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‘An arduous task,’ Bringing back 86,000 M1 Garands from the Far East
Guns.com ^ | 05/11/18 | Chris Eger

Posted on 05/11/2018 11:33:51 AM PDT by Simon Green

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To: The Pack Knight

If I could turn the of profit they stand to make I would invest millions also.

If they average 500.00 each that is 43,000,000 a slight profit.


21 posted on 05/11/2018 12:43:31 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Simon Green

M1 afficianados (of which I am not one) should watch the 15 min video at the linked site. I don’t have anything in particular to say, except a great many of the rifles they have and will most likely sell will have *negative* value.


22 posted on 05/11/2018 12:44:59 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: Simon Green

HOLY CRAP I’d be in Heaven in that warehouse...


23 posted on 05/11/2018 12:47:22 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Simon Green

I hear the ran about 100,000 through a metal shredder about the time Clinton was in office.


24 posted on 05/11/2018 12:52:23 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: mountainlion

I was trained on one many moons ago when I was a junior Squid. I eventually want to get one WWII Garand in top condition...I know its going to cost a good chunk of change. Right now I’m still collecting all the Nazi contract pistols.


25 posted on 05/11/2018 12:56:47 PM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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direct to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1-bshef-G8


26 posted on 05/11/2018 1:13:04 PM PDT by Rio (I was deplorable when deplorable wasn't cool.)
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To: Simon Green; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; umgud; ..

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27 posted on 05/11/2018 1:21:05 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: BBQToadRibs

Google Filipino ghost guns on youtube.


28 posted on 05/11/2018 1:26:34 PM PDT by CMSMC
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To: luvbach1

They do have quite a bark, don’t they? Had a couple on the line at an Appleseed event, and I had forgotten to put my plugs back on. Ouch.

Always shot mine with hearing protection on.


29 posted on 05/11/2018 1:28:10 PM PDT by Noumenon (It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
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To: Noumenon
I’ve had two. One from the cmp program and the other from an estate sale. I still have the estate sale one. The other I traded to a friend. You can get parts and work it over and it will shoot great. The history is amazing. You can get a book to look up serial numbers of when parts were made. The receiver number will give a year of manufacture. Most pre 45 were assembled and milled by ladies. Mine has the cartouche in the stock from the Springfield Armoury’s commanding officer of the when it was assembled. 1943 July to August. The Aniston armory checks them out. Last I heard they return them to mil-spec quality. You want to stop a line of shooters at the range drag one out and let everyone see it. Personally I don’t like them but I may get another one. 🤔
30 posted on 05/11/2018 1:48:44 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Carry, practice, pray it don't happen. You ain't carrying you lose automtically.)
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To: luvbach1

“Ear protection was for sissies in those days.”

A buddy of mine, who has two hearing aids, used to shoot a S&W .357 magnum without ear protection.

My younger son is a bit smarter. He just purchased a Surefire 9mm suppressor. He has a (legal) 9mm SBR (AR)and a Glock 19. Waiting for the tax stamp on the can. Good bye ear muffs!


31 posted on 05/11/2018 2:32:45 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Noumenon

I’ve got a video of Mrs. L shooting a Garand at a local club. They were hosting a Zombie Shoot (what a gas!) and they had a bunch of Garands available.

She put 7 out of 8 on Steel at 100 yards from the standing position the first time she touched one. The instructor was astounded and quite frankly so was I.

Now she wants one.

What a woman.

L


32 posted on 05/11/2018 2:34:08 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: USMCPOP

1st marines went ashore in Guadalcanal with the 1903 a3. The army then renforced them with m1s. The fighting was still hot. When a Army wounded guy left the garand stayed. Wasn’t long after that the marines made it their battle rifle. Patton said the garand was the reason the US won the war. The marines1st was first in the garand was the last out.


33 posted on 05/11/2018 2:47:34 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Carry, practice, pray it don't happen. You ain't carrying you lose automtically.)
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To: Tenacious 1

Another member of the FR Boating Club does it again!


34 posted on 05/11/2018 2:51:15 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: luvbach1

In 1964 at ROTC Summer Camp I violated orders and saved my hearing by stuffing my ears with cotton, which was otherwise used to spit shine my boots.


35 posted on 05/11/2018 2:54:30 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: USMCPOP

I’m sorry for your loss. I read your tag line. Anyone who thinks the greatest generation is gone is full of it. They live with us and sacrifice for us and they are still serving. Always have and will as long as there is a USA. God bless you and your family. All gave some. Some gave all.


36 posted on 05/11/2018 2:58:01 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Carry, practice, pray it don't happen. You ain't carrying you lose automtically.)
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To: USMCPOP

A buddy of mine, who has two hearing aids, used to shoot a S&W .357 magnum without ear protection.

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When I received my S&W Model 19 .357 I went out to an open area near where my parents lived and put two rounds through it at about 4:00 p.m. and didn’t use any ear protection, just because I wanted to know what those rounds sounded like. WOW!! My ears were still ringing at 10:00 p.m. that night. That was in 1968. I still have the revolver.


37 posted on 05/11/2018 3:03:00 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Simon Green

What ever happened to all of those Korean M1’s that obama refused to let in.


38 posted on 05/11/2018 3:13:31 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: PROCON; Simon Green; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; ...

Just so you all know...

I’m volunteering to carry them back home, six at a time... two slung on each shoulder, and one in each hand...

It’ll take a couple days, so if you don’t see me on here for a bit... that’s why... but don’t worry.... I’ll make sure there’s one for each of us....

Really. I will... :^)


39 posted on 05/11/2018 3:17:44 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Equine1952; USMCPOP

The first M-1 Garands used in combat was by the 31st Infantry Regiment on Luzon, PI, in December, 1941, is one of the tidbits of history I learned from the US Army Center of Military History while working there. The sending of several thousand M-1’s to the Philippines during either late 1940 or early 1941 was one of the modernization of the US Army’s Philippine Division.


40 posted on 05/11/2018 3:23:06 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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