that garand is just grand.

I've always wanted to fire one of those. It's a shame they're so expensive. I've only ever got to mess around with SKSs and Mosins, as far as WW2 guns go.

SKS's were not used in WW2. FYI.

'45. Close enough.

I wanted to go back and fix my typo, but FA wouldn't allow me

As a proud owner of that Rifle, I have to agree.

.30-06 is one of my two favorite hunting rounds with the .30-.30 being the other.

M-1 Garand my favorite rifle

weight difference is an understatement, I picked one up at a gun store and it was as heavy as cow

My Favorite Rifle gets approval by my favorite WW 2 General.

The M-1 Garand is a wonderful rifle. The weight, accuracy and feel of the weapon is beautiful. If you want some real fun with it fire it at some water filled milk jugs. Then firing into a small body of water and watch the splashing XD. Seriously, I fired one at my Uncle's place and it was a lot of fun. Especially when I sent the empty milk jug to the bottom of his lake

Is the M-1 30-06 also called the N-field?

No...the SMLE Lee Enfield was a British designed and built weapon that was also a bolt action in .303. it also had a 10 round magazine over the M-1s 8 rounds.

Confusingly, there was a rifle called the Enfield, that was chambered for .30-06, it's not the M1. That rifle is the M1917, and was originally produced under contract for the Brits, in .303, for the Great War of 14-18. It was pressed into service, as a stopgap, in the face of a shortage of 1903 Springfields, chambered for 30-06 when the US entered the war. The tooling was there, and ready, so why not? It's a very serviceable rifle.

But typically, when people talk about an "Enfield" they're likely talking about the "Short Magazine, Lee-Enfiled" or a Lee-Enflied No. 4, which were the British shoulder arm for two world wars, and in to the future for quite a long while; if I'm not very much mistaken, they were still using the No. 4 Mk. I (T) as late as the Falklands war, for sharp-shooter applications. But don't quote me on that.

such a lovely rifle. I can never own one of those in california and most other states now. (felony, even if reduced) Had an airsoft replica. was weight for weight, same action, including the clip springing out and giving that special sound. the M1 garand along with the springfield '03 and the M1 carbine were some of the best U.S. rifles for the era.

Very pretty gun my friend

yeh but Canada was still using the .30-06 Lee Enfield until 1984 in the Reserves when they switched to colt C7 just enfield to C7 the two where like night and day... my brother was in the Reserves so he used both weapons and he told me how much of a difference the C7 made... I just think that the Lee-Enfield he was issued was shot out.. and almost useless... you can still buy Lee-Enfield's in Canada in great shape but they will only take 8 shots like the M-1 a friend did have the old 10 shot mag enfield but he told me it was almost useless too.....so I guess that you have to be careful buying a used Rifle here...
at the time I was using the Leaver action 30-30 Winchester for hunting...... it sure had a kick... loud as hell too

can't remember which Russian made machine gun has an easy load drum mag.....

I saw this lady load it on you tube... she was literally just stacking the rounds in the drum primer out and then she closed the hatch and then twisted a crank in the back of the mag and it was ready to go took her less then a minute.... well when you are in a fire fight every second counts. course only times I have been in one of those is in an MMO like BF series or other real time shooter games...

I think that was the one used by the RPK light machine gun.

Um I was in the Canadian Reserves and before we moved to the C7 we used the FAL FN....

where in Canada guy my brother was in Calgary highlanders.

Toronto Scottish

hum I may have forgot which n-field he used....

"PING!"

As I understand it its a gun you either love or hate. Never got to fire one and more so never had to tare one down, clean one up, load, etc so I will remain neutral until I get the chance.

Am a fan of the Mosin though. Tore a tree in half with that one though it kicks like a mule.

I shot whats left of an old building and cinderbricks dissapear with the Mauser. My dad told me once he shot a tree once, and splinters where flying. Bolt actions are not to be fooled around with, but the M1 Garand was still a better rifle then both of them.

Got one too, though mine is from after the war.

I've one of those! The CPM were very obliging, and provided me with a fairly low serial number Springfield. Quite nice, jolly comfortable, after the '03-A3, really. Never been sorry about the acquisition.

I sure hope for his sake he had a better grip with his supporting hand than the picture suggests, or else he's going to get a faceful of receiver when that thing jumps back at him. The closest I've ever gotten to shooting a Garand was handling an unloaded one at a weapon display held by a group of reenactors at an air show years back.

I guess you've never fired a big bore before then. I've fired up to .500 Nitro express that way without a problem or getting a 'Receiver in the face'.

