The Cavitation Effect - Vickers Heavy Machine Gun
It was a race against time, would the British reach the German lines before they could man their guns? The answer came quickly, the Germans got to their machine guns, opened fire, and all hell was let loose on the battlefield. Soon no man’s land was strewn with dead and wounded men. Many had advanced only a few yards, entire battalions were destroyed in just a few short minutes.
The weapons that devastated the British troops that morning included the machine gun. The German Maschinengewehr 08 could fire up to 400 rounds per minute from covered defensive positions. The MG08, like most machine guns of the time, was derived from the British-built Maxim gun of the 1880s, a fast recoil-operated machine gun. The fully automatic heavy machine gun allowed a single soldier to put down a murderous spread of fire.
But how powerful were these guns, and what were they like to fire? We travel to Bisley Shooting Ground to test the legendary Vickers machine gun and find out.
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.303 bullets (not the Mark VII, anyway) do not "mushroom! They tumble inside the victim and come out backwards (like most other rifle bullets do). The .303 has lighter packing in the nose under the coper jacket to help it tumble. Some war production rounds used wood pulp for this.
Brilliant, love this.
A bit of information look up where Hirum Maxim came from, the Yanks didn't want his gun so he went to Europe there by giving Germany the MG. The Poms look the Maxim gun and came up with the Vickers. So if people are going to throw blame look to the Yanks
Should have put the clay at 100 yds as the damage done at point blank range is realistic
its pointless getting killed
4:55 "Hobbycraft" ["Hobby Lobby" for Americans] did well that day!
Looks like ex-Greek ammo. Good stuff that, eh?
Archie duke should not have been shot for an ostrich even if he was hungry
Sad to see anyone giddy about this shit. Never been in a fight for his life. Host is a tourist.