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Uploaded by on Jan 28, 2009

Opening & then closing the bolt of an M1 Garand rifle. Careful not to get your thumb caught!

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  • @omgwaffels96

    its most likely true being ive heard of it as well. Stranger things have happened like the one Airborne soldier who shot a Zero down with his 1911 while suspended in air parachute open. While not killing the plane itself, they did find the Zero which had one hole through the glass right into the skull of the Zero pilot.

  • @112ALONE Name the documented cases then.

  • @112ALONE Well theres only a couple documented cases of that, it quickly failed because the enemy didnt care if a couple soldiers in a platoon was out, advancing is still death. Plus if it was in a firefight, you wouldnt hear that tiny sound anyways in constrast to all the gunfire, and if you happened to be fighting on a soft ground surface, it'd muffle it completely, even the shooter would be hard pressed to hear it.

  • @truffyt no doubt about it. as great as the M1 is, its way to large to use in clearing a room, and by the time youve got it on target, you could have been shot. like you said, grenades were the main thing used when clearing rooms, just watch band of brothers or saving private ryan.

  • @112ALONE I've heard that too.

  • @112ALONE this is true

  • @Choncho203 yeah, not worth the risk.

    ive heard though, that in the pacific theater, soldiers would reload and then take empty clips and throw several on the ground in rapid succession to trick the enemy into advancing. the soldiers would start shooting as the unaware enemies walked into the trap.

    sounds horrible, but i guess war, is war.

  • @112ALONE

    also why would somebody jump out of cover and start shooting when they hear a ping, there is other soldiers with him that have loaded guns ready to shoot

  • @benthenoobernator Point there, though grenades were still prefered for obvious reasons if there was reason to believe enemy troops occupied a room. And it doesn't change the fact that the room clearing/SWAT angle on the Garand is fucking retarded CoD shit.

  • @truffyt ever heard of a bayonet or handgun?

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