davemccarthy707
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Holy thread revival!
Surplus Garands from South Korea
- Thread starter torrent1337
- Start date
- Location
- East of Home, West of the Rest
Marstar and Trigger Wholesale are saying otherwise.
Mikeschurman
Regular
- Location
- Edmonton, AB
It would be nice to see some of these come to canada if they ever do
- Location
- Kanuckistan, Bc
Marstar is saying a lot of things is coming, yet has much to be seen.
How in hell do you justify that ridiculous statement ??
And you wonder why we seldom comment on future arrivals ??
John
Obokash
Regular
Funny but very true!
groundskeeper willy
CGN Regular
- Location
- Alberta
To buy a good condition Garand for under 700 would be a wet dream.
SparkOfLight
Regular
- Location
- Winnipeg
Perhaps there are more deals to come? Stay positive!
- Location
- Canada/New Zealand
Hmm - hadn't heard anything. Any garands to come to Canada are good garands!
- Location
- Kanuckistan, Bc
The problem of being positive, is that you can only be disappointed at the end. While being negative let you the opportunity to be pleasantly surprised ;-)
trebor2880
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Ontario
- Location
- Edmonton, AB
I would most definitely be interested in securing one or two of these!
frenchyguy
CGN Regular
- Location
- New Brunswick
or 12
- Location
- Newmarket,Ontario
here is an article about the winning bid. Works out to $300 plus per item.
http://www.ammoland.com/2012/06/wha...-south-korean-m1-garand-rifles/#axzz2kTTHPKgb
USA --(Ammoland.com)- Here’s a quick update on those tens of thousands of U.S.-made M1 Garand rifles that were supposedly coming back to the United States from the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to be sold to American Korean War veterans and their families in time for the 62nd anniversary of the start of Korean War.
Back on April 17, I mentioned an article by Lee Tae-hoon on The Korea Times (South Korea) that said 84,417 Korean War-vintage M1 Garand rifles had been listed on the state-run Internet auction site Onbid.go.kr in an attempt to find a pair of Korean and American brokers to market the old rifle.
Then, I happened to catch a June 5 press release from the office of U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) on the shooting sports news site AmmoLand.com that claimed the semi-automatic long guns would be sold in the United States through the Civilian Marksmanship Program.
Well, the 62nd anniversary of the start of Korean War has come and gone (American Korean War vets- thank you for your service!), and as far as I know these historic rifles have not yet been repatriated to U.S. shores.
In an e-mail exchange with Lee Tae-hoon right after the Tester piece came out the journalist noted that the Onbid.go.kr bid ended with the winner offering 30,821,850,000 won, or $26,109,148.67 for 84,417 M1 rifles and their parts- which comes out to $309.29 per rifle/parts. At least it sounds like progress is being made.
Tae-hoon has done a great job keeping on top of this story, and interested parties are hoping The Korea Times reporter will have something new about the deal soon.
http://www.ammoland.com/2012/06/wha...-south-korean-m1-garand-rifles/#axzz2kTTHPKgb
USA --(Ammoland.com)- Here’s a quick update on those tens of thousands of U.S.-made M1 Garand rifles that were supposedly coming back to the United States from the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to be sold to American Korean War veterans and their families in time for the 62nd anniversary of the start of Korean War.
Back on April 17, I mentioned an article by Lee Tae-hoon on The Korea Times (South Korea) that said 84,417 Korean War-vintage M1 Garand rifles had been listed on the state-run Internet auction site Onbid.go.kr in an attempt to find a pair of Korean and American brokers to market the old rifle.
Then, I happened to catch a June 5 press release from the office of U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) on the shooting sports news site AmmoLand.com that claimed the semi-automatic long guns would be sold in the United States through the Civilian Marksmanship Program.
Well, the 62nd anniversary of the start of Korean War has come and gone (American Korean War vets- thank you for your service!), and as far as I know these historic rifles have not yet been repatriated to U.S. shores.
In an e-mail exchange with Lee Tae-hoon right after the Tester piece came out the journalist noted that the Onbid.go.kr bid ended with the winner offering 30,821,850,000 won, or $26,109,148.67 for 84,417 M1 rifles and their parts- which comes out to $309.29 per rifle/parts. At least it sounds like progress is being made.
Tae-hoon has done a great job keeping on top of this story, and interested parties are hoping The Korea Times reporter will have something new about the deal soon.
GreenSummerTrees
Member
Future arrivals?!! Hopefully not too long. I'm down for two Garands when they arrive!!
Coyote Ugly
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I hope the Marstar Supertanker Ship (aka: The Marstar Boat) is chugging towards Korea to load up on these Garands. I'm in for a few dozen.
wd113
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- southwestern ontario
me too...... !!
