John Garand was born Canadian but was raised in America and was a naturalized citizen way before he designed the M1. Also, the pinging thing was not a real disadvantage in a firefight.
Boy, they should REALLY have made it clear that John Garand was an American weapons engineer who was born in Canada and moved the the US as a young child and went to school and became a firearms developer and inventor...that way all these misinformed kids wouldnt assume the M1 was made by the Canadians or it was somehow a Canadian rifle.
Our germans technicians developed lots of awesome war machinery! But sending out our soldiers equipped with a K98 into a "modern war" against a Garand or a russian PPSH... it was so poor! Rest in peace mates!!
@alekzander2010 The STG44 entered service in late 1944 or early 1945. Stalingrad was from from 1941 to 1943. And no, the Russians had many weapons, like the PpSh 41, which was one of the most mass-produced submachine guns of all time.
@iiisoposol2020 it is better actually, for speed in shooting, and reloading with 1 clip, instead of 2, also because of automatic clip ejection, bolt opening and magazine clearing.
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@chas63 Some of the Greatest things American made are made by immigrants, hell, America itself is made by immigrants....oh and Garand was an American citizen since he was 7 years old when he moved to the US
@DoctorNambu Yep, lived in Canada for 7 years, and spend 80 years in the US, and all his education and knowledge and skills came from American education..Canada has nothing at all to brag about, except the hospital where he was born at.
@DoctorNambu Yeah, and thats what America is founded on, and what makes it great, the best minds from all over the world...John Garand is a classic definition of an American icon
@29yoface Because 'American' isn't really a race save for Native Americans. We're comprised of a bunch of different races; we just happen to all be living/born/raised in the USA. For instance, I'm of Asian descent but I was born in the USA, therefore I am Asian-American. You could call me Asian, or you could call me American. Either way works.
@29yoface It's very simple really. John Garand moved to Connecticut. when he was a very young child. He got all his experience in the United States. He designed it in the United States, and for the US military so it's an American gun.
@DoctorNambu The man was educated in America though. There were many semi automatic rifles designers competing against the Garand, some were agruebally more reliable. The Johnson rifle, for example, actually outperformed the M1 Garand in mud and sand testing.
@29yoface if someone is born in the U.S. the person is an American citizen same principle toward the M1, and the inventor moved here and worked on the M1 in an American Armory, using American money, Canada had nothing to do with the project.
@nightfireivey They are very similar, but not exactly the same. The M14 is slightly lighter and shorter then the M1 Garand. The M14 is fully automatic and semi automatic where the M1 Garand is only semi automatic. The M14 uses a detachable 20 round magazine where the M1 Garand has a fixed magazine that is fed with a 8 round en bloc clip. The M14 uses a short stroke piston gas system where the M1 Garand uses longs stroke piston gas system. The M1 Garand fires 7.62x63 where the M14 fires 7.62x51.
@dinison6 He was 7 when he became an American, that would mean he would have to had been working for the Canadian military and had been a licenced weapons engineer before the age of 7.
@LoneWolf051 I looked into it. He became a US citizen when he was 32. Apparently there was no 'Dual Citizenship' status in those days. As far as I'm concerned, that's just the paperwork. I'm still waving my flag :)
@Fishfins Actually, in real life, no single rifle won the war to be "the rifle that won the war" it would need to have fought in EVERY theater, and be used by EVERY ALLIED nation as a standard service rifle. No single rifle won the war...mass production won the war. The M-1 was the most effective and advanced service rifle of the war, but it didnt "win" the war, neither did the Mosin Nagant, or any other service rifle.
@Fishfins This documentary is so full of shit it isnt even funny, they say the "ping" was a "dreaded flaw" and everyone died from it, which is complete BS, since its such a tiny little sound in battle, and a single ping means 1 man is out, not the whole squad, platoon, ect. Then they say John Garand was a Canadian engineer, which is also BS, he was an AMERICAN engineer, with an American education. They also said the Enfield bolt action rifle has a faster fire rate than modern assault rifles!!
@TheGarnest Hey little snotnose punk- I am a combat veteran of three wars. You are an idiot. You know nothing, so you shut up. Real men have tried and failed to shut me up. A little punk like you would piss his pants if he ever faced me in person.
it pisses me off when americans say they won the war themselves, they didn't you had british, polish, french, greeks, etc. same with guns, lee-enfield, mosin nagant, the list is endless
@joc69uk32 I agree, its annoying as hell, now the M-1 may have been the best service rifle of the war, but saying "we won the war with this rifle" is a pretty stupid thing to say..........and I'm Ameican myself.
The "ping" myth is bullshit, and it destroys the credibility of the filmmakers that they put this military version of an urban myth out there. Soldiers do not operate alone. Everyone's rifle does not empty at the same time. Even if you could hear the "ping" of the ejected clip, pop up, and his buddy will shoot you. Use some common sense, folks. I am a combat veteran, and I can tell you that the noise on the battlefield is load and confusing. The M-1 was the best rifle of WW2, period.
@snakemanmike what about any other battle rifles of the era? like the mosin-nagant, the mas 36, or the lee enfield? i can understand that a soldier in the field forms a tight bond with his weapon, but really all the battle rifles of that era were great, and many people argee with this fact, just throwing that out there
@rolinjet Yes, I'd much rather have a 5-shot, bolt-action rifle over an eight-shot, semi-automatic rifle, and would ESPECIALLY love submachine guns with an effective range of 50-100 meters over a rifle with an effective range of 400+m with a lot of stopping power, usually only requiring one round.
