The guns of Rambo

[ilikegunspdx]

Skip to 3:50 mark. I remember the "survival knife" craze after this movie. Also I think the m60 was more widely recognized/known after this movie.

View: https://youtu.be/a0BwRjjL_Jc?si=ttpcp0WgmCtmH2s1

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[oldizz]

All are great. Hard to pick a favorite. The newer ones had a bit more gore if you will. Rambo (2008) was pretty graphic compared to the originals. I like the IMFDB webpage for referencing a lot of movie firearms and weaponry. Fun stuff!
https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/First_Blood

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Neat video...thank you.

While I enjoy the original novel....the movie ( as noted in the above video ) is different in tone and some key elements ....
These changes...do not endear the movie to me.
That said...it is a fun watch.
Andy

 

[Mark W.]

Jimmy Lile made the Rambo knife. A very nice man very quiet and had the softest hands of any other knifemaker I ever shook hands with. He made me think of a Old country doctor. He was one of the four who signed my recommenders sheet when I joined the Knifemakers Guild. I kind of think he while being very happy about what happened with his business after the movie was a little embarrassed by all of the attention.

 

[Martini_Up]

At the end of video it claims 14 M16's and 11 AR15 were stolen from the production company. I guess since this was pre-86, MG's were close to a dime a dozen so nobody thought much of it…. Wait, wasn't that movie filmed in Canada? (Queue sinister music)

 

[Buddy1211]

I'm gonna be honest, I thought when I clicked here it was gonna be a lord or war reference…

 

[titsonritz]

View: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/bBzegGh7WmU

 

[titsonritz]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Daez4VnB_1Q

 

[wired]

At the end of video it claims 14 M16's and 11 AR15 were stolen from the production company. I guess since this was pre-86, MG's were close to a dime a dozen so nobody thought much of it…. Wait, wasn't that movie filmed in Canada? (Queue sinister music)

Yep. Canada was a different place back then. Most of the guns were recovered. I used to know a guy who claimed to have one who later went to prison on unrelated weapons, also MG, charges so it wouldnt surprise me one bit if he was telling the truth. You meet all kinds in the gun biz.

 

[Ben B.]

Col Troutman of the novel acted like an SF officer. Richard Crenna's Col Troutman character was a whiny BS'er dressed up in a green beanie.

 

[titsonritz]

Col Troutman of the novel acted like an SF officer. Richard Crenna's Col Troutman character was a whiny BS'er dressed up in a green beanie.

He also blew Rambo's head off but then there wouldn't have been a dozen First Blood movies.

 

[jordanvraptor]

So when I went through Army National Guard Infantry MOS training there was a shortage of linked 5.56 ammo due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. So I got to do all my machine gun training with the old M60 of First Blood and Hamburger Hill fame. It was very cool. Yes, one of our guys did put the gas tube in backwards and created a very heavy bolt action rifle... Fun fact, I've never fired the M249 SAW, not even with blanks... Fired the M240, M2, even the German MG-3 and G36 but never fired a SAW...

 

[wired]

So when I went through Army National Guard Infantry MOS training there was a shortage of linked 5.56 ammo due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. So I got to do all my machine gun training with the old M60 of First Blood and Hamburger Hill fame. It was very cool. Yes, one of our guys did put the gas tube in backwards and created a very heavy bolt action rifle... Fun fact, I've never fired the M249 SAW, not even with blanks... Fired the M240, M2, even the German MG-3 and G36 but never fired a SAW...

Oh yes, the fun of being the M60 gunner and having to carry that wonderful piece of equipment for 25 miles on marches.

 

[jordanvraptor]

Oh yes, the fun of being the M60 gunner and having to carry that wonderful piece of equipment for 25 miles on marches.

Fortunately I was always on Humvees or 5 tons. If we were more than 50 yards from our vehicles, we were having a very bad day….

 

[wired]

Fortunately I was always on Humvees or 5 tons. If we were more than 50 yards from our vehicles, we were having a very bad day….

I had a commander who really wanted to be infantry.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Vehicles....
I saw those.......from a distance....

Walked , crawled , and hid everywhere when doing my job as LRRP / LRSD .
Damn little use for vehicles....Helicopters...now...I do like those.

Never did care for the M249 SAW....
Not enough "punch" as the M60.

Plus I remember the early models with the dumbazz , noisy , plastic box magazine....
Would rattle so much it sounded like a skeleton tap dancing on a tin roof...
And when the weak azz clip would break.....the LOUD sound of the drum sliding down the linked ammo....
Was wonderful to behold....
Not to forget to mention ...the drum magazine having the genius to find every damn rock and branch in your AO ...
It also made a wonderful sound when hitting those.....

Glad they came up with the smaller canvas box magazine.

Andy

 

[zkirby77]

I had the RAMBO M-60 toy as a kid. Was my prized possession for many years. Was belt fed with a bipod and everything… they just don't make them like they used too.

 

[bcp]

One day with an M60 on a rifle range in S Korea, after a bit of full auto, spent an hour or so in semi-auto "sniping," trying to hit small white rocks on a green hillside at maybe 5-700 yards range, while prone with bipod.

Really made me think a very heavy full-power semi-auto rifle would be fun (near a vehicle)

Bruce

 

[RVTECH]

A guy I know on the beach on the Southern end of the Island Of Sicily with a M-60 and a member of the Italian Caribinieri .....

 

[wired]

One day with an M60 on a rifle range in S Korea, after a bit of full auto, spent an hour or so in semi-auto "sniping," trying to hit small white rocks on a green hillside at maybe 5-700 yards range, while prone with bipod.

Really made me think a very heavy full-power semi-auto rifle would be fun (near a vehicle)

Bruce

Its the carrying said M60 on a 20 mile ruck march that always made me love them with all my heart.