458 magnum on a garand base

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My shoulder hurts just looking at it.

I despise Garand's in the first place. :cens:......Paul H

I guess eventually any savvy surviving quarry would learn to listen for the tell tale "ping", of an empty Garand, & then charge, or break cover & run like hell !.

Uncle said they carried empty clips to ping away between their fingers. Confused the enemy . . . . . .

RJ

That, RJ is something I didn't know, among an awful lot of other things.

The distinctive ping of the clip ejecting is one of those stories that is untruthful. A trained US soldier can and did reload a new clip in 2-3 seconds just about the time the soon to be dead opponent stood up to charge! I love the M1 Garand as they are extremely accurate, and easy to maintain I have never had one jam with proper ammo. Here is my latest "correct grade" H&R.

Anyone that suggests that the "ping" of the ejecting clip would alert your opponent to your "empty" rifle and thereby allow him to STAND UP ------- IN A FIREFIGHT -------- AND "CHARGE" ------- has NEVER been in a "THEY'RE TRYING TO KILL ME" situation.

Here's something else to consider:
Everyone in the whole platoon would have to empty their rifles at EXACTLY the same time, and be "empty" at the same time, and be reloading AT THE SAME TIME, for the intrepid, and FEARLESS, opponent to able to STAND, and RUN at the soldierS, and SOMEHOW - because they were STANDING, OUT IN THE OPEN - be able to shoot through whatever cover the Garand-shooter was hiding behind that couldn't be shot through when the "enemy" was shooting at him before the "ping".

The amount of BS that is spewed about military weapons and tactics never ceases to AMAZE me.

Paul

Hope you are depleting Ricks 06 ammo there...(if he lets you....)

I too heard the `legend` of the empty clip was `story fodder`.  Hats off to the guys that were not afraid to call a spade a spade.
   Made for great conjecture tho.

I love the Garand. It is high on my list of guns to own. I would even shoot one in 458.