![]() Are you looking for an M1 Garand for sale? Wondering if you’re paying too much? Rock Island Auction Company offers a range of M1 Garand's for sale in many of our auctions. With the right information, you can determine the trends that impact M1 Garand gun prices, which will provide better insight into what you might expect to pay for an antique firearm. Magazines load rifles.Shopping for collectible firearms can be a challenge, especially if you’re looking for a gun that is hard to find. With the M16 family of rifles, clips hold cartridges together until they can be pushed into the rifle’s external magazine. With the M1 Garand, clips held cartridges together until they could be pushed into the rifle’s internal magazine. It only takes a couple of seconds to load thirty rounds into a magazine with some practice. The cartridges slide from the stripper clip into the magazine. Now the Marine simply inserts the Stripper Clip containing ten cartridges into the guide and pushes down. The guide fits on the top of the magazine. Included with the bandoliers is a Stripper Clip Guide. When a Marine receives his ammunition, he needs to get it into the magazine in the most efficient means possible. The magazine is then inserted into the rifle for normal operation. The ammunition has to be loaded into magazines first. Modern M16 variants cannot feed ammunition from clips. However they are stripped every time you load a magazine. You won’t find them dancing for singles just outside of the main gate. When troops are issued rifle ammunition, it still comes in cloth bandoliers containing clips. Moving forward to today’s military, clips are still in use. It was used alongside such magazine fed weapons as the M1911 Pistol and M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle. I believe the En Bloc Clip can be blamed for much of the Clip/Magazine confusion. The bolt was locked to the rear ready to accept a fresh “clip”. ![]() When the last cartridge was fired, the clip was ejected from the M1 Garand with a very unique “ping” sound. As the rifle was fired, it stripped cartridges from the clip and chambered them. A loaded En Bloc Clip was then pushed into the internal magazine of the rifle and the bolt was allowed to close. When a Marine wanted to load his rifle, the bolt was locked to the rear. En Bloc Clips are spring metal devices that contain eight. Troops carrying the M1 Garand were issues bandoliers of ammunition. This is also probably one of the most famous and recognizable “clip fed” rifles in existence. The M1 is a semi-automatic battle rifle chambered in. Patton would eventually call, “the greatest battle implement ever devised.” This of course, was the M1 Garand. Garand was blessed with the design for what General George S. Lets quickly look at the differences between clips and magazines so you, my dear reader, can help to spread the knowledge and educate your associates on the correct nomenclature. The anti-gun crowd seems to have a distinct aversion to learning about those things they hate. When I hear politicians drone on about it, I realize that they honestly have no idea what they are talking about. I kept hearing about “high capacity clips” over and over again. Most of the time when I hear the incorrect use of “clip” I could just shrug it off as an un-trained individual not knowing the correct term for what he was talking about. This came to a head with the attempt from ignorant politicians to ban magazines capable of containing more than ten cartridges. I have always found a small source of irritation in a person calling a magazine a “clip”. This indoctrination is most likely the source of my ire about the “Clip Confusion”. You call them by the name the Corps assigned to them or you pay for it. You don’t get to call things whatever you want because you think it is cool. You see Marine Corps Boot Camp is not tolerant of individuality. In fact proper nomenclature could mean the difference between getting to eat or a whole lot of pain and suffering. When I started my career in the field of arms, nomenclature (the proper names of things) was very important. Now is my chance to help fix the problem. Now I realize that I do count as part of that last group. ![]() I blame Hollywood first, Politicians Second and the Media as a whole last. This nation of ours seems to suffer from what I would like to call “Clip Confusion”.
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