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Mom: What are you watching? Me: Oh. It's about the history of a gun. Its very educationa- Ahoy: *What does a battle rifle have in common with a microwave?*
XxxthedestroyerxxX 774 yeah so there was this bully in elementary school, and I literally cracked his skull open and squished his brain with the dictionary. Yeah a dictionary goes with all those.
Twisted History *Canadian American. He was raised and lived most of his life in the us so he was primarily American anyway lol Sorry to rain in on your parade
+SuperJay ping is the ammount of lag in a game. The higher the ping (I.e. 300) the laggier it is. and the ping also comes from as explained in the video. when the magazine in the gun is empty.
@Someaceguy1937 Another bolt action, plus it doesn't ping when you're actually done, you would still have another round. SO, even if you say "it still pings!", It's not technically "done". Joke doesn't work.
@Ved Kolambkar no, the m1903 Springfield rifle saw service from 1903-1975. Toward the end it was the sniper variant and apparently the us coast guard still uses them....as line throwers. What a waste.
Someone once told me soldiers would tap empty mags on their helmet to make it sound like they have to reload to make the enemy peak so they could pick them of more easily.
That's a myth, as he said, the battlefield is noisy as hell, and even if they did hear it, they wouldn't peek as there would be 20 fully loaded rifles next to the unloaded one.
My father was in the german Bundeswehr. He said it was a common trick to check if your magazine was full, because at least G3 Magazines sounded hollow when unloaded and soldiers were issued to keep empty magazines to refill them on a later occasion.
Just wait until you own one of these. Mine just arrived yesterday in the mail from the Civilian Marksmanship Program--100 percent authentic military surplus. According to the serial no. stamped on my receiver, it was produced in November of 1942. It's a beautiful Springfield Armory one. Gonna take it to my local gun range. The "ping" should turn some heads lol.
Richardsen I certainly am. Just picked up a .303 British Lee Enfield too. Sold my AK for it. Two years ago I wouldn't have thought once about doing that. Amazing how my taste in weaponry has changed.
@fat loser You bet your ass I did, me and my father were playing some good good ol cod world at war zombies to get hyped for the new cod bo1 maps that were announced, and by that point I was very familiar with the M14, and my father was telling me all these fun facts about guns until we started talking about M1, and the rest is history. I had to have been like 6, 7 at the most. My father laughed so hard at that, it was an epic moment for me ngl.
One of the best rifles I ever shot in the Greek army for target practice. Its balance and precision were unbelievable and was far better than our standard issue fully automatic G3-A3s. At 100 yards away, bulls-eye was possible even for a novice. If war time was ever to come, I wouldn't mind the option if given to use one.
You say that but hearing loss usually isn't all or nothing. I bet you plenty of soldiers came out of war with substandard hearing. They could still function, but probably could no longer hear quieter things and I'm sure quite a few would have had tinnitus to some degree.
You failed to mention the fact that though the m1 garand was short lived, the M14 was designed around it. The similarities between the M14 and M1 garand are so great, one could put them in the same family of rifles.
The M1 Garand was not short lived. It served 23 years in the US military and is still in service with other nations. The M14 was short lived, only in service for 5 years before being replaced by the M16. The M14 is technically in limited service, but it's really never used anymore. Not a good gun.
@@deanc91 I've heard people who fired it say it was too light for full auto and too heavy for semi auto. Give a gun like that to a bunch of scared and trigger happy draftees and you have a recipe for disaster
@@Nyx_2142 Well it certainly was no good in full auto. I don't think it's a weight problem. Its weight is not too far off from other battle rifles of the era. From what I understand, the M1 Garand had an excellent short receiver that gave it a real advantage dimensionally. However, scale that down to the M14, and give it full auto, and you have a very fast and violently opening bolt traveling a very short distance before coming to a stop. This made recoil very snappy, violent, and fast (due to short bolt travel) which made it relatively uncontrollable and highly unpleasant to shoot full auto. Other weapons like the AR-10, FAL, and G3 gave the bolt plenty of length to travel to burn off energy before coming to a stop at the end of the receiver which made them much much more pleasant to shoot.
The BM59 is actually more closely related to the M1 than the M14, as it is literally just an M1 conversion. All the M14 has in common is the receiver and op rod.
Gets even better with weapon mods expanded so you can put a long barrel on it so it's nice and accurate. Doing a play through now where I basically only use This Machine. Very versatile weapon
The moment i could get a battle rifle i did. And i usally upgraded later on in the game. I prefer the service rifle but damn this machine is a good gun
Bitch please it is the best gun in the whole game, remember one play through where if I seen 308's I bought them ended up with over 20,000 308,s lol two weeks just ran around with it super mutunts , deathclaws nothing stood a chance except those damm bloatflies bastards don't stay still lol 😂. Awww fun times
My grandfather used the M1 Grand as his weapon, and he told me stories of his usage from Italy all the way to Germany. Glad to know more information about this historical firearm in the form of this wonderful video. Cheers Stew.
