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Yes, didn't know about those. I was still playing with BB guns and homemade napalm in the 60's. Of course M-1 imports would have ended in 1968 with the GCA
of 1968, and that provision being lifted in 1986 at the cost of no more giggle switches. Not a good trade IMO. The rifles that you mentioned had to have been sucked up and socked away. From 1972 to 1986, I can count on one hand the number of M-1's I saw for sale at gun stores and the few gun shows I could attend in my teens.
You skipped a couple: the first was the Interarms import of LL guns with
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Proofs. They were everywhere in the 1960s. Then came the Police Sales by firms like SEA selling M1s from Honduras and Guatemala. Cops bought them cheap and resold them for a fat profit. I helped several local officers do it until ATF declared that they had to buy them with checks from the town.
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count on one hand the number of M-1's I saw for sale at gun stores and the few gun shows
It was so strange, you couldn't find a decent M1
, then all these mint LL guns appeared... and collectors shunned them because of the British
proofs. A ratty DCM gun would bring $200 but the LLs sat on tables at $125.
Real men measure once and cut.
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Mark in Rochester
ROSS — Mr. Michael Lem Gross, aged 61, of Coopersville, formerly of Wyoming, passed away of accidental injuries on Thursday, May 8, 2003. Sergeant First Class Gross retired as a 31 year veteran in the Marine Corps and Army National Guard
Looks as though he set a pretty good example given the service members down stream.
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I welded up a receiver, well over 40 years ago when i was taking a machine shop course as part of my hobibes.
Using the proper size steel alignment bars in the bolt channel and op rod channel, and put into a stock with the trigger guard snapped into place helped a great deal.
Keeping the firing pin safety slot aligned required careful placement. Needless to say this was before the admonitions in the Kuhnhausen Garand Book, and of course I used parts that had conflicting front receiver mod number and serial number.
Darn thing worked well and gave me lots of practice on a Bridgeport mill.....the came in the blue skys' and flood of guns.
I cut mine up afterwards. Plenty of M14
's were also welded up, but not by me.
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I think I've seen only one reweld in all the years I was going to shows. Makes me wonder what happened to them.
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What Happened To Them?
Many are like zombies and surface periodically at shows or on line. Some, like mine, were turned in when the DCM offered a receiver exchange for worn out receivers. For something like $21 (IIRC) you sent an old receiver and you got back a refurbished, new-condition barreled receiver... what a deal! They said no welds but they took whatever you sent. Billy Pyle told me he bought a pair of demil halves, glued them together with Bondo and spray painted it black. They took it and sent him a 1940 receiver with the original 1940 barrel.
Real men measure once and cut.
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They took it and sent him a 1940 receiver with the original 1940 barrel.
Nice catch...
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Buddy who owned a gun shop had bought 100 of the Blue Sky Garands. Walked in the shop one Saturday and it looked like a bunch of demented beavers were at work. Everyone was tearing open the boxes looking for their Garand
. I got a nice one, excellent barrel, sights and finish. $250 and out the door. Still have it 35 years later. Shoots very well, stock was nothing to write home about. Midway had complete sets of wood for $120 at the time. Swapped it out and saved the old wood. Frank
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Frank46
Still have it 35 years later.
Love to see that rifle Frank...
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