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lol. loz of people love gun
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THIS IS VERY HELPFUL TO ME.WATCH YOU
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Thank you so much, very appreciate!
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wow, thank you very much
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Very well done.
This makes a great quick recognition guide.
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Perhaps a semi-unique experience from my childhood.Β My mother was in the military, and when I couldn't go to school due to illness, or had no place else to go, or someone to watch me, she'd bring me to the base, and I would get locked into the armory vault while she worked.Β Β
I tore down/ cleaned cases of guns that had come back from the firing range, and prepped them for storage, or their next use.Β So by the time I was nine or ten, I was completely knowledgeable in disassembly of the M3 "grease gun" shown above.Β As well as the Beretta m9 pistol, and M-16.Β They still had Garands on the racks, but no one ever fired them, so I never got to clean those.
Soldiers got out of the 'junk' job of cleaning the guns, and I got entertained, and kept out of trouble.
I never got to work on the M-60's though.Β They considered those a little too complicated for me to handle I guess.Β Though I did put together a LOT of linked round belts for those.
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When I was young in Italy we still had a military compulsory service, I was in the heavy field Artillery, and I was issued with a Garand made under licence by Beretta Army Factory.
A that time our Carabinieri (military police) were still issued with the M1 Carbine, I remember that one time during a sentry duty I disassembled one M1 Carbine, it was a little Garand indeed.
Some time I had to disassembly the mg 42/59, a real mess, and beware the bolt! One day a new recruited lieutenantΒ armed the dismounted bolt, and when it happens its impossible to reassemble the mg.
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Ah, yes, Mausers.Β Β Β In later years, I acquired a "broom handle" Mauser C96 pistol.Β Not knowing any better, I did a complete disassembly of it out of curiosity.Β What I did not realize, was about half way through the disassembly process, the whole thing will fly apart.
Took me a whole day to figure out how to put that back together.Β I decided that's one I'm probably never tearing down again unless absolutely needed.Β
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You were very clever, I read that is quite dreadful to reassemble it.
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.30? Does it mean by distance or size of the bullet?
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.30 caliber is the diameter of the bullet in inches. In metric, is is a 7.62mm caliber.
There are a lot of different .30 caliber cartridges. The ones used in these rifles, MGs, are different than anything used by a modern military today.
In North America, the cartridge used by the Garand, the BAR, the 1903, all of them, is called the .30-06. Why is it called that? Because that was the naming convention they were going with at the time. .30 Caliber Cartridge of 1906. It replaced the .30-03 that the Springfield 1903 was originally chambered in. To enable better comparison, it is a 7.62x63mm bottlenecked cartridge (The 63mm denotes the length of the cartridge case, without the bullet. Bottlenecked means that the case is fatter than the bullet, and has an abrupt neck down to the bullet. Gives more room for powder, and is more efficient).
The M1 Carbine is a much smaller, lighter rifle, and fires am much smaller, lighter cartridge. It chambers .30 Carbine, or a 7.62x33mm straight wall cartridge (The case is just a bit bigger than the bullet, and features a slight taper from base to case mouth, but the walls are straight.)
Modern .30 Caliber military rifles are chambered in 7.62x51mm. This cartridge is very similar to the .30-06 (7.62x63mm) cartridge, it is just a bit shorter in length.
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Size of the bullet. Remember that imperial measurement are used for a lot of firearms and firearm cartridges/ammo.
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No way. I thought that was interesting so I had to asked a question on it. Do you plan on going to the military or learning to make weapon.
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Not yet anyway. All it takes is a google search and and a wikipedia article to get a basic understanding of how they work. Plus youtube.
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True, true. 
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I think I've seen these in Cabela's Dangerous Hunts.
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I don't know, but I think it's quite possible.
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Yes you're right, but its official denomination when it was adopted by the Ordnance Department was indeed that reported in the table.
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They were well done.
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Nice work!Β Right out of a Bill Guston book!
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Oh wow, thank you very much!
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Wonderful illustration and congratulations for making the top of DA!Β
I am fascinated that so many people have weighted in regarding these. I see you have already noted this in another comment, but the M1 Garand should probably be noted as .30-06 as well.Β
Nicely done!
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Thank you, I'm amazed too, this time theΒ fairy godmother hasn't her moon, it was like to win a lottery,Β
it's funny because I'm more devoted to ww1 tan ww2.
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i was not aware a denim hat was a weapon
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A very dangerous biological one
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me too, first of all the rifle M1903!
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Too hard to choose.Β
I think you may have the calibers of the handguns reversed though. Unless the revolver used half moon clips.Β
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BAR not Bar, Browning Automatic Rifle
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50% correct, the captation says correctly BAR
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the m1 garand fired 5.56 not .30
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no it's a 12 gauge
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The Garand fires the .30-06Β otherwise known as 7.62x63mm NATO after it was adopted by NATO.Β The 5.56 is the 5.56x45mm NATO which is not quite the same as .223 (which is a whole topic in itself with safety issues when used interchangeably.)
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The 5.56 round was not developed until the 1960's. The Garand is a .30 caliber. I have one.
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No, I'm sure it fired the .30 rimless ammo issued in 1906, the so called 30-06 Springfield,Β in european notation it was aΒ Β 7,62 Γ 63Β mm
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The M1 rifle could never hope to match the BAR for suppressive fire. In it's day, it was the ultimate, base of fire for a rifle squad.
The concept of the squad automatic weapon has always been around ever since the BAR.
Mere rifle fire, even from a modern M16 was found to be unsatisfactory. Hence the SAW was reborn in the late 1980s.Β
The BAR would stick around through Korea, and a minor usein Vietnam.Β
-Doc
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I read that marines squads used two BARs, one protected the fusiliers while the other was reloading, then the infantry squad adopted the same scheme.
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The Raiders used three man teams. One M1, one thompson, and one BAR.Β
I am not sure what Marine squad doctrine was. Two BARs per squad would be a lot.
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Makes me want to watch Forgotten Weapons.Β
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Great web site indeed, but they are not so forgotten Weapons, excluding the JohnsonΒ LMG
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Even still, I'm pretty sure Ian McCollum has talked about most of those. I know he did an episode on the Johnson LMG and both the M-3 and M-3A1 Grease Guns.
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