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Hey man, is that a Mosin?
- Thread starter dwwhite
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Agtman,
Got one of those too. I bought it back in the days when the CMP still had plenty of Carbines, 03s and Garands. Foolishly, I thought the Garands would run out first, so I bought one of them, thinking I'd have time later to get the others. Dumb move on my part.
I do love taking it to the range and plopping down beside some unsuspecting AR shooters and cranking off 8 rounds of '06. It definitely gets everybody's attention.
Kraig,
I'm excited to get it slung up and do some real shooting. At best I generally hold two minutes out to middle distances, so the rifle isn't going to handicap me much, if any. Very occasionally they'll have a Springfield or Garand match either in Abilene or Midland, and I'd love to shoot it in those one of these days.
Got one of those too. I bought it back in the days when the CMP still had plenty of Carbines, 03s and Garands. Foolishly, I thought the Garands would run out first, so I bought one of them, thinking I'd have time later to get the others. Dumb move on my part.
I do love taking it to the range and plopping down beside some unsuspecting AR shooters and cranking off 8 rounds of '06. It definitely gets everybody's attention.
Kraig,
I'm excited to get it slung up and do some real shooting. At best I generally hold two minutes out to middle distances, so the rifle isn't going to handicap me much, if any. Very occasionally they'll have a Springfield or Garand match either in Abilene or Midland, and I'd love to shoot it in those one of these days.
Model12Win
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Did the GI's sling up?
Did the GI's sling up?
Some did.
They all did if I was running the training/range.
I'll try to track down which GCA magazine issue it was (so as to cite the volume and page numbers), but within the last year I thought I recalled reading about a GCA re-print of a copy of a Korean War-era study by the U.S. Army that was based on interviews of recent GI combat vets. Most of these interviews for the study took okave, I believe, in Japan, and it was a classified document for many years.
Those conducting the study asked the GIs all sorts of interesting questions regarding use of weapons in combat and other related issues.
I recall there was one question asked on use of the M1 Garand sling - whether the GI had used it in firefights as an accuracy aid, and most said they'd never used it while shooting at the enemy. Something like only 1% of the interviewees said they had used it.
Those conducting the study asked the GIs all sorts of interesting questions regarding use of weapons in combat and other related issues.
I recall there was one question asked on use of the M1 Garand sling - whether the GI had used it in firefights as an accuracy aid, and most said they'd never used it while shooting at the enemy. Something like only 1% of the interviewees said they had used it.