You folks may recall a thread from last month wherein I was bemoaning the fact that the CMP had sent me a Garand with what appeared to be a smooth bore.
Here's an update on what happened.
An email from Orest Michaels led to me sending the rifle back to the CMP on April 22. On May 4, another long box arrived via FedEx.
The CMP had sent me an exchange Garand.
This one has is an SA with the serial # 5894xxx. It's got an SA barrel, SA operating rod, and an HRA trigger group.
The stock seems to be in good shape, looks like walnut. Ditto the handguards... they don't exactly match, though.
The stock has a couple of cartouches, but I can't make out what they're supposed to depict.
Today (May 5), I field-stripped the rifle and gave it a good scrubbing. I got an awful lot of copper fouling out of the bore. There's likely more still to get out, but after half a bag of patches and a whole lot of Hoppe's Copper Solvent, I decided to call it a day. Otherwise the rifle seemed fairly clean.
It appeared to have almost no lubrication on it, though. I gave it an oiling, and some Militec grease in the appropriate spots.
The rifling on this one looks pretty good. I'm still not quite used to how shallow the lands & grooves are in Garands. Just not like my other milsurps.
What disturbs me is that the operating rod appears to be bent. It appears to be visibly bowed in a downward (toward the ground as you'd hold & aim it) direction. Is this something I should point out to the CMP? I'm leery of creating yet another situation with them, but it may perhaps be something I ought to do. Any opinions?
It may be a pretty good while before I get to go shoot this one. Is there any affect on its performance due to the (apparently) bent op-rod I should be watching for?
Thanks, everyone.
Here's an update on what happened.
An email from Orest Michaels led to me sending the rifle back to the CMP on April 22. On May 4, another long box arrived via FedEx.
The CMP had sent me an exchange Garand.
This one has is an SA with the serial # 5894xxx. It's got an SA barrel, SA operating rod, and an HRA trigger group.
The stock seems to be in good shape, looks like walnut. Ditto the handguards... they don't exactly match, though.
The stock has a couple of cartouches, but I can't make out what they're supposed to depict.
Today (May 5), I field-stripped the rifle and gave it a good scrubbing. I got an awful lot of copper fouling out of the bore. There's likely more still to get out, but after half a bag of patches and a whole lot of Hoppe's Copper Solvent, I decided to call it a day. Otherwise the rifle seemed fairly clean.
It appeared to have almost no lubrication on it, though. I gave it an oiling, and some Militec grease in the appropriate spots.
The rifling on this one looks pretty good. I'm still not quite used to how shallow the lands & grooves are in Garands. Just not like my other milsurps.
What disturbs me is that the operating rod appears to be bent. It appears to be visibly bowed in a downward (toward the ground as you'd hold & aim it) direction. Is this something I should point out to the CMP? I'm leery of creating yet another situation with them, but it may perhaps be something I ought to do. Any opinions?
It may be a pretty good while before I get to go shoot this one. Is there any affect on its performance due to the (apparently) bent op-rod I should be watching for?
Thanks, everyone.