if you could only own one, ar15 or garand?

[Schofield]

The battle between kids(ARs) and adults(Garands). Not based on maturity, just age of rifles...

 

[DocBoCook]

Garand. But if I had a choice, it would be the M14. First Rifle I qualled on. Still in love with it

 

[DC300a]

Garand.

It's getting tight....

 

[DocBoCook]

DC300a, you wrote garand, but the Garand total did not change and the AR group gained one. WTH?

 

[7tmuscle]

M1 Garand

well in the political climate we are in, you are better off with the M1 Garand, it's going to be hard to ban this rifle...the AR15 will be the first to be banned if the present administration has it's way

 

[DocBoCook]

again, actually click the poll, so that your vote is reflected

 

[DC300a]

Busy Body

I clicked Garand.

I am not sure what to tell you. When I look at the poll the Garand is in italics indicating that that is the one I voted for.

Then again I voted and then read through the entire thread before I actually posted... that might have something to do with it....

 

[yosarian]

AR-lighter gun,lighter ammo,more ergonomic.imo

 

[Reid73]

Vietnam an Iraq...?...your joking right...?

Sir, I am not joking, but if you wish to believe that those wars were successes then you are certainly entitled to your opinion.

At any rate I have no desire to turn this thread into a political argument. We're all friends here.

 

[fatelk]

If you could have only one, which would you have: an apple or an orange?

I'll have an apple, because I like apples. The M1 is my choice.

I like it for the history, the design, the caliber. I also tend to appreciate wood and blue steel on a rifle too, as opposed to annodized aluminum and plastic, but that's just me.

Great poll, by the way.

 

[as37692]

I have heard on many accounts of U.S. soldiers having their family send them other rifles because the M16s jam like heck.

Wow! Schofield that is really fun I’ve done two tours in IRAQ and carried an M4 and an M16A4 and never once did ether of them JAM on Me, in training or in Combat.
And for what you said about U.S. Soldiers having there family’s send them rifles because there M16s did not work is even funnier. That is seeing that if they carried a personal owned weapon over seas it would just about be a automatic Article-15, loss of rank and most lickly the start of the end of there life in the U.S. Military.
This is not the military of 10 or 20 years ago, you try and carry a personal owned weapon and your higher finds out about it and your done.

 

[husker]

just wanna say to all who serv or have severed or will be serving God bless, KICK ASS, AND A BIG THANK YOU for protecting us and our rights

 

[vfarmer01]

Garand

Absolutely the Garand. Owned AR-15, traded for shotgun. Kept Garand lots of fun to shoot. No comparison. No rifle can compare to it. Definetly a conversation piece at the range.

 

[Frightener 88]

I voted ar 15. The garand tends to has catastrophic failures with "commercial" ammunition. pass.

 

[orionengnr]

I love the fact that the poll is just about 50/50 right now. I'd pick the...
Nah, I'll just take an AR-10.
Is that a compromise? Maybe, but not a bad one, IMHO.

 

[helz_mcfugly]

Mark offered to sell me his .308 garand match rifle he built in the service for $1100. Its a badusy rifle. but if I got a garand I would want it in 30-06. so I said, "how bout that M1a-m14 over there in the corner" and he said yea Ill think about it. so looks like I might have yet another .308 soon.

 

[FlyinBryan]

wow!

incredibly close.

no wonder i feel short handed only owning one of them.

 

[chuckusaret]

I'll take them M1 and take the bad guy out at 600 yds or more

I have heard on many accounts of U.S. soldiers having their family send them other rifles because the M16s jam like heck.

That is the most BS that I have heard in a long time. I carried a M16 in Vietnam, it was seldom cleaned and when it was the whole weapon was dunked in solvent and allowed to drip dry and then sprayed with a light oil and it never failed to fire.

 

[threefeathers]

But I own 2 Garands, 4 M1A's and 7 AR's, and 2 03's.

 

[helz_mcfugly]

yea Bryan but you own a 7.62x59 rifle that cost less then a tank of gas. lol

 

[Marathonman]

If I was hunting bunnies then .223! Otherwise Garand.

I'm sure there's an equivalent poll - 1911 or Beretta M9. Unfortunately, we do not always move forward.

 

[FlyinBryan]

yea Bryan but you own a 7.62x59 rifle that cost less then a tank of gas. lol

ya, and i like it too.

but now i want another rifle that costs as much as a tank of gas.

a 1000 gallon tank.

 

[jerkface11]

At any rate I have no desire to turn this thread into a political argument. We're all friends here.

Then why do you keep trying to do it?

 

[Schofield]

Wow! Schofield that is really fun I’ve done two tours in IRAQ and carried an M4 and an M16A4 and never once did ether of them JAM on Me, in training or in Combat.
And for what you said about U.S. Soldiers having there family’s send them rifles because there M16s did not work is even funnier. That is seeing that if they carried a personal owned weapon over seas it would just about be a automatic Article-15, loss of rank and most lickly the start of the end of there life in the U.S. Military.
This is not the military of 10 or 20 years ago, you try and carry a personal owned weapon and your higher finds out about it and your done.

Whoa! Settle down, that's just what I've heard (on many accounts), so it is not like I'm lying to your face.

That is the most BS that I have heard in a long time. I carried a M16 in Vietnam, it was seldom cleaned and when it was the whole weapon was dunked in solvent and allowed to drip dry and then sprayed with a light oil and it never failed to fire.

And again, Whoa! That's just what I've heard a lot and also Vietnam's climate is very different from Iraq's climate which has a lot to do with changing a guns functionality. It takes a very fine firearm to not be effected by climate...like the Browning 50 machine gun.

 

[freakshow10mm]

AR15 is plenty more versatile. In the Garand, you're stuck with the .30-06.