M1 Rifle (Garand) Loading and Unloading (TF 8-03)
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- This training film covers the loading and unloading of the US Rifle, Caliber .30, M1 (Garand) per FM 23- 5.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:43 Loading a Cartridge Clip
02:29 Loading
03:22 Loading a Partial Clip
04:08 Unloading
05:16 Single Loading
''best battle implement ever devised'' George S Patton.
Great as always mister.
Great quote! Thanks!
Fantastic video. Clear cut. Congrats!
Thanks!
Terrific video. Thank you for all the work.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
Just purchased my first M1 and got Garand Thumbed a few times at the range wish I would've watched your video before taking it to the range thanks for sharing!
Sorry you didn't find my video sooner but at least now you know and can share to hopefully save some thumbs 👍
I thought it was an old video, but when I read the Roman numerals I paused and said "what?" since the numbers read 2021? Upon playing the video again I realized the text was not shaking and the picture quality was good.
That's exactly what I was going for 😊. It does say 2021
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Just brought a Springfield Tipo 2 home today, found this very helpful, thank you :)
Congrats on your new piece of history! Glad it was helpful! We have several others on the Garand also.
The video is 80% accurate. The following is the real-time use of loading the weapon when laying down a field of fire against X-rays. (1) You never have your weapon on safety during a firefight. (2) You do not use your forefinger to pull the operating rod arrears to the operating rod catch. You blade your hand and chop the operating rod back until it catches. (4) You place your clip in position atop the receiver. (5) You blade your hand again and use a backward force of approximately 1/4" until the catch releases. You push the clip down with your thumb until it seats in the receiver, pull your thumb up as if you are hitch-hiking, release the pressure with your right hand as if you were saluting, and let the bolt fly home. Marines will train to do this in 5 seconds. (6) You will never hear a "ping" in a firefight. You know when your weapon is dry, when you pull the trigger and nothing happens. Garands did not have a stainless steel receiver; After 80 rounds (your daily allotment), it needed to be greased again because the metal would heat, expand, and then jam. Not oiled, but heavily greased.
I see no major issues with this and it is certainly a way to get it done. The way described in the video is per the Training Manual.
Just purchased my first M1 Garand and this video was extremely helpful and informative. Thank you!!
Congrats on your new piece of history! Glad you found this helpful! I have several other videos on the M1 you might find useful if you haven't checked them out already. 👍
@@HistoryinFirearms I'll be sure to check out your other videos.
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You forgot to show the M1 thumb LOL I carried one of those for over 3 years.
@@ernestwilliams268 Hopefully, by following the video, the user will not have to experience Garand thumb 😁
How does this instruction compare to what you received when issued the rifle?
I'm impressed with the video, great information
Thanks!
No clue why the thought came to me. But I was wondering how you topped up a Garand without losing a fingernail or having some kind of feed issue as a result. spent a while looking around, I could only find "how to avoid getting garand thumb" vids. You're a light in the darkness lol. Thanks brother man
Thanks, glad I could help answer your question!
Excellent video. Great demonstration from the information in the manual.
Lots of good info in the manuals!
@@HistoryinFirearms yes. I used them more before the interwebs.
I have a Springfield garand in excellent condition with a serial number 1881. From checking serial number manufacture dates, it is from the first military order batch and the first month build? It is beautiful! I think it was re-barreled or it was one of the early one's when they tested different calibers It has a .308 barrel. It also has NM parts!
Very cool! That's an early SN and original would have been a "gas trap" rifle. 👍
Informative as always,sir!
Thanks!
Good video, only thing I'll mention as an alteration or variance is that it is not needed to brace the operating rod with your hand while loading a full clip, this is due to the constant downward pressure of your thumb on the top round and friction between the clip feed lips and other cartridges, as you depress the clip into the magazine. When you hear the click you whip your hand out of the way and the bolt will either go into battery or need a slight bump. You hand will travel faster than the bolt moving to chamber the first round. Even the old 40s TF showed this method
Thank you! What you mentioned is certainly an option while loading. My '40 dated manual instructs to put the hand against the op rod. I wonder if troops were not getting thier thumb out of the way fast enough so they changed the manual.
@@HistoryinFirearms to be honest that is highly likely, going from a small professional army to a large conscription force, they needed to account for the lowest common denominator. The training film "rifle marksmanship with the M1 rifle" from 1943 had a small segment on how to load the rifle as I described while the field manual stated it differently. Again, neither way is wrong but just an interesting variance.
