Do we know approximately how many Garands were manufactured by the four US factories?
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Do we know approximately how many Garands were manufactured by the four US factories?
Around 5.5 million
That's a really tough exact number to come up with as there was serial number over laps in production and block of numbers were not used.
Only thing I can add is mine is 5,9xx,xxx. I saw a 7,xxx,xxx at a gun show last week and the seller confirmed it was one of the commercial rifles made in the 80's.
You can get a pretty good total from actual delivery numbers. They are well-known.
IIRC the owner of 6100499 was at the GCA convention in Springfield Mass a few years back
It was sent to Roger Miner as a DCM NM sale in 1958. He passed away and his daughter sold it to me in 2014. I recently passed it on to another collector in the GCA. What a beauty it is!