Retro Guns...Let's See Them...

[ABNAK]

1943 Springfield M1 Garand with a 1950-something Kongsberg M1 bayonet. I really wish that I'd gotten into the Garand game sooner, so I could have gotten one of the minty Norwegian bayonets with scabbards when they were available for cheap... and now they simply aren't available. So my bare bayonet (that lives in a Danish scabbard) will have to suffice, for now. At least until I can find another Kongsberg in a Kongsberg scabbard.

Wood looks sweet, really nice. I like the longer earlier bayonets.

[ABNAK]

I always wanted one of the S&W "Shorty Forties" by Lew Horton Distributors. I remember back in the early 90's (maybe '92 or so) the ads for them in Shotgun News. They were $700+ even then so a bit pricey for me at the time. IIRC they were built on a 9mm 6906 frame and had Bar-Sto match barrels.

[Ed L.]

Here are a pair of US Customs Smith & Wesson model 686s CS-1 models from the late 1980s. One has a 3" barrel and the other has a 4" barrel--both with round butts:
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[Adrenaline_6]

A Remington Model Four in .30-06 - Bought it in 1985 along with the Redfield Illuminator Widefield scope that is still on it. Had work done on it the same year by replacing the plastic buttstock with a nice rubber adjustabeable one. Still looks pretty good.

[OldState]

1968 Hi Power, 1978 SW Model 41 (wearing a Optima Red dot from when I shot Bullseye in my 20’s), and a 1980s Dan Wesson 357.

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PS: Anyone want to tell me why pics post so small here now days?

[m1a_scoutguy]

A Remington Model Four in .30-06 - Bought it in 1985 along with the Redfield Illuminator Widefield scope that is still on it. Had work done on it the same year by replacing the plastic buttstock with a nice rubber adjustable one? Still looks pretty good.

Outstanding! I have one that was my Dad's, Hmm, will have to look it up as to the year, I can't remember when he bought it, maybe late 80s! It is similar,30/06 but has a VXIII 1.5x5 Leupold scope!

[Arik]

1968 Hi Power, 1978 SW Model 41 (wearing a Optima Red dot from when I shot Bullseye in my 20’s), and a 1980s Dan Wesson 357.

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PS: Anyone want to tell me why pics post so small here now days?

I'm on taptalk and it looks fine to me

[Adrenaline_6]

Outstanding! I have one that was my Dad's, Hmm, will have to look it up as to the year, I can't remember when he bought it, maybe late 80s! It is similar,30/06 but has a VXIII 1.5x5 Leupold scope!

Thanks! I think they only made the Model Four from 81-87. The 7400 (the cheaper non monte carlo stock version) they kept making. My scope magnification is 3x9 and it has the Accutrac BDC stadia reticle. The sad thing is I don't know where the BDC dials are and you can't get replacements from Redfield anymore.

[MountainRaven]

Wood looks sweet, really nice. I like the longer earlier bayonets.

I do, too: Plus my father's a Marine and everything I've read suggested that the Marines preferred the M1905s to the M1s. So my initial thought was to get one of the M1905 bayonets, but they're all pretty spendy.

My second thought, then, was to instead kit it out with the state-of-the-art accessories that would have been available in September of 1943 (when my rifle left Springfield Armory for the first time). So a cotton M1 web sling (in OD#3), M1 bayonet, Type-2 lockbar (helped by Garandammo.com getting repro SA lockbar rear sights), &c. Since there aren't any differences between the M1 bayonet of 1943 and the M1 bayonet of 1953, I figured that I might as well get the Kongsberg-made bayonet.

[Slater]

Retro? Well, consider the following:

Old fashioned, non-tactical sling

GI Magazine with dry-film gray finish. So 1980's

Hopelessly obsolete 20 inch barrel. Hello - 1968 called. They want their barrel back.

M7 bayonet. 'Nuff said