@ChrisHun7er Of course now we have assault rifles and carbines, but back then a Garand would be one of the best weapons to carry. It would be nice to have a Thompson at the closest ranges, but you didn't exactly get that close too often in WWII.
@RedSandStudios Except in Europe, with its small hamlets, farms, towns, villages and cities. Or the Pacific, on those tiny islands, and close range jungle fights.
@ChrisHun7er Kar98b, even if is a bolt-action riffle, its accurancy and range is too high, perfect long-distance battle, M1 used on automatic and urban Combats (we must to remember that many combats of WWII were on Villages and Citys) MP Series Were pretty good, in thats aspect, are better. And everybody knows that Semi-automatic has les accurancy than bolt Action, how every, Germany had the Best Weaponary in that time!
@LoneWolf051 Yes, you said it, ACTUALLY, at times of WWII, many combats used to be a short ranges, cause the mission of America were push out the Wehrmacht from occupied Citys, and why weaponary is it much better, by Many Reason, The effective of Wehrmacht was 1 to 5, so The Casualitys by Germany used to be 80% less than Allies, in the France Front, but, they lost only by reasons of Numbers, The Allies were too much for them, so russia kicked they asses! but they had the best weaponary
the Ak was designed to hit a five inch group at 100 meters.. it uses an underpowered cartridge and is pretty much a weapon that is good for 250 meters.. the M1 is accurate up to 600 yards with iron sights and a good operator the 3006 is a thousand meter cartridge.. according to my Bro in law.. paratrooper in Korea. when ever the clip ejected it was a signal for every chinese in the neighborhood to jump and fire.. the big problem with the m1 was not being able to top off the mag.
@Justinbilings You can top off an M1, I do it all the time. And why would the Chinese commit suicide by running into enemy firing squads because of 1 man out of 50 running out?
The whole thing about the ping is overblown. First of all, on the battlefield, the overall noise is so loud, and everything is so chaotic that a single pinging sound would hardly be noticed. Second, soldiers fight as a unit.. What are the odds that everyone's rifle would be empty at the same time? When your rifle ejects that clip, odds are that you will have 5-10 fellow squad members who have loaded rifles and are still firing. The old ping story is likely a military urban myth, IMHO.
@snakemanmike Anyone who says "oh the ping sound got so many soldiers killed, its a fatal flaw" is a tell tale sign that they have no idea what combat is like. I do combat reenactments, and that sound is completely drowned out, all you see is the clip pops out, with no sound. The very instant the clip ejects, is the same instant the gunshot is heard, so the clip ejecting is impossible to hear, you can only hear it when it hits the ground, however if you're on dirt or grass, it makes no sound.
@snakemanmike actually soldiers would use spent m1 garand clips and bang them against rocks. the enemy would pop up and get his head blown off. this technique actually was used to pretty good effect
@mrmastercheif7 Until they caught on to it, then US troops began throwing the clips OVER the german positions, in close range fights, to make them think theres Americans BEHIND them or on their flanks...psychological torture, hehe.
@snakemanmike in close quarters combat, the pinging sound can be heard easily, even with all the gunfire. And when you're empty, you'll probably be dead when your squadmates notice there was some stealthy guy waiting for the ping
@pedrod9basket Yeah that happened on some occasions in extreme close combat (clearing pillboxes, houses, ect), but was only restricted to extreme close range, and had to be on hard surfaces, so it could actually be heard, but it wasnt nearly as common as the US troops using the bolt action cycle time against the enemy, which was very common and used at all ranges.
@HuErigerable When he ducks back behind cover to cycle the bolt, you aim where he's going to pop back up, then when he does to take another shot, you get him.
@snakemanmike not every waking moment of WWII had deafening explosions going off. Open plains with small German patrols in those little towns could have been quite enough to hear the ping sound.
@TheWhole9Yards1001 That the ping sound when the clip was ejected got people killed, because the enemy know that your rifle was empty. Total bullshit.
@TheWhole9Yards1001 Yeah, its an old romantic hollywood myth about the tiny little metallic pinging sound the clip makes after it ejects from the rifle getting everyone killed because the enemy magically heard it, in reality its impossible to hear outside of a few feet. It was never a problem in battle, except when clearing houses and buildings, where the enemy was very close range, but even then, they usually used that sound to make a break and run away when you were reloading.
@snakemanmike Of course, on an open battlefield, the PINGing sound is irrelevant, lost in the noise of the fight. But in urban house to house fighting, god knows that happenned A LOT, when opponents are in the same storey or house, or other small scale fighting, I'm pretty sure the pinging sound is a bit more of a factor.
@snakemanmike I think everyone should remeber the Discovery channel blabber mouth Morons here are also staying total crap about other firearms, just look at these morons talking about the hunk of Russian crap AK 47 that does jam it has a nasty habbit of blowing up and its so inaccurate that a 12 guage loaded with 00 Buck shot shoots same patterns at the AK !
These Discovery jerk wads are only trying to make ratings for the Disovery channel !
@Moldovawineimporter And dont forget the shit about the Lee Enfield having a faster rate fo fire than "most modern automatic weapons"
Or how the M-1 Garand's "Ping" sound was heard by "everybody and their brother",yeah,go into battle with an M-1, THEN you'll see how stupid that comment was. Or how John Garand was a "Canadian engineer", yet he came to the US when he was 7 years old! so IF he was a Canadain engineer, he would have to had been a licenced engineer in Canada BEFORE the age of 7!!!!!
@LoneWolf051 Yep you must have standards alright you only smoke more expencive dope and you play the best of Russian war video games that teach you everything you ever learned about firearms .
You can always tell the biggest jackass on you tube videos if they have Russian war video games on their Channel information .
