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Yes since the muzzle velocity of the Garand is 2,800 ft/s (853 m/s) which is considerably faster than the speed of sound (343 m/s), you'd be hit before you'd hear the bang. (maybe not dead, but hit)
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It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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True for most modern weapons when engaging at any distance.
No matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
"I played it [Civilization] for three months and then realised I hadn't done any work. In the end, I had to delete all the saved files and smash the CD." Iain Banks, authorComment
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Some snipers use subsonic rounds with silencers to minimize detection.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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That's what I thought he was talking about. No idea what this Garand stuff is all about.Originally posted by Blaupanzer View PostJon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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Haven't any of you tried to shoot with a garand ?
When you hear the zzing, you know that you have to duck and reload
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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I had plans to do just that last weekend but things went awry.Originally posted by BlackCat View Post
I don't know when I will have a chance to reschedule.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by Blaupanzer View PostIn American westerns of a certain era you heard the shot, then a distinct whiny zing indicating the round bouncing off a rock or somesuch. When we oldtimers see that written, it is often shown as "bang ... zing." Hence, a universal symbol that they missed us. In war, as Sloww and I were made aware, a bang followed by the sound of the round meant the round missed us. Although the American M-1 rifle (WW II timeframe) shared many characteristics with the Garand, automatic ejection of the "cartridge carrier" was not one of them. Since WW II, non-round-at-a-time loaded American rifles and carbines have used magazines.
The Garand is loaded with a full clip of eight cartridges. Once all eight rounds are expended, the bolt will be automatically locked back and the clip ejected (with a distinct metallic ping), readying the rifle for the insertion of a fresh clip of ammunition.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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A distinct metallic ping is not a zing.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Guess that the author hasn't heard it himself. Why don't you go down to your local gunpusher and buy one ? That should make it clear that I'm right
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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I don't know what bang zingg is, sounds like the name of a ladyboy or something
I'd like to hear that ka-ching noise more often though
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"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Originally posted by Blaupanzer View PostTrue for most modern weapons when engaging at any distance.
Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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