tpelle
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""Springfield Armory, Inc. in Ill (not to be confused with the now-defunct Springfield "Government" Armory in Mass.) makes 'em brand-new. They're about $1500.00"
If you call a rifle with mostly 60 year old used and refinished parts brand new.
The reciever is a new cast unit. The barrel and wood is new.
The rest of the parts are used."
Oh! I didn't know that! Well then, CMP is looking better and better. After all, what can you do to an M1 receiver, short of taking a plasma cutter to it or running over it with a tank, that's going to hurt it?
I was talking to my FFL neighbor on Sunday night. He said that he had ordered a Springfield, Inc. M1 for a guy, and ended up sending it back twice for premature clip ejection. I told him I thought that they fixed that problem way back during WWII by increasing the lug height on the bullet guide, and I was surprised that SA, Inc. was still having that problem. I guess if they were using old early-WWII bullet guides, then that explains it.
If you call a rifle with mostly 60 year old used and refinished parts brand new.
The reciever is a new cast unit. The barrel and wood is new.
The rest of the parts are used."
Oh! I didn't know that! Well then, CMP is looking better and better. After all, what can you do to an M1 receiver, short of taking a plasma cutter to it or running over it with a tank, that's going to hurt it?
I was talking to my FFL neighbor on Sunday night. He said that he had ordered a Springfield, Inc. M1 for a guy, and ended up sending it back twice for premature clip ejection. I told him I thought that they fixed that problem way back during WWII by increasing the lug height on the bullet guide, and I was surprised that SA, Inc. was still having that problem. I guess if they were using old early-WWII bullet guides, then that explains it.