[carpediem]

Hi all,

Couldn't find anything with the search function, so here goes:

Could you provide a guesstimate of the total cost of rebuilding a Garand (an average price range, anyway), including either a CMP stripped receiver ($175) or a reparked receiver w/ barrel ($300) + purchasing all the other parts?

Thanks

[ScottsGT]

Anything you ever wanted to know about restoring a Garand can be found here. This guy is the best in the business.

http://www.dgrguns.com/

Don't waste your time shopping anywhere else.

[Onmilo]

Simply put, you will spend more assembling an M1 Garand than you will buying one already to go.
The advantage comes in the fact you select the parts and you decide how tight you want your tolerences to be.

Building a Garand is never cheaper than buying one pre-assembled if it is done right.

[ScottsGT]

Onmilo has it right. What you need to do is get a complete CMP Garand, lowest cost you can get, but complete, then send it off and have it rebarreled. That was my plan with this Rack grade I got. But when it came in, I took it to my 'smith and he checked the headspace, throat and muzzle. The barrel was like new with the exception of the crown. All the metal was dinged up, front sight had been hammered on over the years, and the stock was a chewed up useless hunk of firewood. My goal was a restored Garand, not a war torn piece. I took a file to all the metal parts and smoothed them out and reshaped the dinged edges, dressed up all the metal parts I could. I then had the 'smith recrown the barrel and repark it and reassemble the sights, and I did the rest. Bought a new Wenigs stock and fitted and finished it up to 400 grit sandpaper using TWICE boiled linseed oil. You gotta use the good stuff from Brownells, the once boiled from the hardware store can get soft on you and stay oily for years. All said, I've got less than $1K in this one.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/ScottsGT/M1b.jpg