The sound of an M1 Garand

[Mich]

There's just something about the sound after the last round is fired and the clip is ejected with that ping.

*ping* makes you feel warm and fuzzy

[1290]

fuzzy? is that a reference to the feeling of desperation as you fumble for another clip knowing the ze germans, chinese, koreans and vietnamese also heard it?

You know that any talk of a semi just teases us down-under types....

I want my semi back.

[ebr love]

There's just something about the sound after the last round is fired and the clip is ejected with that ping.

Called good taste in "music"

[Lyam]

fuzzy? is that a reference to the feeling of desperation as you fumble for another clip knowing the ze germans, chinese, koreans and vietnamese also heard it?

It's giving them a sporting chance so they might hear where you are and have a chance to shoot back

[nords]

Not so many are going to have experienced it here, damn semi-auto steal back...

[Skadoo]

Not so many are going to have experienced it here, damn semi-auto steal back...

Sad but true.

An old war movie's the only place you'll really get it here

[Turkle]

Watch Saving Private Ryan and turn it up real loud to try and immerse yourself in the sound

[RoginaJack]

DROOl.......

[GLS_1956]

To paraphrase Duke Ellington: "It don't mean a thing (If it don't got that Ping).

My father a World War Two veteran, US Army, Pacific Theater of Operations, 11TH Airborne Division, Stationed in New Guinea with in combat in the Philippines. Dad did tell me of the Japanese Army and Naval Infantry knowing of the M-1's sound upon ejecting the empty enbloc clip and with them, the Japanese forces, trying to take advantage of the temporarily empty M-1 rifle. What became quite common amongst American servicemen was them carrying an empty enbloc clip, which they would toss on the ground, making that metallic "ping", and draw a Japanese soldier out in the open to be shot.

[headspace]

I reckon you'd have another one in there pretty quick anyway. It's not like all the blokes in the trench all pinged at once. Synchronised pinging?

[deanp100]

Myth? It would have to be quite peaceful battlefield to hear that ping over normal battle sounds. Would you rush a foxhole on thinking you may have heard a sound?

[meek]

I reckon you'd have another one in there pretty quick anyway. It's not like all the blokes in the trench all pinged at once. Synchronised pinging?

Nah they just did that for entertainment back at base