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greener · Post by **greener** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:53 pm

Is the rather distinctive sound when the last round of an M1 is fired and the clip is ejected. Today at the Richmond gun show a vendor was checking out an M1. He pulls he operating rod handle back and BING! out comes the empty clip. He had this big-eyed surprised look. I was in the next booth and he gave me this really funny look. I yelled, "No Brass,No Ammo-Drill Sergeant" and he said "just what I was thinking"

Firearms are checked at the entrance and a plastic tie is inserted to prevent the gun from being loaded. Not really sure how this one made it past Henrico's finest.

Post by **Bullseye** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:08 am

It is always a bit of a surprise when I'm inspecting a firearm someone just handed me and out pops a live round. I can't say I've had a M-1 clip fly out on inspection, but I have found several SLED's installed in the M-1 magazine.

R,
Bullseye

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:01 am

A few weeks ago one of the guys at the range, he is one of those ollk what I got guys, not my kind of person. So he hands me this big derringer in .45LC and .410, I hit the release and flip the barrels and out falls a live .410 shell. He probably had to drive home standing up.

greener · Post by **greener** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:24 pm

Bullseye wrote:It is always a bit of a surprise when I'm inspecting a firearm someone just handed me and out pops a live round. I can't say I've had a M-1 clip fly out on inspection, but I have found several SLED's installed in the M-1 magazine.

R,
Bullseye

When the clip flies out you have a tendency to look for the live round.

We had M1's when I was in ROTC. My junior year, ROTC became no longer mandatory and that left the program really heavy with Juniors and Seniors. I spent every Tuesday for 4 semesters mostly doing manual of arms, inspecting and cleaning M1's. Surprising what I remember about them after 4 decades.

Post by **Bullseye** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:58 pm

When you cut a SLED for loading single rounds, it is captive inside the mag well into you pry it out with a long tool or ball point pen. Otherwise they just stay put, which is one quality that makes them great for slow fire single loading. Makes the M-1 operate much like the M-14 (M-1A for some), and all you have to do is pull the op rod rearward and the rifle loads from the clip. Some time I even forget that I've left the SLED in the rifle after leaving the long line, but I've not left any rounds in one - so far.

R,
Bullseye