Re: Question about M1 Garand
- From: Nick Hull <nhull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:15:53 +0000 (UTC)
In article <drmpls$fu2$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Sam" <samshadde@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
# I like to get some opinions on this -- I really admire the M1 design.
# It truly is a very well designed rifle and it's obvious to me that the
# designer John Garand put alot of thought into it. But one thing that
# seems (to me at least) out of place is why he designed it with an 8
# round enbloc clip. What I mean is, with the 8rd enbloc strip it is
# either an all or nothing, so why didn't he design it with a magazine
# like the M14 for example? Was there something about a rifle with such
# a magazine system that would make it less reliable? It's not as if the
# concept was unknown in his days.
An M-14 mag sticks out a lot and snags on a lot of stuff and is harder
to shoot prone. The M1 is smooth, little to snag, held a lot of ammo
for the time, and shooters had no trouble loading 2 rds in a M1 enbloc
clip. The philosophy was that the army supplied all ammo pre-loaded and
it worked well in practice in combat.
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