Sleeved garand barrel

[Jeremy2171]

OK...one of our friends here sent me this barrel to install on his receiver... soon as I unwrapped it I saw the problem.



Here is a closer look at the "tell"...


and another one..





What you have here is a garand barrel stub that's been bored out and had an 03A3 barrel turned down and profiled to fit it. In this case it was a nice 6 groove barrel which indicates a Smith-Corona barrel.

When you take one of these barrels and mill away on it...you see more of whats going on with it.

What you see here is the joint where the stub and 03 barrel were profiled together and the sides of the 03 barrel with the garand stub milled away.



Here you can kind of see how much was bored out and how it fit together.




Some people have been shooting these for years (like from the 60's) with no issue. However there are also plenty of these that have split or ruptured in the chamber area due to improper fit in the machining.

For this reason I won't and any other gunsmith shouldn't install any of the barrels.

 

[edwardware]

Someone, and no slouch with a lathe, spent considerably time making that. One wonders what a Garand blank must have cost that decade to justify the machine time to fabricobble that together.

 

[792mauser]

Never seen that before.

 

[lysanderxiii]

What's even more interesting is that it's not a USGI barrel stub.

I can't believe that was cheaper/easier than profiling an M1 barrel from a blank.

 

[Jeremy2171]

What's even more interesting is that it's not a USGI barrel stub.

I can't believe that was cheaper/easier than profiling an M1 barrel from a blank.

It's a USGI barrel stub

 

[AlexanderA]

I have one of these sleeved barrels on a reclaimed (rewelded) Winchester M1 receiver.

In the 1960's, legit M1's were hard to come by, on the civilian market. But scrapped guns were plentiful, and a cottage industry sprang up to "restore" and sell them. They could be found in stores like Sears, Montgomery Ward, etc.

I bought this gun in 1969, for $110, and I had no idea what it was. In 1972, I used it in a sanctioned competition, ironically as part of the qualifications to get a DCM M1. There were some strange malfunctions during the match.

Later, as I learned more, I realized that it was a welded receiver. Further inspection showed the sleeved barrel. The telltale was the muzzle crown, which had been reamed to smooth over the joint between the sleeve and the original (outer shell) barrel.

The gun is now a "place holder" in my collection. Never to be fired again. I probably couldn't sell it, nor would I want to. I want to have it as a reminder of my early collecting mistakes.

 

[N555]

When lathes and the people who knew how to use them where in good supply.q

 

[someguy2800]

Someone, and no slouch with a lathe, spent considerably time making that. One wonders what a Garand blank must have cost that decade to justify the machine time to fabricobble that together.

considerable time is an understatement!

 

[someguy2800]

I have one of these sleeved barrels on a reclaimed (rewelded) Winchester M1 receiver.

In the 1960's, legit M1's were hard to come by, on the civilian market. But scrapped guns were plentiful, and a cottage industry sprang up to "restore" and sell them. They could be found in stores like Sears, Montgomery Ward, etc.

I bought this gun in 1969, for $110, and I had no idea what it was. In 1972, I used it in a sanctioned competition, ironically as part of the qualifications to get a DCM M1. There were some strange malfunctions during the match.

Later, as I learned more, I realized that it was a welded receiver. Further inspection showed the sleeved barrel. The telltale was the muzzle crown, which had been reamed to smooth over the joint between the sleeve and the original (outer shell) barrel.

The gun is now a "place holder" in my collection. Never to be fired again. I probably couldn't sell it, nor would I want to. I want to have it as a reminder of my early collecting mistakes.

Maybe should put a string and tag on that one explaining what it is in case you get run over by a bus.

 

[lysanderxiii]

It's a USGI barrel stub

Must be the viewing angle, I don't see the scallop for the barreling fixture.