Anything metal and LMG has to be heavy. They tend to be monsters in size and built to last before you add big optics and stupid heavy putnick tracer suppressors then comes 3000 is rounds of .32 and a big battery.
I have a really pretty wooden hand guard LCT AKMS which is around 3.3/3.5kg which feels like a stick in comparison and with the RPK drum mag in shoots just as well as the RPK if not better but damm I love the RPK. It gets so many admiring glances and compliments until you hand it to someone and then they can’t wait to give it back.
What was the base M249? What are you planning to do with it?
The RPK's awesome. I've had one in mind for a while, but already have lots of guns, some unfinished.
My M249 is an A&K. It ate its gearbox within about 20 minutes, so it now has new gear set, motor, cylinder, cylinder head, piston, piston head, spring, basic mosfet, hop chamber, inner barrel.
I've put a short picatinny rail on the top cover to fit a Nautilus red dot, got Midwest Industries M-Lok handguard and DBAL light/laser to go on, but need to cut down the heatshield and make a mount to fit it behind the front sight post. Also need to wire up the auto-winding magazine to run off the motor.
So still a few bits to do.. then finish my 417 DMR, MP5K-PDW, G3-SG/1..
