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gorgeous. great buy!
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- Thread starter gaijin6423
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Beautiful Garand.
Can't wait to get back to the US and resume blowing my cash at the CMP. You can never have enough CMP rifles.
Can't wait to get back to the US and resume blowing my cash at the CMP. You can never have enough CMP rifles.
phrogpilot73
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Here, here! PSW gets next choice, and I think she's looking at a Mauser. Then it's back to the CMP for me, for a Springfield 1903.
It's a pre-ban National Match M1A. Springfield Armory Receiver with USGI Parts. Somehow I got it for 1600, most go for at least twice that. Reports to come once the transfer is complete.
It was even sadder the next day when they issued them out and we realized our spiffy new drill rifles were heavier and more maint intensive than our old ones.
Your bolt was welded? I had a leaded barrel (until I knocked the lead out accidentally) and the firing pin was ground off the trigger assy. Other than that, I think it would have shot.
phrogpilot73
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So wait, you guys don't drill with the venerable Garand at USNA anymore?!?
Something about how once a gun is built as a machine gun there is no legal way to turn it back to semi-auto only. So all the M-14's uncle sam has are not on the civilian registry and therefore can not be sold as NFA and can't be sold as a semi-auto.
It was even sadder the next day when they issued them out and we realized our spiffy new drill rifles were heavier and more maint intensive than our old ones.
You actually cleaned it? Hell, mine never even came out of the locker except to turn it in at the end of the year (I was a Cannoneer so I never drilled
). I'll caveat that with I did take it out to take it apart every now and again. It was, there was a little tack weld right on the firing pin hole. Everything else was there and operational. A new barrel threaded in and a new bolt assembly and mine would've been just like new.
No. It was good riddance too, the Garands were in piss poor condition aesthetically, kinda defeated the purpose of even using them as drill rifles. The plus side was using the M-14 got rid of fix bayonets (unless that's changed since I left).
I don't know about recently, but while I was there bayonets were still used on the M14. I remember during plebe summer when a girl locked her knees during a friday parade, passed out, and sliced her face pretty good with it.
I asked about the magazine coupons but, the guy who sold it to me didn't know if that deal was still being offered. I need to go check the S&W website.
Edit- Yup 2 free mags deal is still in effect until 30 APR. http://www.smith-wesson.com/wcsstore/SmWesson/upload/other/promos/SW_LoadUp_Coupon.pdf
Edit- Yup 2 free mags deal is still in effect until 30 APR. http://www.smith-wesson.com/wcsstore/SmWesson/upload/other/promos/SW_LoadUp_Coupon.pdf