I have a Garand. Got it for $125 from DCM before it became CMP. Two of my boys have Garands. One is a National Match I picked up from a friend’s, friend’s widow for my son for $800. Extremely accurate. We hump them with our cars to the range. I wouldn’t carry it in the field…not at my age. When I do hunt it’s my Marlin 336 in .35 Remington. Nice, fairly light short easy to swing. Enough power and range here in the NE.
If World chaos happens I’d probably hump my M1 carbine. Low power but enough for close range work and only 5 lbs.
“If World chaos happens I’d probably hump my M1 carbine. Low power but enough for close range work and only 5 lbs.”
Not a bad choice. Fun little guns, too. My brother had one, an Inland if I remember right. But the idiot sold it when he got in a jam. I told him I’d take it off his hands if he ever needed to but, like I said, he’s an idiot.
Loaded with soft points it’d do the job under all but the most extreme circumstances.
Good luck to you.
L
“I have a Garand. Got it for $125 from DCM before it became CMP.“
The CMP had a station at the last Zombie Shoot we did. Mrs L decided she wanted to give it a try. The nice folks running it chuckled a bit when she picked it up. “That’s a 30-06 there, ma’am.”
After a couple of minutes of instruction she proceeded to put 8 out of 10 on a man sized steel silhouette target.
That shut them up pretty quick.
She turned to me and said “I want one of these!”
So we are saving our pennies. They sure aren’t $125 these days.
L