M1 Garands, new imports?

[stencollector]

I trained on the M1. On the firing line at Fort Knox, at the time, the sound made by the ejecting enbloc charger was described as a "Bink", but the charger itself was not called a "Binky"; which word had already been co-opted to describe a suckling infant's pacifier. Earlier in this thread I saw the enbloc called a "Pingy", a neologism new to me, but uniquely pertinent. We don't get to speak much of the Queen's English down here, and I thank you.

That is the term around here for them. I did not realise it was not universal in it's application.
If I called it an enbloc, people would look at me like I had two heads. Perhaps that is the difference between having a surplus rifle which was widely used by ones country (USA) vs having a surplus rifle that was very infrequently used by ones country (Cdn). The official terms don't make it in to civilian use as readily.
Canada had a small quantity of M1s in the 50s when we were going to align ourselves more with the US equipment, but when the US opted out of the FN project, we went our seperate ways. The few M1s that were in Cdn service were relegated to airbase guard duties in Germany, and phased out by the early 60s.

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[oozlefinch]

If I called it an enbloc, people would look at me like I had two heads. The official terms don't make it in to civilian use as readily.

Nor into military use, either. We called it a "clip", knowing that that description was precisely incorrect. I can't remember ever hearing the word "enbloc" spoken in American English. It may be French in origin and down here we might have trouble holding our mouths right to pronounce it. I used it here and in postings on similar forums only because the collectors of surplus military arms seem to delight in interminable discussions of whether or not a particular loading accessory is a "clip" a "charger" a "magazine" or a "feeding tube"; which discussion I was trying to avoid.

If I was running short and needed one, I'm sure I would ask my buddy to "toss me a clip". .....or a pingy!