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1 June 2025 Garand Picture of the Day - Reinactors
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Is that an M1C Sniper Rifle with U.S.
M.C. MC-1 Stith-Kollmorgen Sniper Scope? First guy there, that would be out of place. I don't think any were in combat.
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A 60 year old radio man is pretty out of place also. And nice black gas cylinders are really out of place! 
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Depending on what theatre of the war they are portraying, the SCR-300 could be out of place. My understanding is that the 3rd Division didn't receive them until after the Tunisian campaign but had them for the Italian campaign.
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Originally Posted by
Mark in Rochester
Can you see the problem ?
You never came back with your solution...what you spoke of?
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I don't think any were in combat.
It would be interesting to know how many of them have had any military service.
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Originally Posted by
Flying10uk
It would be interesting to know how many of them have had any military service.
For that I was speaking of the M1C rifles, the general consensus is they didn't make it into combat in WW2.
These reenactors? Hard to say if any do. I know I'm not the least interested in playing silly bugger after my time in. I think there are a few that do some reenacting though, among us here.
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For that I was speaking of the M1C rifles, the general consensus is they didn't make it into combat in WW2.
These reenactors? Hard to say if any do. I know I'm not the least interested in playing silly bugger after my time in. I think there are a few that do some reenacting though, among us here.
Yup, I was one of the silly buggers. I started collecting militaria and weapons back in the 1970's and other than setting up the odd display I never reenacted in Canada. That all changed when I moved to Texas. I enjoy airshows and every one I attended down here also had historic militaria displays, weapon demonstrations, and vintage aircraft, vehicles and armor. I talked to a few reenactors, mentioned what I owned and was invited to participate in future reenactments so I tried a couple out, found them to be a lot of fun and kept doing it until my age was inappropriate for the battle. There's a lot of money in Texas and I was gob-smacked at the numbers of tanks, artillery, soft-skinned vehicles, fighters, bombers, and helos that are in private hands down here. Opportunities abound to ride in these vehicles and aircraft and fire some of the artillery. It doesn't matter how much suck we embraced during our time in, getting to fire blanks out of a live FLAK 88 at an attacking A26 is well worth the experience.
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