Yeah I find that interesting. Maybe to not over complicate the manual and keep the length down they picked the way that was least likely to cause injury and just did that. Or maybe they realized that wasn't completely necessary but not worth updating the manual, but when training films were produced they gave another option. 🤔
@@HistoryinFirearms my final thought towards the mater is that it simplifies the drill. No matter when loading the rifle with a full or partial clip, or even closing the bolt on a single round or an empty magazine, having the one motion is easier to teach en mass.
@@user-ch9vd4cd3t I’ve never gotten garand thumb while loading the rifle in either method, and trust me I have plenty of practice. The only time I ever got garand thumb was when the action was empty and I was messing with the rifle like a fool trying to solve a timing issue. And it wasn’t even that bad. In the end both ways are correct, so you do you.
Well done , people pay attention , this is learning video how to load it correctly , not the incorrect way as seen else where.
Thanks! It's by the book. 👍
Good video. I trust my M1's enough to not bother holding the rod back while loading the clip however. This is how the rifle was designed and how I will always do it (unless it gives me a reason to not trust it).
Thanks! Yeah mine stays back as well. The technique is what is prescribed in the official manual though. With the large number of rifles the military was dealing with I'm sure it was better to be overly cautious in the training to prevent injuries.
Yeah as long as you maintain pressure on the clip for a split second and then swiftly remove your finger you should be fine. Also I dont understand the nonsense of loading last round to the right side, its the dumbest thing I ever heard, your thumb is at much higher risk of sliding down when you place it on the right, at least from my exp, tho maybe it depends how you're used to push it downward.
I remember these from ROTC, if you weren't careful loading you could get your thumb smash by the closing bolt. Saw more than one inattentive cadet have that happen.
Yeah, have to pay attention and do it the correct way.
よく分かりました、ありがとうございました。
You are welcome.
Nice to see proper loading and unloading; can never get enough!
Doing it right can save some pain in the thumb 👍
日本人です。昔に読んだ記事で新兵がクリップを押し込んだ指を上げずにレバーを戻して親指を挟んで負傷していたとの内容でした。
ドラマコンバットでよく見ていました。
This can definitely be an issue and is referred to as "Garand thumb." It hurts but can be avoided by following these instructions. Thanks for the comment!
It happens from time to time. But it's not that bad. Just a nasty pinch. But after it happens the first time, you become a little more diligent in your manual of arms. 😅
Slt..."The Damned Garand" .....Quelle Arme Historique!! Merci pour cette vidéo...Cdt
You are welcome!
Thanks
I’m a soldier
Thank you.
You are welcome.
Wow I wish I watched this before I took it out for the first time.
Now you know and knowing is half the battle.
My uncle have this gem 💎 and fired it a lot when i was 13😂 but we don’t have this gem and miss this beauty so much❤
They are fun to shoot. To bad you don't have it any more but at least you got the experience.
in an emergency. Requires charging speed. Like an egg on the edge of a horn
Sehr kompliziert zu laden .
It's not as easy as an external box magazine but easier than stripper clip.
It was from a time in history where everything needed to be overly complicated. I think it was a law. Lol
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Thanks
Love my Garand, the only problem ive encountered is that when i load a full clip is it wants to chamber the first round well below the barrel. In other words the round hits below where it needs to go, by like a half inch. Now i am using original 1945 ammo and clips, but also have used new ones and the same problem occurs. Any suggestions??
🤔 When you say below the barrel, the tip of the top round is .5" below the small feed ramps on the barrel and down in the receiver?
@HistoryinFirearms Thanks for responding. It wants to chamber the round early. The top round hits below the chamber and jams there, the force stops the top round and breech from closing. The gun fires great if I insert 1 round at a time.
@@kfiscal01 And it only happens with a full clip? What bullet type are you using? Is it ball/FMJ ammo?
@HistoryinFirearms It's ball, I know sometimes on the M1 you have to use your hand to close the breech to chamber the first round, this seems to be an extreme case of that. It happens regardless if the first round is top right or left. I've tried newer clips and Korea era clips and rounds. Could be operator error, but use to shoot it with dad all the time.
@@kfiscal01 Taking a look at mine, the rounds in the clip can not physically get much below the chamber. If possible it might help to compare it to a rifle that is working and see if you notice any differences or why it may be hanging up. You can also assemble the rifle with out the stock and see how things are working a little easier. Maybe get some dummy rounds and and try loading them that way.
Well done , and the key word is falling in DIRT.
Thanks!
General Douglas McArthur's decision to decline the futuristic .276 cartridge and stick with the .30-06 retains some controversy. To me it appears the subsequent military historians have no gripe with McArthur's reasoning that in the midst of the Great Depression it did not make logical sense to change over to a new rifle cartridge.
