Our first deployment to Vietnam our ship had some firearms training. After firing the M-16 I thought there wasn’t much difference from my nylon66. Then I saw one of the Seawolf gunners fire his M-14. Right then I said I got to get me one of those. It took about 20 years,but now I have it. That’s up near the top of my list, but still behind my Garand.
I’m right there with you on the Garand RM. Merry Christmas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TC2xTCb_GU&feature=player_embedded
I had my hands on a completely rebuild M1 Garand last year for about $700 and should have bought it then. (I still kick myself for not buying it.)
The Garand is on my shopping list, then a BAR in .338 and then a .50BMG, I almost bought a Barrett years ago but I wasted the money on a stupid Toshiba laptop that totally died soon thereafter when I spilled chocolate milk on it. I paid $3,000 cash for that POS Toshiba, same price for the Barrett.
I’ve learned my lesson, computers are obsolete as soon as you buy one. A gun is never obsolete as long as it can fire.