Honestly, I don’t remember the rifle being particular heavy - But then again, I was 19 and in pretty good shape, and we carried that thing everywhere. Our personal equipment in general had a weight around 50 kiloes, seeing we were Royal Danish Engineers.
I carried the tripod for a light machine as well at times, so thats probably why I didn’t think the Garand was heavy ;-)
But its pretty awesome to use the Garand in games, and the LMG M62 as well, which is the two weapons I was trained for - Both are somewhat profilic in games!