Thanks for the correction, Megan, I didn't have access to references at the time and the drum feed fooled me. Very impressed by the quality of steels and engineering, also the fact that it was, or appeared to be, a simple blow=back design firing from an open breech. On a different topic, and from somewhere earlier in the thread I noticed a quote from someone that an mg "should be able to be carried & fired by one man". I knew an armorer who tried the experiment, in Korea, of firing a .50 cal "from the hip", braced on sandbags, held down with all his weight. Luckily he only put three rounds in the links. First round somewhere near the target, second at 45 deg elevation, third vertically upwards, armorer flat on his back.