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 10-07-2008, 05:05 AM | #11 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,614 |
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Originally Posted by supergus
I just shot it for the first time today!  : I shot Federal Power-Shoks. WOW! I love this gun! |
Heck, the only ones who don't love the Garand are filthy red commies, and dead nazzis and kamikazes....  __________________
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| 10-13-2008, 08:46 PM | #12 | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 192 |
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Originally Posted by supergus
Not yet. I just got an email from CMP; ammo on sale
I just shot it for the first time today! : I shot Federal Power-Shoks. WOW! I love this gun! |
Of course you are familiar with all the caveats concerning the M1. You need to use some caution when using commercial ammo. This is old hat for most here but should be brought up now and then. The M1 was designed to use a certain weight range bullet and powders of a certain burn rate range. If the commercial rounds you use fall outside that then you risk op-rod damage at a minimum. Just FYI.
Toader51-When you say bringing back to GI specs it seems like you mean to say original configuration. If all you are doing is replacing parts of one approved manufacturer with those of another then you are returning to original config. There is nothing out of spec about it. | |
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| 10-16-2008, 12:06 AM | #13 | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 548 | 
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Originally Posted by Dcomf
Of course you are familiar with all the caveats concerning the M1. You need to use some caution when using commercial ammo. This is old hat for most here but should be brought up now and then. The M1 was designed to use a certain weight range bullet and powders of a certain burn rate range. If the commercial rounds you use fall outside that then you risk op-rod damage at a minimum. Just FYI.
Toader51-When you say bringing back to GI specs it seems like you mean to say original configuration. If all you are doing is replacing parts of one approved manufacturer with those of another then you are returning to original config. There is nothing out of spec about it.
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I wasn't at first. After I shot about 40 rounds of the Federal, I stopped by my local gun shop and the owner warned me about using hot loads. He mentioned something about how"sh!t could start coming apart..badly"  Thanks for the heads up though. Not everyone has milsurp ammo( I didn't realize that CMP had an ammo sale going on) so they go to the gun shop and buy whatever they feel like.(Like me  ) Now I have milsurp ammo coming from CMP. __________________
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| 10-17-2008, 04:21 PM | #14 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 259 |
A friend of mine (at Three Little Pigs BBQ here in Memphis) recently got his M1 and found a correct WW II leather sling for it also.
He and I were more familiar with the OD web sling of 'fifties vintage.
Loved to fire the old M1, but preferred to carry the M2 Carbine.
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| 10-17-2008, 04:39 PM | #15 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 272 |
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Originally Posted by Bob Wright
Loved to fire the old M1, but preferred to carry the M2 Carbine.
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| 10-17-2008, 04:53 PM | #16 | Call Me Doug Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: It's because I actually HAVE those skills! Posts: 21,258 |
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Originally Posted by ScottG
Heck, the only ones who don't love the Garand are filthy red commies, and dead nazzis and kamikazes.... |
 I actually don't care for the Garand. It's a good design, and it will run forever, but I just don't happen to like a couple of features about it....
Sorry.
JD __________________ "as for my Sword & Spear we will serve the throne, but NEVER that man who sits upon it" - Achilles - Warrior of Warriors
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Originally Posted by doctherock
Dillinger didn't have to let me try Cammenga Mags before I bought them; but he is a man of great character & a man who's word to me now is a good as gold. If he recommends it I know its good stuff.
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| 10-17-2008, 05:34 PM | #17 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 259 |
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Originally Posted by Dillinger
I actually don't care for the Garand. It's a good design, and it will run forever, but I just don't happen to like a couple of features about it....
Sorry.
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What, pray tell, might they be? And, from what standpoint? As a shooter/hunter, or Infantry Rifleman?
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| 10-17-2008, 05:54 PM | #18 | Call Me Doug Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: It's because I actually HAVE those skills! Posts: 21,258 |
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Originally Posted by Bob Wright
What, pray tell, might they be? And, from what standpoint? As a shooter/hunter, or Infantry Rifleman?
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Easy Bob - I am not trying to start anything here.
You have a dog legged op rod driven platform. The thing will run, and run well no matter what. The op rod is a proven design that will allow a weapon to run clean or dirty.
However, from an accuracy standpoint, this is not the best model. The kalashnikov has the same feature. It's reliable, but it's not as accurate as it could be. Adding to that, the barrel isn't free floated, and in fact, it's held firmly in place by a wood saddle & two straps. Adding the far front sling swivel, which wasn't designed to be a sling swivel in the first place, can add torque to the barrel directly. Plus the thing weighs a ton.
In what frame of reference? That of an apprentice rifle builder who has been taught to question everything about weapon designs to see if there are ways to improve them from an operational and accuracy standpoint.
It's a fine weapon that has a very p restigious line of service to man and country. I am not taking anything away from that when I say that I personally do not like a couple of features about the weapon.
JD __________________ "as for my Sword & Spear we will serve the throne, but NEVER that man who sits upon it" - Achilles - Warrior of Warriors
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Originally Posted by doctherock
Dillinger didn't have to let me try Cammenga Mags before I bought them; but he is a man of great character & a man who's word to me now is a good as gold. If he recommends it I know its good stuff.
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| 10-17-2008, 08:39 PM | #19 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,614 |
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Originally Posted by Dillinger
I actually don't care for the Garand. It's a good design, and it will run forever, but I just don't happen to like a couple of features about it....
Sorry.
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| 10-17-2008, 09:04 PM | #20 | Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 5,143 |
You know that "Thou shalt not covet" commandment? I'm breaking it right now. (Not really. I'm cool with getting my own Garand someday.)
Nice rifle! Enjoy! __________________
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them but protect them against you...you may know that your society is doomed. ~Ayn Rand | |
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