Embarassing Garand Encounter

[sbcman]

I was performing a funeral today for a church member. He had served in the Korean War and had full military honors. I'm not for sure, and any Army guys please correct me if wrong, but I think the Color Guard had M1 nickel plated rifles. Anyway, one of the guys in the line cracks off the first shot and the rifle jams. He just goes through the procedure in the next two shots but when it was over he took the bolt back and "fling" out came the whole mag!

Don't know what went wrong and I was a little embarassed for him. Good thing is that I believe I was the only one that noticed it.

Those are gorgeous rifles they use, by the way.

 

[HandK]

M1 Garands are designed to do just that! they have an 8 round clip when the last round is fired it will eject the empty clip.

 

[sbcman]

Yes, but this clip had all the rounds in-tact, save for the first one that jammed it.

 

[Scutter01]

Yes, but this clip had all the rounds in-tact.

Maybe it was a French Garand.

 

[GARANDGUY]

Timing issue or worn out spring ang catch. I had one do that to me. Mine turned out to be it needed a new spring and bullet guide.

 

[DragonGunner]

Timing issue or worn out spring ang catch. I had one do that to me. Mine turned out to be it needed a new spring and bullet guide.

Sounds about right.

 

[edsinger]

Maybe it was a French Garand.

Consider yourself warned Mod or not. We shall not tolerate any derogatory statements about the French. You should be ashamed saying things like this.








































































yeah Right....

 

[Indycar]

At least the bolt didn't slam home, giving him the infamous M1 thumb and cause him to scream during the funeral!

 

[thompal]

Maybe it was a French Garand.

Naahhh. It would have never fired the first shot. It would have simply fallen to the floor.

 

[jgreiner]

Naahhh. It would have never fired the first shot. It would have simply fallen to the floor.

sure, it would have fired...and a little white flag would have come out of the barrel.....

 

[Bunnykid68]

Maybe it was a French Garand.

So you're saying it surrendered

 

[jmiller676]

A French tank has 1 gear for drive and 5 gears for reverse.

 

[Phil502]

You guys are funny.

 

[Leo]

Are you talking about the gun salute? They shoot blanks for that use. Quite a few years ago the Government quit contracting for and supplying the good blanks for the Legion to use for funerals. The commercially available chinese blanks are just plain awful in quality, and cause many jams/ malfunctions. I was able to buy/sell/swap trade for a case of the old USA made blanks for a friend that is part of the honor guard at the local legion chapter. If anyone still has the good blanks around, call up the American Legion, and they will help you find a contact to donate them. It is a shame, with all the money we spend foolishly in this country, that we cannot spare a few good blanks for military funerals.

 

[Bill B]

On the left side of the rifle is the "magazine" release button. If you aren't careful you can push it if you use the "rest the stock on right leg, hold rifle with left hand near trigger guard, pull charging handle with right hand" method.
Or, he may have just been clearing the mag after he was done.
We wait until the ceremony is over before clearing rifles, but who knows.
We were having a lot of problems with fte/ftf for a while, then myself and another member removed the blank adapters, cleaned the heck out of rifles, and put them back together. Not one bit of trouble since.

 

[Bill B]

Are you talking about the gun salute? They shoot blanks for that use. Quite a few years ago the Government quit contracting for and supplying the good blanks for the Legion to use for funerals. The commercially available chinese blanks are just plain awful in quality, and cause many jams/ malfunctions. I was able to buy/sell/swap trade for a case of the old USA made blanks for a friend that is part of the honor guard at the local legion chapter. If anyone still has the good blanks around, call up the American Legion, and they will help you find a contact to donate them. It is a shame, with all the money we spend foolishly in this country, that we cannot spare a few good blanks for military funerals.

IIRC we (VFW post) purchased ours less than three years ago. It wasn't GI, but it was USA made.

 

[Leo]

Bill, would you be so kind as to message me the information on where you got the 30-06 blanks? I would be glad to pass that information along. Thank you for your service.

 

[MrSmitty]

Naahhh. It would have never fired the first shot. It would have simply fallen to the floor.

Rep'd!!!!! so true!