This first US battle rifle is not only fun but a bit of our heritage, and humbling to own. A guided tour of the E/F Company fox holes and other US skirmish sites at Bastogne in '09 lends it such significance.
Took the #4 to the range yesterday and today will take one of the two "Jungle Cs".
Is this equal attraction unusual after acquiring a different type of battle rifle you have admired all of your life?
Maybe those movies with British/Aussie and other Commonwealth soldiers, or safari stories etc over the decades did some brainwashing.
There is something uniquely entertaining and mystifying about all vintage military rifles! Shooting them never gets old to me no matter which they are.
I love shooting my Garand, but the Enfield, Mosin and mauser (swede) are still fun to me!
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I can very well ditto what Tex just said.
The LE is and has always been my main rifle for hunting or sport , and there's nothing like a good shootin' Garand.
Then there's the M96 with cloverleaf groups and a coyote's worst nightmare...lol
I would love to shoot a Garand. I have a Lee Enfield (No.4) and a Nosin Nagant (91/30), and they are both fun to shoot and have their own personalities. My first milsurp love will always be the Enfield, but there is nothing wrong with having a few other different ones for comparison purposes
In a Nat. Geographic magazine article (late '90s?), the Indian park rangers carry military Enfields while looking for tiger poachers who sometimes have AKs etc!
Maybe the rangers have distance on their side, not just aperture sights and more powerful ammo.
This first US battle rifle is not only fun but a bit of our heritage, and humbling to own. A guided tour of the E/F Company fox holes and other US skirmish sites at Bastogne in '09 lends it such significance.
Took the #4 to the range yesterday and today will take one of the two "Jungle Cs".
Is this equal attraction unusual after acquiring a different type of battle rifle you have admired all of your life?
Maybe those movies with British/Aussie and other Commonwealth soldiers, or safari stories etc over the decades did some brainwashing.
Sounds like you have been enjoying some great places and acquired some great rifles buddy! Garand? Jungle Carbines plural? two? Alright Laufer you've been busy!! Yea battle rifles are sooo much more interesting to me i can't even explain, but some whisper more than others....
frenchy
Nothing like the feel of a Garand. The weight alone is impressive. Then you pop an en-bloc clip in and knock the op rod home and feel that kick from the springs. You bring the rifle up to your eyes and sight through the rear peep aquiring your target with the front post. Line it up like a pumpkin on a post and squeese that trigger back. Then BLAM. Its got a kick but not nearly what you would expect.
Then just aquire and squeese, aquire and squeese, till you hear that PING as the clip flys out. I dare you not to be smileing when you hear that ping.
No other rifle like it.
Love shooting it. One of my favorites.
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Yep! Had my M1 out the other day, was shooting a 8"x14"x3/4" steel plate hanging at 100 yards. Flat tore the snot out of it too! Shooting M2 ball and M2 armor piercing, I was amazed at how many times I hit that plate with the open sights and my tired old eyes. Granted, the rifle can do it, but that's a pretty small target at 100 yards for a half-blind old man.
The holes were AP, the craters M2 ball, and the splatters are lead bullet reloads from an M1 carbine.
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I child-proofed my house, but they still keep getting in!
Thinking about guys in khaki clothes with jungle hats, a scene just popped from out of the blue ("Oz") into my hard head.
Do you remember ever seeing "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome", where the gyrocopter pilot (from the main Mad Max movie) and son race from their bunker in the last part? Didn't he have an Enfield?
Might be on YouTube-was watching the previous M.M. last night.
Good shootin rondog! love the backside of that target, looks like the same steel i have to get set up, front loader bucket cuttin edge?
frenchy
I don't know what they're really called, I just call 'em tie plates. They're the steel plate that's spiked onto railroad ties, that the RR track sits on and is then spiked down also. I stumbled across a pile of RR scrap and liberated a bunch of them. They already have 6 square holes in them, very easy to hang 'em up with a piece of rebar bent into a hook. Sure is satisfying to hit one at 100 yards with M2 AP! I think I need another range trip.....
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I child-proofed my house, but they still keep getting in!
I don't know what they're really called, I just call 'em tie plates. They're the steel plate that's spiked onto railroad ties, that the RR track sits on and is then spiked down also. I stumbled across a pile of RR scrap and liberated a bunch of them. They already have 6 square holes in them, very easy to hang 'em up with a piece of rebar bent into a hook. Sure is satisfying to hit one at 100 yards with M2 AP! I think I need another range trip.....
So thats what they are, found 4 last wk. cleaning up the backyard of our "new" place.
frenchy
The old mil-surp rifles are like women to me. They come in all shapes sizes and all feel a little different and I love them all! I can honestly say I do not have a favorite out of my collection of 1 Garand 2 Enfield No Mk III's 5 Mosin Nagant variants and 2 Mauser 98K's.
First Garand has not reduced LE fun: strange? 
with cloverleaf groups and a coyote's worst nightmare...lol
There ain't no fix for stupid! 
