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You Garand Guys may have a surplus coming back soon..
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Korean war rifles sold back to US
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/8271041.stm
88000 M1 Garands and 22000 carbines coming back from Korea.....to the USA
Wonder what shape some of these M1 Rifles and Carbines will be in...maybe some gems amongst this little lot
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LLoyd
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Sounds great - where do we buy??
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I love the end of the BBC story - complaints that they failed to stop heavily-clothed enemy at close range. Always the dig.
Bob
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Better 'splain yoursself there, bloke!
Just exactly how "heavily clothed" were the Chinese in this conflict? Must have some real "armored underwear", to borrow a phrase from modern underclothes and advertising.
OMG, the energy transfer alone would leave you knocked out cold as the proverbial fish from being struck by a 160 gr FMJ even at close range. Or is my understanding of ballistic impact way off the mark?
Anyway, we'll take them. And, I hope, make them good again to be part of many people's collections and as shooters.
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Negative Comment was Probably not about the Garand...
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Bob Womack
I love the end of the BBC story - complaints that they failed to stop heavily-clothed enemy at close range. Always the dig.
Bob
Bob, I think that specific comment referred to the use of M1 Carbines in Korea, not the M1 Garand. JMO. Cheers, KarlKW
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Looking at the verbal construction, that might be true indeed.
Bob
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You can also infer from the sentance construction that the carbines stopped them dead at long range!
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