On one of the other posts everyone was arguing about En-Bock Garand clip ping but many missed the forest for the trees.
The real problem with this clip is that it could not be topped off causing soldiers to fire off their last remaining rounds so they could quickly reload with a full magazine of cartridges (8). This caused the whole group of men to quickly run out of ammo and when they were cut off or low on ammo this resulted in many be shot down with empty rifles or being captured (if the enemy was in a good mood that day).
I read somewhere in the distant past that Mr. Garand wanted to put a 20 round detachable magazine on the Garand when he originally designed the gun but the Military Neanderthals did not like it because the rifle then could not be carried magazine down over the shoulder on parade like the older 1903 Springfield could. Talk about stupidity, but Mr. Garand made the gun the way the wanted it made and the rest sadly, is history, as they say.
I might add that military arms designers were well aware of this problem and the later developed M14 finally had a 20 round magazine put on it.
The real problem with this clip is that it could not be topped off causing soldiers to fire off their last remaining rounds so they could quickly reload with a full magazine of cartridges (8). This caused the whole group of men to quickly run out of ammo and when they were cut off or low on ammo this resulted in many be shot down with empty rifles or being captured (if the enemy was in a good mood that day).
I read somewhere in the distant past that Mr. Garand wanted to put a 20 round detachable magazine on the Garand when he originally designed the gun but the Military Neanderthals did not like it because the rifle then could not be carried magazine down over the shoulder on parade like the older 1903 Springfield could. Talk about stupidity, but Mr. Garand made the gun the way the wanted it made and the rest sadly, is history, as they say.
I might add that military arms designers were well aware of this problem and the later developed M14 finally had a 20 round magazine put on it.