re: #559 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The distinctive metallic noise of an ejecting Garand clip. There were rumors the Germans grew to recognize the sound and timed their attacks for when the American rifles were empty, but I don’t think there is any substantive evidence to support it. It was, however, taken seriously enough that the Springfield Armory started experiments with plastic disposable Garand clips.

one drawback of a Garand was that it was not possible to top up a clip that had already been fired from, you had to wait until it popped its clip and reload a whole new one.