As a new Garand owner with a period sling these videos are actually extremely helpful
@Qingeaton4 жыл бұрын
Is that an original "gas trap" Garand in this film? The one that got upgraded to the modern version?
@herrprepper2070 Жыл бұрын
The web sling is much less complicated and works just as well. Take it from a guy who took second place in the Ninth Naval District rifle match with an off the rack M1, Lake City ball ammo and a well worn web sling.
@HIKARUAUSTIN3 жыл бұрын
"This film is restricted" * laughs in internet *
@oxencott3n1753 жыл бұрын
Bill Murray looks great even demonstrating the sling!
@jordoncollins13323 жыл бұрын
Incredibly helpful video with a nostalgic flair to it. I just replaced the original rotted sling on my ‘66 Remington 700 and was never taught how to use it. This video solved that
@RickNethery8 жыл бұрын
This is still very good Marksmanship instruction today.
@floydvaughn8363 жыл бұрын
This is how you turn an unstable, poorly balanced, human and a rifle, into a turreted artillery piece.
@osdreadlord32052 жыл бұрын
Scarecrow got himself a brain and became a damned Master Gunny. Love it.
@stevebrown13437 жыл бұрын
An oldie but a goodie! I can't recall the narrator's name but he did a ton of narration in the 40's. I don't think it was only military in nature. No point here, just an interesting observation.
@webrad985 жыл бұрын
I've been looking for this. Instructions for using the M-1907 sling. Thank you.
@tom_olofsson3 жыл бұрын
Excellent condensed instruction.
@MrJesussinep3 жыл бұрын
Man thoses old video are so well made.
@joshuabessire91693 жыл бұрын
I think that bit at the very end sums up everything I heard about the sling in actual combat conditions (OK, Ian McCollum. But him and this video are the only two I've found specifically about use in combat). Good video.
@alexkoppen59558 жыл бұрын
this is some top secret shit
@Error_404_Account_Deleted7 жыл бұрын
your sarcasm detector is broken
@johnx93182 жыл бұрын
Merican riflemen are the best in the world - because I say so. Must be true then.
@user-du1uk7lt8j6 жыл бұрын
Always wondered why the 1907 sling was so complex X_X
@Dan-di9jd Жыл бұрын
These videos must have been pretty painful to watch back in ww2. They would have shown it using the old projector and you'd all be cramped in a tiny room having to watch this to completion and then afterwards having to do all this again.
@memosatlatl67189 жыл бұрын
long live the sling
@DJdude2505 жыл бұрын
Why werent slings designed for quick shouldering until recently? I bet it would have saved many lives
@takingbacktoxic78982 жыл бұрын
1. Cost. We were in the great depression 2. Material shortages. 3. Lots of left over slings from 1903 Rifles, that instructors already knew how to use. There was a cloth version (the M1 sling) that was fielded later, that does have some advantages.
@theplinkerslodge63613 жыл бұрын
Great share.
@floydvaughn8363 жыл бұрын
Love that the guy STANDING is, well, a bit large for any other position. Pvt. Pyle?
@logoseven33658 жыл бұрын
Check Peterson!
@greeneking773 жыл бұрын
Jeez this is pretty hard, I thought you just put your elbow in with a little pressure to help keep the barrel from rising?
@patrickm2191 Жыл бұрын
I'll eat my hat if anyone did this while the Germans were bearing down on them.
@captain82567 жыл бұрын
3:55 the instructor calls the grip a "pistol grip".
@AngeredKabar6 жыл бұрын
Captain For a time a grip on a rifle stock that was more contoured and was designed for your thumb to easily wrap around the top was considered a pistol grip. Terminology has changed since then to include a vertical grip more or less separate from the stock and that is a lot more common in usage now.
@danphariss1336 жыл бұрын
Which is correct. As apposed to the straight grip stock. The term FAR predates rifles like the StG44, the Ak etc.
@SouthernGround6 жыл бұрын
Not in California, its a featureless stock, kind of like screwing a barrel and receiver to a two by six and painting its pink. that is if its not on a ban list or something. soon that commie state will ban nurf guns and water pistols because nurf darts could be put in a freezer and get hard and put a mark on someone's ass and water pistols because you could put soap in the water and make the bad guys eyes sting ( unless you use Mr Bubbles, that doesn't sting) but it does make bath time fun.
@Folma75 жыл бұрын
That private said “japs”. Hee-hee
@SuburbanPreparedness7 жыл бұрын
So is there a separate "ar15 gi cotton web sling" and another style "m1 garand gi cotton web sling" or are they the same thing?
@nglitz7 жыл бұрын
Same thing. The green cotton sling is about as generic as a military sling can get. It fits everything.
@AngeredKabar6 жыл бұрын
Shown here is a 1907 sling. Its leather and I want to say Korea was the last time it saw use. Probably wasn't even used much in WWII. You can do much the same with a GI web sling (the green cotton one) but it's a bit different in construction and use.
@SouthernGround6 жыл бұрын
different, the leather one is old school, but still allowed in high powered rifle, most run the synthetic version, me i prefer the go old web small arms sling. its a personal choice really.
@takingbacktoxic78982 жыл бұрын
@@AngeredKabar It was still issued on the M40 sniper rifle well into the 80s, maybe even at late as the 1990s.
@vicdoesgaming75706 жыл бұрын
Even with a training video of us army i still cant get my sling to work maybe because its the original one to the gun and age took its toll on it
@SouthernGround6 жыл бұрын
I shoot hight power CMP match and tryed that sling, i personal don't like it and just use a plan old web small arms sling. cheap, i mark my settings with a black marker. works for me.
@milboltnut5 жыл бұрын
they make it sound like if you do this it will increase your odds to survive..... mortors, artilliary, automatic fire, grenades, and enemy concealment have nothing to do with it? NOT !
@mgcoleman5 жыл бұрын
Whoa...50 seconds in and the second rule of weapons safety gets violated.
@seth15304 жыл бұрын
What?
@viciousKev4 жыл бұрын
@@seth1530 1st rule of gun safety: you do not talk about gun safety. 2nd rule of gun safety:YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT GUN SAFETY!
@craig33424 жыл бұрын
@Kuuryo So What? If this was properly planned they would not have the demonstrators pointing their weapon at a fellow soldier. Just show you then as now, the brass does not hold their lives as valuable. If you were to do this at most ranges you would, and should, be asked to leave....
@CommercialFree784 жыл бұрын
Go put on a corona mask...
@user-qg4dm2uh4t7 жыл бұрын
Reason for a dislike other than feminists and People who hate guns
@rgbgamingfridge5 жыл бұрын
so is the dislike from a feminist or someone who hates slings?