And after I'd walked past her like a dozen times without commenting on or even noticing the shirt, she finally stopped me and pointed it out.
And I didn't get the reference.
To her, of course, it clearly and obviously referred to her favorite rifle:
And to me it only looked like the sound I make when I'm shooting at a metallic target on a bad day.
It's bad to be a dork. It's worse to be a dork who can't shoot.
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I don't get it either....
But then, that's often the case with things like this. :)
Eight shots and en bloc ejects - yep, I'm a Garand shooter too . . .
Never seen the shirt but thats good stuff.
I'll admit it. I didn't get it either. At first. But when I hit "favorite rifle", and before the pic loaded, I immediately said, "D'oh!".
Not a Garand shooter (basically due to lack of funds), but a lot of friends are. It just took me a second.
Kind of like the other shirts you wouldn't recognize unless you are in the know. I've see various images including Mosin sights, an M-16/AR-14 bolt face, etc.
I recognized it. I was the first kid on my block to have M1 thumb.
I need to get Evelyn one that says "BLAM" about thirty times and then instead of "PING" it needs to say "hurry up and reload it for me".
I don't care how often I see it, chicks with battle rifles is still hot.
Buck.
I've fired a few of those rifles... too big for me to enjoy them. I love my M1 .30 carbine, however. No "ping" involved unless I'm shooting steel.
I still have no clue what the joke is. :)
Oh well.
ML, the original Garand, unlike the M14 and M1 Carbine that employ similar design but with a detachable box magazine, uses an actual "clip" to hold together 8 rounds of 30/06. On firing the last round in the clip, the clip itself ejects out of the top of the rifle with a pretty smart zing! sound*, and the bolt holds open to accept the next en-bloc clip. (The references to "M1 thumb" reflect what happens when you use your thumb to lock the fresh 8rd clip into place in the well: the bolt lets go. Owch.)
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* If the shirt had said "ZING" instead of "PING", I'd have probably got the reference before seeing the picture. I don't have an M1 myself--I went the M14 route from the beginning--but I've been on the line with enough of them for the sound to have worked its way into my vocabulary. :-)
:) Ok Kevin, glad to have that mystery cleared up! LOL I have an SKS that is loaded with a clip, but it is removed as soon as all of the rounds are loaded, so that would never have occurred to me as the cause of the "ping." I did shoot one of those Garands once, but don't remember the clip thing.
Fingers in working parts of guns can be a problem with almost any of them, of course. I pinched myself good once clearing a jam from a 9mm. Learned a better way to do that!!! :) And, eventually sold the gun because it liked to jam.
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