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    H&R Garand stock finish, Tung or Linseed Oil

    Finally getting around to doing a proper finish on my CMP Special, and trying to decide which kit from Garand Gear i should use between Linseed or tung oil. rifle is built on an H&R receiver and i want to use the appropriate type to the rifle. what i can find seems to show that the finish...
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    Question for other owners of CMP Special M1 Garands

    Oh I know. It's on my shopping list for my next visit to the hardware store. It's not even worth the time to contact the CMP since I can have one in hand from tru-value faster than I could get around to making a call/email to them about it. ‍ Like I said was just curious as to whether anyone...
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    Question for other owners of CMP Special M1 Garands

    just wondering about something, Finally got around to taking ALL of the wood off my Garand in preparation to strip/clean and apply a full finish to said wood. the rifle in question is a "CMP Special" grade IE new barrel and stock with the receiver and other bits refinished and rebuilt as close...
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    Is 5.7 a threat to 9mm dominance?

    My point in all of that, has little to do with 9mm and its uses. But that the use envisioned for 5.7 has passed/changed sufficiently that the round is no longer up to the task. If enemy troops encountered in the rear are wearing body armor, the round is likely no longer able to penetrate. If...
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    Is 5.7 a threat to 9mm dominance?

    PCCs/SMGs still have a place, but it's in civilian, law enforcement, and very specialized military use now. The days of giving rear echelon troops a compact, pistol caliber "long gun" in case of enemy raids (the noted specific reason for the 5.7×28 & P90) have passed. The M-4 was adopted in...
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    Is 5.7 a threat to 9mm dominance?

    Very good additional economic point.. And this really drives home what I mean by 5.7 becoming a round for lovers of weird or oddball guns. Most gun owners aren't going to choose a .22mag as a carry gun, it just isn't considered "enough gun" by most. The FN and Ruger 5.7s and the PMR are all...
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    Is 5.7 a threat to 9mm dominance?

    Even without getting into the economics of scale, if you look at the thought process etc behind the creation of 5.7x28 you realize not only will it never replace 9mm in widespread use, but it was never envisioned that it ever would. 5.7 was designed to defeat a threat to NATO forces that...
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    Old and new

    I think these are my oldest and newest respectively. a 1965ish High Standard Supermatic and a CZ75 cold war.
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    Remington attempts to move south, take two.

    No argument from me. The noted upgrades from the Expess, ie better checkering and slightly slicked action bars, ARE the two biggies that folks have noted as being most desirable, and neither one jumps production cost up all that much. So yeah, they'll likely raise the price $100-150, for...
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    Remington attempts to move south, take two.

    Looks to have the Express style, matte metal and stock finish, but with slightly slicked innerds and better checkering on the stock. in other words an express with non-cosmetic upgrades to bridge the gap between the express and current gen Wingmasters
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    Remington attempts to move south, take two.

    Mostly true. But you still need to have at least one person in a production cell that actually knows how to read the prints and how the tools "work". i.e. it should not be entirely a pack of semi-untrained tenders with no knowledgeable oversight. and that is what most of the lines at the plant...
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    Remington attempts to move south, take two.

    from personal work experience... the people making the transmissions for Toyota, aren't even machinists much less "car people". I worked in the AW (the wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota that makes their Automatic transmissions) plant here in NC for awhile, they literally seem operate on the...
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    Remington attempts to move south, take two.

    the problem there is that Remington can have: High QC versions of those guns, a profit margin they consider sufficient, sell them at a price folks are willing to pay, Pick 2. With modern production techniques and appropriate production oversight the 700 and 870 CAN be made to proper standards...
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    When the unknowing bid and the ignorant sell.....

    Note that i said almost lay money. fakes/reproes including really good ones currently out number real/original stocks of all kinds by a very wide margin here in the US. I'm a cynic and even if there wasn't/isn't some possible "catch my butt in a crack" aspect to it i'm spring loaded to the...
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    When the unknowing bid and the ignorant sell.....

    there's also the part of #2 reading "having S/Ns less than T200,000" that's rather important here. the exemption doesn't apply at all, since the only part of the exemption that it meets in anyway is HP slotted for a stock. And I'd almost lay money on that stock/holster not being Original per...
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    Competition guns

    the Idea of "Match/competition use only" is not a concept that I am willing to apply to guns that I own. If i don't find it useful or fun to shoot outside of competition, I don't see any reason to have it to begin with. of course i'm also one of those guys that will do crap like show up to a...
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    Bore Solvent for Neglected 1911

    For copper fouling Sweets 7.62 is the best, but this doesn't sound like copper (your patches would be blueish after the hoppe's, not black) For general "filthy bore syndrome" best stuff I've ever personally used, is Blue Wonder Gun cleaner, formerly sold as RB-17. It's a Gel that you coat your...
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    which data for plated bullets

    Ok, help a guy out. about to start back to reloading 9mm again after a near 25 year hiatus, and the largest stashes of bullets I have are 115 JHPs for which I can obviously find just scads of data, and some 115gr Rainer plated RN for which I can NOT find dedicated data. And after the...
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    Garand stock finishing question.

    Correct. as far as I can tell it's as you noted a bog standard piece of straight grain walnut with little to no figure or other character to it, or at least none currently visible. And frankly that suits me just fine, do not feel the need for a "pretty" stock on something like a Garand. just...
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    Garand stock finishing question.

    Not sure if this belongs here or gunsmithing, mods please move if necessary. Ok, I bought a CMP Special Grade Garand about 6 years ago. for those who don't know "Specials" are effectively the last "Arsenal Rebuild" M1s, the gun is rebuilt from the ground up back to as close to factory original...
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