As I approach 80

[smokeywolf]

Did a little study on it and near as I can tell, as long as it does not have the flash hider, folding stock, no hanging down pistol grips and I think a "bullet button" is required, they're legal in Commiefornia. I should probably check with my buddy who I bought the Garand back from (OOPS! "Never use a preposition to end a sentence WITH"). He's a long time dealer, armorer, FFL holder and stays current with all of Kali's shenanigans.

EDIT:
If you worked on any of Stephen Cannell's shows you may have run into him.

 

[freebullet]

I'll add ,whichever Brad likes the most should probably be shot most & put away wet.

 

[Ian]

How do you put one of those ridiculous 'button' contrivances on an M1A? Do you have to nerf the stripper clip capability too? I would think it easier to immigrate to the United States.

 

[KHornet]

Cut my young Marine teeth on a Garand! Patton was right about it being
the finest rifleman's rifle made. Enjoy shooting them even today, but had
no desire to own one after I left the Corps. Any shooter who has never
had the chance to shoot one is missing a big gap in the experience of
shooting a great military semi auto. Hope you get one Smokey!

Paul

 

[KHornet]

My goal in life has always been to be shot at the age of 110 by the
jealous husband of a 19 year old bride, and I was going out the
window. Now that won't happen, but ya oughta set goals in life
even if they are hard to achieve.

Paul

 

[smokeywolf]

Ian, unsure about the "bullet button" thing on the M1A. I may have gotten some of my info mixed up, as I read about 10 different articles on it.

Paul I have a Garand, of sorts, now I want the Garand's successor.

 

[JWFilips]

Paul ,
I like how you set your goals! Not going to happen but gives you hours to dream about!
Hey dreaming keeps us old guys alive!
Jim

 

[JWFilips]

I keep saying no more guns then things happen and they fall into my lap!
Just long enough to cause me major expense and frustration!
Really don't need them but they are like the dozens of stray cats I take care of each day! Not going to let that stray rifle go hungry!
& you got to play with them when you can!

 

[Ben]

When I go into a nice gun show or gun shop, it is like an alcoholic walking into a liquor store.

 

[waco]

I'm only 43 and already I'm thinking why do I have so many guns? I hardly have the time to shoot them all. Just about the time that thought passes through my head, I buy another rifle.
I guess I'll leave them to the step kids.

 

[Pistolero]

Smokeywolf, just do what Rick did, wait until you get to Free America. Sad to see what my birth state
has turned into. Still friends and a few "lost" nieces in Cali, but most family are dead, and my visits
are for friends. Just drove through Ark, some parts in the far east are really, really flat (make KS look
mountainous) and totally agricultural, but the middle and western parts look pretty nice.

Bill

 

[RicinYakima]

You haven't seen flat until you have been to Mississippi.

 

[RBHarter]

Obviously you've never driven west into Pueblo CO .
You can just make out the mountain line in the haze . Then you realize that you can actually see the curve .
In 4-5 hrs you get to actually see something that breaks the curve line up and starts to look sort of mountainish.

 

[RicinYakima]

Oh yes, drove the 5th wheel from Garden City, KS, to Pueblo one morning. It is flat, but so are other places, but they have tree lines and woods that break up the effect. Another nice flat spot is Delta, UT, surrounded by mountains.

 

[Brad]

North central Iowa, I35 from Des Moines to the MN border. Flat and not a lot of trees.
I can assure you all that Paul may be approaching 80 but he hasn't changed much.

 

[Creeker]

Looking to thin my herd also. I try to shoot twice a week but even at that I have stuff that doesn't get shot. Before Mr. Jurras passed he told me that for shooters he was down to a 1911 & Flattop Ruger 44. I'd probably be well served & kept busy with just that & a couple rifles.

 

[Pistolero]

I have driven west into Pueblo about 100 times, including two weeks ago. This is way, way flatter. There are all kinds
of hills, ravines, bluffs and such all over KS and eastern Colorado, driven all of it, often. The flood plain area of the
Mississippi River in eastern Ark is far flatter, with the levies pretty much the ONLY elevation, no bluffs, no hills, no nothing.
Heck, creek bottoms that I saw were 10-20 ft wide and two feet below the agricultural fields.

Brad,even that part of Iowa has some rolling hills, nada in this part of Ark. Mississippi R. has been relentlessly flattening
that country for millions of years.

I've been interested in geology and earth science since Mr. Farber's class in 9th grade, and as a light plane pilot and
driver I have covered just about all of this country many times over the last 50 years. The Mississippi valley from about
St. Louis south, widens out and is really, really flat. There are some equally flat, but much narrower flood plains of
the Ohio, the Missouri and Mississppi, but this is many miles wide and runs easily 150-200 miles north south in Ark

Bill

 

[Creeker]

The flood plain area of the
Mississippi River in eastern Ark is far flatter, with the levies pretty much the ONLY elevation, no bluffs, no hills, no nothing.

That neck of the woods surely is flat.

 

[KHornet]

My aunt drove lengthwise across Kansas one time. She said:
Kansas is flatter than Pi$$ on a platter.

Paul

 

[Pistolero]

The first time I drove through Kansas, in 1973, on my way to Yellowstone, I thought it was darned flat, too. Now
that I live in east KS, which has a good bit of hills, creek bottoms, and such, I see that even the very flat
parts of western KS have some rolling elevation changes and creek bottoms.