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Explanation: In WW2, most of the belligerents had a bolt-action rifle as their service rifle - a rifle that needs to manually chamber each round. The service rifle of the British military was the Lee-Enfield, which is highly regarded as one of the best bolt-action rifles of the period.
The US went in with the M1 Garand, a cutting-edge semiautomatic rifle - a gun that fires every time you pull the trigger, until you run out of ammo. It makes a really satisfying ‘PING’ sound when it’s out of ammo.
Lee Enfield is my go to in any WW2 game, one-shot-kill body shots, longer range and bolt action (slowly) go brrrrrrr
Satisfying
I do love the M1 ping tho
Games with satisfying bolt-action cycling are worth their weight in gold
chuckles So, not a lot then?
One of my favourite mods for DRG replaces one of the single shot weapon sounds with that of a recording of the garandes ping.
Aww, it’s the lorum ipsum text. I was ready for an essay.
Grandpa review: I do not like the ping sound when banzai charge is infront of us.
Take that. If a Garand ever hit a target at 300 yards, it was purely by accident.
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole here for fun.
The Garand was considered a serviceable weapon out to 400-500 yards, and had a factory targeted MOA of 4 (though reportedly some made it to the field during wartime with as high as 6) with the ammunition of the time, though many did better (2 - 3 MOA) and were selected for marksmen. According to the US army, the Garand was expected to produce 40 - 50 shots per minute “accurately” at 300 yards, though I don’t find a technical definition for “accurately” on that.
The Lee-Enfield was classed at the same 4 MOA from the factory with ammunition of the time, though it had selected T series marksman / sniper designated rifles that did 2.5 MOA or less.
So perhaps a 0.5 - 1 MOA advantage to the Lee-Enfield by design which is probably mostly due to a fully sealing bolt action, and apparently better factory QA. Though on the other side of the coin the Garand could produce a higher firing rate and didn’t suffer horribly in accuracy to achieve that.
They seem fairly comparable. And they were made by closely collaborating allies around the same time (about a 20 year gap between development), and mass produced using similar techniques, so no big surprise I guess.
It was actually more of a tongue in cheek jibe at the Garand. I did know about the “superior” Enfields getting designated as sniper level, and having used one, it’s definitely not up to the standards of a modern rifle. I certainly couldn’t imagine shooting 30+ shots with it in 1 minute, and hitting the broad side of a barn…
Lol you and me both! It was a fun rabbit hole to dig down on two very cool historic weapons.