@FrankieJames7 To win the war it would have to see action on all fronts, in all theaters, combat all axis forces,and be used in all Allied hands. No rifle won the war, in fact no single anything won the war, it was mass production that won it.
@112ALONE NO WAY OUR SOVIET AK-47 IS THE BEST BUT YOU AMERICANS ARE JELOUS BECOSE YOU CANT MAKE GUN BETTER THAN AK-47 ITS SO OLD BUT YOU CANT MAKE ANYTHING BETTER. CCCP ЕТО СИЛА !
and while the AK has full auto.. it isnt as powerful, not as accurate. the m1 is also very durable.
and we CAN make something better, my friend and i are designing an assault rifle firing a 50 cal short round, which will have recoil like a 9mm, but the power of a full 50.
its all a matter of opinion i think. personally, i am an excellent shot with my M1, so i would always choose that over anything else.
@112ALONE Ohhh are you idiot ? AK-47 is accurat in my hands,in my fathers hands , well mayby you just dont now how to shoot and ak-47 and ak-47 is powerful and can shoot through rails and anothers stuff and if you dont now things about ak-47 then dont say anything you dont know anything about CCCP.
@Latviansoldier No matter how skilled you or your father are, the AK-47 and it's variants are NOT anywhere close to the M1 Garand's accuracy past 300 yards and the M1 Garand is still more accurate within 300 yards, as it has a better cartridge, a longer barrel, better rifling, and really better everything regarding accuracy and precision.
@Latviansoldier from what i have seen, you can throw an M1basically anywhere, and itl still work. not saying that you cant do the same with your sks rifles, i am just stating a fact.
@112ALONE Well we can throw our guns everywhere and they will work and you have more details soo it means longer cleaning. P.S CMON its Russia our guns are the best.
@Latviansoldier ...and BAR, and Thompson, and M-14, and Wichester, and Colt 1911, and the Browning High Power, and the Springfield, and the M1919, and the Browning Auto 5, and the Peacemaker, and the Henry, and the Kentucky rifle, and Browning M2, and the Gatling gun, and the Brown Bess and M1 Carbine, and Barrett, and Mini gun, and the Grease Gun, and the Spencer, and the M-60, and the Kriss.
@Latviansoldier HAHAHAHA, you think the AK is better than every single western weapon?. Typical uneducated, opinionated, ignorant Russian response, no wonder that country is in a state of extreme poverty and mass decay, with a horrible, brainwashed education system.
IN REALITY, the AK is really not better than anything, its cheap, easy to make, and has good reliability, then again most 21st century western guns have the same reliability as the AK.
@LoneWolf051 You are laughting now but when theres gonna be some cind of war or something i gonn laught with my friends and comrades we will se which guns gonna win you just dont know how to shoot ak-47 and thats why we made AKM its better than ak-47 and then we made AK-74 . P.S Russian weapons are the best Russian tanks,pistols ,and another stuff.
@Latviansoldier ACTUALLY, the M1 cleans pretty well. for me anyway. theres 3 main parts: the trigger assembly, the buttstock, and the barrel and reciever assembly. they all separate in a matter of .3 seconds, and clean quite easily. unless of course, you want to go the full 100 yds and decide to take the op rod off, and the gas tube assembly. then it takes a bit longer. but for a basic cleaning, its quite simple.
can we agree that both rifles are good in the hands of a skilled user? i think so.
@Latviansoldier im not an idiot. maybe you are a good shot with an AK. but i am a good shot with an M1, which, can also shoot through many things as well, being that it uses a larger round. and im not saying that im a genius and that i know everything there is to know about CCCP.
do you know everything about the M1? maybe, maybe not.
like i said, in my opinion, i prefer the M1 over the AK. can we settle this here like civilized people? you can have you AK-47, and i will have my M1.
@tavjas not quite, the mosin was not the only weapon available to the red army. You must also remember, while the USSR did tear the guts out from the nazi war machine, they lost 28 MILLION men in the process, almost an entire generation, gone!
This amount of casualties and such was mostly due to Stalin becoming paranoid and executing most of his good generals. (remember the winter war? yeah.. that's what happens too)
The USSR would have run out of bodies to throw at the enemy eventually.
John Garand was born Canadian but was raised in America and was a naturalized citizen way before he designed the M1. Also, the pinging thing was not a real disadvantage in a firefight.
usaf4ever1824 1 day ago
The m1 does make a ping because i have one, but the ping comes so fast after the shot its hard to hear.
jimbobway27 6 days ago
Boy, they should REALLY have made it clear that John Garand was an American weapons engineer who was born in Canada and moved the the US as a young child and went to school and became a firearms developer and inventor...that way all these misinformed kids wouldnt assume the M1 was made by the Canadians or it was somehow a Canadian rifle.
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BDawg1942 1 week ago
Our germans technicians developed lots of awesome war machinery! But sending out our soldiers equipped with a K98 into a "modern war" against a Garand or a russian PPSH... it was so poor! Rest in peace mates!!
Greets from germany
derernsti 4 weeks ago
@derernsti remember the germans had the StG44 and the ruskies could abrley afford Ammo for their own troops
in stalingard 5 men were sent into combat
1 witht eh rifle and the other 4 carried ammo
you picked up wepaons from the dead
alekzander2010 4 weeks ago
@alekzander2010 The STG44 entered service in late 1944 or early 1945. Stalingrad was from from 1941 to 1943. And no, the Russians had many weapons, like the PpSh 41, which was one of the most mass-produced submachine guns of all time.
