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| Classic M1 Garand: An Ongoing Legacy For Shooters And Collectors | 
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| Author: Jim Thompson
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $20.00
Buy New: $12.15
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 320147
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 158160260X
Dewey Decimal Number: 683.422
EAN: 9781581602609
ASIN: 158160260X
Publication Date: July 2001
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 rifles and reality May 26, 2002
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Most firearms writing is bland and dull, and shows almost total ignorance of both the infantryman and conditions in the countries where the weapons are used and/or produced. This writer puts hardware in a real contexts that make sense, thumbs his literary nose at half-baked conspiracy theories and fools who muddle in the dark, and does hard research with the materials themselves. He obviously loves his family, his country, his friends, and the M1 Garand... But he is hardnosed about reality, from top to bottom, and uses the photos and the facts better than I have ever seen in gun books.
The trigger job I tried, and it worked, and it was easy. The maintenance suggestions improved my shooting and reduced wear on my rifle. And this was measurable. I think a lot of gun writers never shoot. This man does. And he is very careful, urges you to be the same.
I have both his M1 books and his Machine Gun book. He is thorough, without being tedious, and there are lines in here that will make the reader laugh. And cry, perhaps.
His barrel tests are practical, and I decided to try the products he tested in .308. He tells the Italian M1 story better than anyone. And the photos he uses look like the REAL articles, not white-filled and polished parts which never resemble anything one can actually use or get.
Thompson is a worker with a bent toward humor and scholarship.
I especially like how he presented, "with many grains of salt", the serial number/date charts that so many collectors treat with way too much reverence.
His books are not the most scholarly in the field, though his research is better than average, far better than in most "smallish" M1 volumes. They are, however, the best and the most practical, and the best written and easiest to use and understand, in the entire field. This stuff is inspirational, but still "lunch bucket"...
If Thompson ranges wide, he does so to illustrate points which have escaped others, and which are startlingly relevant. This is particularly wise in the case of the Garand, which was in its time the most respected and one of the most ubiquitous rifles in the world. His factual and well-documented rifle
procedures are worth the price, all by themselves.
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