anyone know of any good deals on M1 Garands...

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

You pretty much answeres your own question. Lots of people want them and theres not a huge surpluss. Somewhat the oposite of a moisin nagant. With a nagant you have a huge surpluss with a lesser demand.

There would be a rather large surplus if they ever let the South Korean Garands back into the U.S. asd they said they would, as there are several thousand of them.

[Kenne]

thats the same excuse pilots give when they cant shoot down anything...'dang planes no good'  

and i have 2 M1s. a numbers matching late 44, and a Korea rebarrel early 45.

no offense but I had an SKS and sold it because it was a crap gun couldn't hit anything with it past 100yds and I have a an AK which shoots the same round as an SKS 7.62X39 and I can actually hit paper with it open sights out to 250-300yds no problem

[Eric19]

I shoot once a week usually and can consistently hit a target at 500yds with my springfield 03-A3 1943 model with open sights

[Serenity]

no offense but I had an SKS and sold it because it was a crap gun couldn't hit anything with it past 100yds and I have a an AK which shoots the same round as an SKS 7.62X39 and I can actually hit paper with it open sights out to 250-300yds no problem

Sounds like you had a shot-out barrel. I have quite a few SKSs and all of them are far more accurate than the AK patterns I have owned. However, they are definitely not a substitute for an M1 Garand (I have one of those as well). SKSs are a bit more rugged than the Garand (At least my SKSs have held up in worse weather/mud/muck than my Garand) with cheaper ammo. But the M1 is an M1, and it's definitely more accurate with a powerful round. I say buy both.

[Maverick]

I shoot once a week usually and can consistently hit a target at 500yds with my springfield 03-A3 1943 model with open sights

Much like the vaunted claim of the airforce bombers. They claim 100% accuracy as every single bomb ever dropped by them struck the earth. If the target are huge the claim ain't such a big deal.