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Is anyone else annoyed by the utter b.s. perpetuated by gun shows (in this case "Triggers: Weapons that changed the world") about certain weapons.
Scene shows guy firing a Garand and clip ejecting with last round fired...
Host: "I did notice that when you ran dry on this, that clip ejected from the weapon and made a very distictive sound. It seems like that would be a disadvantage."
"Expert": "The Garand ping....it was. When the enemy heard the ping, they'd pop up and fire. The G.I.s figured out a way around that. They'd take an empty clip and keep it in their pocket...throw it down on the ground...nazis would pop their heads up and, BANG!"
What a load of utter horse @#$$. As if nazis are like Pavlov's dog or something and just lose all sense of self preservation when they hear a Garand clip hit the ground. I don't know who made this idiotic lie up but common sense would tell you not to stick your head up in a firefight just because you think ONE guy might be reloading. What about the guy standing next to him with 5 rounds still left in his Garand? What about the BAR 3 guys over or the 1919 hosing down the tree line?
All of this is even assuming that the German could even hear the "ping" of a spent clip over the normal noises of battle or after firing his k98 repeatedly without ear protection. I know the winners get to write the history books but it's just stupid to think that dropping a clip on the ground would start a game of nazi whack-a-mole.
Experts my @#$!
/rant
Scene shows guy firing a Garand and clip ejecting with last round fired...
Host: "I did notice that when you ran dry on this, that clip ejected from the weapon and made a very distictive sound. It seems like that would be a disadvantage."
"Expert": "The Garand ping....it was. When the enemy heard the ping, they'd pop up and fire. The G.I.s figured out a way around that. They'd take an empty clip and keep it in their pocket...throw it down on the ground...nazis would pop their heads up and, BANG!"
What a load of utter horse @#$$. As if nazis are like Pavlov's dog or something and just lose all sense of self preservation when they hear a Garand clip hit the ground. I don't know who made this idiotic lie up but common sense would tell you not to stick your head up in a firefight just because you think ONE guy might be reloading. What about the guy standing next to him with 5 rounds still left in his Garand? What about the BAR 3 guys over or the 1919 hosing down the tree line?
All of this is even assuming that the German could even hear the "ping" of a spent clip over the normal noises of battle or after firing his k98 repeatedly without ear protection. I know the winners get to write the history books but it's just stupid to think that dropping a clip on the ground would start a game of nazi whack-a-mole.
Experts my @#$!
/rant
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