During my time with the Rhodesian Army, 2 (Independent) Company Rhodesia Regiment based in Kariba, we were issued two of these - an M2 HB and a water cooled one. Unfortunately, we were never issued an operating manual so nobody knew how to strip, clean and reassemble either of them. Luckily, I had a book titled "Infantry Weapons of the World". Using this book, we were able to strip, clean and reassemble the weapons without any problems.

J M Browning clearly was a genius.

I remember in tank school falling asleep in the commanders MG class and having to stand at port arms holding the receiver end of the M85 .50 cal MG for like 15 minutes. I thought my arms were going to fall off, LOL

Nice tutorial, I am in french Army and next week i will learn how to operate this weapon. I enjoyed to get my first lesson from a Marine.

Proud to have been issued an M1 Garand in boot camp and field stripped it blindfolded.

Hi from Ukraine ! I got this gun, really nice weapon btw - russian troops have no chance ;)

This was a great video. Remember that class well at the Basic School and at my first unit as a Doc with 5th Marines. Best weapon system ever created, that's why it has lasted the test of time.

Great weapon. Take cover, if your receiving 50 Cal fire. Semper Fi

Watching before my practical this week 💪🏽💪🏽 thank you

Last time I did this was over 40 years ago, man do I feel old.

Thank you so much for this video!

How could anyone dislike this?

I don't remember this being so complicated. 🤘🇺🇸

Nice Job., very detailed and correct.

That's a good guide

This is a amazing gun OOORAH!!!SEMPER FI!!!

This weapon was first used in 1918 a 104 year old design that can't be surpassed

Thanks for the video.

4:02 I know they have to show the "official" method in official videos like this, but in a field expedient situation when you don't have punches lying around is to take out the recoil spring and use the end of the guide rod to punch out that pin, it fits perfectly.

It’s Perfect

Awesome !!!!

Thanks for this video

So that's where that piece goes!

Skipped a couple steps but overall pretty good. Maybe memory is rusty or something got updated. A lot of good facts and knowledge in here. I remember the horror story told to us as recruits. Whole squad wiped out because their main gunner couldn't get the maw duce up n running. Taliban captured it n used it on our friendlies. Long time ago, but to my knowledge the weapon system hasn't changed. Main reason I still carry a leather man to this day. Never know when a tool will fail and you have to adapt n improvise. Granted, I was handed some used n abused garbage but it's still good knowledge.

Yeah I'm that guy hey Sarge I can't get my gun back together again lol

LOL first time breaking down a .50 back in 2005 while our NCOs were screaming at us was pretty eventful, seeing how all of these steps i remembered under stress is pretty impressive lol I could never do that now haha

Man I forgot a lot about the ole 50! Remember tearing em down all the way to the firing pin but don’t remember a lot of the step!😂 Old age I guess! I do remember that if it was cocked and you removed the back plate and tried to remove the spring under pressure, it just might go through your chest of face! 😮

more of that!

What song is this in the background? Its awesome and fits well while the Sgt dismantles the M2

Good

I can take this down in my sleep. Crew served weapons are 19K specialty. In the real world it can be disassembled and reassembled quickly. Go/Nogo head space and timing, United States Army Armor. Disabled Combat Veteran.

Sweet

This is so easy

You have to point the cocking lever backwards before putting the bolt group back inside

I just watched a video of a guy bitching that his new semi auto pistol had a slide pin he needed to remove to take it down . Four whole parts including that pin. This puts that into perspective.

Cool

once you opened up the operating group it looked a whole lot like my mossberg Maverick 88. Cool.

LOTS OF ❤FOR MA DUCE...KISSING BAD GUYS FOR A LONG TIME...GOOD VIDEO.THANK YOU.

this video: MGK after eminem's response

Nice Tutorial. Thanks

Civvy here. Thx for the info. Rah'

Headspace and timing was the real problem.

