BAR Question

[NOTABIKER]

As years pass sometimes our memory fails us I was in viet Nam 4-68 4-69. We never used the BAR but i definitely saw ARVIN troops training with them. Am i mistaken or did some BARs have a tulip type end on the barrel ?. I was watching Gun Stories [ my favorite gun show ] And it was about the model 1919 machine gun. I did see some 1919s had a tulip end on the barrel. Maybe what i saw was soldiers humping 1919s to the firing range not a BAR..I did a search and found no BAR with the tulip end of the barrel.

[highpower]

What's a "tulip"? Do you mean a cone shaped flash hider? I know they have them for the 1919-A6, but I have never seen one on a BAR.

[jl7422]

There was a late model BAR flash-hider that was a pronged model much like, if not exactly like, the ones used on M-14's. Said to make the BAR "sing".

[smle-man]

There was a late model BAR flash-hider that was a pronged model much like, if not exactly like, the ones used on M-14's. Said to make the BAR "sing".

More like the T37 flash hider for the M1D.

[M1A Rifleman]

Sort of a hi jack, but did the bolt hold open on the last round or close on an empty chamber.

[NOTABIKER]

It looked like the flash hider on the British jungle carbine.

[highpower]

Like this?

[B Gardner]

This is the one that came with my BAR.

[jl7422]

The one above was the one I was thinking of--

[MET1]

Sort of a hi jack, but did the bolt hold open on the last round or close on an empty chamber.

It will close on an empty chamber after the last round is fired.

[peppermintman]

Sort of a hi jack, but did the bolt hold open on the last round or close on an empty chamber.

Cummon man!

[knucklehead0202]

A loudener! U.S. BAR's didn't have this type of flashhider but the Belgian and Egyptian ones did. They were chambered in 30-06, .308, and 8mm. Other countries used them as well, although not sure about the megaphone flash hiders. For sure the Belgian BAR type D had it though. Most of these also incorporated a pistol grip in the stock.

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