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If I go to the range with any modern, high quality, reliable firearm...no one will pay the slightest attention to me. Fancy optics and tack-driving accuracy? Nobody cares.

If I bring a M1 Garand to the range...people ALWAYS come talk to me. Every, single time. Within 5 minutes, somebody wants to know what it is or gush over how cool it is to see (a really old gun milsurp gun that I still havent gotten to feed 100% reliably). The latest was a retired prison guard who'd been issued one back in the day.

Wood stocks, 30-06, and PING is how you make new friends.

If I go to the range with any modern, high quality, reliable firearm...no one will pay the slightest attention to me. Fancy optics and tack-driving accuracy? Nobody cares. If I bring a M1 Garand to the range...people ALWAYS come talk to me. Every, single time. Within 5 minutes, somebody wants to know what it is or gush over how cool it is to see (a really old gun milsurp gun that I still havent gotten to feed 100% reliably). The latest was a retired prison guard who'd been issued one back in the day. Wood stocks, 30-06, and PING is how you make new friends.

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You practically need a sledge hammer to get the trigger guard to lockup. And to think, they used to disassemble these for parachute drops and expect some poor bastard to reassemble it in the dark, in the field, under fire.

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My father had his from WW2. Back in the '90's you could buy them from CCMP for like $150.00, depending on their "grade".

Heavy as fuck. Huge too, but a beauty of a weapon.

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One could find Mausers, Enfields, and 12ga. trench guns too.