It's spelled Garand, as in John C. Garand
Tankers are nothing but bubba made hacked up pieces of junk, that often don't operate properly or reliably. No "tanker" that you will find/be able to afford is original military (the military only made about 10 trial guns, and scrapped most of them).
It's spelled Garand, as in John C. Garand
Tankers are nothing but bubba made hacked up pieces of junk, that often don't operate properly or reliably. No "tanker" that you will find/be able to afford is original military (the military only made about 10 trial guns, and scrapped most of them).
OUCH. That hurts. Mine operates properly and reliably. I don't think I'm a "bubba". Mine is in .308 with the conversion parts bought from Numrich. I don't think they are "bubba" either.
its hard to find pics of Garand Tankers
i want a tanker in 308 whit m14 magazine
hope to get one from Germany soon
plz post your pics of your tankers
or links /Jens
Sorry have no pics or links.If your thinking of buying one they are mucho bucks.Ibid on one a few months ago and quite at $1650.00 on gunbroker.This was a mactching serial number piece,All springfield.Be crareful if you try to buy one.There are many out that are shadetree gunsmith put togethers.
M1A is not legal in sweden
but garand M1 is legal tanker is expensiv but the the gunsmith in germany is a god gunsmith and has build alot off garand whit m14 magazin feed and tankers.
he has work for us army in germany for 15 years as a gunsmith.
and i think they ar good loocking and i want to put a smith muzzlebrake on it.
so i hope they are fun to shot.hi also build match grade garands.
Originally Posted by nam66-67
Sorry but if you really have to have one.You will be better off getting an m1a scout.HMM maybe that is what you meant.
[i like the classic look that the garand tanker has
is any one know more links to garand tankers i want to see more pics QUOTE=dolphan12;465716]Try this, has some basic info. http://www.scott-duff.com/t26.htm
plz post more pics and lings on the garand tankers
and plz post your tanker pics
i am going to post pics on my tanker when i get it from germany
here is some links from me http://www.shuffsparkerizing.com/Con...ker_Sniper.php
OUCH. That hurts. Mine operates properly and reliably. I don't think I'm a "bubba". Mine is in .308 with the conversion parts bought from Numrich. I don't think they are "bubba" either.
I like it.
same here mine works great . hundreds of reload rounds shot with no proublems
maybe someone bought some junk once and think there all junk.
The OP here, Jenssweden, finally got his "tanker". He put it on another post, hopefully he's going to come back here. I believe he had his done by Herbert Werle.
Call it what you will, there's "bubba" versions, and then there's well done conversions as most informed people know. Herbert Werle is an outstanding German gunsmith, of the old world variety; he once worked as a depot maintenance gunsmith for the US Army, no small qualification. He now does extreme mods for P08 Lugers and M-1 Garands and I'm about to have him do the "tanker" conversion on my M-1, don't care for comments on whether it should be done or not. Herberts work is proven; I would have mine done by Fulton, Dean or Tim Shufflin if I weren't living in Germany, but Herbert is every bit as good as those guys, maybe better, but that's all opinion stuff.
Herbert specializes in creating a Drückjagd carbine version of the M-1. the "Drückjagd" is a type of hunt here in Europe/Germany where short barreled medium caliber/cartridge rifles reign supreme and the M-1 with short barrel is perfect; quick follow up shots are really necassary. However, my standard M-1 is just too heavy and long for this:
But this will be perfect for the traditional Drückjagd (don't get excited, it's a photoshop creation, Herbert hasn't even gotten his hands on it yet):
I don't care about the supposed sacriledge of this and yes it's an orginal 1942 issue Springfield, the year my granddad was captured by the Japanese. It will never be sold, never shoot in IMA matches or anything traditional like that, will never perform reenactment duty; it stays with me 'till the end, and I need it to be a little different than it is for actual use (hunting and recreational shooting). Loss of power is too minimal to even be a consideration.
I have a question for the experts like Tim or whomever. Since the original Garand had issues with slow burning powders, how does this affect the carbine conversion? Must you still use the faster burning powders and M-1 safe ammunition? I use Mcccan's adjustable gas plug and M-1 safe ammo, but am thinking to be safe, I will need to use the adjustable gas plug always afterwards. Just kind of curious, though.
For the record, I'm retired US Army and live in Germany (still work for the Army though).
It's spelled Garand, as in John C. Garand
Tankers are nothing but bubba made hacked up pieces of junk, that often don't operate properly or reliably. No "tanker" that you will find/be able to afford is original military (the military only made about 10 trial guns, and scrapped most of them).
I Know only one guy anywhere, who has a good GI one. He got it from the DCM around 1969. Back way before it was the CMP. This same guy carries a range data book with him to the range, as large as a Scrap book. He has every target he ever shot at with that rifle in that book. All SR-1 type targets, and all are nearly identical in grouping.
The only wild card that rifle ever produced is the first (cold bore ) shot is a flyer that's always low to the right, all other shots after that one are right in the black, always.
Never had anything done to it after he got it, still the same internals and barrel. I myself amoung others at the range, always pause and watch that old timer when he's down there with that old Tanker. I think in 1969 he only paid what it cost now a days for a tank of gas...LOL.
He's been offered Plenty (in the thousands) last I heard and he still wont sell it to nobody.... After all why would he sell it, that's his babby.
DGR built M1 Garand 'Tanker'. . .
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