At all but the closest ranges, this really is a myth and a total non-issue. More importantly, the Bloke shows how easy and quickly one could reload following the ‘ping’. If a German or Japanese soldier did manage to take advantage of the ‘ping’ window of opportunity, he’s likely to get shot by another GI. Not to mention the very obvious fact that soldiers rarely fight alone. Soldiers have only recently begun to wear any kind of hearing protection after all. The Bloke shows just how difficult it would be to even hear the ‘ping’, without the various other loud noises associated with battle. Tactical trainer Larry Vickers recreated a scenario for his ‘TAC TV’ series, and more recently YouTuber ‘ Bloke on the Range ’ has tackled the myth. However, there’s a bit more to it than that…Ī lot of ink and pixels have been expended arguing the ‘M-1 ping’ myth back and forth, and some have even tried to practically demonstrate why it’s a silly idea. Now, this idea of the ‘ping’ being a fatal flaw really is a myth, in that there’s no evidence that it ever happened. These were inserted into the open action from the top and retained inside until the last round was fired, at which point the clip would eject (along with the empty case of the last shot) with a distinctive ‘ping’ sound (you can clearly hear this in the movie ‘Saving Private Ryan’, for example, and see it in slow motion in this Forgotten Weapons video). Instead it was loaded with eight round metal ‘en bloc’ clips. The M-1 ‘Garand’ was ahead of its time as a military self-loading rifle, but unlike modern rifles it did not feature detachable box magazines. One of the most persistent firearm myths out there is that American soldiers fighting in the Second World War (or in Korea for that matter) were at risk of getting shot by the enemy because of the distinctive ‘ping’ sound made by their rifles. The clip ejecting from an M-1 Garand rifle in a period photograph (my title is a Monty Python reference…)
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