Rock Island Auction Co. to Sell THE Greatest Battle Implement Ever Devised

Guns.com ^ | 09/07/18 | Logan Metesh

[caver]

Wow!

[yarddog]

I am sure Patton thought highly of the Garand and rightly so.

Still he had a habit of praising American equipment even when he must have known it was not that great.

Probably to keep the troops confident.

[blueunicorn6]

I just finished reading a book written by a Soldier who fought on Guadalcanal.

He had high praise for the M1.

[ought-six]

The Marines on Guadalcanal were not happy that they had the 1903 Springfield while the Army had the M1 Garand.

[Fido969]

Very nice gun.

But that particular one is a safe queen. What good is that? It’s like being married to a beautiful woman you can’t kiss.

[21twelve]

I hope the auction vets the buyers as well as the family did when they sold it. I could just see some rich liberal buying it and then making a spectacle of destroying it.

[blueunicorn6]

Yep.

He wrote that there was a joint Army and Marine Patrol.

He said this one small Marine was tailgating a large Soldier.

The Soldier finally turned around and asked the Marine why he was following so close.

The Marine told him that he (the Soldier) was a big target and would surely be hit in any ambush and then he’d grab the Soldier’s M1.

[Fightin Whitey]

like being married to a beautiful woman you can’t kiss.

Waaaay worse.

lol

[dpetty121263]

I have 5 of them and they still shoot accurate...

[frog in a pot]

But that particular one is a safe queen. What good is that? It’s like being married to a beautiful woman you can’t kiss.

Well, you raise a good point. On the other hand, one could say if we are going to install a woman for our Queen, lets for damn sure find a virgin. [;^)

[Billthedrill]

The estimated price is $225,000 – 375,000.

Must have been priced by the CMP. (Dark muttering...)

[treetopsandroofs]

“Probably to keep the troops confident.”

Pappy Boyington would fly the worst plane for the same reason.

Real men.

[Jack Hammer]

Lovely safe queen. Take it out from time to time, look at it, and masturb*te.

[Simon Green]

Must have been priced by the CMP. (Dark muttering...)

Supply and Demand are cruel masters.

[buwaya]

I wonder if Ian of Forgotten Weapons will have a video.
Very likely I think.

[Pontiac]

But that particular one is a safe queen. What good is that? It’s like being married to a beautiful woman you can’t kiss.

But unlike wives you can have more than one.

If you can afford the 1,000,000th Springfield Garand you can afford another Garand you can shoot.

[SES1066]

Still he had a habit of praising American equipment even when he must have known it was not that great.

Are you saying this about the M1 Garand or as a 'general' statement? Here is the letter that he wrote to the US Army Chief of Ordnance in 1945, General Campbell. Note that he starts by specifying praise for the M1, then gives praise for the bounty that the Ordnance operations had delivered.

If you take 1943 as an exemplar year for WW2, the best rifles in common use were probably the German K98 Mauser, the British Enfield Mark 4, the US M1 Garand and the Russian Mosin Nagant 91/30. Only the M1 Garand was a non-bolt and thus maintained the sight-picture through a firing sequence. It's apparent biggest weakness was a nonadjustable 8-shot magazine and a ping sound when completed. One on one may have been a problem, in squad actions and at distances, probably a non-issue.

I think that the M1 Garand fully deserves its reputation.

[D_Idaho]

Ya got me. I thought that the article was going to say they’re going to start MAKING them!

[yarddog]

If you read my post #3 you would already know the answer to that question. I said “rightly so” as to his praise of the Garand.

Now as to the MG-42, 88 millimeter artillery and Tiger, Panther etc. Were they really inferior to our weapons?