11-02-2009, 01:28 PM
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#21 | | Firearm Enthusiast
Join Date: Jun 2008
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M1 Garand does it to me. Sure wish I had one, when admiiring a friends I just don't want to put it down.
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11-02-2009, 04:01 PM
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#22 | | Firearm Aficionado
Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Afton NY
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I wanted to put my favorite one down but i see too many in my safe that i really like. Here's two totally different looking guns, but both apeal to me. Belgium sweet- 16, vent rib. I have never shouldered any gun so pleasing to shoulder, and sight. second is my 03a3 Springfield. Like its long wooded military profile, and its peep sight is quick to the target. But then i could go on with others too . Ok, enough, i'll stop now.
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11-02-2009, 05:50 PM
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#23 | | Firearm Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Originally Posted by 240 Coastal  | M1 Garand does it to me. Sure wish I had one, when admiiring a friends I just don't want to put it down.
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I don't think it is the beauty of an M1 Garand that makes you do that, it's just the pure awesomeness of it. A Garand is one of the few rifles (imo) that you can pick up and be totally confident in, just because of the way it feels on your shoulder, has some heft to it.
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11-02-2009, 07:48 PM
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#24 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Jay, Oklahoma, God's country.
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I'm fond of ALL the well built firearms! The best part is taking one completely apart, checking out all of it's working parts, and putting it back together, all nice and clean. The old military rifles always put me in a daydream, wondering where they've been, and who might have used them.
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11-02-2009, 09:35 PM
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#25 | | Firearm Enthusiast
Join Date: Jun 2008
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Originally Posted by caopai | I don't think it is the beauty of an M1 Garand that makes you do that, it's just the pure awesomeness of it. A Garand is one of the few rifles (imo) that you can pick up and be totally confident in, just because of the way it feels on your shoulder, has some heft to it. | caopai,
You're absolutely right, the Garand just commands so much respect and admiration that it's akin to being in the presence of a 4 star General. You just can't help but be impressed. 
Tom
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11-02-2009, 10:27 PM
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#26 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Southeast Texas
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The smell of cosmoline is a turn-on  
I do not like to set the Garand or the Swede back in safe. Like to leave em out for couple days
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11-03-2009, 07:34 AM
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#27 | | Ahh..Cordite.
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Gun City, Arizona
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Originally Posted by PONTIACDM | . I was just in one of those moments and thought to myself. Maybe I'm weird? | Ahh Pontiac, you have no idea...lol
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11-03-2009, 07:37 AM
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#28 | | Ahh..Cordite.
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Gun City, Arizona
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Originally Posted by Seabeescotty | I'm fond of ALL the well built firearms! The best part is taking one completely apart, checking out all of it's working parts, and putting it back together, all nice and clean. The old military rifles always put me in a daydream, wondering where they've been, and who might have used them. |
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"Church is now slang for "Exactly as it should be", "The only way", "The ultimate" etc..
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11-03-2009, 03:16 PM
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#29 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: OHIO
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Originally Posted by Burke | Ahh Pontiac, you have no idea...lol | LOL...............Wait a minute? What are you trying to say?
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11-04-2009, 12:00 AM
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#30 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Northwest, FL
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Originally Posted by PONTIACDM | I was looking and oiling all my guns in the safe today. I came to my Browning BLR and my Marlin 30/30. Both un-shot and in 100% condition. I was just in one of those moments and thought to myself. These 2 rifles really are a piece of art. I love just looking at them. Maybe I just have a lever gun fetish. Are there any one or two guns in your collection that you just hate to put down because you enjoy looking at them that much? Maybe I'm weird? | Betcha John Wayne woulda took 'em out & shot 'em 
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