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Old 03-17-2006, 13:02   #34
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Originally Posted by sf11b_p
Holy crap! That's some fierce looking hardware, must have been a heavy load with the ammo cans for those old UH1s.

That's some pretty good deck reinforcement for the pedestal too.
As I recall there were a few mounting prob's with the .50, lots of recoil needed to be absorbed somewhere, several plate config's were used.

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