Would you rather have an M1 Carbine or an M1 Garand?

[Twids]

M1 Carbine

M1 Garand

[Lliam]

I'll take the carbine. It's light weight (a little over 5 lbs empty) and feeds with a 15 or 30 round magazine. It can be accessorized. The 30 caliber carbine ammo packs a punch. It has fairly light recoil. It's good for home defense and is good for hunting medium-size game like coyotes or deer up to 200 yards or so.

The Garand is big, heavy (9.5 lbs), and feeds with 8 round stripper clips. It fires 30.06 but some are modified for 30.30. The recoil is fairly heavy. Thae ammo is effective beyond 500 yards. It'll knock almost anything down. I wouldn't use it as a self defense weapon, and I wouldn't want to carry it around hunting. But it's a damn good gun.

Both are semiautomatic.
You can carry carbine ammo more easily than Garand ammo because of weight and size.

[Lliam]

Thanks for the MHO, Twids.
I actually have a Universal M1 carbine. It's great gun.
A friend of mine has a Garand. It's a magnificent beast.

[Staximus]

I'll take the carbine, easier to carry uphill

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Pew pew pew pew pew. Neither, I prefer nuclear missiles, it's much more spectacular !

[Pohjolan]

The Garand would be somewhat suitable for hunting bears in the woods.

[EmmaMary]

Neither thank you. smh

[Staximus]

Reported

[Staximus]

These are valuable WW2 relics

[Staximus]

Just kidding about the reported

[EmmaMary]

@Staximus

Phew... Thank you.