yeah and the 30-06 Springfield cartridge will make the homy boys cry out its too big of a kick.
The M1 is excellent for rural home defense,and for hunting as well, it will drop every N. American animal worth eating.
Now my choice being a slightly more modern version is the M1A with its .308 my personal favorite.
Its a mans gun from the days of making every round count and not this prat and spray stuff.
Personal story about the M1.
A local COB (Crusty Old Bastard) had an M-1 Garand that he’d had since the war but didn’t shoot much.
The COB also had some flatland along a creek with a bluff on the other side which made for a perfect shooting range. He had on that a lean-to with a huge grill for cooking for large parties.
One day the COB’s adult grandsons bought themselves some Mini-14’s and lined up some bricks to shoot. They were raving about how powerful they were to knock big chips off the bricks when they were shot.
COB sees this and goes and gets his M-1 then proceeds to explode the bricks to bits. The grandsons, in awe, blurt out ‘what kind of gun is that’?
COB answers - ‘This is a M1 Garand. It’s a real rifle that’s won real wars, and when you’re ready to use what a real man uses, go buy one of these and shoot it.’