10-050 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

[QUOTE=Bob Womack;107416]When I got into the Garand thing, one of the first pieces of advice I got was, "NEVER, EVER, EVER, handle the rifle by the upper hand guard."

Pics like the above remind me that the rifles' previous owners didn't, ummm... follow this dictum very stringently.

Bob

That is true for match conditioned M1's where the front handguard is unitized to the middle band. Standard configured Garands were intended to be used as pictured.

Mark