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<blockquote data-quote="Perplexed" data-source="post: 1999337" data-attributes="member: 7157">What&#039;s the story behind that picture?&nbsp; How close did the hunter have to be to drop those grizzlies, assuming the Carbine is indeed what he used?Here are a couple excerpts from &quot;U.S. Infantry Weapons in Combat: Personal Experiences from World War II and Korea&quot; where GI&#039;s, NCO&#039;s, and officers of the US Army were interviewed and asked what they thought about the weapons they used.&nbsp; The first excerpt is from the story was told by John &quot;Red&quot; Lawrence, a Marine Corps GI who saw action in the Marshall Islands in 1943, then at Guam and Okinawa:And this excerpt is from the story told by John Shirley, a US Army NCO with the 3rd Division in Anzio, then in southern France during Operation Dragoon:There are more stories like these in this book and in other books as well, along with the stories, fewer as they were, of the GI&#039;s who preferred the Carbine, usually because of its lighter weight.&nbsp; Bottom line, you can argue for the M1 Carbine all you want, but I&#039;ll rather go with the experiences of USGI&#039;s during two wars and use the M1 Garand instead - if I really had to depend on one of those two weapons in a SHTF scenario.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Perplexed, post: 1999337, member: 7157"] What's the story behind that picture? How close did the hunter have to be to drop those grizzlies, assuming the Carbine is indeed what he used? Here are a couple excerpts from "U.S. Infantry Weapons in Combat: Personal Experiences from World War II and Korea" where GI's, NCO's, and officers of the US Army were interviewed and asked what they thought about the weapons they used. The first excerpt is from the story was told by John "Red" Lawrence, a Marine Corps GI who saw action in the Marshall Islands in 1943, then at Guam and Okinawa: And this excerpt is from the story told by John Shirley, a US Army NCO with the 3rd Division in Anzio, then in southern France during Operation Dragoon: There are more stories like these in this book and in other books as well, along with the stories, fewer as they were, of the GI's who preferred the Carbine, usually because of its lighter weight. Bottom line, you can argue for the M1 Carbine all you want, but I'll rather go with the experiences of USGI's during two wars and use the M1 Garand instead - if I [I]really[/I] had to depend on one of those two weapons in a SHTF scenario. [/QUOTE]

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