M1 Grand tips
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Hunting
There was some guy a few months back on the EE that wanted something like $15 a pop
Hunting regs are provincially controlled. The FA does exempt the Garand from the 5 round limit, but not all provinces do in their hunting rules (do any? I know Alberta doesn't). I had to buy 5 round en blocs for this fall's retro day theme me and a buddy are doing with iron sighted milsurp rifles.
Mark
Okay, friend Sardaukar opened his mouth, I'll open mine.
Yes, it might be a "grand rifle" but it was designed by JOHN CANTIUS GARAND, who just happened to be a CANADIAN.
And the clips are a modified double-column Mannlicher type which was designed by JOHN PEDERSON. By rights, they ought to be called "Pederson clips" although the world seems to blame them on poor John Garand, who actually wanted nothing to do with the damned things. The term "en bloc" is French and means "in a block" which is the only way you can load the rifle: topping up your mag is not practical.
And a further note of frustration is found in the fact that the vertically-operating box magazine located beneath the boltway of a rifle was designed, developed and patented by JAMES PARIS LEE, yet another CANADIAN to whom history has given short shrift. This original LEE magazine was stolen by von Mannlicher in 1886, by Mauser in 1888 and by everybody else just as soon as they realised just how good it really was, even though Lee had patented it thoroughly in 1879. The British adopted it in 1888, along with the rest of the LEE rifle, making them the ONLY legal user of the box magazine in the world. Manufacture was begun at Enfield, which already had a long history of rifle design to its credit. The lawsuits went on for years but, eventually, everyone finally admitted that James Paris Lee invented the box magazine which is in universal use today. It's just the WORLD that managed to forget.
So let's call them GARAND rifles and PEDERSON 'en bloc' clips and LEE rifles and magazines. It's a little more correct than calling them "Grand" rifles and "pingies" and "Enfields".
Let's accord our OWN inventors and designers the same courtesy as we extend to the other guys. After all, you certainly wouldn't call the thing a Kaiserlich Waffenprufskommissions Infanteriegewehr Modell 1898, would you? No, It's a Mauser. And you don't always carry around a "trelinieiya vintovka obrazets 1891 goda", do you? Of course not; you carry around a rifle named for its designers: Sergei Ivanovich Mosin and the Nagant brothers, Emile and Leon.
Let's do the same for John Cantius Garand and James Paris Lee.
Yes, it might be a "grand rifle" but it was designed by JOHN CANTIUS GARAND, who just happened to be a CANADIAN.
And the clips are a modified double-column Mannlicher type which was designed by JOHN PEDERSON. By rights, they ought to be called "Pederson clips" although the world seems to blame them on poor John Garand, who actually wanted nothing to do with the damned things. The term "en bloc" is French and means "in a block" which is the only way you can load the rifle: topping up your mag is not practical.
And a further note of frustration is found in the fact that the vertically-operating box magazine located beneath the boltway of a rifle was designed, developed and patented by JAMES PARIS LEE, yet another CANADIAN to whom history has given short shrift. This original LEE magazine was stolen by von Mannlicher in 1886, by Mauser in 1888 and by everybody else just as soon as they realised just how good it really was, even though Lee had patented it thoroughly in 1879. The British adopted it in 1888, along with the rest of the LEE rifle, making them the ONLY legal user of the box magazine in the world. Manufacture was begun at Enfield, which already had a long history of rifle design to its credit. The lawsuits went on for years but, eventually, everyone finally admitted that James Paris Lee invented the box magazine which is in universal use today. It's just the WORLD that managed to forget.
So let's call them GARAND rifles and PEDERSON 'en bloc' clips and LEE rifles and magazines. It's a little more correct than calling them "Grand" rifles and "pingies" and "Enfields".
Let's accord our OWN inventors and designers the same courtesy as we extend to the other guys. After all, you certainly wouldn't call the thing a Kaiserlich Waffenprufskommissions Infanteriegewehr Modell 1898, would you? No, It's a Mauser. And you don't always carry around a "trelinieiya vintovka obrazets 1891 goda", do you? Of course not; you carry around a rifle named for its designers: Sergei Ivanovich Mosin and the Nagant brothers, Emile and Leon.
Let's do the same for John Cantius Garand and James Paris Lee.
Know where you're coming from, friend!
My Garand rifle came with 1 Pederson clip but I was able to pick up a few dozen more, US military manufacture.
I really like these new pills; taste just like tic-tacs!
Have fun, all!
My Garand rifle came with 1 Pederson clip but I was able to pick up a few dozen more, US military manufacture.
I really like these new pills; taste just like tic-tacs!
Have fun, all!
