RandolH
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Last week on the way back from visiting my girlfriend's family in Cleveland we took a side trip to Camp Perry. The pistol matches were just starting and guys on commercial row were literally unpacking as we walked around looking through them. Before I walked through what is for all intents and purposes a strip mall dedicated to guns I visited the CMP North Store andpicked up a Greek field grade Garand. After poking around the racks with a muzzle gauge for half an hour my girlfriend picked up a field grade with a birch stock and said "this one is pretty". Looks like she's got a pretty good eye - After this I'm not going to another gun show or another gun buying expedition without my her in tow.
It has a matching handguard, a Red River arsenal stamp on the stock. For a field grade rifle it's in incredible good cosmetic shape. The throat and muzzle gauge were the best of the rifles I'd seen that day and the stock had a very beautiful tiger-stripe look to it with patches of dark on the birch. The only blemishes on the wood are from minor handling dents and dings that are much less than I expected. After the paperwork was processed we were on our way out the door with my new rifle.
There's no cosmoline and cleaning patches came through really clean after only a few swipes. I greased it up where the manual said I should put grease and it's ready to shoot. The parts aren't matching, but the receiver is a mid '43 SA with pretty good bluing. The gas cylinder is about the same shade of stainless as some of my silverware though, but I understand that's not too far out of the ordinary.
I'm told this stamp is for Red River arsenal.
A small crack in the stock.
Small handling gouges, by far the worst on the rifle.
It has a matching handguard, a Red River arsenal stamp on the stock. For a field grade rifle it's in incredible good cosmetic shape. The throat and muzzle gauge were the best of the rifles I'd seen that day and the stock had a very beautiful tiger-stripe look to it with patches of dark on the birch. The only blemishes on the wood are from minor handling dents and dings that are much less than I expected. After the paperwork was processed we were on our way out the door with my new rifle.
There's no cosmoline and cleaning patches came through really clean after only a few swipes. I greased it up where the manual said I should put grease and it's ready to shoot. The parts aren't matching, but the receiver is a mid '43 SA with pretty good bluing. The gas cylinder is about the same shade of stainless as some of my silverware though, but I understand that's not too far out of the ordinary.
I'm told this stamp is for Red River arsenal.
A small crack in the stock.
Small handling gouges, by far the worst on the rifle.
