Recent content by Murphy4570

Bingo! What the OP wants is not a hunting rifle, but an old 19th or early 20th century combat rifle. None of these have been produced since the late 1940's at best. Get something that is chambered in a still-popular and ubiquitous cartridge. Getting a rifle does you little good if it is...

Crooked? As in bent? Hammer it straight again. Mosins are easy to repair, designed simply to allow peasant Soviet soldiers to fix them in the field!

Slam Fire, thank you very much for your extremely informational posts. I have enjoyed reading them and have gained valuable knowledge about the flaws regarding the M1903 rifle. I myself own a Springfield M1903, one made in 1927. It of course is a "high" serial number one, and I have shot...

Just for the record, that movie is awesome.

I disagree that it is anything of the sort. Revisionist progressive historians love to espouse such a viewpoint, but it is incorrect. The constitution of our nation is not to be trifled with for light and transient causes. This is why it was made so darn hard to modify it in the first place...

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. I'll bear however I damn well please (which in my state means on my own property only). Don't infringe upon my God given rights.

It's pedantic that you are using the word pedantic so damn much! How about that eh! You need to chill out dude. You are really high strung. Much ado about nothing. There are more important things in life to get your blood pressure up. Reliving the age-old clip-vs-magazine terminology debate...

Only one? For everything? My M1917 or one of my Mosin-Nagants. Bolt action battle rifle. Can be used for damn near everything, except for varmint hunting.

Expense of manufacture in relation to the price point the market will support. They are a 1930's design, with expensive time consuming machining required to manufacture. That would heavily affect the price. Expect one to cost as much as what the Springfield M1A goes for. The market for them is...

That reminds me of another officer who denigrated the methodology of SLA Mashall's fact-finding a whole lot as well. A fellow by the name of Colonel Hackworth, who wrote a book by the name of About Face.

A proper machinegun on a tripod with traverse and elevation functions would disagree with you. Dialed in, it can hit the same area, denying its use to the enemy. As for rifles, full auto is generally best for suppressive fire. US Army experiences in Vietnam with the M16A1 would corroborate that.

I'd recommend mild steel versus tool steel. Rather have a round go straight through than bounce off and ricochet somewhere unknown. You can always weld on a fresh plate of mild steel afterwards, or just weld the holes shut.

Will the CMP ship out one of their higher end Garands with an original military stock? I would love to get one, but don't want a brand new stock. I prefer combat rifles that look like they have been in combat.

Eddystone M1917 Enfield. 30-06. Very strong action, and one of the fastest as well. Magazine holds 6 rounds of 30-06, as it was designed for 5 rounds of .303 Brit.

Wait, what? They supported who for the ATF?