I could respond by positing that the U.S. Army would need to continue purchasing rifle cartridges anyway so why not take the opportunity and go with the new, proposed .276 cartridge? It's not without precedent. When the U.S. Army went to a new, bolt-action rifle, the Krag-Jorgenson in the 1890s, it had to accept a new rifle cartridge for it.
True, the U.S. Army had vast stocks of WW1 and post-WW1 era Springfield 03 and P17 bolt action rifles, which is what probably lie uppermost in General McArthur's mind. All of those rifles fired .30-06 rounds. Converting those to fire the .276 might be technically feasible but expensive and in the Great Depression, no one was talking about spending money.
It's exciting to think about what might have been had the U.S. Army adopted the M1 Garand in .276. The en bloc clip would have held ten rounds instead of eight, a twenty percent firepower increase. Felt recoil would have been a little less, but every little bit helps. Later on, the Army might have considered shortening the M1 barrel length from 24 inches to 20 inches, a prospect possible with the smaller .276 cartridge but not so with the overly powerful .30-06 round. Testers who fired the prototype M1 "Tanker" Garand in the spring of 1945 reported the recoil from the eighteen inch barrel rifle was absolutely brutal.
Well put. Always interesting to consider what might have changed based on different developments.
It's a point of pride for me that I have NEVER gotten M1 Thumb. 🤕
And with correct loading you never should. 👍
تفنگ قدیمی و محبوب من!❤ درود بر ایالات متحده آمریکا ✨🇺🇲❤️👍
Glad you enjoyed!
Сложна! Сложна! Нипанятна! Недаром M1 Garand называли "Thumb breaker", или "Пальцеломка".
Yep, have to be careful and know what you are doing.
@@HistoryinFirearms and thanks to you for thorough guide 👍
@@user-yi1sv6dy8m You are welcome!
10/10 would thee again
Thanks!
Yeah there is absolutely no need to hold back the op rod while you load a clip.
Correct, the op rod catch holds it back while loading.
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Robusto. Fuerte eficaz a larga distancia alto poder de penetracion
Yep 👍
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Карабин хороший но выдающий стрелка когда у него закончаться патроны, по звуку звонко вылетающего вкладыша
It does have the distinctive ping. This loud enough to likely let the shoot know they are out but not loud enough to let someone on the receiving end know the shooter is out.
Mi rifle favorito semiautomático. No hay otro igual.
A great rifle that was just a little to late because of an invasion. 👍
For many THE rifle
This is true. 👍
I am still nervous, hahahah!😅
Still have to be careful 😁
Could you in theory have 8+1?
You can not because the clip can not be pushed below the bolt.
@@HistoryinFirearmsAh okay I was just curious and never tried it, I guess when I looked at the partial loading part I thought that maybe it would work.
@@Big-hunter Its a valid question.
If I’m left handed?
Ya know, that's a good question. The manual does not address that.
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Sorry, no prices and nothing is for sale.
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Play Vince Geraldine Christmas
🥜?
Play Christmas song
Seems like that theme wouldn't last throughout the year.
The Army never showed anyone what your doing .
Haha, it's straight out of the Training Manual. The Marine Corps was the same way, though. Nobody read the manuals. 😁
@@HistoryinFirearms HaHa my ass . I took basic training at Fort Dix NJ. We were taught how to load and fire the weapon and how to take it down and clean it , no more no less .
@@robertlosasso4222 Just what you need.
Thanks for your service.
Very old american technology of 1960
The clip style came from an Austrian in the late 1800s, and the M1 Rifle (Garand) was adopted by the US in 1936. So yes, by 1960 it was old technology.
신이 함께 한 총 우리나라는 이 m1총으로 인하여 살아 남은것 같다, 하나님 감사합니다.
It certainly made a difference.
Play misic
Music rights can be tricky. Some background is a good idea though.
I had to stop watching because you kept saying "thee" instead of the.
Sorry 🤷♂️
complete noob. after the 5th round you load the rounds from the top like a 5.56/7.62 mag.
you're immune to garand thumb if you push it all the way down
That is a way to load a clip. That manner is not described in the Field Manual 23-5 for the M1 Rifle though.
Excelente fusil como para volarle la cabeza
I fucking loved drilling with the Garand at US Marine Barracks 8th and I Wash. D.C. That steel butt with taps sounds thunderous off a concrete parade deck 😂😂😂😂😂❤. Semper Fi Devil Dogs.....FJB.
I made it out to 8th and I once, and it's definitely a very cool show out there. Always cool to see the Drill Platoon anywhere though. Definitely something to take pride in. Semper Fi Bro