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05-03-2016, 12:24 PM
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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.
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05-03-2016, 07:50 PM
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Honestly, I had never given it a thought. When I went in...64....we had the
M14...which I loved! The ideas of the en bloc problems make sense.....actually, I've only fired a M1 a couple of times.As to the 'ping' we taped down most of the battle rattle. Dan
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05-04-2016, 04:44 PM
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Rapier,
My old history teacher told me that every squad went foraging for empty Garand clips in the Bastonge perimeter in December 1944. Naturally, clips were everywhere; in snow drifts, on the street, in bunkers, and everywhere else empty clips landed before a GI reloaded his Garand. The clips were wiped off with a rag, checked for damage and then reloaded from machine gun belts. I asked Mr. Hepp about the Garand empty clip "Ping" advising the enemy to attack. He laughed and said, "The battlefield is a very noisy place. If my M1 went "Ping", neither of my squad member's M1s to my immediate left or right did so, so why would a Kraut, (Or Jap, depending on the "ping" story teller's location) run up to me?" The Garand Rifle was the LAST time Mannlicher's Clip went into service and off to war. A piece of history, but I believe it was the wrong solution for a much better rifle. Again, I lament it is too bad John Browning was not alive to assist. Adam
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