Talk:Browning M1919

Additional Images

Browning M1919 - .30-06 Springfield

Browning M1919A1 - .30-06 Springfield

Browning M1919A4, early model with slotted barrel shroud - .30-06 Springfield

Browning M1919A6, post WWII manufacture - .30-06 Springfield

Browning M37, produced from 1955 to 1957 this was designed for fitting to armoured vehicles and was capable of being fed from either side of the weapon (this example has the bolt retracting bar removed) - .30-06 Springfield

C1 GPMG, Canadian variant based on the M1919A4E1 design - 7.62x51mm NATO

Twin mount Browning M1919 simlar on Patrol Boat River - .30-06

Stinger machine gun replica built by the Canadian Historical Arms Museum - .30-06 Springfield. This replica was built for the Canadian TV show The Weapon Hunter, and is currently stored at the Canadian Historical Arms Museum. The replica contains an ahistorical rear sight mounting bracket as the museum did not wish to permanently modify the Browning AN/M2 their replica was built on.

Screen-Used

Captain America: The First Avenger screen used resin stunt gun fitted with leather sling and forward grip and ammunition box.

Discussion

Splitting into sections?

Does anyone mind if I split this into the correct sections? By that I mean M1919A4, M1919A4E1/A5, M1919A6, AN/M2 (which is incorrectly on the Browning M2HB page right now), and M37 (if it is genuinely in anything, will find out when I sort them but from flicking through pages that use the image so far none have). --commando552 15:55, 17 May 2012 (CDT)

M1919A6

Was this version designed as a replacement for the BAR in the SAW role, or simply to be a more mobile GPMG along the lines of the MG42? Spartan198 (talk) 18:02, 9 August 2015 (EDT)

I always heard it did intend to replace or at least supplement the BAR as more of a SAW, though I understand in practice this didn't really end up being the case - Though they cut a bit of weight with the barrel for the most part it was still just the 1919A4 with a stock, bipod and carry handle added to it, as such it certainly wasn't light or mobile enough for such a role. With the bipod I suppose it did fill a bit more of a GPMG role, and was possibly used as such but I had long heard that many troops ended up doing away with the stock and bipod and continued to use it more as a crew-served medium MG on more fixed mounts (like the A4) and keeping the BAR, which they still saw as the only real one-man-operable squad automatic. StanTheMan (talk) 23:09, 9 August 2015 (EDT)