A great american gun. My grandpa fought in WW II, and had been trained on the Springfield '03 rifles. When he got a Garand, he said, "Now this is power!". I've fired it myself, and can wholeheartedly agree. Waiting for the Uzi, a great piece of Israeli tech.
The SVT40 was a piece of shit, unreliable rifle. These things frequently fell apart on soliders, most notably the magazine had a tedency to fall out of the rifle randomly. The G43 was a decent design, but they were horribly made. When these guns were introduced in service the Germans were already losing WW2 and were making these rifles as fast as possible to try to even the odds against the Soviet's and American's semi auto rifles. That meet crudely fitted parts (which means lower accuracy at distance) And many compromises to the design, like most of the rifles were made out of pressed sheet metal, instead of milled steel as orginally designed, which couldn't handle the 7mm cartridge very well.
XavierJ61 American patriot much? SVT40. are reliable because of the gas operation and the magazine issue isn't common for SVTs made after 1941. G43 was the same G41 that took innovation from the SVT.
American hater much? SVT40s were too complicated and clunky, hence why the Russian military stopped issuing them to regular soliders and instead for specialist roles. Here's a quote from a Russian veteran, "We didn’t have the self-loading rifles SVT in the school, they were hardly practical at the front: as soon as the tiniest portion of sand got into the SVT - it stuck and stopped working." english.iremember.ru/snipers/24-nikolai-nadolko.html?q=%2Fsnipers%2F24-nikolai-nadolko.html&start=1 The G43 as I said, was a rushed to production rifle that was extremely crude. Relatively few examples of the G41 were made, but the ones that made it to service were disliked by soliders, I'll give you a quote. "In the field, the G41(M) proved unpopular with troops. In addition to being exceedingly complex and susceptible to fouling and malfunction, it was a long, heavy (11.5 pounds), and poorly balanced rifle. Captured SVT-40 Tokarev rifles were much preferred, and most of the G41(M)s ended up in the hands of second-line soldiers." www.forgottenweapons.com/german-ww2-rifles/gewehr-41m/
Well..it depends on whoever use it and US vest from ww2 dislike some times the gun because their was a common myth that the ping was alerting the enemy that the user was reloading al though this wasnot always the case tho because most of the times combats was very loud and it was not common for enemy soldier use it as a alerting like thing or whatso ever
The US abandoned the M1 garand by the M14.The only army using it at the time were the ARVN who got most of their weapons from the US that were left over from ww2.In the very early years US advisors would use m1 carbines and Thompson submachine guns.You would see a grunt using them though and by 67 you wouldn't see them or the m14 used by the grunts anymore.
***** I'm not sure about that. Gun variety is important in a game, and WW1 had almost only bolt-action rifles. There were a few machine guns, but only mounted ones. Anyway, I think you would quickly get bored.
The M1 Garand was one of the most iconic rifles ever to see military service. Replacing the iconic M1903 Springfield in service, it had a brief service life. But it's iconic status is irrefutable. An absolute soldiers rifle.
@@harveyknguyen this is true. 20 years is a good career for a service rifle. The M-14 has had a longm career but only 7 as a main service rifle. And the Garand did serve in both WW2 and the Korean War.
@@isaacwilson4174 i think he was the one who was a guest on the forgotten weapons video i mentioned, (thanks for the channel name btw ive been meaning to go back and find it)
INB4 "Hurr durr maw grandpappy told me dat GIs would throw empty guh-rand mags on da ground so dem nawtzis would think they was out of ammo" Try being in a firefight for 5 seconds and tell me if you can hear anything except for EEEEEEEEEEEE.
I remember going to a sporting rifle store with my WW2 vet grandpa, and amid all the sleek new rifles lining the walls, he walked up to the old wooden M1 Garand and picked it up, saying "I had one of these in the war." One of my favorite memories with the guy.
I have fired one of these in real life at an event with over a hundred unique weapons where people took turns firing five shots from each gun. Games always seem to get this weapon wrong. This was the loudest gun there with the most intense recoil. You could see and feel the shock wave in the air and see the grass around it shimmer. The dust plume behind the target was twice as tall as any other gun's. It bruised my shoulder, but man oh man was worth it to fire this absolute cannon of a rifle.
You forgot to mention the spring that pull back when you reload, and when you get you thumb stuck in that, there was a name for it but I forgot. That was a major complaint during World War 2.
