M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle

The murders of the criminals and the farmer's crippled son were similar too, just not in the way that was so obvious.

See, deputies up in Harper County determined pretty quickly that the criminals had been shot with a Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, due to the rimless bottlenecked .30-06 casings.

Not many fully automatic rifles used this cartridge, and the ejector marks reflected the bar's very particular gas-operated long-stroke piston design.

Now, while there were no shell casings at the site of the crippled boy's murder, the two bullet wounds he'd sustained were almost certainly a match for a high-powered rifle being fired point-blank.

The murders of the criminals and the farmer's crippled son were similar too, just not in the way that was so obvious.

See, deputies up in Harper County determined pretty quickly that the criminals had been shot with a Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, due to the rimless bottlenecked .30-06 casings.

Not many fully automatic rifles used this cartridge, and the ejector marks reflected the bar's very particular gas-operated long-stroke piston design.

Now, while there were no shell casings at the site of the crippled boy's murder, the two bullet wounds he'd sustained were almost certainly a match for a high-powered rifle being fired point-blank.

The murders of the criminals and the farmer's crippled son were similar too, just not in the way that was so obvious.

See, deputies up in Harper County determined pretty quickly that the criminals had been shot with a Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, due to the rimless bottlenecked .30-06 casings.

Not many fully automatic rifles used this cartridge, and the ejector marks reflected the bar's very particular gas-operated long-stroke piston design.

Now, while there were no shell casings at the site of the crippled boy's murder, the two bullet wounds he'd sustained were almost certainly a match for a high-powered rifle being fired point-blank.

We all know of the corrosive nature of those friendly fire incidences and the additional control measures that need to be put in place to avoid those kinds of incidences.

As far as weapons go, it's stated that the BAR, the Browning Automatic Rifle, was significantly better than the light machine gun, and hand grenades, shotguns, and rifle grenades were the principal weapons for close quarters jungle fighting.

Artillery in jungle, in particularly steep jungle, high angle fire is essential.

Combat proved that high angle artillery fire is absolutely necessary in rugged mountainous jungle terrain.

And I told, told the new recruits, I had two new recruits with me.

One, uh, was a BAR man, the other one was a scout.

Uh, and they joined my group, my group.

I told the guys, I said, "When you get off," I says, "get off on the left side.

My scout's job was to locate them first.

And so I gave him a person- a job, then he did it, naturally, and I knew that he would've done it, so I didn't...

My BAR man, uh, was the same way on it.

I gave him a job to do, he did it, and he did it right, and he was the best BAR man, I'd say, in the 21st Marine.

They also trained with the .45 Thompson machine gun, known as the Gangster's Tommy Gun, which could fire 700 rounds a minute and fired in a semi or fully automatic mode.

Then there was the BAR, the Badass Rifle, its proper name, the Browning Automatic Rifle, the only problem being that its 20-round round box needed constant changing.

The BAR was the favorite of Clyde Barrow, Bonnie and Clyde fame, if memory serves me right.

Colonel Frederick gave them all the ammo and all the practice time they wanted on weekends.