Winchester Garand from CMP - pretty nice

[iamkris]

When I received the CMP newsletter about a month ago and saw that they had a few hundred Service Grade Winchester Garands available, I sent in my order the next day. *While I have 3 Garands, they are all Springfield Armory manufacture and I wanted some diversity.

The newsletter said it would be 60-90 days before they could get to the orders...no big deal I thought. *Sent the order in on Oct 15, they received it on the 18th. *I've been in Italy this week and received notice that FedEx tried to deliver a rifle to me on Thursday. *Hmmm....ok, not 90 days but closer to 10. *Good service as usual from the CMP. *Picked it up tonight after I got home from the airport...she's pretty





Serial number shows that it was manufactured in June 1941. *I've been pretty lucky with the CMP so far...all my rifles have been manufactured between 1939 and 1944. *This one is in nice shape...haven't pulled it apart yet to see how much is original Winchester. *The barrel is good...ME = 0, TE=2. *The stock is a CMP replacement...would rather that it was original but it DOES make it nice looking. *I need to start looking for an IH and H&R Garand now.

And I gotta sell one of my SA's to justify this one...

They are shown as the top 3 rifles here

 

[SaxonPig]

That's a beautiful rifle.

 

[GunTech]

Nice rifle. I am jealous.

 

[Tim the student]

Looks very nice. Congrats. Don't forget a range report!

 

[1KPerDay]

And I gotta sell one of my SA's to justify this one...

Now that's just crazy talk.

 

[Uncle Mike]

Sweet! I need to get off my duff and do the CMP thing more often!

 

[FlyinBryan]

very nice winny. very early too!!

(i also love that krag in the photo)

 

[Hardtarget]

Last week I recieved an order from CMP. Mine was ammo.While it was fun...a rifle is much BETTER...by far. Good looking rifle!

May I say...that is a great collection of rifles you showed. Trap door, Kraig, carbine, 1917, '03 and the Garands! WOW! You've been collecting for a while.

Mark

 

[essayons21]

Very nice. That stock is pretty even if it's new. A little work and she would really shine.

If you do sell a Springer, I would take the original stock to have a complete WWII era Win Garand.