The picture looks like he's simply letting the front end of the weapon rest in his hand and not gripping it very firmly. I may be mistaken, but that's how it appeared to me.

funny thats the same way my Dad holds his Model 70 in -06 and his 30-40 Krage. Come to think of it he shoots the .405 Win the same way...

Just got my CMP Garand on Friday.

so that is the Type 56 Assault rifle he has in the Previous picture
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6145268/

No, not a type 56.

really they look almost Identical.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_56_assault_rifle to the Chinese model of this popular weapon not hat I am accusing you of using a none US weapon Rabbi

You must be blind not to be able to tell the difference between a Garand and a Chinese AK-47 clone. That's like confusing a Caddilac DeVille for a Toyota Hilux.

Uhh did you see the link http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6145268/ ??? to Rabbi's other Pic and I did look it up and it is a type 56 Variant a Chinese knockoff of a AKS-47.....only it has a side folding stock and not a top folding stock.
link 1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_rifle (looking up Canadian service rifles for a previous conversation)
Link 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_56_assault_rifle (trying to compare the Rifle in this Image) http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6145268/
and discovered it was not an AK-47 but a Chinese made copy.
I know the above Picture is a M-1 Garand 8 shot built in Mag.
i had a little problem with Firefox and put the Info for the type 56 assault rifle in this pictures comments window by mistake,
I did provide a link to the relevant picture.

I like the shirt. 8-)

TFT makes great firefighter nozzles.

Guns you don't want to fire... My Remington A3-03

Own one. The Berthier M16 carbine is a true shoulder killer with its 8MM Lebel round and this is a carbine roughly the length of a m1 carbine.

ooh - cool! I always loved those rifles.

- Though the M1 and M2 carbine have a happy sort of appeal, too! Plink and awaaaaay!

i could stare at one of the rifles all day and never get tired of it. so much character in the older guns.

Ish my baby. Thank you for getting me my first one. I own two now.

Scott

As do I, I have a minty DCM along with a minty Jungle carbine SMLE I traded my MAS-49 for years ago.

You should have brought more ammo so  kovu998 would have left with a bruised shoulder. XD

he shot 52 rounds, I put 8 downrange.

I need ALOT more .308, .303 and .7.5 Swiss.

well at least 303 is cheap.. or was...

Key word....was!! I don't even see it surplus anymore and commercial loads are $30-$35 for 20 rounds.

Glad I am sitting on 3 Surplus MG cases of it.... ;>__>

Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyoufuckyoufuckyou!!!

Oh hey...HOWZ THEM CALLI GUN LAWZ?!!

Making Kingman AZ looking better and better.

Boy I hear you there....BUT WE FINALLY GOT CCW!!!

Well, you are heavy enough to conceal a rifle under one of your fat rolls XD XD XD

I'm not Wolf.

No, bigger. You're as big as a horse. XD.

Scott

Thats like saying Beiro is anorexic.

That's a frightening image.....

I bet my hands would make it suck so hard. Well I suppose there is the way I have 100% accuracy vs. flagpoles as long as the wind isn't blowing but most targets make me panic.

breathing is another problem breathing during a shot can through your am off also don't pull the trigger you tighten your grip with your trigger hand

I need to pick up a Garand copy or repro, I wouldn't dare put rounds through my grand father's that thing is a piece of art and history

Question: Where did you pick up yours?

Gunshow years ago.

ah, currently browsing Guns America, and Gun Broker lookin for a good deal, might just head to one of the local shows coming up

I was giddy as hell, like a fat kid in a candy store, haha
I need to email you those pics.

-Korkan

Proud owner of one! Best rifle ever!

You bet... I agree! I have 3 of them one is a DCM M1, like collector grade, one my shooter (from CMP collector grade) and a 3rd, a heinz 57 for reenacting. One of the primary reasons I reenact/living history is to bring great firearms into direct contact with the public in a non-confrontational way..

I've shot cast bullets with mine. Data from an article in Guns & Ammo--Shoot That Garand!

Found a kit that let me install a scope on mine. Now I just gotta sight the scope in.

The Garand, the next rifle I am adding to my collection, by building it, as it is too expencive to buy whole for me

General George S. Patton wasn't wrong

springfield makes a badass tacticool version of the garand with m-lok and a picatinny rail on the top...

the AR15 is still better, but I want a garand for the little piece of history that they are.

We were issued these when I took high school ROTC back in the 60s. The firing pins were removed and stored in a safe until there was a national emergency and they would be replaced and voila, we would be in the Army!