Browning Gun

The Maxim Gun is one of the original self-powered machine guns, and was originally chambered in the .45 Gatling-Gardner caliber. The weapons mechanism uses energy from the initial recoil to eject each spent cartridge and insert the subsequent one in rapid succession. The Maxim also holds water around the barrel for self-cooling.

This design made it vastly more efficient and less intensive than previously successful Gatling gun. The Maxim gun is capable of firing approximately 600 rounds per minute. Mounted on a swiveling tripod, the weapon must remain stationary due to considerable recoil and obscene weight.

The weapon is referred to simply as a Browning in-game, and although access to prototypes is plausible six years prior to the US military adopting Browning's design as the M1917, the model depicted in Red Dead Redemption far more closely resembles a Maxim gun. The most obvious difference is the side from which the ammunition belt is fed. Browning's machine guns feed from left to right, while Maxim's, and the in-game model, feed from right to left. Alternate-side feed variants of Browning machine guns, for use in tanks and aircraft, were not produced until the 1930s.

In-Game
In Red Dead Redemption, the Maxim gun appears only as a mounted weapon on an early-model armored car (pickup truck), and as a mount on top of one of the Mexican safehouses (The one North West of El Matadero). Such a vehicle had only just been produced and used as recently as 1902, and was yet untested in military engagements.

Trivia

 * The weapon was invented and named after the American-born, British inventor Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884.
 * It is commonly mistaken it the Vickers Machine Gun, a famous variant of the Maxim machine gun used by British forces in WWI and WWII due to an arms shortage. Other Variants include the Maschienengewehr 01 + 08, used by the Germans in WWI, and by 2nd line troops in WWII, chambered for the 7.92x57 cartridge, the Skoda M1909, and was used by the Austro-Hungarians in WWI, and the Maxim Tokarev, which was used by the Russians and chambered for 7.62x54R cartridge.

Achievements
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