[cripplecreek]

The M1 Garand is easily identified by the characteristic ping it makes ejecting its clip after the last round in the en bloc clip is fired.

Seems that I read that soldiers loved the gun but hated the ping because it alerted a nearby enemy to an empty clip.

[Vaquero]

the GIs learned to flip and empty clip to make the sound and when the enemy stuck their head up to shoot....BAM.

[Sigurdrifta]

I think I read somewhere that GI’s would use this against the enemy (I think this was about the European theater). The Germans had learned to listen for the sound of the empty clip. The GI’s would drop or otherwise hit the clip to mimic the sound, while having a full clip in the M-1. Bad news for the German who then stuck his head up.