{"id":5734,"date":"2012-10-15T12:24:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T12:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/15\/the-pig-m60-in-theory-and-on-the-range\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:33:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:33:36","slug":"the-pig-m60-in-theory-and-on-the-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/15\/the-pig-m60-in-theory-and-on-the-range\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pig: M60 in Theory and on the Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BNVegwmZiQM?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The M60 light machine gun is something of a contentious subject. Many veterans who used it in combat in Vietnam remember it very fondly despite its design defects, while many more recent users detest it. I think I know why &#8211; because many of the M60s flaws were related to its long-term durability, so that newly made guns in the 1960s performed well, and the problems didn&#8217;t start to crop up until the guns had seen years or decades of hard service.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, today we&#8217;re taking a look at a modern updated M60E3 at the range, courtesy of Scott at Hydro Print Services. He also shows us how to properly shoot it, after I demonstrate my impressive inability to hit the targets. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons The M60 light machine gun is something of a contentious subject. Many veterans who used it in combat in Vietnam remember it very fondly despite its design defects, while many more recent users detest it. I think I know why &#8211; because many of the M60s flaws were related to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/15\/the-pig-m60-in-theory-and-on-the-range\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pig: M60 in Theory and on the Range<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15945,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions\/15945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}