Video of m1 Garand field strip shows how to reload Mid Clip

[DaveP]

I thought this might be a bit of a small video for you disbelievers that a Garand can't be easily reloaded mid-clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-q-SOovpqA&NR

Around 45 seconds, he says how to clear a clip when field stripping, but in theory the same could just apply to how to reload in battle.


Pull back the bolt, push a button on the side, load a new clip, and you're done.

[Volvulus]

Thats pretty cool, I've never really seen a garand being reloaded.

[Lt.Winters]

Thats cool.. I actually searched up M1 Garand on youtube after watching that and some of the vids are cool :D

like this one:

"PING!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5BgNGyB_U

[Lord Justin]

Aha, nice find DaveP. I always assumed it was difficult because games always say it is :p. Looks pretty damn easy there, just as easy as with any other gun.

Also, it's interesting to see the entrails of the Garand for me because I am kinda intrigued that it took gun maufacturers four hundred years to figure out something other than muzzle-loading, then developed machine guns before semi-automatics, and even got the art of handheld machine guns down. Only then did someone figure out how to make a semi-automatic rifle. Come on, we had revolvers in the early nineteenth century and it still took us more than five hundred years to invent semi-auto rifles :p . Humans as a whole are stupid. :D

*Edit* I like Winters' find; nice demonstration of the use of the Garand and the "ping." And I like how he says "One of the funnest guns I've shot, other than the .50 cal machien gun." :p

[DarkCanuck]

good find gents, not that hrad to maintain. still love to fire it though, not anywhere the same as watching. maybe on my trip though europe when i finish uni.

[DaveP]

It always suprises me how simple the construction is of such weapons though.


For all it's functions, the m1 garand is about... 8 piece construction when dissasembled.