by Hoot » Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:20 pm
I once had a nice collection of military rifles. One was a 1954 (bought for the year I was born) H&R Garand that was real close to new condition, that I bought from a collector who was in financial distress. IIRC, most of the components matched on it, but not all. Anyway, I ran a few boxes of HXP through it and it shot very well. It must have been cursed though as our family fell upon financial distress in 2008 and I had to sell it to yet another collector. The fellow drooled over it when he came to look at it and that wallet was out of his pocket faster than a cat can wink his eye. I sold it for what I paid for it, so it was a wash. It was fun for a brief moment shooting it, then it got cleaned and put back in the safe. The magic was never there for me. Not like my G3 or Izzy FAL. I don't know why. Ditto on my M14S, which had a fantastic Winchester trigger group and hand fitted TRW bolt. It was the most accurate .308 military autoloader I owned, but again, it didn't get my blood going. The NM stock never felt right in my hand and I have normal to big hands. They come, they go. I put more rounds through my 450b than all four of them combined.
Hoot
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