M2 Ball – Facts vs Myth

7 Comments on M2 Ball – Facts vs Myth

1. Thanks, interesting article. I particularly enjoyed the author’s amusing put-down of “gun show waiting-line gurus” (-:

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2. I have an International Harvester. It’s a dandy. My girlfriend at the time rec’d a National Match M1 through DCM for ten bucks. It was a pretty good shooter too.

   I switched over to ARs about 1990 and like them fine.

   When we were in the small bore club that shot at the steam plant on Ft Lewis we could check out an M1 From the National Guard and get all the free ammo we wanted… the only caveat was “I’m not doing the paperwork to check any ammo back in, so if you ask for it you shoot it and then turn in the brass.” You know how greedy kids are. It got to be a chore the first day shooting up all of the ammo. The rifle had to be clean when turned in too, and I mean clean.

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3. I’ve been shooting, building and reloading for M1s for about 30years. Never had any problems with over pressure. I’ll say most of them (M1s) prefer the longer, heavier bullets. Last time out I was shooting surplus 1959 match and my Springfield was holding a silver dollar at 100. I hate that my eyesight is waning.

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4. JD, speaking of clean rifles…

   Had our own rifle range with 50, 100 & 200 yard tables and pistol distances marked off with stakes. Farm field and embankment built up (D9 Cat), armor plate top angling down from top of a railroad tie backstop to the rear. The old man and a couple of his buddies would load for the 06′ and over time filled a couple of bank bags with spare leftover ammo that didn’t pass as what they wanted to shoot ongoing. They would then lay five 06’s on the table and let me and one or two of my friends burn it up. Two Remington 700’s, a Colt, a custom gun that was Mauser action, Johnson barrel, Bishop stock and twenty power scope (hot set up for the time), along with one other rifle that escapes my IDing it now. Shoot until they got too hot and grab another and continue.

   Monday could find you black and blue from you your mid right side chest to your bicep and using the words, “WHAT?, What?, What?… Stuffed cotten in our ears which is why I have hearing aids in both ears today. Had a trap range out there also although I never took advantage of that one. Sadly some kids burned the trap house down.

   From age thirteen on I had free run of the gun cabinets as long as everything passed inspection and the old man demanded they be kept spotless and properly lubed. So one of his “High Dollar” friends liked that setup and keep his weapons at our house also (he lived in Chicago). I was better armed as a kid than most adults in our little town. Browning over and unders, Fox side by sides, with the rifles like the custom mentioned above.

   Had a guy decided to start a “rifle club” with the church group and said bring whatever you have to shoot to the first meeting. Asked at that meeting, “Did anybody bring anything?” To which I the only one who did said “Yeah I got some.” Asked where it was and I said they’re in the truck of the car. My older brother drove as I wan’t old enough. So off the the truck of the car and me bringing a sampling of one in a number of different calibers. He’d like to have shit his pants when he saw what was in that trunk. I determined that that crew probably wasn’t a good group to have handling our “stuff” and also wasn’t going to let them on the range we had. Somehow the rifle club never got off the ground.

   Apologies to SNS for patent rights on the length of this…

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5. I’d like to know what gun club that Black Colored Moron dressed in body armor belonged to who got caught coming out of the men’s toilet in the Supermarket in Atlanta the other day. He had four loaded hand guns, a loaded shotgun, and a AR 14 looking rifle that is, of course, being called an “assault rifle” by the press who can’t determine why he was so well armed. Notice how little coverage this story has gotten. I think he was there to collect reparations.

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6. Had two M1s but lost em in a tragic ferry accident crossing the Mississippi.

   Oh well …

   izlamo delenda est …

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7. AR-14? Is that you, Greezy Joe?