What is it about the Garand?

[ltcboy]

Didn't Tom Laughlin carry a Garand in "Billy Jack" too? Of course, he didn't need it with all that kung-fu stuff. Also there is the Gene Hackman movie that I can't remember the title to where he went back to Vietnam to find his son - he carried and used a Garand after their modern gear was confiscated. There were also Tommys and a BAR if I remember correctly?

What other movies were post-Korean War modern but where the hero used a Garand?

John

Yes Billy Jack did have an M1 and Gene Hackman, aka., Col. Rhodes (Korean Marine vet) went back to Vietnam with Sailor (Randall "Tex" Cobb) to get his son in Uncommon Valor. Great Movie it was from 1983.

Mike

[bd1]

Our Sarge in Vietnam still carried a Garand. He was a great rifleman. I guess that was my first exposure to it.

[ltcboy]

Our Sarge in Vietnam still carried a Garand. He was a great rifleman. I guess that was my first exposure to it.

Very interesting.

Mike

[A square 10]

nothing sounds quite like the 'ping'

[levallois]

Went to the range yesterday, after playing hookie from work, and shot the SA and the HRA with LC ammo - found out that my range doesn't rent out spotting scopes anymore so I had to keep my practice at 50 yards in order to see the hits on target. Surrounded by AKs, ARs and Glocks but in my own little world. It was a wonderful day of "pings." There is nothing like a Garand to make your troubles melt away.

And I ordered a spotting scope over the internet when I got home so I can shoot out to 200 yards again.

[JaxTom]

I coulda swore it was a Garand Roy S. used to blow up the sharrk, what rifle did he use then?

[JohnW]

Uh, it's been a lot of years but I thought it was an M-1. What was it?

[Dave Waits]

Um, that wasn't a Garand.

Um...yes it was. Jaws with Roy Schieder

[rondog]

It absolutely was a Garand. Lockbar rear sights and everything. Someone even said that was Roy Sheider's personal firearm but I don't know if that is actually true.



They also used it in the scene when the Coast Guard guys pointed guns at the kids wearing fake shark fins.



Here is more of the firearms in Jaws.

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Jaws

No kidding? Wow, I apologize!!! I would have sworn on a bucket of '06 brass that it was a bolt-action rifle that he used in the movie! I'm so sorry! Last time I saw the movie I didn't own a Garand then, but still, I was sure that I remembered Roy working the bolt on the rifle. All these years, I've been sure it was an M1903 or something very similar.

I stand humbled, and shall crawl back in my hole now.....

[ltcboy]

Does that mean I get my beer?

Schlitz is fine.