Just alittle comment, if your quick, and give the barrel a stroke backwards fast your dont have to move the charging handle to remove the barrel, just grab the barrel handle and push it backwards and turn it in one movement

Respect to the Marines that know this semper fi

Came here as a soldier who got stuck disassembling my weapon. Now we know we fucked that shit up

Now 11 years ago the barrels did not have the handles that automatically set to 2 clicks. In fact to qualify, you had to ensure you backed off exactly 2 clicks. I am sure there is a sergeant major now out of the instructors I had in 2010.

I'd like one of these for home defense please.

The business end moves at least 1.5 inches upward after a shot. This thing needs to be redesigned to where that doesn't happen.

When I was in the Army (31May '71 - 20 May '74) the barrel didn't have a QD capability...you screwed it in and out and set the headspace each time...

I love that belt feed air cooled crew served weapon AKA MADUCE rocks

Can we show pics on here. Because I want to show you what grind my gears with operators not doing pmcs on this system

Do 249 or 240 please

ممتاز كول زين

You can actually reload faster by pushing in the rounds through the side and charging the weapon twice, dont even have to open the feed tray cover

Is this called a barracks strip and not a field strip?

...so easy even a soldier can do it.

That was a strange order you did there, but you do you

Is there a part 2?

This dude hip pocket classes!

This video only shows the dissemble portion. Where can I find the assembly section?

Troops on Ukraine watching this video trying to learn how to disassemble the m2 they were given from America.

i was looking for eminem’s” killshot” when i looked up how to disassemble a machine gun

swedish must be pros with taking weapons apart and back together... you know with all that ikea stuff they build

"Ah that's pretty good."idubbs

My late brother, Tim brought home a .50 cal headspace & timing tool...he used to hang it from the rearview mirror of his AMC Spirit..I had it for the longest time until I moved in 2008...dunno what happened to it...hope whoever found it knew what it was and gave it a good home...if it somehow made its way to NYC it prolly wouldda started a major criminal investigation amonst those 'Maroons'

Easy

Holy smokes Batman.

Is it weird that I'm a kid that finds this stuff interesting

Please KPV.

Eminem disassembled a machine gun in 4 minutes

be fearful, im an armorer watching this vid, its the exact same thing as ur nerosurgon pulling up wiki how in the middle of surgery

Is the m2 and m2a1 the same?

This is Military intervention that Should not be Displayed over the Internet..God Bless The United State's Marine's and Military..🇺🇸🌏🌎🌍🇺🇸🙏🎀

overly dramatic music lol, but besides that, thanks for the demonstration.

'Merica🇺🇸

the aviation variant is so close but so different looking it bothers me it functionally is the same but this one just looks so different

school shooters: *WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN*

Сложное устройство, много деталей. Возможно такой найду этим летом. Говорил мне знакомый американские самолёты два, лежат в тайге с пулемётами.

I missed the reassemble part.

في مسمار تحت رجليك خد بالك, فاطمة بتقولك ومشكوووووور!!!

Complicated :D

I can complete all steps in thirty seconds

Reassembling that is more difficult part 😂

MarineNet Classes: "do not compromise OpSec." Marine Corps: *Compromises OpSec. Marine Net : "Am I a joke to you?"

Wait this isn't killshot.

Als your gonna do is call this guy to reassemble the gun you just fucked up 😂

Make a song called killshot

🇺🇸🦅🇮🇶

disassamblnig like duumies >_> all pieces in the same place and isn't ranged.

Sarge, you need more light or a larger lens opening on the camera for this video.

Whoever did the lacing on the side plate did a terrible job lol

Assemble????

H.s graduate the promise is to make 25k a year....I only been making ten k a year since 2010

Damn is all I’ve to say.

Even though I'm older than some here I just do not remember the .50 cal weight being 128 pounds, heck even though my grandkids keep an eye on my high school yearbook looking for pictures of "Jesus" it's been from the mid-'80s since my 6 years of active duty as "Doc" and for the life of me I just cannot remember the weight of the .50 being as much as that!!😉

Bolt Stud aka Jesus pen

I know he's not a 2111...

Too complicated

Either they didn't show it or he missed it but he still the entire receiver to disassemble

This is not the same 50 cal that I took apart extra steps I have to be tripping