[JohnS]

I bought several belts for my MM23E K .308 kit. They seem to work for the most part but I did have a few jams with the .308. I've read several people's posts about how easy the belts were to load. I would like to disagree. After a couple of hundred rounds my thumb gets pretty sore. The .308 belt loaders seem to have dried up.

I have linked up quite a bit of .223 now. I like that you can just chunk any link that doesn't look quite right.

I'm going to buy a linker soon. I'm leaning towards buying one for M13 links and selling my belts. Any reason not to? Are the DM6 links that much better than the M13 links?

Thanks

 

[JTinIN]

Why not get a box of M13 links and give them a try before selling the belt?
M13 Links for 1919 M60 FN 240, RTG Gun Parts
http://www.hkpro.com/forum/hk-nfa-talk/124291-mm23e-strip-tease.html (more possible supplies of links)

I have a linker that does M27 links, Browning Machinegun Links and with a third plate will do M13 links.
http://www.hkpro.com/forum/hk-nfa-talk/144057-wtk-who-makes-556-linker.html (which you are part of the thread ;-)

 

[mwarnick1]

Picking up 100-200 links sucks compared to picking up 1-2 belts.

 

[Harris51]

Nope!

Buy links, then buy pickup magnet then buy metal bucket.... Plastic buckets don't last around me and hot barrels.

 

[rhouston8]

Nope!

Plastic buckets don't last around me and hot barrels.

Ain' t that the truth...wish I had taken a photo of that MM23E barrel burning it's way thru that Home Depot bucket you had. Hah!

-Houston

 

[Shattered Mind]

Picking up 100-200 links sucks compared to picking up 1-2 belts.

This...

same reason I absolutely, positively, refuse to use links in my Browning.

 

[JTinIN]

This...

same reason I absolutely, positively, refuse to use links in my Browning.

Picking up links is what kids are for ;-)

 

[farmallsh]

Links suck, belts rule, get a loader. Loading belts is almost as fun as shooting the damn guns!!

 

[Harris51]

"Loading belts is almost as fun as shooting the damn guns!!"

Dude!

I suspect you are doing something wrong!

Loading belts is almost as fun as getting shot at....perhaps!

At the risk of making an overly broad statement, nothing is more fun to load than shoot. But I am a guy, and foreplay was never my strong suit.

 

[Gawker]

^^winner^^

 

[farmallsh]

"Loading belts is almost as fun as shooting the damn guns!!"

Dude!

I suspect you are doing something wrong!

Loading belts is almost as fun as getting shot at....perhaps!

At the risk of making an overly broad statement, nothing is more fun to load than shoot. But I am a guy, and foreplay was never my strong suit.

LOL. no, when you own as many belt fed machine guns as we do the different belt loading types get interesting. Matter of fact at all the machine gun shoots we get more comments and pictures on the belt loading proccess than the actual shooting of the guns. Our favorite is the Russian PKM loader over the German MG3/HK21 and MG42. You just know they used a captured Nazi to design it! Wish they made one for the RPD but that is a hand loading process right now

 

[farmallsh]

^^winner^^

Really???

 

[Gawker]

No doubt you've got a great collection dude but I can't imagine loading being more fun than UNloading

 

[farmallsh]

LOL, buy a beltfed they are fun......... till they blow up.....thats another story

 

[Shattered Mind]

No doubt you've got a great collection dude but I can't imagine loading being more fun than UNloading

Yeah... it can get interesting. Picture a bench in the garage with a belt loader bolted down, 4 or 5 buddies over, a grill, food, and a case of beer. The tall tales fly, the lies get wilder, and we can drink without worrying about getting shot... or shooting someone. Just missing a stripper pole, and some chickza...

 

[farmallsh]

Yeah... it can get interesting. Picture a bench in the garage with a belt loader bolted down, 4 or 5 buddies over, a grill, food, and a case of beer. The tall tales fly, the lies get wilder, and we can drink without worrying about getting shot... or shooting someone. Just missing a stripper pole, and some chickza...

AHHHH, The greatness of the BELT LOADING PARTY!!! lol We have those too

 

[JTinIN]

That is what I am doing wrong, always loading belts or links at 2AM the night before shooting ....

 

[Harris51]

MM23e $12000
HK Sear $12000
1000 links $25
Linker $200

Teaching your Mexican landscaper to link a 1000 rds an hour for $10/hr.................... PRICELESS

 

[JTinIN]

MM23e $12000
HK Sear $12000
1000 links $25
Linker $200

Teaching your Mexican landscaper to link a 1000 rds an hour for $10/hr.................... PRICELESS

Visa to charge a lawn mower when the landscaper is arrested with a MM23eK and sear in his truck ;-)