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Subject: [OM] Re: New lightweight OM-1
From: "jgettis81@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jgettis81@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:37:07 -0700
Acually the Garand.  Although I would be oppose to owning a carbine either.
John


> [Original Message]
> From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/12/2008 2:09:49 AM
> Subject: [OM] Re: New lightweight OM-1
>
> jgettis81@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Me too in fact I have always wanted both the Camera and the gun, John
> >   
>
> Garand or carbine?
>
> As a non gun person, I almost never understand gun references. The M1 I 
> do though. I became all too familiar with the Garand during boot camp, 
> learning how to field strip, clean and throw it around in all the arms 
> handling and presentation drills we had to learn.
>
> They also dragged us out to increase the lead content of a hill or two 
> at Camp Parks, where it turned out I was a pretty good shot, besting all 
> the guys boasting about their shooting prowess on the bus going there. 
> Possible a fluke where the sheer mass of the thing threw them off? That 
> rifle is sort of like a Nikon F2, you could beat people to death with it 
> and it would still work fine with some more ammo.
>
> I also shot an M1 carbine with a friend and his father when younger. 
> Certainly much lighter and easier to use. That covers two of the three 
> guns I could name the I've ever shot, the Colt 1911 naturally being the 
> other.
>
> No, I never saw a gun fired "for real" during my "career" in the Coast 
> Guard. A ship I was on did fire a couple of hedgehogs at a buoy for 
> target practice - and scared the crap out of the captain by almost 
> hitting it. And some officers shot skeet off the fantail of a cutter out 
> in the middle of the Pacific once.
>
> Moose
>
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