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There’s just something about belt-fed weapons that holds people’s fascination that other weapons don’t. Maybe it’s the image of exposed links of ammunition that cast no doubt about what these devices are fed. Whether it be the cloth belts of the Vickers, or belts of 7.62mm slung around the necks of M60 gunners in Vietnam, we’ve grown up with images of what we think machine guns are supposed to look like. And they all have belts. Seeing a seemingly unending belt of ammunition hanging from a feed port of a machine gun has the intimidation factor that magazine fed rifles don’t. Belt feds look like they’re just waiting to unleash hell.

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During the factory tour, I took a look at some of the weapons we’d be shooting the next day at the range. Vltor has an extensive weapons library/collection, both for the fun of shooting, and also for research and product development. Recently, they purchased pretty much the entire line of FN weapons, so it was good timing for me to visit. I got the chance to shoot weapons that most civilians would never have the chance to.

On Saturday morning, Eric and I met the fellows at Vltor, and loaded up a large enclosed trailer (complete with tables inside), with all sorts of machine guns, spare barrels, and can upon can of ammunition. Vltor doesn’t have gun safes – they have walk-in gun vaults/rooms. I don’t think I’ve ever had as much fun loading up weapons for a shoot. I was thinking to myself, “Wow, I’m carrying a Mk46 in my left hand and a Mk48 in the right. This is SO cool.”

Note: I’m not going to go deep into the technical details and descriptions of each weapon featured here simply because I’m not intimately familiar with them; I’d only be parroting what information I found. I’ll provide additional links that I find relevant, for further reading and information. I’m writing from a weapons enthusiast/layman’s point of view with limited (or no) experience with some of these weapons when I share my impressions of shooting these weapons.

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Back in November, I spent a weekend at Vltor Weapon Systems/Abrams Airborne Manufacturing Inc., in Tucson, Arizona. I’ve known Eric Kincel, general manager for Vltor, ever since Vltor introduced their modstocks to the market a few years ago when I became one of their first customers. Vltor was started by Eric and investors in Idaho, and Vltor was bought by Abrams Airborne in 2005 and moved operations to Tucson, AZ. Abrams is a designer, manufacturer and fabricator of all kinds of commercial, military and aerospace products, with almost every manufacturing process available in-house, including CNC machining, sheet metal bending and stamping, welding, dip brazing, bonding, metal finishing…the list goes on. With all these resources available to Vltor, Vltor has been able to greatly expand its product line and capabilites.

Eric’s a genuine ‘good guy’ and in my personal opinion, currently one of the most innovative and knowledgeable weapons designers in the industry. He draws from his passion for the study of firearms technology and history, and years in the firearms industry, some of them spent as a writer for Gun World magazine, and designer/product developer at Knight’s Manufacturing Company and has worked with Reed Knight and Eugene Stoner. Vltor’s designs are ones that I can get genuinely excited about, and I’m always bugging Eric to let me in on what’s new on the drawing board. Ever since Vltor moved to Tucson, Eric has extended an open invitation to me to ‘come on out and shoot’, and I finally had the time to take him up on his offer in November.

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We’re all familiar with the results of Water Transfer printing – the process is in use all around us on many common items. Hunters use it on their mossy oak or woodland-coloured shotguns and ATVs; it’s used to put faux woodgrain and carbon fiber on car parts, graphics on cell phones etc. Water Transfer printing is essentially a process that transfers an ink pattern onto a 3D surface/object. There are some limitations to the process of course, depending on the material and complexity of the item.

Here’s the Water Transfer process in a nutshell. Before dipping, the item must be prepped, similar to prepping for painting. The surface must be completely clean and free from oils, and sometimes a chemical etch is used. A primer or base coat is applied if necessary, often using one of the base colours (the lightest) in the pattern.

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The Rollypoly is now available in Army UCP (Universal Camo Pattern) to match current issue gear.

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Shown below are some more ITW Ghillietex plastic hardware, both in tan and foliage green. Relatively new is the Web Dominator Clip to help with strap management. It installs onto 1″ webbing, and has an elastic shock cord keeper. The loose end of the strap is rolled up and the keeper stretched over it. It’s simple and quick to use and keeps those loose straps tidy. Contact your regular ITW hardware dealers for availability.

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Hotlinking and plagiarism have always been the bane of a free internet, and given the quality and detail of MM’s reviews and photography, I knew there would be situations where unscrupulous or ignorant people would take MM’s pictures and even whole reviews and paste them elsewhere, including selling products on eBay.

What I didn’t anticipate, and very much appreciate, is how many of MM’s visitors and circle of friends continue to look out for him. Every time when MM tells me how someone alerts him to plagiarism, image theft or hotlinking, I appreciate the person who is helping my husband protect his intellectual property and honoring the time he had spent in this labor of love.

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I’ve received quite a few emails inquiring about the standard Safariland 6004 for a Kimber Warrior/TLE/RL with Surefire X200 that I modified to single strap use.

The only reason I wear a drop holster is to clear my vest as my torso’s too short to have any clearance between a belt holster and the bottom of any vest I wear. I dislike having a drop holster sit all the way down on the thigh especially when running or moving around – the lower down they’re mounted, the more flopping there is.

I’m not the first to modify my 6004 this way, others have done it, and in fact I was inspired by my buddy Diz, after seeing pics of what he did to his. Trimming the thigh panel to convert the 6004 to single-strap use isn’t absolutely necessary – you can remove the upper strap and just wear it higher. However, it’s not as comfortable as having the corners trimmed, so that’s what I did.

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