Nice one.

Not to plug somebody else's auction, but even when they had collector grade rifles at the CMP, not many of them were this nice. Whew, that is a nice one.

I am not so much of a 'late' guy but I gotta say that when I see something like this, well, ... I think that really is something to admire.

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M1 Garand HRA 5.5 – Collector Grade – CMP – mint : Curios and Relics at GunBroker.com


Sorry, I just find that to be pretty impressive.

The white powder leaves me with the impression this was one of the new in the wrap rifles.

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M1 Garand HRA 5.5 – Collector Grade – CMP – mint : Curios and Relics at GunBroker.com


The grease would mean this wasn't a new from the wrap one, but darn if it don't look close ...

I wonder why that front ferrule screw is boogered up and the cartouche looks as if it wore out on the details. Rick B

Looking at the screw I'm wondering if it is just the lint and packaging that makes it look boogered???

I thought about that also but reallly looks like metal in the white. Someone may have tightened it if it was loose and slipped. I think we have all made that mistake. :{ Rick B

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I wonder why that front ferrule screw is boogered up and the cartouche looks as if it wore out on the details. Rick B

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Agree that the screw slot looks like it has some gunk in it, and the cartouche looks great to me.

When John and I visited the CMP last May to do our research on late production SA oddities, I was surprised at how many really ugly cartouches there were on nearly new late rifles--both SA & HRA. Some cartouches were crisp & perfect (very few actually), while others looked more like a big ding/gouge in the stock.

So Rick, you are THE wood man. Do you have an explanation?

That is quite a compliment to this piece if we are looking at it THAT closely to find a complaint! :D

Having seen & owned a fair number of Correct+ HRAs, one thing I have observed is that even on the virtually-unfired ones, the op rod is dragging on the stock ferrule a surprising amount of the time. Maybe about 1-in-4. It's as if they skipped the step where the op rod gets tweaked to the barreled action as necessary to center it in the channel in the lower band. I have to tell you that on a firing rifle, that bothers me. Now on a fine collector specimen like this, one unlikely to be fired--does it matter if the op rod drags? I'm still trying to figure out the answer to that for myself, but I'd have to admit probably not. That's the way they came from the factory.