9 hole review

[Gene L]

An astounding tale of an accurate rifle and an accurate shooter.

The rifle was a M1C with a 4x scope side mounted. The shooter was Henry Chan. The course of fire was two hits on targets out to 500 yards. He missed a couple of first shots on targets but followed up and got impact on the second and third shot. Not many misses at all. He had help from his spotter/camera guy.

Pretty amazing for a M 1 side mounted scope. It was impressive shooting, but what made it outstanding was he went beyond 500 yards. He was feeling good about the rifle and I guess about his shooting. He went beyond 500 yards one shot on target instead of two at 50 yard increments to 800 yards with first round hits.

It was incredible.

[Justsomedude]

That's the guy that has one of my daewoo barrels that I made. He's supposed to do a video about it. Supposedly he did the video but hasn't posted it yet. I'm running out of patience.

[Bigslug]

It's been a few years, but I've spent a bit of time behind M1's in the NRA Highpower game shooting them to 600 yards. I'm not surprised in the slightest.

If they're tight in the stock, tight on the front end of the gas cylinder, and the rear sight is adjusted properly with good teeth in it, they can be a sub-MOA proposition. The trick is often getting and maintaining that on an 80 year old rifle.

If you get a chance to shoot one that's in tune, it'll make you say, "'M'erica, Dammit!"

[GrapeApe]

It's been a few years, but I've spent a bit of time behind M1's in the NRA Highpower game shooting them to 600 yards. I'm not surprised in the slightest.

If they're tight in the stock, tight on the front end of the gas cylinder, and the rear sight is adjusted properly with good teeth in it, they can be a sub-MOA proposition. The trick is often getting and maintaining that on an 80 year old rifle.

If you get a chance to shoot one that's in tune, it'll make you say, "'M'erica, Dammit!"

I got to shoot a M1 built by a retired AMU gunsmith. All I ever heard him called was "Hook".
Rebarreled in 308 and all his tuning, I shot my 1st ever sub MOA 100 yard iron sighted 10 shot group. This was 30+ years ago

[Bigslug]

It's an amazing machine, the construction of which was driven in part by the lack of 100% parts interchangeability across the three manufacturing plants making the WW1 M1917 rifle.

I worked the LGS scene from 1992 to 2005. The early half of that was during the last big spat of M1 re-imports. Our hard and fast rule was to leave the bolts in the receivers they came to us with, assuming that someone, somewhere along the line had checked it for headspace. Other than that, parts swaps were fair game, and we did a lot of it to make them more "correct", to help a collector get more of the parts he needed to make his other rifles "correct", or just to build up a tighter fitting shooter. Never had a problem moving parts across all four manufacturers.

Quite the honor at times - I got to talk to a number of the WWII vets that were still alive at the time, including a Guadalcanal / First Marines guy. I was asked to pick out and spruce up an M1 as a birthday present for a Korean War CMH recipient. More recently, I replaced a firing pin in one for a co-worker's Boomer-era dad who works with the Commemorative Air Force keeping WW2 aircraft flying.

Maybe it's just me, but I find they carry a certain moral imperative.

[GrapeApe]

Found and interview Georgia Public Television did with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsJ-7VFtHKA

[DanielChamberlain]

I can't even see 500 yards...

[bullsi1911]

I love 9 hole reviews. That dude is one hell of a shooter