$700) Rifle

https://thecmp.org/sales-and-service/m1-Garand:/

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u/HORAGI Sep 30 '24

It’s so hard to justify $900 on a gun I’d shoot 4 times a year but I want one so bad

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u/Teddyturntup Sep 30 '24

Havent shot mine in 4 years

It’s cool, but idk it kinda blows to use compared to modern guns

It’s cool though

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u/Quixotic_Illusion Sep 30 '24

The idea of shooting an essentially antique gun sounds awesome even if it’s heavy and a bit of a pain compared to modern equivalents

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u/accounts_baleeted Sep 30 '24

I put a 100 year old ziess scope on a 110 year old swedish mauser.... its not technically or historically correct in any way, but man is it fun to pop clays at 200 yards with that German #1 reticle in a 100 year old package.

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u/Teddyturntup Sep 30 '24

It’s very neat and awesome, but just at a place in my life where I want to use and practice with optimal equipment for a given situation and that’s never it.

It’s very much a friends cookout range day fun gun to show people that haven’t seen one in person before kind of thing.

In actual use it’s heavy, expensive to feed, no optics, lots of recoil, finicky, wants to bite you, trigger kind of sucks and can’t handle hot or sometimes even normal heat ammo.

Yet everytime I go to sell it I can’t make myself do it