The M1 Garand is fun to shoot, but recoil is much heftier than the contemporary AR-15 service rifle. Some view this as a negative, but plenty of old school service rifle shooters are quick to point ...

Today, I am shooting two Nikon cameras and a 1944 U.S. M1 Garand .30 caliber rifle. In the hands of the “Greatest Generation,” some of these vintage rifles battled tyranny to the ends of the ...

An iconic rifle. A powerful family legacy. In this hands-on tribute, a historian brings his grandfather’s M1 Garand back to life ... this is more than a shooting test—it’s a connection ...

Q: I recently purchased an M1 Garand rifle and am looking forward to taking ... regarding the so-called “cut” operating rod. For shooting purposes, it is actually something of a benefit.

George Patton famously said, “In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the ... at each other and shooting,” says Cody Toombs, a firearms historian and editor with the Garand Collectors Association ...

The Garand's rear peep sight also made training to aim the rifle much simpler and was ideal for fast snap shooting at moving targets. The M1 made its European debut during Operation Torch in ...

Over the past decade, the government-chartered organization has brought in nearly $200 million in revenue selling surplus M1 Garand rifles, according to a recent Government Accountability Office ...

30-cal. Garand. Trials continued with what was now called the T1E2 rifle, and in August of 1933 it became the Semi-Automatic Rifle, Caliber 30, M1. During the following two years a number of minor ...

The .30 caliber M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle belonging to John Garand himself — the brilliant Canadian-American gunsmith whose work at the U.S. Army’s Springfield Armory yielded the ...

After learning English whilst sweeping floors at a textile mill, young John got a job at a shooting ... and Garand would eventually patent his “Semiautomatic, Caliber .30, M1 Rifle” during ...

As-issued M1 Garand rifles aren’t nearly as accurate as the National Match version, and I found that my rifle consistently threw 10 to 20 percent of its shots low outside the main body of the group.