If you seriously want one but don't have one choose the first option.
I have/want an M1 Garand
I don't have/don't want an M1 Garand
If you seriously want one but don't have one choose the first option.
Ive wanted one for years, but when I have the money there is always something that I want more. CMP still has a few left, but Im saving my pennies for the USGI 1911s.
I own two..........Winchester and SA.
I have a Korean war vintage Springfield. Fun to shoot but finicky with preference for certain loads. I find myself appreciating my m1 carbine and 03A3 more. The m1 carbine is a fine rifle that produces surprising results at 100 yards with little load development.
I've had my CMP Garand for almost all of a week. It's easily my favorite rifle. I just wish I had a walnut stock for it, instead of the ugly birch stock it has.
" Nil desperandum - Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. "
- Samuel Adams -
I love my M1 Garand. I have competed with one for years. John C Garand matches are a fun way to spend a day with good people at the range, while working on basic marksmanship skills.
I started my NRA National Match Service Rifle shooting with a M1 Garand. I started my NRA Long Range Service Rifle shooting with a M1 Garand.
I would like to have more of them, but the prices have gone sky high.
The M1 Garand, was the rifle my father carried to free the world. First standard, general issue semi auto rifle, a design and machine Wonder. Accurate, reliable, and fairly easy to use.
I love to hear it "ping", and hear the bolt go home on a reload.
Have one, want more than one!
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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Birch stocks on m1 garands are in fact usgi. Mine has original arsenal cartouches. Not as nice as early issue Walnut, but when the rifles were re furbished by usgi arsenals, birch may have been used.
Certainly not on a '43 SA.
The trouble is that the front and rear handguard are almost minty - a couple of dings in the rear handguard and just the normal rattle on the front - so finding a USGI walnut stock that has a similar level of wear without spending a lot is challenging me.
I kinda want to just easy button it and get a Dupage or a CMP new walnut stock set. But they seem to have pretty mixed reputations.
This is true, but I believe it wasn't true until after production of the M1 had stopped. Sometime in the early 1960s.
ETA: I don't hate birch. I love the arctic birch stock on my M39 SAKO. But American birch never seems to be as pretty as arctic birch.
Last edited by MountainRaven; 10-31-17 at 01:02.
" Nil desperandum - Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. "
- Samuel Adams -
My swedish m96 has an artic birch stock. I agree with your opinion on the different birch stocks available in Europe vs North America.
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