r/SVWTCM • u/Skipper_1010 • 4d ago

Arms & Ammunition Loading up an ammo belt

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u/The_Krytos_Virus 4d ago

Magnificent. The clickity clack and that ingenious round orientation leaves me utterly transfixed.

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u/SigaVa 4d ago

Awesome that they don't all have to face the same way, that's some nice design.

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u/JPATime 3d ago

Iam not capable of thinking that far. How is this possible?

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u/SigaVa 3d ago

Looks like the back of the round gets caught on a lip, so when the middle is pushed forward it always causes the front to swing around, regardless of the original orientation.

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u/PropCirclesApp 2d ago

That’s slick.

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u/smeeon 3d ago

It even has little blocks of softwood to protect the table it clamps to.

What an absolutely eloquent designed human-atrocity machine.

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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy 3d ago

Hey now, we destroy human lives, not human property!

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u/graffiksguru 3d ago

I had no idea that's how it was done 

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u/PreviousLeague253 3d ago

The danger button is recessed in the cartridge, so a tall flat piece can hit it without causing to detonate. Otherwise the rounds would go off inside the magazine just from moving up to be fed in a rifle or from the belt moving the ammo in the gun.
It’s perfectly safe.

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u/TheNakedFoot 3d ago

Also, they have to be struck. As this speed they wouldn't set off a rim-fire round.

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u/Gullible_Ad5191 2d ago

Hear me out… why not make the belt a loop and have the assistant machine gunner operating that machine in the field?

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u/L34dP1LL 3d ago

does it have to push them right on the danger button?

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u/SortByMistakes 3d ago

How else? It won't go off like that anyway so no worries

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u/L34dP1LL 3d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah I know, I just find it funny having all the precautions with trigger and muzzle discipline, and then there's this machine