GunnyUSMC
Member
A buddy of mine showed up one day with some ugly M1 Garands. They appeared to be old VFW funeral rifles. They had BFAs (Blank Firing Adaptors) on the muzzles and the bores were heavily rusted from firing corrosive blanks. The stocks had been painted black and there was surface rust on the metal.
We checked around about having one of them restored and my buddy got in touch with Mr. Tony Giacobbe, The Garand Guy, and said that he seemed like a very nice guy.
I did some homework and found that people were very happy with his work and whenever there was a problem, Mr. Tony made things right.
I contacted Mr. Tony and told him that I wanted a rifle totally restored with a new Criterion barrel.
That would be a new stock with metal, barrel removed and new barrel installed and reparked.
With return shipping it came to $605.
I shipped the rifle on July the 27th, with the State Police Crime LAB as the return address. Mr. Tony got it on the 31st.
I contacted Mr. Tony on August 9th to see what the turnaround time would be. He stated that he had already shipped it back and it was signed for on August the 8th.
Just my luck. The front office had not advised me that a package had arrived for me. When I got to work this morning the package was in the front office.
This is what I found in the box. It was beautiful.
Here it is next to another M1 that is in the same condition as the one I sent to Mr. Tony.
This other rifle will be going to be shipped to Mr. Tony in a week or two to be totally reworked also.
Mr. Tony is The Garand Guy.
http://garandguy.com/
We checked around about having one of them restored and my buddy got in touch with Mr. Tony Giacobbe, The Garand Guy, and said that he seemed like a very nice guy.
I did some homework and found that people were very happy with his work and whenever there was a problem, Mr. Tony made things right.
I contacted Mr. Tony and told him that I wanted a rifle totally restored with a new Criterion barrel.
That would be a new stock with metal, barrel removed and new barrel installed and reparked.
With return shipping it came to $605.
I shipped the rifle on July the 27th, with the State Police Crime LAB as the return address. Mr. Tony got it on the 31st.
I contacted Mr. Tony on August 9th to see what the turnaround time would be. He stated that he had already shipped it back and it was signed for on August the 8th.
Just my luck. The front office had not advised me that a package had arrived for me. When I got to work this morning the package was in the front office.
This is what I found in the box. It was beautiful.
Here it is next to another M1 that is in the same condition as the one I sent to Mr. Tony.
This other rifle will be going to be shipped to Mr. Tony in a week or two to be totally reworked also.
Mr. Tony is The Garand Guy.
http://garandguy.com/