Just remembered the only time I fired off large bursts.
The trigger group retaining pin clip went missing so, naturally, the pin was free to slide out and trigger group fall off (not my fault, all the M60s in the battalion where recalled by the local armourer the following day and completely overhauled - our unit armourer was utterly incompetent).
We had an attack planned later that day (we using blanks, while Vickers fired live rounds about ten metres over us on fixed lines as "battlefield simulation"), and of course as one of the three machinegunners in the attacking platoon, I couldn't exactly go in unarmed.
So, twenty round belts were prepared and when I needed to fire, it was a case of load, pull back the cocking handle and...
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