Not sure if this is the right forum for such a thing or even if posting a link to a going auction is kosher for you guys, but I thought I would send up a flare on this.
I am not a web gear guy...
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Not sure if this is the right forum for such a thing or even if posting a link to a going auction is kosher for you guys, but I thought I would send up a flare on this.
I am not a web gear guy...
I couldn't stop Steven from unplugging that super nice, near new, JLG stocked rifle that he got off the CMP's auction page (back when they first started selling them there) either, ... after all,...
Everyone has to work thru this in their own head and decide what they are comfortable with. When someone asks me, I usually ask them a question;
'Just who is it that you are trying to fool?' I...
NSA knows I look at these porn sites like this and they will dredge up years of me checking out the gambs in these pictures ... :D
Seriously, very sweet rifle. Congrats, and thanks for posting...
OK, well it is awful hard to get a feel just from pics but my feel from this one was that we had a good candidate here - lots of early stuff that usually got swapped out like short fork follower...
If there is even a hint of that cartouche left it adds to the value. Even if not, it is still the original and makes it a better package. At the risk of digging into one of my buddy's pockets, I'd...
If it were all original in that range you could be looking in the high 2 grand range to start, taking condition into account of course. I would want to see the stock a bit more closely and things...
W.R.A. = Winchester Repeating Arms.
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All of them (almost) are marked like that. What else do you need to see if it is...
REALLY neat stock - JLG handstamped!! Not sure how many are out there but that is really a tough bird to find.
Don't know why, but lately I have been on a rebuild kick - Garands are neat; you...
Thanks for sharing - nice rifle. I like your scope, too - which one is that?
Next thing you know you will be considering buying a trigger for several hundred dollars - whoa, that's definitely NUTS!!!
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But oh...
That is unlike any barrel markings that I have ever seen, ... not sure what ot make of it, other than to say that I don't think it looks real and might be a modern barrel that has had some WWII...
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...
Exactly why they had to mark them.
Probably did, or at least spit on the floor when the name Winchester was mentioned. Winchester felt the same way.
OK. Now what?
There is an awful lot here but don't just rely upon Kuhnhausen or even Hatcher. Both awesome but neither going over 'experiments'.
Chrome-moly was WRA's name for something developed earlier that...
Collector string (warning) - start the new year out with a new term.
Has it finally happened? Have we finally come to a point where we can have a NEW grade of Garand? With all the reproduction...
Neat - pretty much Winchester's critiques for much of the design when they were first contacted to make the Garand in 1939 ... in short they said it was not ready for production, and Pugsley said it...
Well that is one that we have been having friendly arguments over for years - but even the word 'argument' is too strong - we basically scratch our heads. There is much here on the keystone springs...
That is why I prefaced it the way I did; not kicking a dead dog ...
But the volunteer program is up and running and apparently Orest needs some help again so anyone can go get themselves down...
I tripped over this again today and I just enjoyed rereading the whole thread. I still love looking at the pictures of those racks of new/perfect/dry late rifles - wow, what a treat.
It was a...
50k entrance fee ...
Of course you get to keep it, but you still have to pony it up to play.:D
A double sized cutaway training rifle - not all that rare and I have had several opportunities to buy one over the years for under a grand (well under ... and just when did they start doing 24 day...
Maybe the message is a little off topic and maybe even just a little bit cheezy, but there are a few Garands in there ... All I know for sure is that it drew a tear out of me.
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That was AWESOME! Of course as always I find myself looking at the cars in the parking lots (grin).
I wonder the curators over at SA know of this (I did sent them an email) - it would make a...
Yes, we would expect to see a long channel (but so many guys just wanted to see that cartouche so if they could swap for a better stamp they often did, and on otherwise benchmark rifles ... no idea...