Talk:M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun

Title
I believe the title is not correct, it should read "Colt Model 1895 machine gun". Koalorka (talk) 13:10, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

=Mechanism= The 1895's odd flapper-type gas system had the advantage of no long gas piston/cylinder to foul. If the hole in the barrel clogged, it was instantly accessible. This made it one of the more reliable early guns--something very necessary to sell to reluctant governments at that time.70.176.118.196 (talk) 15:20, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

=Cyclic Rate?= Is 450 rounds per minute right for the M1895? In the movie Rough Riders, with Tom Berenger, the Colt seems to be firing  faster than the captured Maxim gun, which I know had a cyclic rate of 666 RPM.70.176.118.196 (talk) 15:20, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Postwar use
With regard to the weapon's use post World War I, I was astonished to find, one day on my travels through the internet, a photograph which showed a World War II-era Italian soldier (complete with distinctive helmet) pointing an ol' tripod-mounted "potato digger" skyward. Now, I know the Italians had a difficult time producing decent machine guns of their own, but yikes!--172.190.43.232 (talk) 06:19, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Photograph
The "US Army operator" in the 2nd photo is Julian S. Hatcher. The photo is also found in his book, "Hatcher's Notebook" — Preceding unsigned comment added by DRNewcomb (talk • contribs) 21:51, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

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Continuous fire
Despite these improvements, the Marlin was limited to 500 rounds of continuous fire due to a tendency to overheat.

Pray tell, which alternative air cooled machine guns can fire more than 500 rounds of continuous fire without overheating? In fact, I doubt there are any who can even reach 500 rounds continuous without overheating. Perhaps the editor means sustained fire? Continuous means what it says, 500 rounds in a single burst. A typical air cooled gun can do maybe 100 rounds continuous, provided you then wait a minute before proceeding, and you limit yourself to short bursts with cool down periods in between (125 rpm average for long term fire). More typical is to just use 5-20 round bursts, with five-ten second cool downs. The only guns that can fire off belts of 500 rounds are water cooled guns, any air cooled gun will be red hot by the 250 round mark.

64.223.210.244 (talk) 15:02, 26 October 2021 (UTC)