Destroy your M1 Garand

i'd hand it over intact.... when it's hot and empty.... pointy end first.

or just pee all over it and hope the humidity rusts it out before they can clean it.
 
Somehow I doubt the Japanese would have used any intact American firearms that they may have found...they didn't have the Emperors symbol/blessing on them.
 
not so! They used captured stocks of gew88, mausers, and even american arms. Mostly for rear-echelon duty. They also widely used captured bren guns.
 
My guess would be to fire a shot right through the reciever and bolt of each gun.
 
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Fill the barrel with mud, tie it to a tree , put a string on the trigger load a round in the chamber from a safe distance pull the trigger string. kaboom gun blown up.
 
Yes they even tried to make a copy of the M-1 Garand itself. Some of these Japanese experimental rifles still exist in US Collections today.
 
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See Page 91 of Bruce N. Canfield's U.S. Infantry Weapons Of World War II.

"The M1's first significant combat use was in the ill-fated battles in the Phillippines on Corregidor and Bataan, where early versions of the M1 were used with great effectiveness even though our troops were crippled by inadequate ammunition supplies."
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His plan of induction had hardly been completed when MacArthur began to request from the War Department large amounts of supplies for his Philippine troops. During August alone he called for 84,500 Garand rifles (M1), 330 .30-caliber machine guns, 326 .50-caliber antiaircraft machine guns, 450 37-mm. guns, 217 81-mm. mortars, 288 75-mm. guns with high-speed adapters, and over 8,000 vehicles of all types for the ten Philippine Army divisions he planned to mobilize.[19] On 18 September he was told that because of lend-lease commitments and production schedules it would not be possible to send most of these items. Especially unwelcome was the news that Garand rifles were not available and that the Philippine Army divisions would have to continue to use the Enfield and '03s with which they were equipped.[
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They may have recieved a few Garands, but it don't think they got to many..
 
During battle school we had a class on how to destroy things like C6's and stuff in the event of being overrun etc. A bit Cold War-ish I thought, but basically you just take the bolt out and scatter the firing pin and other assorted pieces. There's also like Big Guy said taking the thing and planting in muzzle down in the ground with some para-cord around the trigger and shooting it. There was a 4 part list of what to destroy given enough time, firing pin and action being first and destroying the barrel being 3rd if I recall, forget what the fourth one was. Either way it'll work. Though why you'd have enough time to jam a machine gun into the ground and make a string contraption to fire it instead of just running away and taking it with you was never properly explained. Long and short of it, the military has apparently thought of this in detail.
 
Gentlemen,
Don't get nuts guys your way is just as good as mine. I just thought that we take care of ours and what would we have to do to DESTROY it in just a few min.'s Destroy my M1 Garand. Take the end of the last butt you will see for a few years smoke it down then put the end into the muzzle and fire one round. When the bullet hits the butt it will blow right thru leaving what is called a Gas Ring right at the gas port. Very hard to see but any rounds fired after that will have almost no gas coming out because most of it will by pass the Gas Ring and targeting will just be all over the place. It is also hard to spot. I have 1 barrel that was destroyed like that.
Thanks again
Clancy
 
Calum said:
Somehow I doubt the Japanese would have used any intact American firearms that they may have found...they didn't have the Emperors symbol/blessing on them.
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In Col. George's book "Shots Fired in Anger' about his WWII exprience he discuusses the extensive use of captured arms by the Japanese. He lists US Krags, M03s, and M17, British SMLEs and Dutch Mannlichers used on Guadalcanal.
 
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