• tal@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    Can someone here more in the know explain this one for me? I see a clip, and I think that this is some kind of ludicrously hacked-up M1 Garand, but I thought that the Garand used a five-round clip, and those have four rounds.

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      6 days ago

      I’m not even sure where to begin with your numbers. Here’s a picture of an M1 with standard clips.

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        6 days ago

        Oh, okay, the Garand uses an eight round clip, and the rounds aren’t inline. I thought that they were inline, and that each clip in the image was two four-round clips sitting atop each other. Well, today I learned something. Thanks.

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        .30-06 ammunition for the M1903, 1903A3, and M1917 rifles and the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) was issued in five round stripper clips

        That may be what I saw and confused it with, because those look pretty much exactly like the clip that I had thought went in the M1 Garand.

        Confused the clip on the US issue rifle for WW1 and WW2.