Chapter 47 - The M79 in the movies (Patreon)

Seeing Andrea and Amy weren’t done yet, I looked around a bit more hoping to find something good and hit the jackpot. A suppressor and now a thumper, of all things?! Maybe Q was throwing me a bone. A thumper was the nickname many of brethren called the M79 40mm grenade launcher, a single shot, shoulder fired, break-action low recoil weapon system first introduced during Vietnam and seen in such movies as Terminator 2. It could fire a number of grenade types, including high explosive, anti-personnel, smoke, buckshot, flechette and illumination.

It looked brand fucking new, despite it probably being older than me, not even a nick on the glossy brown wood of the stock. I suspected this thing had sat in a dusty wooden crate at the back of some forgotten, just-in-case Reserve or Georgia National Guard armory and had come into service only because of the apocalypse, because why the fuck not. It was single shot, which meant a slow rate of fire and an inability to keep up a constant volume of fire during a firefight, which eventually saw it replaced by underbarrel grenade launchers like the M203 and other dedicated grenade launchers with high-capacity magazines.

I opened the breach and found an explosive round. An anti-personnel round would have probably been more useful, but beggars couldn’t be choosers.