Litterboxer529 3 weeks ago
@Litterboxer529 actually the MP43 (its the STG/MP44 with a diffrent name)
entered service in Octobor 43
i have a book about the STG44 but it was OFFICALLY issued in june 44
(hitler wasnt happy to know it was issued without his permission)
alekzander2010 3 weeks ago
american legend ... yeay right lol
fryskomuttens 1 month ago
@fryskomuttens Yup! gotta love it
LoneWolf051 1 week ago
Designed by CANADIAN
alekzander2010 1 month ago
@alekzander2010 So?...
ShaggyA2 4 weeks ago
@alekzander2010 Every American is decended or is from, another country, just like Garand
LoneWolf051 1 week ago
8 rounds semi automatic also can be as good as a 10 rounds bolt action also or maybe better...
iiisoposol2020 1 month ago
@iiisoposol2020 it is better actually, for speed in shooting, and reloading with 1 clip, instead of 2, also because of automatic clip ejection, bolt opening and magazine clearing.
LoneWolf051 1 week ago
The fact that the M1 garand made the *ping* sound also saved some soldiers their lives.
When you heard the that sound you knew you had to get cover. with The M1 carbine for example you never knew then to take cover.
M1LS572 1 month ago
@M1LS572 I guess it works both ways...some were lucky with the ping others perhaps not.
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Daynknight1001 2 months ago
14 people dont have 8 rounds at their fingertips.
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brianbl401 4 months ago
The greatest American rifle was designed by a Canadian. Interesting, that.
chas63 4 months ago
@chas63 Some of the Greatest things American made are made by immigrants, hell, America itself is made by immigrants....oh and Garand was an American citizen since he was 7 years old when he moved to the US
LoneWolf051 4 months ago
@LoneWolf051 He's Canadian
DoctorNambu 3 months ago
@DoctorNambu Yep, lived in Canada for 7 years, and spend 80 years in the US, and all his education and knowledge and skills came from American education..Canada has nothing at all to brag about, except the hospital where he was born at.
LoneWolf051 3 months ago
@LoneWolf051 It took his Canadian brain to make the legend though...
DoctorNambu 3 months ago
@DoctorNambu Yeah, and thats what America is founded on, and what makes it great, the best minds from all over the world...John Garand is a classic definition of an American icon
LoneWolf051 3 months ago
@LoneWolf051 Who is Canadian....
DoctorNambu 3 months ago
@DoctorNambu Every American is of a foriegn decent. Thats the essence of being American
LoneWolf051 3 months ago
@LoneWolf051 Yet there is still a lot of racism though....
DoctorNambu 3 months ago
@DoctorNambu Just human nature I guess
LoneWolf051 3 months ago
@LoneWolf051 so what about people (like me) that have family from Europe and native Americans?
USSWISCONSIN64 1 month ago
@USSWISCONSIN64 same like me, I'm Irish, and Cherokee Indian
LoneWolf051 1 month ago
@LoneWolf051 my mom told me what part is indian but i don't remember. but i am mostly Finnish. :)
USSWISCONSIN64 1 month ago
i dont get it it was designed by a canadian but why do they call it an american gun
29yoface 5 months ago
@29yoface Because 'American' isn't really a race save for Native Americans. We're comprised of a bunch of different races; we just happen to all be living/born/raised in the USA. For instance, I'm of Asian descent but I was born in the USA, therefore I am Asian-American. You could call me Asian, or you could call me American. Either way works.
NumPad 5 months ago
@NumPad im asian too but canadian instead of american
29yoface 5 months ago
@29yoface I personally think its because the US Army were the ones that adopted it.
MrSilver497 4 months ago
@29yoface It's very simple really. John Garand moved to Connecticut. when he was a very young child. He got all his experience in the United States. He designed it in the United States, and for the US military so it's an American gun.
esh325 4 months ago
@esh325 He was born Canadian though how do you know an American had the brains to do what he did (no offense)
DoctorNambu 3 months ago
@DoctorNambu The man was educated in America though. There were many semi automatic rifles designers competing against the Garand, some were agruebally more reliable. The Johnson rifle, for example, actually outperformed the M1 Garand in mud and sand testing.
esh325 3 months ago
@29yoface if someone is born in the U.S. the person is an American citizen same principle toward the M1, and the inventor moved here and worked on the M1 in an American Armory, using American money, Canada had nothing to do with the project.
Airsoftfan3006 4 months ago
The weapon that killed Jaws. Lol
wow5883 5 months ago
@wow5883 Haha yes. M1 Garand + Oxygen tank is a deadly combination.
TaZ101SAGA 4 months ago
I never understood why they have the M14 and M1 on the list when they are made basically from the same design. Better having hte M1 on the list.
nightfireivey 5 months ago
@nightfireivey They are very similar, but not exactly the same. The M14 is slightly lighter and shorter then the M1 Garand. The M14 is fully automatic and semi automatic where the M1 Garand is only semi automatic. The M14 uses a detachable 20 round magazine where the M1 Garand has a fixed magazine that is fed with a 8 round en bloc clip. The M14 uses a short stroke piston gas system where the M1 Garand uses longs stroke piston gas system. The M1 Garand fires 7.62x63 where the M14 fires 7.62x51.
esh325 5 months ago
@esh325 Thanks for that info. The M14 is a good weapon no doubt but I dont think it should of made that list.
nightfireivey 5 months ago
@esh325 Doesnt the Garand Fire Thirty Aught Six?[30-06.]
