Originally Posted by Godogs57
I searched high and low until I found one within 100,000 of the serial number my dad carried in the Battle of the Bulge. She was a safe queen, all correct, and gets taken out, rain or shine, each Veteran's Day for her annual deer hunt. She will shoot inch and a half groups at 100 yards with Sierra 168's and 47 grains of 4064.

Can't wait to read his article.

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I killed my very first deer with my IH Garand in 1983. That's about the time the deer just started getting enough numbers to hunt around my area, and I didn't have any other gun to deer hunt with at that time.. I'm glad it worked out that way though.