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Dr. Johnny Fever
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I'm not really a USGI weapons guy at all. I love 1911's, but that's about it. All I could tell you about Garands is that they're heavy and not exactly easy to field-strip and reassemble. But I am reading Eric Hammel's book on Guadalcanal and have to admit, it has me thinking about these rifles. I remember recently seeing something about CMP getting large numbers of Garands in from somewhere recently (Greece?).
Years ago I thought about doing the CMP thing, but when I read up on it on their website it just seemed like too many hoops for an overly competitive process. I figured the locals would have cherry-picked the nice ones at the CMP stores, so why bother.
I still to tend to think that way, but thought I should see if I was wrong. Also, an active duty military bud of mine said we don't need to be a club member anywhere to buy a rifle (I only support GOA and don't do clubs), just our military ID. Is this true?
I remain confused. I heard unhappy things once upon a time about Danish Garands, and sorta' filed the reports away in the "forget about that" category. The CMP website seemed to indicate that the fair to good Garands are all they have. Anyone here own one of those?
Just wondering what to do, how to go about it and what I would get if I pursue the matter. My thanks in advance for any information and/or advice.
Scott
Years ago I thought about doing the CMP thing, but when I read up on it on their website it just seemed like too many hoops for an overly competitive process. I figured the locals would have cherry-picked the nice ones at the CMP stores, so why bother.
I still to tend to think that way, but thought I should see if I was wrong. Also, an active duty military bud of mine said we don't need to be a club member anywhere to buy a rifle (I only support GOA and don't do clubs), just our military ID. Is this true?
I remain confused. I heard unhappy things once upon a time about Danish Garands, and sorta' filed the reports away in the "forget about that" category. The CMP website seemed to indicate that the fair to good Garands are all they have. Anyone here own one of those?
Just wondering what to do, how to go about it and what I would get if I pursue the matter. My thanks in advance for any information and/or advice.
Scott