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That makes perfect sense and I never thought of that. Thank you!!!!!
Correct me if I'm wrong though, could a guy get good at launching a grenade with the garand? Heck, you even see some pics of guys using the ground. At least I think I have. Was that an acceptable practice?
Firing with the butt on the ground is " high angle " fire , like a mortar . Yes , one can get quite good . It only took a little while for me to be able to drop them all into the passenger compartment of a convertable at 100 yds on a calm day . More times than not I could pick front or rear seat . Of course , I could take my time and noone was shooting back at me. There were people with a " knack " for this that did really good , and maybe I have it too . Not enough people around me want to give it a go (well , OK , no one around here ) .
I've done a little " low angle " firing , mostly to see what it's like . I can withstand the recoil , but I can't get myself contorted to use the M15 sight . I just need to take the time to try different things . My '03 launcher is an A3 , so it's low angle sights are as bad as my Garand's . My only '03 I have now is a late Remington with a pin stock that's not good for grenades . I need to pick up a high number WW2 rebuild to use. But , yes , with practice I figure someone could learn to lob grenades say through a window from across the street distances with the Garand sight .
You would have to use Kentucky elevation , however.
You see , with an '03 and using the top of a WW2 AT grenade as your front sight , 1,875 is your 25 yd setting . With the slide set at 2,200 yds , the triangle at 2,300 ish is your 37.5 yd setting and the top of your slide is your 50 yd setting . Using the top edge of the sight leaf and switching to your front sight top is your 75 yd setting . This requires you to shoot with both eyes open to " see around " the grenade body. Head is off stock due to hight of sight picture and desire to keep head attached. No sling is used to prevent hand injury . also keep offhand away from front sling swivel.
You can now see the poorness of the Garand and the A3 for low angle .
Chris
I'll be honest with you, I don't see how you'd have time to adjust your sights when the action is within 50 yards. But I guess if you were behind cover and the others were too, you'd be best to get your dope right the first time. If you had enough time to.
That was the advantage of the '03 sight . You set it to 2,200 yds with the low peep line . At 25 , you use the 1875 line and approxamate ., shooting under the slide . At 37.5 , sight through the " tree " . At 50 , use the top of slide . At 75 , top bar of the whole leaf , switching to the rifles front sight . No adjustments , just a quick point and shoot. If you perfered , at 25 you could use the " tree" too , just aim about a foot low.
Chris
Aaaaah, I get it. I think. In other words, no messing with the round knob once you had it set, and you could use different points on the tree once you had it set that way. So all you had to do was flip up the sight. Eh?
Correct.
Did not have that option with the Garand and 'A3 peeps .
Chris
I thought of you last night because I was looking at one of my books last night and it was showing a guy using the 03A3 for a grenade launcher. And I'm like, what the heck. If the 03 was used for grenade launching because of the flip sight, why would one choose an 03A3 over a Garand. It might have been some pics for showing off the 03A3 though. Because they were not combat pics but two pics of what looked like someone demonstrating possibly. His fatigues were all pressed and all that.
One should also remember that the Marines used the 1903 and A3 for quite a while after the Army already had them.