ItEaChUsTuNtS 5 months ago
@ItEaChUsTuNtS 7.62x63 is the same exact thing as 30/06, just in metric.
esh325 5 months ago
so was buddy just born in canada and he lived in the states?
odst444666 5 months ago
14 people are communists
Joehand87 5 months ago
1:01 whacking off really fast huh xD wtf here come the egg head!!! 1:04
tgchan 5 months ago
lol canadian ahhhh im happy
blackfox479 6 months ago
damn good gun!, but they didn't put Mosin Nagant, SVT-40 and Gewehr43
auvar100 6 months ago
@auvar100 Theres a reason for that ya know
LoneWolf051 6 months ago
YES CANADIAN RIFLE
dinison6 6 months ago
@dinison6 Canada? no, the M-1 was "born" in Springfield Massachussetts ;)
LoneWolf051 6 months ago
@LoneWolf051 yes but it was designed by a Canadian engineer
dinison6 6 months ago
@dinison6 He was 7 when he became an American, that would mean he would have to had been working for the Canadian military and had been a licenced weapons engineer before the age of 7.
LoneWolf051 6 months ago
@LoneWolf051 he is somewhat canadian
dinison6 6 months ago
@dinison6 Yes, somewhat, somewhat like 7 years Canadian, 80 years American
LoneWolf051 6 months ago
@dinison6 You're wrong...sorry.
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royalcityman 6 months ago
Even in the virtual battlefield of Call of Duty, performance of this rifle is spectacular. I love it. I wish I could get my hands on these babies.
dgg094 6 months ago
country of origin : united states FALSE
it Canadian
alexpower15 7 months ago
@alexpower15 Springfield Armory is in Canada? wow, I always thought it was in Massachussetts.
LoneWolf051 7 months ago
@LoneWolf051 he the m-1 get buy bye springfield armory but originally it was created in canada
alexpower15 7 months ago
@alexpower15 The M-1 rifle was invented in the Springfield Armory in 1923 by an employee named John Garand. Canada had nothing to do with it.
LoneWolf051 7 months ago
@LoneWolf051 It was 'Officially' invented in the US by a Canadian. So there you go.
royalcityman 6 months ago
@royalcityman Yeah, a former Canadian, but the rifle itself was all American made.
LoneWolf051 6 months ago
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royalcityman 6 months ago
@LoneWolf051 I looked into it. He became a US citizen when he was 32. Apparently there was no 'Dual Citizenship' status in those days. As far as I'm concerned, that's just the paperwork. I'm still waving my flag :)
royalcityman 6 months ago
@royalcityman Tru, but the rifle was born in Massachussetts, thus American
LoneWolf051 6 months ago
@alexpower15 no dumb ass it was made in america by an american citizen, yes john cantius garand was an american citizen
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royalcityman 6 months ago
0:45... "the rifle that won world war 2"... Sorry that was the Mosin Nagant
Fishfins 7 months ago
@Fishfins Actually, in real life, no single rifle won the war to be "the rifle that won the war" it would need to have fought in EVERY theater, and be used by EVERY ALLIED nation as a standard service rifle. No single rifle won the war...mass production won the war. The M-1 was the most effective and advanced service rifle of the war, but it didnt "win" the war, neither did the Mosin Nagant, or any other service rifle.
LoneWolf051 7 months ago
@Fishfins This documentary is so full of shit it isnt even funny, they say the "ping" was a "dreaded flaw" and everyone died from it, which is complete BS, since its such a tiny little sound in battle, and a single ping means 1 man is out, not the whole squad, platoon, ect. Then they say John Garand was a Canadian engineer, which is also BS, he was an AMERICAN engineer, with an American education. They also said the Enfield bolt action rifle has a faster fire rate than modern assault rifles!!
LoneWolf051 7 months ago
@TheGarnest You are a little queer. This dialogue is over. Go have sex with your mother.
snakemanmike 7 months ago
@TheGarnest Hey little snotnose punk- I am a combat veteran of three wars. You are an idiot. You know nothing, so you shut up. Real men have tried and failed to shut me up. A little punk like you would piss his pants if he ever faced me in person.
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STL308 7 months ago
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louisekaille 7 months ago
it pisses me off when americans say they won the war themselves, they didn't you had british, polish, french, greeks, etc. same with guns, lee-enfield, mosin nagant, the list is endless
joc69uk32 7 months ago
@joc69uk32 I agree, its annoying as hell, now the M-1 may have been the best service rifle of the war, but saying "we won the war with this rifle" is a pretty stupid thing to say..........and I'm Ameican myself.
LoneWolf051 7 months ago
@LoneWolf051 yeah, ruchard venola was pretty dumb to say it was the rifle that won the war. other countries didn't use it!
joc69uk32 7 months ago
@joc69uk32 *richard
joc69uk32 7 months ago
@joc69uk32 People like that, ya just have to ignore, life's too short to waste on them.
LoneWolf051 7 months ago
@LoneWolf051 lol
joc69uk32 7 months ago
The "ping" myth is bullshit, and it destroys the credibility of the filmmakers that they put this military version of an urban myth out there. Soldiers do not operate alone. Everyone's rifle does not empty at the same time. Even if you could hear the "ping" of the ejected clip, pop up, and his buddy will shoot you. Use some common sense, folks. I am a combat veteran, and I can tell you that the noise on the battlefield is load and confusing. The M-1 was the best rifle of WW2, period.
snakemanmike 7 months ago
@snakemanmike what about any other battle rifles of the era? like the mosin-nagant, the mas 36, or the lee enfield? i can understand that a soldier in the field forms a tight bond with his weapon, but really all the battle rifles of that era were great, and many people argee with this fact, just throwing that out there
TheRunawayjew 7 months ago
The loudest sound on a battle field is a trigger pulled on an empty chamber.
Bill1405 7 months ago
service length kiss my ass...
