What got you into collecting the M1 Garand

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Gentlemen,
What got you started into collecting the M1 Garand Rifle. Was it the CMP, Gun Shows, Gun Shops, seeing them at the range or in a paper/NRA etc., The M1 Garand only comes by only 4 US Military makers but with many different types of spec's to each what would be your favorite to collect?

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The M1 Garand only comes by only 4 US Military makers but with many different types of spec's to each what would be your favorite to collect?
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There are 2 more.....Beretta and Breda. Personally, for shooters, the Itallian M1's are as good as it gets. Best fit and finish, latest drawing numbers, as advanced as the design ever got.
US rifles are more collectible by far though.
 
Hitzy said:
There are 2 more.....Beretta and Breda. Personally, for shooters, the Itallian M1's are as good as it gets. Best fit and finish, latest drawing numbers, as advanced as the design ever got.
US rifles are more collectible by far though.
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Not entirely true - you missed a few.

Other makers:

- Japanese State Arsenals.
- Australian International Arms
- Springfield Armory, Inc.
- Smith Enterprises, Inc.
 
Well when I was younger a friend had one and I always wanted one. When I got my PAL the only gun I wanted first was an M1, but the first gun that I ended up buying was a Karabiner 98k then a Garand and in total I've had 4 M1's and I gave one of them to my Grandfather this year for xmas..
 
I have 3 garands, started this year, springfield, then an international harvester and breda, last 2 from cgn members.

honestly, it started as a process of elimination for me. years ago, i had bought a belgium metric fn fal from a gun show, around early 80's i think, for $400, guys back down were buying the israeli L1A1 that hit the surplus market back then for about $250. the belgium was used by my brother in law at the dundurn military base here in saskatchewan for fun shoots starting at 600 meters with the fellows there. all open sights.

i found the fn to be better for me in 308 than the colt sp1 i was using. that started my interest in the battle rifles. my father back then asked me to get and i did, the M1 carbine, for plinking at the range, because he was familiar with it back in china during world war II and later years, my first exposure to the garand family of guns.

i thought about getting a M14 last year, but was mixed about a norinco or a real springfield, (still missed getting a replacement FN, now prohibited), but still the expensive pinned 5 shot magazines.

by elimination, went the garand route, liked the 30-06 for hunting, and for a starting price of about $600 for a great battle rifle, i haven't looked back.

oh yeah, Saving Private Ryan, the Thin Red Line, Longest Day, and all the great WWII movies. except the garand they used must have been light props, after i got my first chance to heft one.

so as a garand addict, i took the long route. regards.
 
It was my first Springfield Armory rifle...followed by over 70 more variants dating from 1860 to 1957.
What was it about the Garand??? My dad had a Garand and a few M1903's, which we shot fair regular. I would spend hours sitting in front of the TV watching war movies...disassembling the gun and reassembling it. I was about 12 or 13 at the time. The passion for the Garand has not dimished at all...it is IMHO the best you can get!!!!!
Cheers
 
Claven2 said:
Not entirely true - you missed a few.

Other makers:

- Japanese State Arsenals.
- Australian International Arms
- Springfield Armory, Inc.
- Smith Enterprises, Inc.
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I didn't know we were lumping in companies that coble rifles together from surplus rifle parts.......Smith Inc, SA Inc, and AIA do not manufacture complete rifles themselves. Also being commercial and not milsurp, are not exactly collectible.
The Japanese M1 was a prototype joke, never issued AFAIK. Look at this piece of crap.......:)
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Hitzy said:
I didn't know we were lumping in companies that coble rifles together from surplus rifle parts.......Smith Inc, SA Inc, and AIA do not manufacture complete rifles themselves. Also being commercial and not milsurp, are not exactly collectible.
The Japanese M1 was a prototype joke, never issued AFAIK. Look at this piece of crap.......:)
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C'mon - tell me how you REALLY feel! :p
 
Band of Brothers did it for me.

I then got a Winchester Garand, (when they were still $250) and picked up a Breda last year in a trade for a Scout M1891 and SKS-D.

They are fun to shot.
 
I bought my first Garand so I could compare it to my FN49 and Hakim. Finding some on sale I now own six, one from each maker. It would be fun finding out a bit more on the history of each.
 
That's a great story.^
I have always liked the way they look. I was exposed to all the old war movies, my Dad being a big John Wayne fan. I liked the rear sight, the round knobs, and the shape of the stock. It all kind of flows together in lines that please the eye. How do you explain it?
I have two on the way right now. One to knock around in the bush with, another to keep nice.
I wish I could find a nice carbine. I liked those stocks too.
 
Hitzy said:
There are 2 more.....Beretta and Breda. Personally, for shooters, the Itallian M1's are as good as it gets. Best fit and finish, latest drawing numbers, as advanced as the design ever got.
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[Texas drawl]
An Eye-talian Garand!?!? Jeezus H Tapdancin' Christ boy!

Own one them foreign Garands? Might as well piss on the 'Merican flag!
[/Texas drawl]

:p
 
I can't say for sure what got me into Garands. Probably months and months of playing Medal of Honor and consistently having it as my favourite weapon. As I researched further into it, I was for some reason drawn to the look, the unique operation of it and just the general...air of it.

I finally got a Breda and when firing it, it was the most fun I've ever had shooting a gun...well...short of doing Gunfighter, but I can't do that with an M1. :)
 
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