whitetailbowhunter
Expert
Continued from these two previous threads:
First M1 Carbine:
https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/long-guns/327957-first-m1-carbine.html
M1 Carbine help needed:
https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/long-guns/329580-m1-carbine-help-needed.html
For those who may not have seen my previous threads. I purchased an M1 Carbine in January. During Thanksgiving I was talking to my grandpa about how I was saving up to purchase an M1 Garand (because they are beautiful rifles, I have always wanted one, and I was under the impression he carried one during his time in Korea). He told me that from 1952-54 he actually carried an M1 Carbine. My grandpa has never been one to talk about his time in South Korea. None of my aunts, uncles, or cousins still to this day know much of anything about his time spent there. I was hoping that surprising him with a USGI Carbine would get him to tell me a couple some of his experiences during the Korean War.
I called my grandpa up a few weeks ago and told him that I was planning to stop by and show him a surprise that I had for him. When I showed up, he asked me if I had purchased a new rabbit gun (he's always enjoyed hunting rabbits). When I opened the case on my grandma and grandpas kitchen table, his expression was indescribable. Before I could even pick up the rifle, he had it in his hands racking the action back and letting it slam forward. I asked him if he wanted to go shoot the next morning at our family farm, where I recently built a range (with Bobcat Steel) and he was ecstatic.
I picked him up that morning to go shoot and the stories already began flowing. Within 24 hours I learned 10x's more about his time in Korea than anyone in my family ever new in the past 60 years. I won't go on to talk about his time there because I feel that there was a reason he never openly talked about the war, and a reason he chose to share his experiences with me. My grandpa is an amazing man. He was in Korea from 1952- 1954 (middle of the war until January after the war ended). He was stationed along the 38th parallel near the current border of North and South Korea, in a mountainous region, near the city of Panmunjom.
I'll let the pictures tell how the day went. He was still hitting 6 inch plates at 50 yards.
First M1 Carbine:
https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/long-guns/327957-first-m1-carbine.html
M1 Carbine help needed:
https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/long-guns/329580-m1-carbine-help-needed.html
For those who may not have seen my previous threads. I purchased an M1 Carbine in January. During Thanksgiving I was talking to my grandpa about how I was saving up to purchase an M1 Garand (because they are beautiful rifles, I have always wanted one, and I was under the impression he carried one during his time in Korea). He told me that from 1952-54 he actually carried an M1 Carbine. My grandpa has never been one to talk about his time in South Korea. None of my aunts, uncles, or cousins still to this day know much of anything about his time spent there. I was hoping that surprising him with a USGI Carbine would get him to tell me a couple some of his experiences during the Korean War.
I called my grandpa up a few weeks ago and told him that I was planning to stop by and show him a surprise that I had for him. When I showed up, he asked me if I had purchased a new rabbit gun (he's always enjoyed hunting rabbits). When I opened the case on my grandma and grandpas kitchen table, his expression was indescribable. Before I could even pick up the rifle, he had it in his hands racking the action back and letting it slam forward. I asked him if he wanted to go shoot the next morning at our family farm, where I recently built a range (with Bobcat Steel) and he was ecstatic.
I picked him up that morning to go shoot and the stories already began flowing. Within 24 hours I learned 10x's more about his time in Korea than anyone in my family ever new in the past 60 years. I won't go on to talk about his time there because I feel that there was a reason he never openly talked about the war, and a reason he chose to share his experiences with me. My grandpa is an amazing man. He was in Korea from 1952- 1954 (middle of the war until January after the war ended). He was stationed along the 38th parallel near the current border of North and South Korea, in a mountainous region, near the city of Panmunjom.
I'll let the pictures tell how the day went. He was still hitting 6 inch plates at 50 yards.