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Then you wake up freezing because you were so tired you HAD to get some rack.
That is the first combat photo that I have seen with a muzzle cover on a M-1 rifle.
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WW2 US Army Friction Tape Dated June 23, 1942. Stock No. 17-5-865. This is a must for use in all WW2 Demotion kits, Signal Corps Kits and requisitioned by all GI's so that they could put over the muzzle of the their M1 Garands, M1 Carbines, Thompsons, Grease Guns, Browning Auto Rifles and Browning Machineguns to keep mud, snow, etc out of the bores. Friction tape was much preferred over the clumsy canvas muzzle covers that had to be removed to use your weapon's sights.
But THESE are canvas...
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But balloons were easier to get.
Party balloons...
Lubricated ones work best. Keeps dust out of the Browning co-ax.
I suppose that they did not carry a supply of these type covers and ended up shooting through them thus the scarcity of them in combat photo. Tape would be a easy fix but might be lacking in the cold and wet environment so the party balloons ended up as the all weather fixQuote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
I would think so eventually, that IS what happens. Today we issue a plastic "Caplug" that's called the "Shoot off muzzle cover" and is identical to the one US troops received for the M16s way back. Ours started out red if you can believe, they wanted us to try and "Be aware" so as not to blow up our rifles by shooting through the plugged muzzle. I demonstrated just once what happens, they disappear when shot. Soon after we had the black ones. Lessons learned are NOT necessarily remembered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Rochester
photo shows a black plastic M16 muzzle cover
Jim, see if anyone else can guess the other parts in the photoAttachment 115104
Yes, I know what they are.
In OIF1 we were issued the black ones to keep the sand and dust out of the bores of our M16A2. (They would not issue us M4s). We were told to just shoot them off if we got into a fire fight. At the end of the rotation we ended up throwing thousands of them away. I being a pack rat kept a box of them. The party "ballons" probably were not issued for the purpose of keeping your rifle bore free of debris. They were issued to keep your "gun" bores clean of other "debris" like bacteria as VD was a real problem in modern armies around the world.
How many of us actually remember friction tape? It was gross stuff that sort of worked for electrical wiring and repairing bicycle tires. I was really happy when other types of electrical tape and duct tape showed up. No, I am not old enough to remember it used on rifles, I am only 78.
Still has it's uses and I have a roll down in the workshop with all the other stuff...Quote:
Originally Posted by us019255
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I just kept a big bag or two. I took dozens in to my army reserve unit after my release from regular and gave them out. I only kept a few...Quote:
Originally Posted by fjruple