In my early 80's high school parking lot there were plenty of trucks with full racks. In every classroom you could find at least a couple guys with a Buck knife on their belt. Life was good.

@@jacka55six60 Hell, I'm so old I can recall many of us country boys, and more than few country girls, who wore our skinning/hunting knives to school every day. Since many of us were farm raised our knives were simply tools of the "trade". Not that we didn't also carry a good quality folding knife in a pocket of our jeans too. And yes, life was good back then (early 1970s), and a whole lot more peaceful if you know what I mean. I know for a fact that I was not the only one who felt just a wee bit naked without our sheath knives when we went off to college. But we still had our folders in our jeans pockets....For emergencies.

I love my M1, would definitely be the last gun I’d sell, including my EDC.

@@caseyquinn9282 Roger THAT, Gents! My old legacy M1 Garand spitting out the M2 ball...nothing like it in the world. After I go, IT goes to the grandkids.

He reloads old brass

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It is a good-looking weapon. Very German...

Hell yeah, better choice than whats out there now

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I think he's too young.

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Oh? It's the same system as the SVT-40? The SVT-40 was produced in vast numbers (not as much as the Mosin, of course).

@@skepticalobserver2135 The G43 copied the SVT-40 gas system after recognizing that the G41 bang-gas system wasn't that functional in weather like Russian Winter.

considering that the rear of the bolts and the rear of the receivers are prone to cracking they are no where near as nice let alone better.

@@bad74maverick1 ...as a rare piece of history.

@@kbjerke True. I'm just reaffirming that it was not better in any way in its original form. If you upgrade the gas system so it's reliable and not as violent its a fine gun. In terms of shooting in my collection my favorite is my 41' Johnson rifle, then my M1 then my G43.

@@bad74maverick1 Gotcha. I love my Garand, but my personal favourites are the "Old West" guns like the Colt SAA or Winchester and Marlin lever rifles. Best wishes to you! OH - forgot - I really like the Swedish AG42B. Sweet rifle.

@@kbjerke Everything the Swedish do is perfection. Their guns are a work of friggin art!

No shit I never expected the Germans to have a cheaper, more mass producible small arm outside of the trash volkssturm weapons.

Logistics. The issue with magazines is they cost so much more to manufacture that you don't want to lose them. the clips could just be handed out and not retained as you'll get more. They're cheap. It's thin metal versus much nicer thicker metal with a carefully machined follower spring, and that if it gets damaged it's a problem. Clips are better for impacts and in the grand scheme of things, you can issue a soldier more clips in this case than magazines and take up less space. Back then, there was a good argument in the middle of a war like this to manufacture a bunch of clips and issue them widely, than manufacture a bunch of magazines that cost more, take up more space, and are more costly to lose. Even the british didn't give their Lee Enfield riflemen that many extra magazines. They still preferred them to load with clips.

Advantages of internal magazine include topping up, top load, less weight, and others...

It was the dark of the moon at the pop-up rifle range, Camp Pendelton, California, summer of 1963. My 40-man Recruit Platoon was there to witness the fire intensity of a Platoon in a combat engagement. Each Private was equipped with his M-1. Every forth private was then issued a BAR with three, twenty round magazines, simulating a Fire Team. EVERY ROUND WAS A TRACER! Note, The only thing the Marine Corps. EVER throws away is toilet paper and then...Maybe...The NCO's placed five, eight round clips at each M-1 position. Yes, damnit, they were clips! We were instructed to take up a prone position and upon command, load with one eight round clip, take aim at the targets and await the command to fire. Further block of instruction was to continue to fire for two minutes, loading and firing as many clips/ magazines as possible, in that time, await the command to cease fire, and clear all weapons. Any and ALL, unfired, loose rounds and still loaded clips/magazines were to be left at the firing positions and then fired by the following relay, if possible, in two minutes. The NCOs added Five more loaded clips at each rifle position after each of the firing relays. As the third shooter I found Eight loaded clips at my assigned position for a total of SIXTY-FOUR rounds. Upon the cease fire command, I had Zero unfired rounds remaining. The bolt of my weapon was locked to the rear, the clip had been ejected and my jaw was open in awe of what I had just witnessed! There were NO Alibies among the shooters using our weapons which had been long ago issued to Infantry units then Engineers, then artillery, then Graves Registrations, Chaplains Assist. and Field Musics, before being issued to Infantry Training Regiment. So, is the Garand M-1 rifle obsolete, obsolescent or ineffective? I think not, in the hands of a United States Marine.

