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M151 Series MG Mount
Looking for a MG Mount to go on my M151A2 for a display/dewat. Hoping someone here in Canada might have one for sale. Thank you. Rob
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M151a2 mg
In my experience with '74 Jeeps, there was not standard machine gun mount - at least for Canadian vehicles. The M38A1 '67 and '70 Jeeps did have a 7.62 GPMG on the right side wall for the crew commander/passenger. But the in-service roll cage completely interfered with that site for the base.
That said, there was an experiment to try a similar mount on the 74, as I think Rob Love originally posted. Trials do not equal acceptance. This is the caption I saved for the attached photo (not my original), 'M151A2 CDN 74-09464 imagined GPMG mount from MLU 1'
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The CFTO for the installation of the GPMG mount into the M38A1 vehicles mentioned that the mount was tried on the M151A2, but the skin was too thin to support the mount. There is even a photo that has an M151A2, presumably at LETE, with that mount installed.
The M151A2 series usually seemed to be more of an administration vehicle, which really was all a soft skin vehicle should be. We did have the TOW system in a small amount of them, but really that was it. I have not seen a CFTO on installation of anything bigger than a rifle or SMG mount onto these vehicles. (with the exception of the TOW for the airborne). |
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The only mounts I have ever seen on M151 mutt are typically for the M60 as used on in service vehicles in Vietnam. Of course trucks without ROPS.
I think that’s the only accurate portrayal of a gpmg in service with the mutt.
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Within the Installation Instruction there is also the Note: This kit has been tried on the M151, 1/4-Ton Truck and found to be unsatisfactory without substantial additional vehicle modification. |
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Rob D., if you can wait for a couple months I’ll do some checking for you when I’m down in the US to see what guys have done on theirs.
I am attending two of the largest MV events there, one in CA in the next couple weeks and the other in OH in May.
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3RD Echelon Wksp 1968 M274A5 Mule Baifield USMC 1966 M274A2 Mule BMY USMC 1958 M274 Mule Willys US Army 1970 M38A1 CDN3 70-08715 1 CSR 1981 MANAC 3/4T CDN trailer 1943 Converto Airborne Trailer 1983 M1009 CUCV RT-524, PRC-77s, and trucks and stuff and more stuff and and....... OMVA, MVPA, G503, Steel Soldiers |
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Hi All thank you for the responses. I should have specified from the beginning, the mount I am looking for is an American one. More specifically it is an M151 mount, goes between and just behind the driver and front passenger. Many are available in the USA but cannot be imported here due to ITAR restrictions. So if anyone has one or knows how to get one here legally I would appreciate that. Thank you. Rob
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