A.K.A. most rushed U.S. soldiers in combat training. Troops who rushed their reload and didn't learn properly what to do and what not to do. Not helping that they were already in battle being distracted by bullets buzzing past them. :/
I like how in the CoD clips, it shows the more realistic reloading with the hand on the bolt slide, but in Battlefield, they pull back the bolt, use that hand and put in a clip, then throw the bolt closed like its frozen
The "ping" noise is also created when an empty clip falls onto a hard surface. According to several veterans, some troops would throw an empty clip on the ground to trick the enemies into thinking they had run out of ammo, and lure them into the open.
Those vets were telling stories. Nobody can hear an M1 ping in combat except for the man holding the rifle. The enemy aren't going to learn that ping means reload if they can't hear it over the sound of continuous gunfire.
God all theese comments with "i HeArD thAt uS sOlDerZ tHrEW oUT GrAnD kLiPz 2 tRiC naZos" just stop you couldnt hear thing ping in a battle with all the gunfire and explosions
A firefight is very loud. I doubt you hear the ping.
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@@sketchdrawn1056 No, battle is extremely loud and the American rifleman with an M1 is not going to be alone. Not to mention that it only takes a couple of seconds to reload.
I really don’t like the people who say this. 1. Guns are loud AS FUCK, nobody gonna hear the ping. 2. It tells your allies that you are empty so they can cover you 3. Touching on 2, you aren’t gonna be alone, the enemy isn’t going to here this and think, “He’s out, get him” and then run out into the hail of bullets to kill you, your not that special.
History geek here 1. Due to slow production not all branches were armed with the M1 at the beginning of the war, the marines had 1903 Springfield’s for the first few months of war 2. “Besides WWII these are rarely seen” The M1 was still in use during the Korean War, I know this for a fact because of my grandfather
My friend once said that when designing the M1 Garand, they wanted to ensure user's shoulder comfort when firing by reinforcing the stock with Grade A solid wood.
-American soldier grabs empty cartridge and hits it in the head(helmet) reproducing the "ping" noise -German soldier rises from cover hoping for the best -German soldier poops his pants as he notices he has been tricked - American soldier fires. USA was always about mind games, never forget that.
***** well, i just tend to use the motto of "assume not serious before stupid". (Also the fact he said "USA was always about mind games, never forget that." sounds very much non-serious).
M1911 and a M1 Garand make a perfect pair. if your enemy did hear the "Ping" and tried to exploit it, fall back to your M1911, and he'll never know what hit him.
By far one of my favorite rifles, the feeling when I shot one for the first time was amazing. Also for the longest time I never got it's name right, I thought it was the M1 Grand, I never noticed the first "a" until someone pointed it out to me
In high school I shot on a competitive 3p smallbore and air rifle team, and at the end of each year, we'd join the high power shooters for a casual match. After one match, this old fella randomly approached me and asked if I knew how to field strip and clean a Garand. I told him that I'd operated one before because my dad owned one, but I'd never taken one apart. He then took his own rifle and proceeded to disassemble and reassemble it before telling me to do the same. Even with arthritic hands he was still able to strip it down like it was second nature. He was a veteran of Korea and an ex-cop who was part of the last generation of law enforcement to be issued with a Thompson. Out of all the people on my team, he chose to give me an old time lesson, and for that I have always felt a sense of pride. I can't even imagine the love soldiers and marines had for that rifle. It's a mechanical wonder: a perfect marriage of wood and steel. Sturdy, reliable, accurate, and deadly like nothing of its time.
referencing to the part when he said that the ping would be inaudible during combat. I'd like to address that the ping was very audible during combat during its service and were many times when enemy combatants would only return fire after the ping Was Heard. However, it became a tactic to Chuck a empty clip to simulate the noise in order to get enemies from behind cover to expose themselves only to be met with a fully loaded rifle.
+James Payne I believe it was part of a documentary that was aired on the History Channel a number of years ago. this sort of tactic was not employed during heavy combat scenarios like on D-Day. I believe they said it was more in areas where trench based Warfare was still predominant.
yeah how many guns have you shot? the shooter will hear it. the enemy being shot at probably not. gun fire with no ear pro will make your ears ring for days. the ping would to me as the shooter indicate that the ping is a sign to reload.
It's found also in the book Ordnance Went Up Front. They even looked into plastic alt.s but never fallowed thru with it. Also how fucking dare you chime in on the youtube comments! Fuck you OP!
I was once fortunate enough to fire a few clips out of the M1. The ping was so satisfying I almost ended shooting early just so I could be completely satisfied
I love New Vegas' incarnation of the Garand. It's rather disappointing that you can't use it with the Grunt perk in the vanilla game, but the J. Sawyer mod fixes that. This Machine (and the non-unique Battle Rifle variant added in Gun Runners' Arsenal) are fine weapons by themselves, but Grunt pushes them into the field of excellence. And it even has the *ping*.
