Winchester Garand question

[Charlie59]

Hey Rick, do you mean Winchester M-1s prices are being driven up higher, or prices of Garands in general? The more people refusing to consider SA, HRA and IHC, might mean more good rifles for the rest of us.

Charlie

[Bodyman]

Ouch, ...

Hey Rick, do you mean Winchester M-1s prices are being driven up higher, or prices of Garands in general? The more people refusing to consider SA, HRA and IHC, might mean more good rifles for the rest of us.

Charlie

[kma711]

CMP SG Springfield and H & R 595. Winchester 795 with IHC 1000 to 1100 then their are 3 different IHC and 2 winchesters I got the wincester carbine cause luck of the draaw and got a winchester garand from the DCM back in 87 came fresh from rebuild with barrel and bolt and a sanded WW2 stock

[jmoore]

Pay no nevermind that Winchester M1 rifle parts are about the roughest or crude-est(?) looking components ever made for these weapons. They apparently learned from their WWI experiences and went from some of the nicest looking rifles made to just good enough to pass gov't inspection. Not faulting them, they were running a business to make money. Didn't work out at all w/ the M14, though!

[RCS]

Early Winchester (1941) fancy walnut is best you will ever find on a WW2 M1 rifle.

[USSR]

Agree, early Winchester walnut is really nice wood. My WRA WB marked (faintly) stock on my '42 Winchester.

Don

[dbarn]

Early Winchester (1941) fancy walnut is best you will ever find on a WW2 M1 rifle.

Agreed, my 1944 2.4 million appears to be sap wood, a lighter yellowish color on one side. The front hand guard has a nice contrasting grain however. It's also a pretty beefy stock. Regarding the metal, there are quite a few cosmetic, rough exterior milling areas, but it appears to have never affected function. They are smooth where it counts.

[ap3572001]

Agreed, my 1944 2.4 million appears to be sap wood, a lighter yellowish color on one side. The front hand guard has a nice contrasting grain however. It's also a pretty beefy stock. Regarding the metal, there are quite a few cosmetic, rough exterior milling areas, but it appears to have never affected function. They are smooth where it counts.

If I decide to sell ( or trade) my 2.4 W-W parts gun, what should a FAIR price?

[jmoore]

Mmmm, didn't consider the stocking aspect! They must have had stores of fine wood sacrificed to meet the high production demands of the new contract. Again, I'm not faulting them their decision to leave rough finish on some parts, it's just peculiar that the "ugly" duckling gets most of the "love".

Still, the metal work on a Pattern 1914 or M1917 is of finest sporting rifle quality. They were the only P'14s considered to be of high enough consistent quality and accuracy to make sniper rifles.

[Griff Murphey]

When I was a high school ROTC kid 46 years ago, I would look at those receiver heels in the racks at Arlington Heights High School. I never saw anything but Winchesters and SA's. There was just something about that name, written out in script, just like on a '94...: WINCHESTER.

So I had to have one. I am one of those who tends to want to leave the gun as close as possible to how it came when it last left military use... so I don't shine up the stocks nor do I get fanatic about changing parts to "correct" manufacturer. The fact of the matter is that the military did NOT care and the reality is that a "correct" grade is either an unissued one or the one-in-a-million that never broke a part, was never in a GI cleaning party, or never went through an armorer's van. Or the CMP or another person put it together...