198CharlesMartel198 8 months ago
M1 is good, but KAR98b is Much Better or the SVT40 EVEN DA MP34 UND MP40 ARE BETTER!!!
rolinjet 10 months ago
@rolinjet Yes, I'd much rather have a 5-shot, bolt-action rifle over an eight-shot, semi-automatic rifle, and would ESPECIALLY love submachine guns with an effective range of 50-100 meters over a rifle with an effective range of 400+m with a lot of stopping power, usually only requiring one round.
ChrisHun7er 10 months ago
@ChrisHun7er Of course now we have assault rifles and carbines, but back then a Garand would be one of the best weapons to carry. It would be nice to have a Thompson at the closest ranges, but you didn't exactly get that close too often in WWII.
RedSandStudios 10 months ago
@RedSandStudios Except in Europe, with its small hamlets, farms, towns, villages and cities. Or the Pacific, on those tiny islands, and close range jungle fights.
LoneWolf051 9 months ago
@ChrisHun7er Kar98b, even if is a bolt-action riffle, its accurancy and range is too high, perfect long-distance battle, M1 used on automatic and urban Combats (we must to remember that many combats of WWII were on Villages and Citys) MP Series Were pretty good, in thats aspect, are better. And everybody knows that Semi-automatic has les accurancy than bolt Action, how every, Germany had the Best Weaponary in that time!
rolinjet 10 months ago
@rolinjet LOL, not in reality, its actually the complete opposite, and no SMGs are not better at 500 yards.
LoneWolf051 9 months ago
@LoneWolf051 Yes, you said it, ACTUALLY, at times of WWII, many combats used to be a short ranges, cause the mission of America were push out the Wehrmacht from occupied Citys, and why weaponary is it much better, by Many Reason, The effective of Wehrmacht was 1 to 5, so The Casualitys by Germany used to be 80% less than Allies, in the France Front, but, they lost only by reasons of Numbers, The Allies were too much for them, so russia kicked they asses! but they had the best weaponary
rolinjet 9 months ago
@rolinjet Yeah well best tanks at least, but then again that depends on what you classify as better, or overly designed and impractical.
LoneWolf051 9 months ago
garand kinda looks like that guy from willy wonka.
canadianAK47 10 months ago
the Ak was designed to hit a five inch group at 100 meters.. it uses an underpowered cartridge and is pretty much a weapon that is good for 250 meters.. the M1 is accurate up to 600 yards with iron sights and a good operator the 3006 is a thousand meter cartridge.. according to my Bro in law.. paratrooper in Korea. when ever the clip ejected it was a signal for every chinese in the neighborhood to jump and fire.. the big problem with the m1 was not being able to top off the mag.
Justinbilings 10 months ago
@Justinbilings You can top off an M1, I do it all the time. And why would the Chinese commit suicide by running into enemy firing squads because of 1 man out of 50 running out?
LoneWolf051 10 months ago
aiming, aiming. fire! PAF!!! a damn mist. :O germans spotted me. DEAD!
GunMaker91 10 months ago
The whole thing about the ping is overblown. First of all, on the battlefield, the overall noise is so loud, and everything is so chaotic that a single pinging sound would hardly be noticed. Second, soldiers fight as a unit.. What are the odds that everyone's rifle would be empty at the same time? When your rifle ejects that clip, odds are that you will have 5-10 fellow squad members who have loaded rifles and are still firing. The old ping story is likely a military urban myth, IMHO.
snakemanmike 10 months ago 33
@snakemanmike Anyone who says "oh the ping sound got so many soldiers killed, its a fatal flaw" is a tell tale sign that they have no idea what combat is like. I do combat reenactments, and that sound is completely drowned out, all you see is the clip pops out, with no sound. The very instant the clip ejects, is the same instant the gunshot is heard, so the clip ejecting is impossible to hear, you can only hear it when it hits the ground, however if you're on dirt or grass, it makes no sound.
LoneWolf051 10 months ago
@snakemanmike actually soldiers would use spent m1 garand clips and bang them against rocks. the enemy would pop up and get his head blown off. this technique actually was used to pretty good effect
mrmastercheif7 10 months ago
@mrmastercheif7 Until they caught on to it, then US troops began throwing the clips OVER the german positions, in close range fights, to make them think theres Americans BEHIND them or on their flanks...psychological torture, hehe.
LoneWolf051 9 months ago
@LoneWolf051 lol right you are sir!
mrmastercheif7 9 months ago
@snakemanmike in close quarters combat, the pinging sound can be heard easily, even with all the gunfire. And when you're empty, you'll probably be dead when your squadmates notice there was some stealthy guy waiting for the ping
pedrod9basket 9 months ago
@pedrod9basket And its easy to kill anyone with a bolt action rifle, just shoot him in between his cycling time.
LoneWolf051 9 months ago
@LoneWolf051 I'm talking about Japanese killing Americans when they're empty, not vice versa
pedrod9basket 9 months ago
@pedrod9basket Yeah that happened on some occasions in extreme close combat (clearing pillboxes, houses, ect), but was only restricted to extreme close range, and had to be on hard surfaces, so it could actually be heard, but it wasnt nearly as common as the US troops using the bolt action cycle time against the enemy, which was very common and used at all ranges.
LoneWolf051 9 months ago
@LoneWolf051 A trained soldier does not stand in the open when cycling or reloading. Not an easy kill, soldiers arnt stupid.
HuErigerable 8 months ago
@HuErigerable When he ducks back behind cover to cycle the bolt, you aim where he's going to pop back up, then when he does to take another shot, you get him.
LoneWolf051 8 months ago
When your empty, your covered.
