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M1 Garand

Rel said:
Clips go in girls hair... magazines go in rifles. :thumbup
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Actually the correct terminology is clip, cuz it's not a magazine, it's a clip. It's also the source of the expression "clip" when it refers to weaponry. If you called it a magazine you'd get yelled at.
 
Yes, I know... I was trying to be funny....guess not..... please feel free to move these posts to the Fail Thread. :cry
 
afm199 said:
Accurate, a bit heavy fun to shoot.
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Fixed. And I even load my own MatchKings.

Marlowe said:
They're that much fun, and they haven't lost value in the last 20 years.
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I got mine from the CMP for $500 in the Dark Ages (during the 1990s AWB). If they are $775 now from the CMP.

They go for stupid money at gun shows. Nothing special about them parts guns for $900+.

You know what sucks? U.S. made Garands are overseas and the CMP can't get them back in. Can't import foreign weapons. Bitch, they were made here! :mad
 
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That weapon is called a country defender for a reason. I used to go shooting all the time and the girls would see the AR-15 and want to use the garand. They fire the garand once and go to the AR-15. Your shoulder will thank you when you are done firing and the sproing sound is so fulfilling.

It's a digustingly epic weapon! I am super jelly of that gun.

I believe there was a shorter paratrooper version that was 2 feet.
 
2strokeYardSale said:
Fixed. And I even load my own MatchKings.


I got mine from the CMP for $500 in the Dark Ages (during the 1990s AWB). If they are $775 now from the CMP.

They go for stupid money at gun shows. Nothing special about them parts guns for $900+.

You know what sucks? U.S. made Garands are overseas and the CMP can't get them back in. Can't import foreign weapons. Bitch, they were made here! :mad
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$625-950 for Service Grade, but even the nice Service Grade rifles (high end of that range) are better than the show junk; complete, clean, headspaced, and shipped in a hard case.

It's a great deal for the price.

They let those 86,000 Garands back in from South Korea, BTW, the kicker is the 900k M1 Carbines they won't let back in. :cry

Entoptic said:
That weapon is called a country defender for a reason. I used to go shooting all the time and the girls would see the AR-15 and want to use the garand. They fire the garand once and go to the AR-15. Your shoulder will thank you when you are done firing and the sproing sound is so fulfilling.

It's a digustingly epic weapon! I am super jelly of that gun.

I believe there was a shorter paratrooper version that was 2 feet.
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While it's the "M1" Carbine, it bears no relation to the Garand. That was the carbine version of the semi-auto Winchester developed to compete with the Garand.
 
Hmmm, maybe it's time to break out the Garand this weekend.....

Hmmm, I should also place an order with the CMP, I'm sure the wife could use one too....

:teeth
 
Anyone interested in shooting one send me a pm. I shoot at Sunnyvale Rod and Gun Club, but could meet at any other local range.
 
The M1 Carbine was a small lightweight rifle pretty much designed as something officers could carry instead of a pistol. It had little stopping power or range.
 
afm199 said:
The M1 Carbine was a small lightweight rifle pretty much designed as something officers could carry instead of a pistol. It had little stopping power or range.
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The carbine was made for more CQB where a .45 couldn't reach out enough to touch someone. Making a shot at 75yds with a GI .45 would be tough. Stopping power was not the name of the game for the .30 cal it was wounding.
 
I need to take my M1 to the range. If I can find the ammo. :(
 
In the short-range jungle fighting, where opposing forces sometimes met each other in column formation on a narrow path, the penetration of the powerful .30-06 M2 cartridge enabled a single U.S. infantryman to kill up to three Japanese soldiers with a single round.[30]:wtf
 
enki said:
In the short-range jungle fighting, where opposing forces sometimes met each other in column formation on a narrow path, the penetration of the powerful .30-06 M2 cartridge enabled a single U.S. infantryman to kill up to three Japanese soldiers with a single round.[30]:wtf
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The Imperial army was very skinny in those days.

These days you'd get through about half of an American.

Also, what we think of as overpenetration is useful to a military force.
 
The surplus ammo market in .308 is freaking horrible.

Slightly less than .50 per round is ridiculous.
 
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