Oh yeah. Ma Deuce is my friend. Never fired any of the .50 BMG rifles, more's the pity. Most of my really long range shooting was dome with slightly larger stuff: TOW missiles, tank cannon, that sort of thing.

We are, by the way, creeping up on the M2's centenary in US service. 2023, I think. The small-arms boffins at Picatinny keep trying to build something that does the same things at a lighter weight, but they can't match the reliability