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IIRC, one could get a 1911 for about $11.00 from the DCM back then?

Yes! When I learned the NRA had the DCM program that offered an $11.00 1911, that's when I joined up, and tried to order one, but by that time they had sold out of them(or had discontinued offering it). So I settled on the carbine.

AndyC wrote:

joe817 wrote:I turned it into a hobby of sorts by collecting all the USAAF cloth escape & evasion maps during that time period.

You might appreciate this one, then - I still have my escape map of Iraq:

Yes I do, very much so. It looks like a Brit E&E. That's beautiful, suitable for framing in fact. I have many Brit maps from WWII from the CBI campaign that look like that. Well the coloring, contour lines, lines of demarcation, etc, etc. at least. You know what I mean. It's amazing how such a large map can fold up into a tiny package like that.

Thanks for sharing!

AndyC wrote:Yeah, I doubt that will be retail price either, but I'm really keen to keep an eye on this. I've always wanted a Garand (long before Saving Private Bryan or whatever came out) - I'm a big WW2 nut, probably because one of my grandfathers was lost while on minesweeper-duty in the English Channel.

I'm keen on military history myself. I turned it into a hobby of sorts by collecting all the USAAF cloth escape & evasion maps during that time period.

I had for a long time a .30 cal. carbine I got from DCM from the NRA back in the 60's. Paid $17.00 for it. That's when a bandoleer of milsurp ball ammo cost 5.00 for 120 rnds. Marched with an M1 for 9 years until I did summer camp at Fort Sill, and was issued an M-14.

I'd like to have both the carbine(again) & the M1, just for old times sake.

That $220 & $140 sounds a LOT better than the first price that I threw out a few days ago. And much more realistic.

With that said, I suspect those prices reflect what the S.Korean wholesaler will be getting, when they sell them to the U.S. importer. And I'm sure that's not the price you will see when they go onto the U.S. market. But it'll be really interesting to see what the retail price will be.

Thanks for updating us Andy.