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How right you are. If you have ever reloaded a Garand clip while sitting under a tree in the shade, in the warmth of a spring day, just imagine the coldest winter in 50 years in Belgium or the winter in Korea when all you had were MG belts to refresh your rifle ammo, not to mention the Plingggg from the empty clip. Telling everyone around you were empty. Plus not being able to reload that clip without unloading the rifle. The original Garand based M-1A1 proved that the box mag could have been done easily. They made a bunch of the conversions at Raritan Arsenal when I lived across the street, before the M-14 and before Vietnam.
Ed
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