Posted on 01/20/2016 10:38:10 AM PST by VA Voter
Go to 2:27. He picks the WWII M1 as the greatest gun invented.
Nice site. Bookmarked. I find the new-production Federal, S&B and Prvi Partizan ammo to be at least the equal of the surplus M2 Ball, at about 3/4 the price. FWIW.
M14 for me. Packed one around while in the Army and loved it.
I own a 1917 Enfield Eddystone(Remington)and I do love the .30-06 cartridge. I would LOVE to have a Garand.
In Jr. High, I was in the California Cadet Corps and we fired .22’s into cast iron bullet traps outdoors on the tennis courts adjacent to a busy four lane street and that was 1969 in southern California!
No doubt; the ultimate portable tool for crowd control.
While I endorse Ermey's choice, the problem with a limited choice as here is that the best answer depends on what needs to be done.
In a dark house at night one might prefer a short-barreled pump to an M1. On a road trip, one might choose a comfortably concealed 1911 type. To be honest, I'm glad I do not have to choose between an M1 and a Saiga 12 auto.
Nifty.
I’m just very, very careful when I take mine to the range (rarely), my Dad made sure I knew all about that.
The cheap surplus days are long, long gone.
The weird thing with me, at least, was that you could fire Expert one day, and then non-qual the next.
The M-1 was our training weapon at Great Lakes NTS in 1961.
Great Lakes NTC, that is. Memory fades.
That’s a great father-in-law.
Your wife and you and your kids too were all blessed to have him.
I posted photos of a Belgium Mauser my dad bought in Germany back around 1952 on a firearm website and you wouldn't believe the comments I received on its relevant worth by "so called" experts.
After contacting a collectors website, he valued the rifle more than twice what the dudes were suggesting it was worth. He offered to accept it and put it up for auction but cautioned me that he might have it for a year or more before it sells..........
That applies to essentially every caliber. There's still some cheap surplus 7.62x54R floating around, but it's all corrosive. Yuck. The former Com-bloc countries still produce a lot of cheap noncorrosive commie-caliber ammo, so that's OK. But M2, .303Brit, and .45 surplus are all gone. 5.56NATO is down around $.30/round so that's good.
I had a 241 pre-qual day. "Oh, please, please let the weather be bad on Qual Day! Then my 241 goes in the record book!" Friday morning it was snowing - Parris Island, SOUTH Carolina!
"Yeah! No way we'll qualify now!"
Wanna bet? The 'pasters' were still sticking to the targets, so our Friday, Qual Day, scores counted. Blowing snowflake the size of quarters off the rear sight. Frostbite on the ears of about 25% of the platoon.
I fired a magnificent 213 - bah, humbug!
Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you!
Semper fi!
Go to M1Garand-CMPForums. Post a description in the “ask each other” section and you’ll get all the info, including value, you would ever need concerning your rifle.
I have gone to scatter guns,
Getting old Sucks!
Stopped at the pawn shop this afternoon and they had a 20 ga. Stoeger coach gun on the rack I’m thinking about buying for the missus.
The M1 Garand was the rifle I thought of as my answer to the question as I clicked on the link.
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Something to note, if it was the actual rifle your father in law carried into combat — there was a field modification that was used to turn a lot of them into full auto weapons.
Major Dick Winters (of 506 PIR, 101st Airborne, Band of Brothers) talked about it in some of his interviews. They called it the “Shifty-modified” Garand because Shifty Powers was so proficient at making them. Winters kept his after the war, but “misplaced” it sometime around going back on active duty during the Korean War.
Beautiful piece !
HOPE IT’S STILL THERE!
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