krs
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Boy Doug, wish I'd known you were looking. I sold this one, you can see the price....http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=124753074
I made a pretty dumb deal on a Garand, but I wanted one bad.
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skidooman603
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Yep I watched that on and was surprised it only brought $670
Sounds like a good deal, but I like the "natural" look of my Garand. It goes well with my other beat-up WWII guns.
One thing that I expected to find but didn't was the arsenal refurb mark/date on the receiver. According to my book the arsenal would mark their initials and refurb date on the side of the receiver under the stock. For some reason they didn't mark mine.
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krs
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Doug, I've got nine of them, or eight now and I kept one 1943 SA rifle in what looks like battlefield appearance like yours to preserve the sense of history it exudes. That rifle had sand inside the trigger that was caked in like it was there a looong time. I imagined it to be Iwo Jima sand, but couldn't know for sure, of course. Plenty of sand at Twentynine Palms or Ft. Ord too.
With your 1952 barrel there's a good chance that your rifle came back from WW2 only to be shipped out to Korea a few years later.
With your 1952 barrel there's a good chance that your rifle came back from WW2 only to be shipped out to Korea a few years later.
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Doug S
"Cut" and "uncut" refers to a semi-circular stress relief cut on the oprod. The top oprod is a post-war oprod manufactured with the relief cut. Many earlier oprods were modified with a similar relief cut. The bottom oprod is an "uncut" oprod.
I'm not an expert, but I've been led to believe the relief cut was made after it was found that oprods started to crack and fail when firing rifle grenade cartridges. I've also been told it occurred with the standard M2 Ball service cartridge. Either way, I don't use my "uncut" oprod for shooting. It's fairly rare and I don't want to risk breaking it.
The top oprod is for shootin'!
The bottom oprod is for showin'!
"Cut" and "uncut" refers to a semi-circular stress relief cut on the oprod. The top oprod is a post-war oprod manufactured with the relief cut. Many earlier oprods were modified with a similar relief cut. The bottom oprod is an "uncut" oprod.
I'm not an expert, but I've been led to believe the relief cut was made after it was found that oprods started to crack and fail when firing rifle grenade cartridges. I've also been told it occurred with the standard M2 Ball service cartridge. Either way, I don't use my "uncut" oprod for shooting. It's fairly rare and I don't want to risk breaking it.
The top oprod is for shootin'!
The bottom oprod is for showin'!
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