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I have some friends and family coming down to hunt deer with me this fall. We occasionally declare theme days such as "lever action day", "open sight day", "45/70 day", and "single shot day" when we get together. We might have to have a "Garand day" this year.
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Too heavy unless your hunting from a stand. They were a bitch to carry but a joy to shoot. Carried one many times walking south texas looking for pigs/javelina. That is NOT driving around or sitting in a stand, but drive out park and get in there with em.... Heavy is a relative term. Compared to my TC Renegade 54 caplock for elk backpack trips, there isn't much at all difference weight wise....
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Too heavy unless your hunting from a stand. They were a bitch to carry but a joy to shoot. I don't think so. Real men carried them across europe. A little hunting trip wouldn't have slowed them down one bit  I expect that any real man who had carried one across Europe would jump at the chance to carry something else when hunting. There's a world of difference between carrying a bolt action at 7 1/2 pounds and a Garand at 10 pounds, especially once Uncle Sam stops saying that you have to. Besides, the Garand was too difficult to scope and there weren't that many available in the Fifties and Sixties. One thing the GI's always bitched about was the Garand's weight. Granted, GI's tend to bitch about everything, but 10 pounds is still a heavy rifle. I suppose it's fine for walking around in the scrub shooting at hogs, but it's not a rifle I'd carry to hike up a mountain.
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I once bought one of those Chinese Norinco M14 clones with hunting in mind. I took it to the range once and promptly sold it knowing I'd never lug that thing in the woods. Why make work out of something that's supposed to be fun, esp with so many more suitable sporting guns out there.
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If you don't mine carrying a 9 lb 30-06 , then go for it
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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I've shot several does with mine. I love those old rifles.
The Hornady 168 AMAX Garand load is excellent and would be my first choice for Garand hunting.
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A friend once said that an M1 with a bayonet attached would be the ideal wild hog rifle.
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I once bought one of those Chinese Norinco M14 clones with hunting in mind. I took it to the range once and promptly sold it knowing I'd never lug that thing in the woods. Why make work out of something that's supposed to be fun, esp with so many more suitable sporting guns out there. I hunted my M1A two years back in the early 90's. Never again.
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