HuErigerable 8 months ago
@HuErigerable not ALWAYS when you think about it. The japs and krauts are damn smart as well
pedrod9basket 8 months ago
@pedrod9basket the krauts yes, the japs where just crazy.
TheGingerTechie 7 months ago
@snakemanmike not every waking moment of WWII had deafening explosions going off. Open plains with small German patrols in those little towns could have been quite enough to hear the ping sound.
TheGingerTechie 7 months ago
@snakemanmike what is the old ping story?
TheWhole9Yards1001 7 months ago
@TheWhole9Yards1001 That the ping sound when the clip was ejected got people killed, because the enemy know that your rifle was empty. Total bullshit.
snakemanmike 7 months ago
@snakemanmike whell i t makes sense doesnt it? the ping gives away enemy posittion right?
TheWhole9Yards1001 7 months ago
@TheWhole9Yards1001 Yeah, its an old romantic hollywood myth about the tiny little metallic pinging sound the clip makes after it ejects from the rifle getting everyone killed because the enemy magically heard it, in reality its impossible to hear outside of a few feet. It was never a problem in battle, except when clearing houses and buildings, where the enemy was very close range, but even then, they usually used that sound to make a break and run away when you were reloading.
LoneWolf051 7 months ago
@snakemanmike Of course, on an open battlefield, the PINGing sound is irrelevant, lost in the noise of the fight. But in urban house to house fighting, god knows that happenned A LOT, when opponents are in the same storey or house, or other small scale fighting, I'm pretty sure the pinging sound is a bit more of a factor.
ouimaisnon100 7 months ago
@snakemanmike single airborne soldiers ?
alcapone796 7 months ago
@snakemanmike I know right, when was the last time you saw a soldier fighting by himself
TheTRAVISJUNIOR 6 months ago
@snakemanmike I think everyone should remeber the Discovery channel blabber mouth Morons here are also staying total crap about other firearms, just look at these morons talking about the hunk of Russian crap AK 47 that does jam it has a nasty habbit of blowing up and its so inaccurate that a 12 guage loaded with 00 Buck shot shoots same patterns at the AK !
These Discovery jerk wads are only trying to make ratings for the Disovery channel !
Moldovawineimporter 6 months ago
@Moldovawineimporter And dont forget the shit about the Lee Enfield having a faster rate fo fire than "most modern automatic weapons"
Or how the M-1 Garand's "Ping" sound was heard by "everybody and their brother",yeah,go into battle with an M-1, THEN you'll see how stupid that comment was. Or how John Garand was a "Canadian engineer", yet he came to the US when he was 7 years old! so IF he was a Canadain engineer, he would have to had been a licenced engineer in Canada BEFORE the age of 7!!!!!
LoneWolf051 6 months ago
@LoneWolf051 What are your blabbering about ?
You must have smoken some serious crack and Meth together !
Moldovawineimporter 6 months ago
@Moldovawineimporter LOL, no, I have standards. I was pointing out the things this documentary says.
LoneWolf051 6 months ago
@LoneWolf051 Yep you must have standards alright you only smoke more expencive dope and you play the best of Russian war video games that teach you everything you ever learned about firearms .
You can always tell the biggest jackass on you tube videos if they have Russian war video games on their Channel information .
Moldovawineimporter 6 months ago 2
@Moldovawineimporter "Russian war" video games? no, nothing like that on my channel. Your accusation information is invalid, please try again
LoneWolf051 6 months ago
@LoneWolf051 Oh really, I just looked at your channel and there they are Russian video war games !
Looks like you are a full blown You Tube liar like so many punk on these forums .
Moldovawineimporter 6 months ago
@Moldovawineimporter I see no Russian war games on my profile. Just Brothers in Arms.
LoneWolf051 6 months ago
@LoneWolf051 Your a crack head thats been smoken so much meth and crack you can't see strait !
Moldovawineimporter 6 months ago
@Moldovawineimporter Oh, I get it now...Sir Trollsalot
LoneWolf051 6 months ago
this.is.my.most.favorite.gun.ever.invented.BING!! thumbs up if u get it
MegaExplosives 10 months ago
if you got shot in the chest from that would you die from 1 bullet?
jordan3727 10 months ago
@jordan3727 You'd die instantly, probably not even feel it.
LoneWolf051 10 months ago
@jordan3727 oh yes. such a powerful round is instant death.
112ALONE 10 months ago
@supergodzillaman2 Dont hink the enemy was that stupid as to stick there heads up while there was a firing line of Americans shooting at them.
LoneWolf051 11 months ago
the mosin nagant won the war
FrankieJames7 11 months ago
@FrankieJames7 To win the war it would have to see action on all fronts, in all theaters, combat all axis forces,and be used in all Allied hands. No rifle won the war, in fact no single anything won the war, it was mass production that won it.
LoneWolf051 11 months ago
God I wish I had one lol I love M1 Garands
roberto3151991 11 months ago
0:55
Kind of an awkward camera-shot...
bjpw1234 11 months ago
number 4? WTF
NUMBER 1!
112ALONE 1 year ago
@112ALONE NO WAY OUR SOVIET AK-47 IS THE BEST BUT YOU AMERICANS ARE JELOUS BECOSE YOU CANT MAKE GUN BETTER THAN AK-47 ITS SO OLD BUT YOU CANT MAKE ANYTHING BETTER. CCCP ЕТО СИЛА !
