🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Browning Machine Gun stamped piece

[PalmettoDigger27]

Interesting piece stamped

BROWNING
Machine Gun Belt
Model Of 1917

What the heck did I find?

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

It's a metal strip that was affixed to canvas machine gun belts (linked ammunition strips) so that the gunner could feed a new belt through the action to start the feed into the breech.

 

[PalmettoDigger27]

It's a metal strip that was affixed to canvas machine gun belts (linked ammunition strips) so that the gunner could feed a new belt through the action to start the feed into the breech.

Wow, I was strictly thinking about a part on the gun itself. What a surprise.