Where Do The Browning M2 Collectors Hang Out???

[sheepherder]

I have a manual put out by the US Navy in WW II detailing the assembly/disassembly/maintenance of the Browning M2 Machine Gun Aircraft Basic, and I'd like it to go to a good home...

...But I have no idea where the NFA boyz hang out...

Anyone here a member of a site or Forum where M2 owners can be found???

Thank You!

[hgreer2]

I have a good friend who has one, PM me the price you're asking and I will forward it to him.

Thanks,
Harry

[alanint]

My Friend Kevin Dockery is the repository of the largest manual collection I am aware of. Kevin is often seem on Discovery and History Channel gun related shows and he is also the unofficial historian for the Navy Seals.

Kevin would love to have this manual if he does not already posses it.

[sheepherder]

Thanks for the PMs. emails, and posts.

I've seen pics of the Knob Creek shoots, and was trying to find a forum or web site where the members of that particular community (MG collectors/shooters) congregated...

I could just post it on eBay or GB if all I was interested in was a high price...but this goes into detail and is written in a very user-friendly format, pretty much for the layman rather than a school-trained armorer...

My old unit [9th Motors/3rd Mar Div] had four M2 MGs w/tripod mounts; and about a quarter of our 5-ton trucks had the ring mount over the cab...but our armorer was 2nd echelon only; we never got into rebuilding them (I got stuck helping/relieving him quite often)...

[nukem556]

I think the M2 owners hang out a lot also in the Ferrrai Owners club sites

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by nukem556

I think the M2 owners hang out a lot also in the Ferrrai Owners club sites

Oddly enough, I am a member of the Ferrari Owners Club web site...

No...I don't own a Ferrari...Back in 2000 or so, I bought a copy of the short film "C'etait un Rendezvous" by Claude Lelouch, which is a short film of a car (originally believed to be Lelouch's Ferrari 275GTB) racing through the early morning streets of Paris [France], narrowly avoiding collisions, dogs, pedestrians, etc...great sounds...

Anyway, over the years (it was made in 1976), many have tried to emulate the drive and figure out how fast the car was going, and see if they could beat his time...

The Ferrari drivers over there have tried it, and have the maps of the streets laid out with the route highlighted...Great fun timing excerpts from the film and correlating it to the map and figuring out speeds...