Is it the proper way to stack Garands?

[HasegawaYamato]

Trying to do it right...
I wouldnt tell anybody that I got myself 3 garands just for this

 

[FALover]

looks good from here

 

[can14]

Other than unsafe storage example, it looks right

 

[olivedrab]

Wow! Looks awesome from here!!

 

[Gnome75]

Other than unsafe storage example, it looks right

They have trigger locks. He could leave them like this in his living room and be legal.

Admittedly, just because you can does not mean you should

 

[ipscgraz]

I know it has been done for many many years, but I have never understood the need or desire to stack rifles like that. You can't get your rifle out of the mix in a hurry, and the second to last guy has to decide what to do with the last rifle.

 

[S00py]

I know it has been done for many many years, but I have never understood the need or desire to stack rifles like that. You can't get your rifle out of the mix in a hurry, and the second to last guy has to decide what to do with the last rifle.

Handy when you're hanging out in a cratered wasteland or open field with your 500 closest friends digging foxholes. Usually there's nothing to lean them against and its a whole lot better than laying them down in three inches of mud.

 

[purple]

Not to be picky, but the one rifle has the stacking swivel on backwards. The head of the screw should be on the right side.

 

[dak47]

Congrats on the collection! Looking good and proper history right there......

Other than unsafe storage example, it looks right

Always has to be one on this forum......

 

[marshall]

LOL, you are in the wrong country, Lee Enf. ? But if you only have two, what to do? buy one more?

 

[XRCD011]

Handy when you're hanging out in a cratered wasteland or open field with your 500 closest friends digging foxholes. Usually there's nothing to lean them against and its a whole lot better than laying them down in three inches of mud.

You never lean your rifle against something, it is either laid on the ground (atop your pack), hung by the sling (never off a vehicle) or slung across your back if you must.

 

[HasegawaYamato]

Thanks for the safety warnings guys, I put them back into my gun rack right after I took the photoes so no worries

 

[HasegawaYamato]

Not to be picky, but the one rifle has the stacking swivel on backwards. The head of the screw should be on the right side.

Oh good eye! I didnt notice it! Will get it fixed asap, thanks!

 

[HasegawaYamato]

LOL, you are in the wrong country, Lee Enf. ? But if you only have two, what to do? buy one more?

You are absolutely right on this one... I do only have two NO4... I do have another enfield but that is a NO1, which has a different stacking swivel...

 

[TheTooner]

Other than unsafe storage example, it looks right

I can't tell from that picture that he doesn't have very spacious, carpeted gun safe with electricity.

 

[jtaylor]

Hello lads. You all may be interested to know that there was a specific platoon drill for piling arms in Canadian (and thus Brit carryover)service.
I doubt that anyone is old enough on this site to know how to respond to the "Platoon, Pile Arms" order when Canada had the SMLE, Ross,
and before. Maybe I'm not remembering correctly but with the C1A1 you first had to 'fix bayonets' prior to piling arms. JOHN

 

[Daver_II]

This gives me a coffee table idea.

 

[fraserdw]

Show off!

 

[The Wizard]

Go to this website: http://www.bits.de/NRANEU/others/amd-us-archive/FM22-5C1(57).pdf (FM 22-5, Drill and Ceremonies, 1956). Go to Chapter 5, Section II, Paragraph 72, page 104 and all you questions will be officially answered.

 

[purple]

One thing that many Garand shooters do is to tighten down the stacking swivel screw so that the the swivel can't rotate and hit the bottom of the gas cylinder, thus inducing another variable when shooting. Tight is better in every place, except for a bit of clearance between the rear handguard and the face of the receiver and between the front handguard and the gas cylinder.