It came home - M1 Garand

[cfullgraf]

We walked among some of the graves at Omaha Beach on Veterans Day, about 2003.

We took a French river tour a few years ago that ended in Honfleur, France. Part of the tour was a ceremony at the US cemetery at Omaha Beach that ended with each getting a flower to put on a veteran's grave. Since we are living in Tennessee currently, we found a veteran from TN that gave the ultimate sacrifice to place our flower on.

Lots of things to see on the D-Day beaches, well worth the stop if you go to France.
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To the OP, Fulton Armory does a nice job of restoring Garands. A friend of mine has a Fulton Armory Garand and it looks great as well.

My first Garand dates to November, 1941. I suspect it never left the US but it will never tell. A CMP Service Grade received from around year 2000, I have left it as received from CMP, a Red River Arsenal rebuild, and it shoots well.

 

[Trey Veston]

TreyVeston - is that an original USMC sniper rifle or built?

No idea. But, I've been told that the location of the serial number means that it is an original. The scope is a reproduction.

 

[SterlingBullet]

I don't know if it was a special delivery because he wanted to/felt he had to0?, but it came. Same with a few amazon packages via USPS...no mail though.
I wonder if package delivery is separate from the US Mail in how the USPS operates....
All I know is I was surprised by the package....I didn't expect it today.

For a number of years the USPS has had contracts with Amazon to provide Sunday delivery for their packages.

 

[tazbigdog]

Love mine!

 

[Remington1911]

If only they opened a free downloadable army TM online they would know these things instead people who should know better continue to misname things when they are clearly different. JCG himself named these so we should take his word for it.

We as garand collector should be educating the newer ones to the correct terminology.

In a general gun forum I will give it a pass. If it was on gunboards a correction would be due.