Eightball
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Gents, talk me into (or out of) "redoing" my Garand. In the mail this morning, I got a genuine "Turner Saddlery" sling, just like on the originals. It has spurred the feeling inside of me to take my Garand as I got it from the CMP (Original GI cosmoline coated walnut for 2/3 of the furniture, 1/3 Greek Birch, with a barrel from '52 and reciever from '42), and get a replacement CMP stock set, refinish it with Linseed Oil from the original manufacturer of it (found that company, too), get a newly manufactured .30-06 barrel for the thing, and then go down the "refinishing" road (maybe do the "whitening of the stamped lines" thing I've seen on some of Deans Gun Restoration pictures...), where in the end it'll "look" original, but have new pieces by which to do so. It was just a rack grade when I got it, but.....ahhh, decisions!
So, what does the mighty THR guru say I should do with this idea of mine? Keep her as she is, or try and put her back like she was (only with new parts)?
Link to last picture I took
So, what does the mighty THR guru say I should do with this idea of mine? Keep her as she is, or try and put her back like she was (only with new parts)?
Link to last picture I took