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 06-13-2009, 05:46 PM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 640 |  Garand thumb
First time I ever witnessed this. Young man in the shop looking at a M1 Garand. You guessed it. Slamed shut on his thumb. I am sorry, but after we got it "off" him, I had to go in back, mashed the heck out of his thumb. __________________
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| 06-13-2009, 06:45 PM | #2 | mmmmm...... Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Maiden, NC Posts: 9,583 |
I don't want to even guess what that felt like. I'm sure he'll be happy with his new thumb nail in a month or so.
And bobby, I still love old cars, guns, and my wife. The torment of the spide will end tomorrow. __________________
If the pain is lacking so is the discipline...
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| 06-13-2009, 07:30 PM | #3 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Desert Southwest, Nevada Posts: 381 |
Hey, it happens to everyone who ever owns, or used one in the military one at least once. More than that if you didn't pay attention the first time.
If anyone ever says "it never happened to me" then they never used the weapon for any length of time. It will get you. And I personally can tell you, hell yes it hurts and it's always amusing when it happens to someone else..............markerdown __________________
USAF, Retired .. "From My Cold Dead Hands!"
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| 06-13-2009, 08:58 PM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 149 |
this happened to a guy i was in rotc with in high school. the M1's didnt fire but you could lock it open and them slam it closed. we wasnt suppost to but a few of the pfc's thought it would be fun to play with the weapons and one wasnt paying attenion. we laughed for weeks at him. | |
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| 06-13-2009, 10:49 PM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 260 | m1 thumb
as you know you place you right hand palm in at front of handle,and push back with back of hand.place thumb on cartridges and push down till it locks holding handle back with back of hand roll hand up and let handle go forward.
your thumb will be no wear near the bolt.    | |
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| 06-14-2009, 02:17 AM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Stafford, Virginia, The state of insanity. Posts: 14,049 |
Boy I remember when I did it. I think it is like a right of passage. It is kind of like seeing your first playboy only not as enjoyable. That hurt so bad I lost my thumb nail over that. | |
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| 07-06-2009, 02:43 PM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Posts: 1,554 Liked 1 Times on 1 Posts
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I remember many decades ago when my Father brought a Garand home to show us kids. We were living with my Aunt and Uncle at the time (9 kids in the household) and dear old Dad was demonstrating the disassembly and operation of the weapon. He was showing us the bolt operation and then gave the weapon to one of my cousins. Guess what? He got the M1 Thumb and screamed bloody murder. The rest of us laughed our asses off. No one else made that mistake and followed my Father's instructions to the letter.
Currently, I'm browsing Guns America looking to purchase my own Garand so it's highly possible that I'll suffer the fate of other Garand owners and have a very vividly colored thumb in the near future. __________________
By God, you may find me dead in a ditch someday, but I'll be on top of a pile of brass when you do.
Always remember...IGNORANCE killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.
When you come for mine, you'd better bring yours. No, really. I'll shoot your stupid ass. | |
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| 07-06-2009, 05:10 PM | #8 | Sic Semper Tyrannis Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: , The Mother Lode Posts: 18,437 |
Garand thumb is almost a rite of passage.
...and no, I haven't experienced it.
...yet.  __________________
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| 07-06-2009, 07:30 PM | #9 | Supporting Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Radcliff, Kentucky Posts: 3,507 |
If you do it once you learn real quick and won't do it again __________________ Lo there do I see my Father...Lo there do I see my mother and my brothers and sisters...Lo there do I see the line of my peoples back to the begaining...Tho they do call to me...They bid me come take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla...Where the brave may live forever
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Long distance..The next best thing to being there, if you are anywhere between 100-700 yards my Howa and I own you and will choose your time of death. opaww | |
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| 07-06-2009, 07:39 PM | #10 | Sic Semper Tyrannis Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: , The Mother Lode Posts: 18,437 |
I was a carpenter for most of my life and I've still got all my digits. Common sense and good timing. A little luck doesn't hurt either. __________________
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) - a system of government where those least capable of leadership are elected by those least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to succeed or provide for themselves are rewarded with goods and services paid for by wealth confiscated from a diminishing number of people who actually work and produce.
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