[Joe Brower]

Anyone reading this who hasn't already obtained an M1 Garand from the CMP (or two, or three, or...), I cannot recommend it more highly. It's a genuine piece of history, not to mention that the Garand (for me anyway) points more naturally than almost anything else I own, and when you shoot something with a .30-06, it tends to stay shot.

The AR-15 is the rifle my generation grew up with, and that's a good rifle, too, but there's something about a Garand that just can't be duplicated.

[DuncanWaring]

... it tends to stay shot.

Interesting phrase.

I characterize my '06 weapons by saying "If I'm going to shoot something, I want it to stay shot."

Yours is the first "in the wild" reference I've seen to it.

I wonder how many other people use it. ;-)

[mylife]

A couple of years ago I was shooting down at the river when a family showed up with their 90 some year old WW2 patriarch and his M1 garand.

This guy was a willow of his former self and the garand seemed bigger than he was.

At any rate that old guy loved his rifle.
I had a bag full of 4x4” blocks of wood that I would toss in the river and that old geezer would blow them out of the river while laughing “one shot one kill”!! LOL!!

[Tainan]

The AR-15 is the rifle my generation grew up with, and that's a good rifle, too, but there's something about a Garand that just can't be duplicated.

Airborne & Amen !