Posted on 09/20/2008 6:35:28 PM PDT by Daffynition
DAVISON , Mich.
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This is very, very cool.
I couldn't even talk when he gave it to me
I'll wager a bet his son was having problems talking as well.
Isn’t it? I had to snip the article ... this was excluded:
“Virgil Richardson said he’ll wait until his Oct. 26 birthday to shoot the weapon.”
Jim Richardson, That is one Powerfull gift
And thanks to Virgil Richardson for serving .... and his devoted son for his persistence. Good folk.
The kind that made America great ... avoiding comments about those *bitter* people who *cling to their guns* ... stuff it Obama!
I received an education today. I thought the carbine was the rifle used most often in Korea, not the garand.
His thumbprint on the face of the bolt proved that in fact it was his.
A sons love and respect for his dad......
The Carbine was used but was usually issued to officers, tank crews and paratroopers. I was thinking radio operators carried them as well but since that is what this guys was; I guess not. :)
Springfield Armory National Historic Site John Garand, Inventor of the M1
Years later when he came to visit me I pulled one out of the closet. He was very excited to see it. He had had shoulder surgery and couldn’t shoot it, but he enjoyed blasting away with the 1911 that he had fond memories of carrying on guard duty. I outfitted him with a tinpot, fatigue jacker and a couple of bandoleers of Grand clips and took some pictures and had them put on a coffee cup for him.
I was at Cabela’s and these old timers were admiring the Garands. The first thing they do is smile broadly, pick them up and pull back the bolt.
That is neat that this fellow could find his dad's old gun. Take a vet out to the range today!
As we lose *the Greatest Generation*, we are also losing the patriots of the Korean War.
Well done son.
“Dad made a comment that he could hit a silhouette target at 500 yards without a scope”
Not so easy, even with young eyes and a tight rifle.
They didn’t use ear protection back then, or so I was told by somebody who made expert in the 50s and has major hearing loss today. Eyes and ears, dad. And enjoy all the old smells!
Ow!
'To many the M1 Rifle has a classic elegance and grace characteristic of a bygone era, when steel was forged in white heat and walnut was carefully shaped for both form and function. "There will never be again such a rifle, so brimming with the genius of an individual mind, so well constructed to outlive us all, so sculpted as to ask the hand to caress."'
Wow !
3000 dollars eh ? CMP/DCM sold me mine for 300 !
Good , no.........awesome gift for an old soldier !
Very cool indeed, but the article is a bit misleading. Actually, there were only about 100,000 M1 rifles produced during the Korean War, mostly Springfield Armory models from serial numbers 4,200,000 to about 4,300,000. But there were about 3,900,000 produced before WWII ended and 1,700,000 produced AFTER the Korean War ended.
Yes, I am an M1 nerd. I have nine of them.
I left my forefinger print on the first one I owned. I found out the hard way that the bolt can rest on the end of the bullet follower and NOT be locked back.
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