M1 Garand History

History of the M1 Garand Rifle. For more firearm information, visit ArmsVault at: http://www.armsvault.com

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[LoneWolf051]

@TechMentalist Huh, the K98 "poorly made" whoever said that is obviously not familiar at all with firearms

[LoneWolf051]

@TheFoozyman The M1 rifle could use a bayonet, or a muzzle mount for a rifle grenade, however the rifle grenades were very slow to load, and werent that accurate or effective. The Garand was very accurate, more than the Arisaka rifles, FAR more accurate than the very poorly made Carcano rifles, the Kar98, Mosin, and 1903 Springfield rifles were slightly more accurate, but the M1 outshot them in speed and firepower, the M1 was the greatest rifle of the war, and one of the greatest of all time.

[gamebro100]

Ah my choice of weapon.

[LoneWolf051]

@MrOhaiMark The G43 was also a very rare weapon in battle especuially on the Western Front, 2-4 rifles in every platoon, issued to squad leaders, specialists, or machine gun teams, then, most troops preferred the MP-40 or Mauser 98 over it, or if they were lucky, American M-1 rifles or carbines

[LoneWolf051]

@MrOhaiMark The M-1 also had better sights with better sight picture, I've seen many reports and veteran accounts that many German soldiers would often scavenge American M-1's over the G-43's in fact after the G43 went up against the M-1 in Italy, the German High Command saw how the Gewehr wasnt up to par with the M-1, and ordered it to be used as a specialist's weapon, away from the frontlines, there, as a sniper's weapon, it did a respectable job, as a service rifle, it was decent.

[LoneWolf051]

@MrOhaiMark The Garand was also simpler to take apart and clean, had better egronomics, and was cheaper to produce with better quality. Both were gas operated, and could fire as fast as you could pull their triggers, fire rate was the same. The G43's accuracy was good, but varied depending on build quality, which was not always good, unlke the Garand. Relaoding the G43 was slower, since it required 2 clips of 5 rounds to be loaded in one after the other, while the M1 only had 1 clip

[MX1eleven]

@LoneWolf051

Might as well strike all those thumbs up ratings from your record, because he didn't say the K98 was poorly made. The guy made a mistake by not adding a period after he said the "Carcano rifles" were poorly made. Look at his comment again...

[iluv2viddyfilms]

sure is a great gun!

[downloadgoblin]

@MrOhaiMark When you said "higher rate of fire" when comparing semi-automatic rifles I almost laughed. You think a rifleman is going to fire off the full round per minute capabilities of that rifle? I don't think his trigger finger could even move that fast! Not even to mention how accurate he would be! Accuracy wise, the gewehr had a shorter barrel, which generally means... less accurate. Finally, no... the Gewehr can't be reloaded "twice as fast" as the Garand... this isn't call of duty.

[MrOhaiMark]

@curseofa5r5a

I think that's a load of allied propaganda bullshit. The gewhr43 was more accurate, had a higher rate of fire, and could reload almost twice as fast. The only thing the M1 had on the gewhr was it was more reliable, although in general the g43 was actually pretty reliable too.

[curseofa5r5a]

@MrOhaiMark maybe the SVT but the G43 was unreliable and complex... at least thats what they said

[MrOhaiMark]

Isn't the gewhr43 just as good?