woodsoup
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If you need convincing. you don't want one.
Help convince me I need an M1 Garand
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If you need convincing. you don't want one.
P.B.Walsh
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Have you seen Gran Torino???? That'll make you want one really bad, and a true M1911A1!!!!!!
BTW Clint Eastwood is a total BADA$$ in that movie!!!!!
BTW Clint Eastwood is a total BADA$$ in that movie!!!!!
krs
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Col Plink,
ALL of those are from CMP, and so are three more not shown there. I have just one that didn't come from CMP but did come from the predessessor DCM and is 1943 correct in all ways including the uncut oprod.
Not to say that those rifles are shown in the condition or the configuration as received from CMP - I've rebarreled four of them, two are 7.62x51 (.308 win) including the restocked pretty boy that you remark upon. That one is restocked with a nice grade of walnut bought from Boyd's and finished by me. It embarrasses me being so pretty and so I never go out with it. You can buy it if you want for oh, about $xxxx.xx. (I don't know) I guess. It should shoot very well as I've match chambered it and done all the usual accurizing tricks to the rifle. Lot of work and money in that one and I don't like it much once I was done with it. Weird, huh?
ALL of those are from CMP, and so are three more not shown there. I have just one that didn't come from CMP but did come from the predessessor DCM and is 1943 correct in all ways including the uncut oprod.
Not to say that those rifles are shown in the condition or the configuration as received from CMP - I've rebarreled four of them, two are 7.62x51 (.308 win) including the restocked pretty boy that you remark upon. That one is restocked with a nice grade of walnut bought from Boyd's and finished by me. It embarrasses me being so pretty and so I never go out with it. You can buy it if you want for oh, about $xxxx.xx. (I don't know) I guess. It should shoot very well as I've match chambered it and done all the usual accurizing tricks to the rifle. Lot of work and money in that one and I don't like it much once I was done with it. Weird, huh?
Ignition Override
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If you ever stand in the fox holes and skirmish/battle areas of the 101st outside Bastogne, Belgium (as we did recently, on a superb personal tour), you would probably understand.
"Reg Jaans" is somewhere on Youtube (also via Internet "Battlebus" links).
A few weeks ago watched a single tracer round from a Garand start a small fire in dry brush 300 yards away at the Evansville club range, and quickly extinguished.
That was c o o l, as I've never been anywhere near combat, except orbiting over the El Salvador woods in '82.
For me, if money were no object, I would drive to Anniston, AL to order one.
"Reg Jaans" is somewhere on Youtube (also via Internet "Battlebus" links).
A few weeks ago watched a single tracer round from a Garand start a small fire in dry brush 300 yards away at the Evansville club range, and quickly extinguished.
That was c o o l, as I've never been anywhere near combat, except orbiting over the El Salvador woods in '82.
For me, if money were no object, I would drive to Anniston, AL to order one.
krs
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If you ever stand in the fox holes and skirmish/battle areas of the 101st outside Bastogne, Belgium (as we did recently, on a superb personal tour), you would probably understand.
"Reg Jaans" is somewhere on Youtube (also via Internet "Battlebus" links).
Exactly that. Each rifle is an historical artifact in it's own right. Today that is perhaps the more important justification for owning and preserving the rifles than to have a "good shooter". Every one of them is a good shooter so long as it will fire.
"Reg Jaans" is somewhere on Youtube (also via Internet "Battlebus" links).
Exactly that. Each rifle is an historical artifact in it's own right. Today that is perhaps the more important justification for owning and preserving the rifles than to have a "good shooter". Every one of them is a good shooter so long as it will fire.
Selling a collection of Mosins to afford a Garand is like selling a collection of classic Mustangs to afford a McClaren. You're getting rid of a bunch of unique guns to afford another unique gun, and you still might not have the money in the end.
Mosins don't sell for much, and Garands sell for a decent amount. If you can get a good couple hundred for each Mosin and you've got 5, then sure, sell off a few and get a Garand. And that's assuming there's nothing unique about each one, that they're all just the same as the next.
Mosins don't sell for much, and Garands sell for a decent amount. If you can get a good couple hundred for each Mosin and you've got 5, then sure, sell off a few and get a Garand. And that's assuming there's nothing unique about each one, that they're all just the same as the next.
Deckard
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If you're an American you need one. The Garand is as much a symbol and piece of our national heritage as it is a great rifle. It's one of those things that will be handed down from your children to you children's children and help keep the American firearms tradition alive. And I can safely say that the Garand is the one rifle I'd never part with and would feel comfortable with from hunting to when the SHTF.
Tim the student
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They helped win WWII, they are fun to shoot, and if you want one in 15 years, you will pay WAY more than the inflation rate (IMO). Relatively cheap to shoot with CMP ammo too. Why would you possibly not want one?
All other guns are cool but the Garand is the godfather of cool guns.
Read this thread: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=456010 Someday the thread will be about Garands. I hope I can find a way to get a couple more sooner vs later.
All other guns are cool but the Garand is the godfather of cool guns.
Read this thread: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=456010 Someday the thread will be about Garands. I hope I can find a way to get a couple more sooner vs later.
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At a young age I grew to admire and love the Garand for all that it is. Against the advice of my brother I went ahead and ordered one and got a August '44 Receiver at the age of twenty. Probably one of the best purchases I've ever made. and for $600, you can't go wrong.
Vern Humphrey
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Mine, from CMP, cost $160.00, including shipping. Check the current price and ask yourself if you're ever going to find them any cheaper than they are today.
Archie
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Do you have one?
If "no", you should buy one.
This ain't rocket science, brother.
If "no", you should buy one.
This ain't rocket science, brother.
MythBuster
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To me the Garand stand for freedom. Liberals hate both Garands and freedom.
That is a good enough reason to buy one.
That is a good enough reason to buy one.
krs
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How is it hard to figure out?
Two more of my Garands - the postwar H and R's, and for those who don't know - Mr. John C. Garand hisself. The other guy you might know of....
John Garand was Canada's loss and our gain. The fools up there didn't recognize his genius so he came south to find work designing firearms.
Two more of my Garands - the postwar H and R's, and for those who don't know - Mr. John C. Garand hisself. The other guy you might know of....
John Garand was Canada's loss and our gain. The fools up there didn't recognize his genius so he came south to find work designing firearms.
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"Liberals hate both Garands and freedom."
Wrong. Liberal right here who loves both Garands AND freedom
I've had my Garand since my 21's birthday (dad got it for me as a gift). It's one of the SA remakes, so he spent way too much on it more than likely. But that was before either of us knew about the CMP.
Still, I love my Garand, and I hope to get a CMP Garand in the not too distant future to give it a brother
Wrong. Liberal right here who loves both Garands AND freedom
I've had my Garand since my 21's birthday (dad got it for me as a gift). It's one of the SA remakes, so he spent way too much on it more than likely. But that was before either of us knew about the CMP.
Still, I love my Garand, and I hope to get a CMP Garand in the not too distant future to give it a brother
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