty of SAW's to go around. Took it to the range and soon found out it was junk.
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