@@TheGhostOfSmedleyButler Good story, but yeah no...the M1 is absolutely obsolete and obsolescent. It is effective, sure, but compared to a modern military rifle? It's no contest, it's absolutely obsolete. It'll work, in the same way a Mosin will still kill a man at 300 yards. It just isn't an ideal rifle for modern circumstances.

The M1941 Johnson is a pre-WWII design.

Well,"good" is always outclassed by"better".....and this was the Stgw. 44

The M1 used underpowered cartridges for this very reason!

The. G43 is probably better than the M14 even though that came almost 20 years later.

Exactly right. Part of the design is ensuring it meets requirements including being able to manufacture it with the available materials and systems.

The ‘German Garand’ had its problems, mostly due to contradicting limitations put on the rifle’s development and not due to material but disagreement from the Heer and the powers that be as to what they wanted. I’ll take the Garand any day. With battle sights and Kentucky windage I took my last deer in the shoulder at 225 yards without a problem. Now the ’03, for me, is the most accurate and that took the Mauser action, so there you go, even though it is not the .308 round. The US government actually paid Mauser royalties during WWI for use of its patent.

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He's exactly my age. I can shoot, not quite *THAT* well. I don't hope to actually grow up, though. Having too much fun as is.

They? A samurai sword is a tough teacher.

@@MavHunter20XXthe parents of that generation. Moms and dads.

@@OutdoorGirls7 Thanks, I thought he implied the guns and the sword. They would be rough mentors for sure.

Raised by swords,,, lololololol

Knob Creek in Kentucky?🤨

@@drezwider Yup. They prolly still have it up on the wall.

Doh.

I do like the M1 carbine , the Garand ,not so much

Yep. It was so bad my wife's great uncle shot himself in the foot to get out of New Guinea. He was on the Kokoda track and his mate was killed by the Japs.

You may be right. Every Senior NCO who had a desk, seemed to have his name and rank engraved on the broken stock of an M-14 that had been broken at the small of the stock. I often wondered what he would do if he got promoted. I guess there were plenty of broken M-14 stocks around back then...never saw a broken M-1 name plate though...

SL 7 was a standard H&K in a G 43 looking stock. Nice attempt to jump the shark on the assault rifle ban. Thing is, people looked at it and wondered why.

Haha absolutely. Honestly I hate that you have to play these games but the algorithm is driven by comments in a big way. People respond better to something they might disagree with than something they agree with. I used to feel guilty about doing titles like this but at this point my attitude is as long as the content is pure I have a right and a responsibility to get people in the door however I can.

I have a 22lr revolver made the same way , I researched it and said it was made in Germany post WW2 from scrap metal . All it pretty much said was don't fire it , so I used 22 shorts .

Yup, modern steel at a modern factory would make a big difference. No doubt about that. Then the German engineering could shine through better.

BS!The bolt shattered,because these guns,were gased for adverse Russian conditions,and average troop was not expected to out-live the rifle!-There are now shooters-kits available for these rifles!

​@@pe.bo.5038 LOL someone calls BS on a failure of an 80 year old rifle made in war expedient conditions, and sight unseen no less. I bet you're a war hero professional gunsmith from 1943 who secretly designed and built every G43, huh? Ask me how I guessed your secret bro!

@@pe.bo.5038 If you read the comment carefully, it states from the pieces they could tell the metal was substandard. So it seems that the broken pieces were analyzed.

My understanding was that Pedersen was in .276 only. Garand had a better understanding of the Army in general, and did a 30-06 version as a backup plan. So when McArthur, then Army Chief of Staff, cancelled the .276, Pedersen was out. The Pedersen also required too much hand fitting, and did not really have interchangeable parts.