Recent content by PLW45

I've been a Garand owner for 2 1/2 months now and I love it. I don't belong to the GCA...yet. I just think the M1 is a neat, fun to shoot, good all around rifle. And it's got solid military history to boot! I don't think I'll ever get rid of my M1.

A good toast for couples - "Here's to a thousand miles of happiness between [insert name] and [insert name]...delivered in seven inch installments!" Also, "May all your ups and downs be between the sheets." And a nice one... "May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future"

HAHA i love it. Thanks for sharing!

It's refreshing for me to see this story because right now, I have a great uncle dying and the buzzards are circling. You know, the family members that you never see, but show up near deathbeds with their hands out. I don't know what to do about them, but this story gives me hope. Maybe...

Football? Not for me! I graduated H.S. in 2003, and didn't play football. Wayyyyy undersized to be a full time tackling dummy (5'5" 150 lbs. until summer before senior year). Instead, I joined the swim team. Co-ed, girls in bathing suits, and all I had to do after practice was take a shower...

Wow! I would have peed my pants and thanked my guardian angel simultaneously. That's an incredible story.

That's too bad. I've used a Hogue Handall slip on grip for about 3 years now, and it's never messed up. I did use two skinny plastic rulers to shimmy the grip up the pistol. That worked well for me.

Do you spend a lot of time in bed when you aren't sleepy? I would read or watch tv somewhere else, and only go to bed and lay down when you are tired. You can train your body to do this. I avoid laying in the bed unless I'm tired, so when I do lay down, I'm gone within a couple of minutes...

I like it!

Love that book. Right now I'm reading Brothers from Bataan: 1942 - 1945 by Adrian R. Martin. Goes on to detail lives of POWs under Japanese regime. Pretty good so far. Also reading Given Up for Dead, by Bill Sloan. Tells the story of "The Alamo of the Pacific." Just started it, so I'm hoping...

It is a 6 digit Springfield. Manufactured in August 1942. It's been rebarreled, but I doubt I would be able to make it a numbers matching rifle anyhow. I asked the armorer to help me pick out a good shooter, and that's exactly what he did. I gotta be honest with ya'll. . . I spent the week...

Got a M1 Garand as a college graduation present from Mom and Dad. Went to the CMP, picked it up, used lots of the good advice from the members here when I picked it out. Couldn't have been happier. Due to some family health issues, it was put on the back burner until a couple of days ago, when...

I love watching t ball, but little kid soccer is priceless too. They all swarm around the ball and follow it around the field. Cracks me up everytime

The Hamill fight was a joke. I couldn't believe the judges ruled in Bisping's favor.

Damn that sounds like fun! I can't afford to shoot much more than .22s and BBs right now. Good on you for enjoying the sport. Charlie, cheap beer always has a spot in the back of the fridge. And now on the range too!