Latviansoldier 10 months ago
@Latviansoldier well... the M1 has
the power
the accuracy
the range
and while the AK has full auto.. it isnt as powerful, not as accurate. the m1 is also very durable.
and we CAN make something better, my friend and i are designing an assault rifle firing a 50 cal short round, which will have recoil like a 9mm, but the power of a full 50.
its all a matter of opinion i think. personally, i am an excellent shot with my M1, so i would always choose that over anything else.
112ALONE 10 months ago
@112ALONE Ohhh are you idiot ? AK-47 is accurat in my hands,in my fathers hands , well mayby you just dont now how to shoot and ak-47 and ak-47 is powerful and can shoot through rails and anothers stuff and if you dont now things about ak-47 then dont say anything you dont know anything about CCCP.
Latviansoldier 10 months ago
@Latviansoldier No matter how skilled you or your father are, the AK-47 and it's variants are NOT anywhere close to the M1 Garand's accuracy past 300 yards and the M1 Garand is still more accurate within 300 yards, as it has a better cartridge, a longer barrel, better rifling, and really better everything regarding accuracy and precision.
ChrisHun7er 10 months ago
@ChrisHun7er Now thats why we have our awesome SVD SKS SVT you just cant make bettter guns okay you can throw them everywhere and they will work.
Latviansoldier 10 months ago
@Latviansoldier from what i have seen, you can throw an M1basically anywhere, and itl still work. not saying that you cant do the same with your sks rifles, i am just stating a fact.
112ALONE 10 months ago
@112ALONE Well we can throw our guns everywhere and they will work and you have more details soo it means longer cleaning. P.S CMON its Russia our guns are the best.
Latviansoldier 10 months ago
@Latviansoldier Just the Ak
LoneWolf051 10 months ago
@LoneWolf051 Just the garand .
Latviansoldier 10 months ago
@Latviansoldier ...and BAR, and Thompson, and M-14, and Wichester, and Colt 1911, and the Browning High Power, and the Springfield, and the M1919, and the Browning Auto 5, and the Peacemaker, and the Henry, and the Kentucky rifle, and Browning M2, and the Gatling gun, and the Brown Bess and M1 Carbine, and Barrett, and Mini gun, and the Grease Gun, and the Spencer, and the M-60, and the Kriss.
LoneWolf051 10 months ago
@LoneWolf051 You know what i dont gonn write any thing becose i know that Russian guns are better and one AK-47 is better than all your guns.
Latviansoldier 10 months ago
@Latviansoldier HAHAHAHA, you think the AK is better than every single western weapon?. Typical uneducated, opinionated, ignorant Russian response, no wonder that country is in a state of extreme poverty and mass decay, with a horrible, brainwashed education system.
IN REALITY, the AK is really not better than anything, its cheap, easy to make, and has good reliability, then again most 21st century western guns have the same reliability as the AK.
LoneWolf051 10 months ago
@LoneWolf051 You are laughting now but when theres gonna be some cind of war or something i gonn laught with my friends and comrades we will se which guns gonna win you just dont know how to shoot ak-47 and thats why we made AKM its better than ak-47 and then we made AK-74 . P.S Russian weapons are the best Russian tanks,pistols ,and another stuff.
Latviansoldier 10 months ago
@Latviansoldier ....we have alien technology.
LoneWolf051 10 months ago
@LoneWolf051 OMG YOU ARE SOOOOO DUMB DRUNK RUSSIAN MAN ADDICTED TO VODKA IS SMARTER THAN YOU.
Latviansoldier 10 months ago
@Latviansoldier .....*facepalm*
LoneWolf051 10 months ago
@LoneWolf051 Thats right FACEPALM YOU ARE SOOOOO DUMB !!!!!!!! YOU GET DRUNK FROM ONE SIP OF BEER !!!!!
Latviansoldier 10 months ago
@Latviansoldier ACTUALLY, the M1 cleans pretty well. for me anyway. theres 3 main parts: the trigger assembly, the buttstock, and the barrel and reciever assembly. they all separate in a matter of .3 seconds, and clean quite easily. unless of course, you want to go the full 100 yds and decide to take the op rod off, and the gas tube assembly. then it takes a bit longer. but for a basic cleaning, its quite simple.
can we agree that both rifles are good in the hands of a skilled user? i think so.
112ALONE 10 months ago
@112ALONE Well now you speak like normal guy but still ak is better.
Latviansoldier 10 months ago
@ChrisHun7er ahh, finally someone who agrees with me. thank you, sir.
112ALONE 10 months ago
@Latviansoldier im not an idiot. maybe you are a good shot with an AK. but i am a good shot with an M1, which, can also shoot through many things as well, being that it uses a larger round. and im not saying that im a genius and that i know everything there is to know about CCCP.
do you know everything about the M1? maybe, maybe not.
like i said, in my opinion, i prefer the M1 over the AK. can we settle this here like civilized people? you can have you AK-47, and i will have my M1.
112ALONE 10 months ago
@tavjas not quite, the mosin was not the only weapon available to the red army. You must also remember, while the USSR did tear the guts out from the nazi war machine, they lost 28 MILLION men in the process, almost an entire generation, gone!
This amount of casualties and such was mostly due to Stalin becoming paranoid and executing most of his good generals. (remember the winter war? yeah.. that's what happens too)
The USSR would have run out of bodies to throw at the enemy eventually.
russianbear0027 1 year ago
if the first time you pick up a weapon from the mud and it fires first time, and again, then it's a great weapon....except for the "ping"
iltidsn 1 year ago
@iltidsn the ping can also be used to an advantage fire then throw the clip when he sticks his head up bang
musicroks1597530 1 year ago
i have a question any1 can answer this, who won the vietnam or usa?
cooldude12345wetr 1 year ago
bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang TING!
LambOfGod52 1 year ago 80