[Shooter 2.5]

If you get the chance, pick up a copy of "The U.S. M-1 Garand Rifle". It's more of a pamphlet than a book. In the first chapter it describes the trials between the M-1 Garand, the 1903 Springfield and the M-1922 .22 Trainer. After the first day, the soldiers who didn't use the Garand were worn out. The soldiers who used the trainer were just as bad from the constant turning of the bolt.

Even so, the Garand is a beautifully made piece of nostalgia. I wouldn't want to go to war with one.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not a big gun-culture guy myself, although I fully support civilians' rights to own and use any weapon they please, but I'm always interested in the history.

Well, the Garand was the cat's whiskers in its day. The Russians tried a semi-auto and they had to give up on it because it had reliability problems (the Tokarev). The rest of the world's armies had bolt actions and pistol-calibre subguns (not that the Thompson is a bad thing, as long as you don't have to carry it, or take long shots...). The Germans finally were changing over to semi-auto rifles towards the end of the warm but their design had some of the same problems as the Tokarev.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F