Sproinging vs. Pinging??

Sproing or Ping?

  • prefer ping!

    Votes: 55 61.1%

  • prefer sproing!

    Votes: 35 38.9%
  • Total voters
    90
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Garands go ping when they're empty, AR-15 type rifles go have a springy sound you can hear in the buffer-tube if you're wearing hearing protection.

Whee.

~GnSx
 
Get this: If a gun goes off less than two feet from your face, you're not likely to hear the springy-shucky sound in your rifle's buffer tube nearly as well as if, say, your ears were protected from the some-feet-away explosion by some muffs or plugs. Plus, your face is right up ons the buffer tube anyway.

It makes perfect sense.

~GnSx
 
Voted Sproing because that's what I've been trained on, but would have voted "Chuck-chack" of the FAL's recoil spring if offered the choice. ;)

Best,
John Bear Ross
 
I like both but if you're going to make me choose between the two...

I guess I'll have to go with" Sproinging". Reasons being that if the SHTF I'd rather sproing for thirty or potentially many more straight rounds than ping and load every eight and be able to carry more rounds per pound with me.

On the range the ping is totally cool but you made me choose.
 
If I get a ping it means I dropped something on a concrete or tile floor and can find it. If I get a sproing, it means I let a spring loose, and will probably never find it.
 
If this post refers to the ping of a Garand clip verses the sproing of an M16, well heck, like my children, I can't pick one over the other.
It's all good!
 
I have a pinger and a sproinger. My sproinger is a lot more accurate and I hear a lot more sproings than I hear pings, but I like pings more.
 
I dunno, but I don't hear the sproing so much, I just feel the lack of bolt-cycling-ness which tells me it's locked back, or at least that's how I percieve it.

If ever in a situation in which the need to notice and respond quickly were of value, I honestly don't think I'd notice the sproing/difference in recoil. A Garand clip ejecting is pretty difficult to miss-if you don't hear it you'll certainly see or feel it.

As for the weapons, while I can reload both relatively quickly, the fact that the Garand requires feeding several times as often is definitely a negative for the pinging.
 
I've never heard the "Sproinging"...

But I will say this, empty shell casings hitting a hard floor makes a really cool sound. It's better if it's semi-auto that way the brass hitting the floor makes different noises and such.

I've only heard the "Ping" of the Garand so I'll say that because I do love that sound.
 
Have one sproinger, no pinger ... mostly bolt-action ka-chunkers. What sound does a lever make?
 
Oh come on, offthepaper, everyone knows that "Chicka-cock" is the sound of a 12 gauge slide action, a Mossberg 500 to be precise. Are you trying to confuse everyone on this very important issue?

Oh yes, and now back on topic, the answer is "ping". Hmm...except that is a four letter word, so no, its "sproing".

Yep, sproing it is, by a preponderance of the evidence.
 
My "sproinger" is far more accurate than my "pinger," but it just doesn't have the same history or "been there, done that" character. YMMV.
 
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