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Beautiful stock.

agreed!

I've had several CMPs over the years. Probably one of my favorite rifles. Unfortunately, all but one is gone as life and maturity has set in. I realized having a car that runs and groceries for kids are more important than having extra rifles around.
I'm looking forward to taking my remaining M1 to the range again soon. Maybe....

Picked up one of those beat to hell ones coming in from Korea in the late 80's.... Needed more than I was gonna give it so it went down the road in a trade. But the Springfield receiver serial number was in the 11 thousand range so it must have originally been a real early one. Got a nice one from the CMP in Oct 1996. Shot NRA High Power with it for a few years. Still got it. It gets to the range several times a year usually. Also have some 5 round clips for hunting and substituted some 150 gr. Accubonds for the 147 gr. FMJ's in the G.I. duplicate handloads with IMR-4895 and plan on harvesting some venison with it in honor of one of my late uncles who had carried an M-1 in the Pacific in 1944-45. He always thought it would be neat for me to take a deer with a Garand.

I'm down to two.

I have one it’s fun to shoot. I shot it, in cmp vintage rifle match did pretty good.

I have four left, one of them being a shooter, haven’t shot it in a couple years.

I have a H&R Garand '54/'55 manufacture from the CMP. Fun to shoot but don' t seem to shoot it as much as I should.

I used to have some. lost in a boating accident......

Took mine to the range about 6 months ago...

I'm absolutely blind as a bat without optics.

With glasses on I can see the sights, but the 100 yard target is totally nada.

No glasses means no sights at all, but the target is kinda there a little bit.

Shot two clips... all 16 were in a 4" group.

Won't me... but that rifle sure knows how to shoot... must have been owned by a Marksman before I bought it.

Yes, those canoes can be mighty tricky. Same thing happened to my AR.

I do, it's a Springfield that I bought in the late eighties. One of the Blue Sky imports that are supposed to be crap. This one isn't.

I wouldn’t not hunt with it.

I have one that my father found in my grandfather's house after he died in 1959. We suspect it came from his second wife's son who was in the army. This step-brother of my father's died shortly after returning home from WW II of some disease. The barrel was about worn out and the extractor also. Several years ago I replaced the extractor and had a gunsmith rebarrel it with a new Criterion. I seldom shoot it, but cannot say why. It is a fine rifle, but pretty much a safe queen.

I got one, the Korean War commemorative model.

I do indeed.

I liked the M14 better.

I have one.

I have three battle rifles, carried both the Garand and M14 in the Marines, the M1 Carbine has the barrel date of the month and year of my birth.