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May 12, 2011
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I'm an M1 Garand armorer, been messing with these rifles for about 30 years. Here's some of mine. OOOPs! Double pic. Ignore the fourth one.
January 4, 2011
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Ooooooh Yea! Love them old Garands.
April 25, 2008
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I'm a big fan of the M1 Carbine...great fun to shoot!
The Savantist
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March 2, 2008
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I was at a 3 gun match recently, and one guy used his M-1 Garand for the rifle portion, everyone else was shooting super tactical AR's. He lost time reloading, but with his holstered 1911, you could tell he was a traditional kind of guy
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Were is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
George Carlin
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January 24, 2009
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My M1 is still waiting for me out there somewhere.
Thanks for showing off the
D.Waits, I added your stray pic to your post above & nixed the other threads.
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May 15, 2011
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I love the M1. Here are my two...
The top is a CMP 'Springfield Special'. The bottom is a custom by Brookfield Precision Tool with a Barnett mw barrel in 7.62 NATO.
September 19, 2011
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I've got a Springfield FedOrd rebuild I bought back in the '90's... it's a piece of junk but it sure is fun to shoot. It has some issues and I finally found a 'smith who works on M1's right where I live, so maybe we can get it running again... heaven knows I have plenty of ammo loaded up for it.
Mine is a early May 1942 built Springfield.
...family photo, with the Garand on top...
January 4, 2011
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Just bought my 9th Garand and am awaiting delivery. Hopefully this one will be ratty enough to be a shooter.
January 8, 2011
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I drilled with an M1 for 2 years while I was in ROTC in college in '59-'60. We had to take them apart, clean for rust, once a week. They were kept in a building with now climate control. All this time spent with it and never got a chance to fire one.
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January 4, 2011
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Hossman,
My dad carried the M1 in the mountains in Italy during WWII. I never realized how tough he and the others who served with him were until I fired a Garand for the first time. It is not as bad as I make it sound, but the ARs feel like water guns in comparison.
If you ever get a chance, jump on it.
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July 2, 2011
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Those are sweet! Had one years ago, wish I still had it. It was a whitetail killer big time. You guys need to add a Springfield in there to round out the "family tree".
Love the historical long guns.
To the paranoid people who check behind shower curtains for murderers:
if you find one...what's your plan?
September 19, 2011
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brucertx said:
Those are sweet! Had one years ago, wish I still had it. It was a whitetail killer big time. You guys need to add a Springfield in there to round out the "family tree".
Love the historical long guns.
An '03 is on the To Get list... unfortunately, it's pretty far down... but it's above the M1 Carbine.
May 3, 2011
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Those are some beautiful M1 rifles. I love those with the rich Walnut stocks too. I love the action on those guns.
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March 2, 2008
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I saw an interesting TV program about a number of top Combat rifles recently. One comment on the M-1 was the distinct "ping" of the ejecting clip, and how it signaled to an enemy that you had run dry and were reloading. Many GI's started carrying an empty clip, and after firing off a couple of rounds, would throw the empty clip against a rock, wait for their enemy to pop up, and, well you get the idea
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Were is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
George Carlin
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July 2, 2011
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That is absolutley correct. A VERY distinctive sound.
To the paranoid people who check behind shower curtains for murderers:
if you find one...what's your plan?
November 23, 2008
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Greetings
Have a couple up north there wrapped in motor oil & wax paper ( stock removed). Shoot them everytime we are back. Probably saved thousands of GI lives being semi-auto and reliable. Best one is an H&R made in 53. Fine shooting tool. Saw one for sale down here in Peru about 2 years ago... Springfield 1943. But seller wanted more than any Garand should cost.
Mike in Peru
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July 2, 2011
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"The greatest battle implement ever devised".
General George S Patton
and he was a treadhead!
To the paranoid people who check behind shower curtains for murderers:
if you find one...what's your plan?
January 4, 2011
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I always find in amusing when an object of affection is well out of one's ability to buy, how easy it is to find fault. I recently acquired 3 more Garands, one being a four-digit, August 1938 model, bringing my total collection to 11.
And it is one of the finest fighting implements ever; with a close second being the M14 (I have a buttload of them, too.) So, if you don't own one, can't afford one, have never put enough rounds through on to be familiar with one, maybe.............
February 11, 2010
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FloridaDWCollector said:
I always find in amusing when an object of affection is well out of one's ability to buy, how easy it is to find fault.
I never cared much for paying for affection 
-Blacktop
October 18, 2011
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My father got one live and one "demilitarised". Both have a distinctly rusted barrel mouth.
Recently, my father could tell me why: When a GI was KIA, his Garand with bayonet in front and helmet on back marked the grave, until registration could get to him. Many of those M1s were sold or salvaged later in Germany. After weeks in the ground, the barrel mouth got its rust marks.
I was trained on the G3 .308 automatic rifle when I joined the Federal Defence, and switched to G36 .223 later. Yup, having only fired .223, .30-06 must kick like a mule. About the first thing you learn shooting .308+ rifles is to put the (WHOLE!) shoulder stock firm against the shoulder (saw many US soldiers "penny-heeling" M16 stocks - DON'T EVER try this with an AR 10, M14, G3 or FN FAL!!!).
Me, I do prefer M14, AK and G3-like rifles, if I find one with a stock fitting my size (2m). Only thing I like about the AR-15/M4/M16 is the telescope stock; got one for my Franchi SPAS-15, and I even have to put it to second-to-last notch to fire comfortable!!! It will be some time before I'm going to buy another weapon, but M1 Carbine and M14 are definitely on my list!
FloridaDWCollector said:
I always find in amusing when an object of affection is well out of one's ability to buy, how easy it is to find fault.
Hell, yes, that's a no-brainer! It is fracking too expensive!!!
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