Trigger squeeze, a ping and a dime.

[ticm]

So I belong to this shooting range cause you don't wanna go out your back door and pop off a few rounds in NJ. Because you will end up in jail.

Well I took my M1 Garand with me to squeeze off some rounds. I filled the mag full and did a fast fire to warm up the barrel. If you have ever fired a Garand you know that ping noise it makes when it is empty and the magazine goes flying out of the rifle. Well it lands a few feet away so I go to get it. Right next to where it landed was this 58 silver dime.
Now that's good shooting.

 

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[TNGUNS]

NOT FAIR.......not addressing the coin find.......How could such a mean fellow own and and get to enjoy shooting one of the finest firearms ever made and I have spent all afternoon adding tactical accessories to an ugly ole AR for a friend. And yes I have friends.....so long as I do free gun work anyway.

 

[Wily Dunk]

Brings new meaning to the term :Coin Shooting" wouldn't you say... Cool find no matter how you found it..

 

[khpony]

I think I'd go back and try for a quarter!

 

[Mzjavert]

Sounds like one shot in a million.

 

[fmrUSMC_0844]

Right on!! I was at the range today but all I got for it was a bruised shoulder from the Mosin Nagant and a lot of empty casings.

 

[ticm]

Right on!! I was at the range today but all I got for it was a bruised shoulder from the Mosin Nagant and a lot of empty casings.

Man that's a fun shooter. I bought one of those about ten years ago. I take it out a least once a year. Has a hell of a kick.

 

[fmrUSMC_0844]

It is a fun shooter. I could only put about 20 rounds out of it today. It kicked the hell out of me. I think my shoulderr can only take shooting that thing only once a year lol.

 

[truckinbutch]

My wife sewed me up a multi tube denim pouch that will drape over my shoulder . Filled with several pounds of birdshot it will only add about a half inch of pull to a stock . Takes the bite out of most any recoil . I comfortably shoot my 7mag and
my Pedersoli Sharps .45/70 (loaded to .458Winmag specs) with this offhand . Glad to share if there is interest .
>
*History Note :
Neighbor was Sgt. in Army Engineers that went in on Iwo in the first wave and stayed until the campaign was finished .
When I got a Garand he showed me a couple of tricks they developed to combat Japanese there , mostly used during night assaults on their defensive positions .
>
> Learn to catch that clip when it flies in the air and speed reload a fresh clip in the same motion . Enemy soldiers were prone to charge when they heard that empty clip hit the ground . The ping when it ejected was harder to hear on a battlefield .
Throwing an empty clip when there was firing from your position could entice the enemy to charge you while you were holding a fully loaded rifle .

 

[DirtDiggerDaveinMD]

My wife sewed me up a multi tube denim pouch that will drape over my shoulder . Filled with several pounds of birdshot it will only add about a half inch of pull to a stock . Takes the bite out of most any recoil . I comfortably shoot my 7mag and
my Pedersoli Sharps .45/70 (loaded to .458Winmag specs) with this offhand . Glad to share if there is interest .
>
*History Note :
Neighbor was Sgt. in Army Engineers that went in on Iwo in the first wave and stayed until the campaign was finished .
When I got a Garand he showed me a couple of tricks they developed to combat Japanese there , mostly used during night assaults on their defensive positions .
>
> Learn to catch that clip when it flies in the air and speed reload a fresh clip in the same motion . Enemy soldiers were prone to charge when they heard that empty clip hit the ground . The ping when it ejected was harder to hear on a battlefield .
Throwing an empty clip when there was firing from your position could entice the enemy to charge you while you were holding a fully loaded rifle .

I saw a program on the History channel about the bocage fighting in Normandy in the days following D-Day, from the German side. A question was posed to a ex German soldier if it was true they could tell when an American soldier's Garand was empty by the pinging sound made as the enbloc clip ejected. The German soldier said that was a myth. He said with all of the rifle and machine gun fire going on they couldn't hear a thing, let alone a spring steel clip ejecting from a rifle.

 

[s.c.shooter]

I love shooting my Garand! Just wish the ammo wasn't so high. I would love to know of it was carried in the Pacific or Europe. If only that rifle could talk!

