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M1s may be coming home after all!
SemperFiGuy:
Just got a PM from NE Bull w/the original M1 story.
Something else of interest: Back then we started shooting the M1 for both practice and qualification from the prone position at 500 yards. With that famous M1 peep sight.
Ten Rounds, Rapid Fire. From standing to prone. Two rounds from a partial clip to start. Two bangs. Ping!!! Then the 8-round full clip. BangsX8 Ping!! Whole line of 50 shooters blazing away makes a heckuva adrenaline pump.
We used head-and-shoulders silhouette targets at that 500-yard distance. That target was about the same size and all as the present FBI Q-target [which we now use for NE CHP qualification, starting at 3 feet.]
Anyhow, a reasonably good shooter could dependably put all ten shots into the black at that 500 yard distance. And---if you didn't put all ten shots into the target, your qualification day was off to a bad start. A hard boot in the rump from the Marksmanship Instructor was not that uncommon.
sfg
dkarp:
Only bad part is: since they were sold to the South Koreans, when (if) they come back to the US they will have to be stamped or marked in some way by the importer.
If they were originally loaned, they could be returned without needing any import marks. That's how I understand it, I may be wrong.
IIRC the "greek return" M1 Garands that the CMP is selling now do not have any import marks. They were returned to the US Army, then turned over to the CMP.
bullit:
I think they'll have "Hyundai" or "Kia" stamped on them. :)
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