M1 Garand Buyers Guide 

I am glad you found the video helpful. Congrats on your M1 - you will enjoy it!

Do you mind telling me what you paid, I would love to own one but I dont know what a good deal vs overpriced would be

Mine ended up being $1,100, but you can get them several hundred cheaper than that. I wanted a solid WWII model. All the serial numbers in mine date back to about Jan of '44 with an original barrel that has lots of life left in it. If you aren't as picky, you can get them cheaper through the CMP.

Same here. Just sent in my paperwork to the CMP for a service model. Stoked to see what I get.

Awesome! Hope it works out well for you! They're a lot of fun to shoot. Plus you kind of feel like the belle of the ball when you're at the range since it's a gun most people are kind of infatuated with. Good luck!

I’m glad you’re happy and I hate to say it, but you got fleeced! That’s like $500 more than an expert grade from the CMP with a new barrel.

Prob get this all the time but can't help it: "Ben? You're ben Kenobi!? Boy I'm glad to see you. "

HOW....just how have you been able to square keeping that rifle with the total GARBAGE laws on firearms the UK has these days. I certainly HOPE you still have it and have privately kept it on the down-low and under your breath told the government to go **** itself!

Its a gun dude its made to shoot lol😂

You need to shoot it. It would make your Grandfather very happy. Contact CMP as stated by others. They can sell you ammo that is safe for the rifle. You can not hurt it by shooting it unless you put hot ammo in it. Get surplus ammo (there is lots of Greek stuff out there). Or, go to Garand Gear and they sell a Chamber Plug for about $40.00 that once installed will allow you to shoot any modern ammo through it with no concern of it being too powerful. It was designed to be shot ! Shooot it . Also consider joining the Garand Collectors Association. You have a very, very special rifle and it should be shot safely and it should stay in your family and never sold. Even if you have never shot a rifle, go to shoot this one.

The only thing better than having your grandfathers Garand is shooting your grandfathers Garand. Shoot it! My dad was WWII 82nd airborne fought Normandy, Battle of the Bulge and more. I would give a few fingers to have one of his war torn guns and I would be shooting them!!

Shoot it. Use the correct M-1 ammo. You can't hurt it. I have 5!

It’s a fun made for combat, like a horse loves to run, an m1 loves to shoot

I bought one from cmp with a beautiful new stock and barrel. I wanted a shooter and boy did I get one. This rifle is amazingly accurate and I LOVE it!😊

Jeff Jackson We won the Pacific as well....

Smith-Corona manufactured the 1903-A3 bolt action rifle, not the M1 Garand

I tried telling a guy this at the range and he couldn’t process that fact. I own a service grade 1954 SA and I shoot it regularly at the range.

I also recently inherited one as well from my uncle all original matching numbers so my neighbor blew my mind the other day. He needed a few 12 gauge shells and traded me a five round stripper clip apparently made for hunting where your restricted from 8 I love both I have and will never get rid of either 12000 rounds of 30 06 I don't think I'll run out of ammunition any time soon

@@daveason3090can I buy a few off ya hahah?

I am glad you enjoyed and thanks for watching!

Says the commie.

Fuck you commie

Yeah he wants one, but yet deny YOU from getting one! Just go away Bernie.

But your candidate wants to strip away gun rights! You’re not welcome here.

Bernie Sanders *Everyone is confused*

@ Cheeky Monkey: Re: "I let the old guys shoulder the rifle. They smile and the twinkle in their eyes is priceless. Some remark that they never thought they would hold one again. (like your high school sweetheart) Strange how a piece of iron and wood evokes deep emotions . I have feelings for my M-16 I carried in '72-'74. US Army draftee." CM, that's darned classy of you! If you were a soldier, then you understand the bond which can develop between a foot-slogging infantryman and his rifle. My wife is from rural Kansas and one of her uncles - who recently passed away in his late 80s - was in the U.S. Army as an infantryman during the Korean War, and saw a lot of combat in 1950-1951. About a decade ago, I and this gentleman's daughter helped get him some overdue decorations to which he was entitled, but never received - including his Purple Heart for wounds received in action. When we spoke about his time over there, this gentleman farmer, now elderly, described the fear of facing human wave attacks by Chinese communist and North Korean forces, and when I asked him about the M-1, he grew very still and serious, and then quietly said, "I owe my life to that rifle... without my Garand, I would not have made it home." For a man who has survived battle, whatever weapon got him through the fight and back home again becomes - or can become - almost human to him, a buddy to be counted upon. FA expert, writer and historian LeRoy Thompson, who wrote Osprey Military's Weapon # 16 "The M-1 Garand," writes of experiences similar to mine - except with with many, many more GIs. Thompson goes on to conclude the book writing of how special the M-1 was to the men who carried it, and what a special place it occupies/occupied in their hearts. So it was probably a special thing to those guys.... that you let them hold the old gal again, even just for a little while. I know what you mean, though.... there's something very special about those old war-horses made of wood and steel.

I understand why you would want an all matching one, but at the end of the day, I look at it as a Garand is a Garand, no matter what year the parts are from, they're not that different. I really want a Garand myself, and a mismatched Garand is better than no Garand at all, at least for me. Plus, all matching ones are apparently pretty hard to find.

chzzyg269 Check out the CMPs website. They had some when last I looked.

How was your shopping experience at the CMP? I am considering a road trip there.

We purchased a Special Grade for $850. New stock, new Citeron barrel, 0 on head space pretty much a brand new rifle originally mine was built 11/1941. Then bought Ammo and went down the road to the Talledega range I spent the rest of the day there. We both love it and the people there were really helpful. Now she wants to shoot competition with it😂

It's just an importer stamp....Century Arms International, its real it just came back into the US from an ally we gave it to after the wars.