 

[TNGUNS]

The Garand is absolutely one of those few things you run across in life that just seems perfect. As much as any man-made thing can be anyway. If you don't mind shooting something in that power level it can make a descent shooter look like a sure enough hero. It was so superior to the 98 in its intended role, that it almost made ya feel sorry for the Germans....ALMOST.

 

[fmrUSMC_0844]

My wife sewed me up a multi tube denim pouch that will drape over my shoulder . Filled with several pounds of birdshot it will only add about a half inch of pull to a stock . Takes the bite out of most any recoil . I comfortably shoot my 7mag and
my Pedersoli Sharps .45/70 (loaded to .458Winmag specs) with this offhand . Glad to share if there is interest .
>
*History Note :
Neighbor was Sgt. in Army Engineers that went in on Iwo in the first wave and stayed until the campaign was finished .
When I got a Garand he showed me a couple of tricks they developed to combat Japanese there , mostly used during night assaults on their defensive positions .
>
> Learn to catch that clip when it flies in the air and speed reload a fresh clip in the same motion . Enemy soldiers were prone to charge when they heard that empty clip hit the ground . The ping when it ejected was harder to hear on a battlefield .
Throwing an empty clip when there was firing from your position could entice the enemy to charge you while you were holding a fully loaded rifle .

There is definate interest with me to make that recoil a little less. It kicks to the point it is almost not fun to shoot.


That is a interesting history lesson. I have hear that from other vets as well. I have to say that M1 Garand is one of the finest firearms ever made. Next to my '03 Springfield .30-06!

 

[Hawgwild]

Now that's some shooting..ha...nice find and sure you enjoyed popping that old thumb crusher...they are a blast...

 

[ticm]

Now that's some shooting..ha...nice find and sure you enjoyed popping that old thumb crusher...they are a blast...

Well I still have my thumb intact so i guess i am doing something right. I wonder how many guys have smashed there thumb while loading up.

 

[truckinbutch]

Well I still have my thumb intact so i guess i am doing something right. I wonder how many guys have smashed there thumb while loading up.

M1 thumb was a common term when I was growing up . Brought home to us by returning vets of War 2 and Korea .

 

[truckinbutch]

Dirtdiggerdave,
I don't dispute what you saw on the history channel about fighting in Normandy . The Philippines Campaign was an entirely different enemy and the tactics were not the same . Aren't many vets from that first wave on Iwo or any of the other islands left to talk to , if any .
Their accounts are a matter of written first hand public record . I believe what I was told first hand and read from those who were there .

 

[nsdq]

lets see m1 and silver thats is a happy dance

 

[DirtDiggerDaveinMD]

Dirtdiggerdave,
I don't dispute what you saw on the history channel about fighting in Normandy . The Philippines Campaign was an entirely different enemy and the tactics were not the same . Aren't many vets from that first wave on Iwo or any of the other islands left to talk to , if any .
Their accounts are a matter of written first hand public record . I believe what I was told first hand and read from those who were there .

Not that I don't believe what the vet told you, I find it hard to believe with the commotion of combat going on all around, with all the rifle and machine gun fire, a disciplined soldier would leave his cover to charge a position solely on the action of an enbloc clip ejecting and hitting the volcanic sand of Iwo Jima, if he could hear it at all. It's not like all of the Marines had to reload at the same time, and it only takes a few seconds to reload a garand. While it is possible to catch an ejected enbloc and reload a full clip in a single motion, I can't see where it is practical since one would need to have a clip in hand before ejection of the spent clip. I tend to believe what the German soldier said about not being able to hear much of anything during a battle because of the intense noise created during the a firefight. While you are correct that the enemy the Marines faced on Iwo Jima was different from what the Army faced in Normandy, the sound of gunfire and the trauma it causes on the unprotected human ear does not change. I guess anything is possible and the Japanese were known to charge positions on a whim. I wasn't there and I can't say what really happened to your neighbor.
Just a side note, was your neighbor on Iwo or in the Philippines? I ask because your first post mentioned Iwo and your follow up to me mentioned the Philippine campaign. Not that it matters, but it was two different campaigns and branches of US forces fighting those battles.

 

[Gold Maven]

My biggest problem is deciding which one I want to play with next.