And this one is a new-to-me Garand, with a late-war Springfield action. It is the first semi-automatic rifle I have owned in decades - and the first semi-auto I have ever owned which was chambered for a useful cartridge! I went a little overboard loading "M2 Ball" for it, with about 500 rounds in clips ready to go, including the 192 in bandoliers. It is comforting in these trying times!
I doubt we in the continental US would ever have been invaded and be forced to speak those languages, but an awful lot of other people surely would be speaking those tongues if it wasn’t for the .30-06 and the men behind them.how could that have happened after the japanese admiral said if we invade the US (pipe dream) there will be a rifle behind every blade of grass. so which is it?
Interesting cupronickel bullets; I have some FN ammo on strippers that looks like that.
Thanks for sharing the pics. I have been a number of times to Hickam Field in Hawaii. Several buildings still bear scars from Dec 7, 1941.I just got back home from Europe yesterday. In Germany there are still countless bullet strikes pocking the walls of buildings all over what used to be Soviet controlled East Germany. I will bet that almost all are 7.62x54R or 8mm Mauser rounds that did the damage where I was, but the scars of battle have been left there for eternity.
I have some Turkish 1941/42 surplus 8mm that looks like that too. Big long pointy things, they are.Interesting cupronickel bullets; I have some FN ammo on strippers that looks like that.
Danish M2Interesting cupronickel bullets; I have some FN ammo on strippers that looks like that.
My Danish has a '61 headstamp and has a copper-jacketed bullet. Also, the bullets are seated deeper than any other M2 I have ever seen. Curious.Danish M2
My Danish has a '61 headstamp and has a copper-jacketed bullet. Also, the bullets are seated deeper than any other M2 I have ever seen. Curious.
Yeah, that's a shame too. Beautiful brass. I bought a bunch of it years ago from the CMP and it's my Garand's favorite ammo.AMA headstamp berdan primer