Any body try one of the M1 RACKSPECIAL GRADES? New Stock, new barrel, rack grade receiver. I got one today and best fit into stock ever had. It is a 593 number that puts it about 1957. Receiver has no pitting above wood, only a little on the undeside of the rear of the receiver. Tried to...
I used to be under the impression that one could modify the M1 sear or replace with a different design and it would fire in the auto mode.
I had an SKS that would fire auto sometimes and not sure if it was due to worn parts or over lubrication of the sear which I thought someone said the over...
Camp Perry, Ohio, August 1929
You should be able to click on this and open with Adobe Acrobat. Don't know how I scanned this in and it became a PDF file. I'll have to get my son to fix it. May need Pro acrobat to convert to a .jpg file. THAT'S NOT ME!
All the other parts have an SA on them although I didn't take the trigger assemble apart. It is SA as well as safety and one other part where I can see the SA. Op rod is cut and SA. The rifle is a 5-43 with the original barrel marked 5-43 and ME/TE are 1+/2+ which to my thinking doesn't...
Trying to clean up another Garand that had a terrible looking stock that has two markings I don't know what they indicate or mean. I have sort of cleaned the stock and will post pics. On the elevation knob is a FZ between the 9 and 10 and a R between the 8 and 9 on the knob. Also there is a...
He was not kidding you. During basic training back in the '50's, we took our M1's (just the metal parts) in the shower every night to wash of the dust they collected during day as we drug them every where we went.
Would a Sept 1941 Garand be considered Post WWII since it is before the US entered the war. The CMP mail order is luck of the draw, but sometimes you get a good deal. I got this one with a new CMP stock and finshed by the CMP with a 6/52 HRA barrel ticketed 1,2.
barrel ticketed 1,2.
Six digit is September 1941 as I was entering the second grade and well remember November as my Mother's Brother was in Schofield barracks. The following summer he was home for a visit before they shipped him out to the Philippines. Retired in '48.