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Well I did it. I bought a Garand!! Warning: Pic Heavy

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Smokin' deal, man.

You still need to setup a website with all of your pictures, though.....I wind up DLing most every one you post 0.o
 
Is that the original wood?? :eek: WOW! I thought I got a screamin' deal on a field grade in excellent mechanical shape, but at nearly twice the price you got more than twice the deal! That's the kind of deal on the kind of gun in the kind of shape that you sell something ELSE after the fact if you have to to justify the expense. Of all the Garands I've seen so far on THR, for some reason that one strikes me as the prettiest and most desirable. Molto bello!
 
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Thanks guys!

I may have time to take it out today and put some rounds through it, I'll let you all know how it shoots.

You still need to setup a website with all of your pictures, though.....I wind up DLing most every one you post 0.o
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I have the basic layout done, I've just been lazy on adding all the images to it and getting it published. Hopefully soon I'll get it done.
 
Is that the original wood??
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Yes it is the original stock. It's got the proof marks and the barrel channel is numbered like most IHC Garand stocks were, at least from what I've determined from my research so far. Of course the stock has been nicely refinished which saves me the trouble of having to do it.

Thought I'd post a pic of my new Garand with my Inland Carbine.....

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Thought I'd post a pic of my new Garand with my Inland Carbine.....
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Great rifles, but don't you need a 1903 Springfield..............and how about a .45.

(I think I just figured out why my safe is full) ;)
 
Great rifles, but don't you need a 1903 Springfield..............and how about a .45.
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You mean like these:D
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Actually to be honest this is an old pic, I sold this 1903 earlier this year.
 
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Those screws in the front handguard are part of an accurizing job, as is the bedding. The rifle is far from original and it'll likely shoot better than an original.

You won't be able to use it in the John Garand matches because the rules don't allow for bedding or accurizing beyond careful blueprinted assembly, but it'd be good to go in high power or as a range rifle if it's a well done job.

An original stock would have the postwar Department of Defense acceptance stamp on the left side above/behind the trigger- a 1/2" box containing an eagle with three stars over it. Usually pretty heavily punched in, unlike some of the wartime cartouches, so it doesn't often just wear away.

Serial numbers were not stamped into IHR stocks but a letter-number combination of the letters "OR" and four digits like "2072", "2205", and so on would often be found in the barrel channel, not necessarily sequential as in high number for high serial number.

The serial number was stamped into the stock by whoever bedded the rifle so that the receiver would stay with it's bedding. That's commonly done by most shops.

Good looking rifle.
 
Thanks for all the info Krs.

Serial numbers were not stamped into IHR stocks but a letter-number combination of the letters "OR" and four digits like "2072", "2205", and so on would often be found in the barrel channel, not necessarily sequential as in high number for high serial number.
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The number in mine is "3415"
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An original stock would have the postwar Department of Defense acceptance stamp on the left side above/behind the trigger- a 1/2" box containing an eagle with three stars over it. Usually pretty heavily punched in, unlike some of the wartime cartouches, so it doesn't often just wear away.
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It was hard to photograph but you can kinda see it....
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You can just barely see it but it's very faint, most likely whoever refinished the stock sanded it down a little so it's very difficult to make out. I can make out the outline of the box but not what it contained.
 
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Well I put 52 rounds through it this afternoon and it was a blast! What a fun gun to shoot and I love the "ping" at the end letting you know that it's empty and ready to be refilled!

It's a great shooter. I put 32 rounds of surplus Greek ammo through it (all I had) and 20 rounds of American Eagle. I was shooting free hand from the bench out to 100 yards and even as windy as it was I was placing shots on paper plates with relative ease. I'm sure if the winds weren't as gusty I would have been more accurate, plus I was a little over-excited shooting it my first time so that may have been a problem.

Here is my the final paper plate with 16 rounds on it at 100 yards. I think with a nice solid bench rest this thing could be a real tack driver!

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Awesome find. And a good shooter to boot. Congrats!

I use to throw M1's around when I was in ROTC. I was on the drill team at U of Houston and we used them for our drill routines. One of our fancy drills involved throwing M1's with chromed bayonets. Busted a few stocks in practice but not many. I was one of the short guys so I was in the last of three ranks in the squad. Four columns with three ranks. That happened to be the "catch rank" The routine involved and exchange of arms while marching. The first rank throws overhead over the second rank makes two complete spins and is caught by the rear rank without breaking formation of course. The rear rank throws forward making one spin between columns to the front rank and is caught with the left hand reaching across the right shoulder without breaking formation. The first man on the second rank throws his rifle across the front of the second rank making one spin to the forth man second rank as the forth, third, and second man hands their rifle off to the right. Hopefully no one drops a rifle and they don't collide mid air with another rifle. It's all done simultaneously and is over in about two seconds. The command was "double exchange, march". Those words still make my palms sweat.

We won first place fancy drill and first overall at LSU meet that year. Imagine that, we beat Texas A&M that year. I got the hives afterwards due to frattered nerves. Never cared to pick up a M1 after that. I like looking at them but my days of handling them are over.
 
Very nice M1 Rifle you've found there. No doubt if you shot from a sandbag and used good handloads your groups would shrink tremendously. Not that shooting minute of paper plate standing up is super easy but you know what I'm getting at.
 
Very nice M1 Rifle you've found there. No doubt if you shot from a sandbag and used good handloads your groups would shrink tremendously. Not that shooting minute of paper plate standing up is super easy but you know what I'm getting at.
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I don't know.........seems to me that's pretty good shooting, for off hand at 100 yards.

But as jpwilly said, it would be fun to see what it would shoot like off a rest though.
 
A person would like to see what the RIFLE is capable of is all they are saying,other than that I'm sure most agree with you 1K
I love the CMP matches,they're a blast.
 
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