Rambo Year One Vol. III: Point of No Return by Wallace Lee - HTML preview

 

M79 grenade launcher, A.K.A 'blooper'. 

The M79 was supposed to let a soldier launch grenades both with extreme accuracy and at a very long range.

The M79 was however, as heavy and cumbersome as a standard rifle, and since it could only fire grenades, it couldn’t be used at close range or for self-defence.

Thus the army created a special grenade shooting buckshot ammo (like hunting shotguns use), but even then, a soldier with an M79 often had to use his 1911 in the most dangerous of moments.

That was therefore, the main reason why the Baker teams hardly ever used it.