John- is there a chance of getting Ex- South Korean M1's from Marstar?

But we still haven't heard from John....

John:

are these on your radar, or are they one of the surprises you hinted would be coming or....?
 
according to this report, the ex Korean Garands will go wholesale for $220, and the carbines for $140
ht tp://www.gunreports.com/news/news/South-Korea-M1-Garand-Export_1578-1.html?show_comments=1
 
nntw said:
according to this report, the ex Korean Garands will go wholesale for $220, and the carbines for $140
ht tp://www.gunreports.com/news/news/South-Korea-M1-Garand-Export_1578-1.html?show_comments=1
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holy crap that's cheap, even if they sold at $500 i'd buy a half dozen!
 
On another note - I bought a Danish Garand some time around 2000 and I paid 400 bucks. I thought it was expensive. I also had the option of ordering a sniper version - but it was "too expensive" for my tastes.

I highly doubt they are gonna go so cheap. I'd but *a lot* at that price. I learned my lesson with my first garand. I should have bought 5 of them back then.
 
#1bcshooter said:
Previously posted in Milsurp section last year

Korean war rifles sold back to US

Most of those on offer are M1 rifles - a weapon once described by US General George S Patton as "the greatest battle-implement ever devised".

In the Korean war they had a reputation for jamming in extreme cold weather conditions, and complaints were recorded from US troops that they often failed to stop heavily clothed North Korean or Chinese soldiers at short range.
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Here we have a 45 ACP round, .30 M1 Carbine cartridge, and the venerable 30-06 Springfield.
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This article is giving conflicting "factoids" between the M1 rifle & the smaller/lighter M1 carbine.
This is well explained in Korean War non-fiction books such as "Breakthrough." Soldiers who maintained thier M1 Carbine & used it at reasonable ranges, rarely complained about the carbine. Funny though, during the WW2 island hopping campaign in the Pacific, one also, rarely heard complaints about the carbine from Marine Raiders. It's just a fact, it has less effective range than the Garand, period.

Your last few, I believe, quoted lines are suspect, as this is more acccurate to say about the M1 Carbine, particularly in the cold Korean winters, BUT not true, about the M1 Garand. All good soldiers, removed any gun grease or other lubricants, that would lead to poor weapon functioning in the cold temperatures, that they fought in.
The M1 Carbine cartridge is less powerful,(obviously) this, combined with any warm weather lubricant, led to poor weapon functioning in sub-zero climes. The lack of downrange energy, led to many failures to stop enemy targets, who were heavily clothed & perhaps engaged at longer distances, that the 30-06 calibre M1 Garand, or the full auto BAR squad weapon can take in full stride. Sitting in a foxhole & engaging enemy huiman waves of Chinese soldiers in wintertime, it's very easy to come to this conclusion if you are the weakest link in the infantry company firepower. (If you were unlucky enough to have a jamming M1 Carbine!) Certainly your better armed brother soldiers, hopefully would have to take up the slack, so to speak, or face being overrun by the enemy. The originator of this article gets a big fail in investigative journalism!!!
This article should have been easily addressed by the Milsurp section.

Edit: It figures, the BBC wrote this article initially.
 
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