I think I scored a Lend Lease Garand!!

[Bill Hollinger]

Tom, very good point. An education is worth so much when it comes to making a purchase. Sweet!

[Joe W]

Great steal, I mean deal Tom. Just kidding, I agree 100% with what you have said. A couple of years ago I bought a gap logo IHC, all correct except for the stock, for $ 750.00. As a dealer had it on his table at a gun show, I had no guilt. I did my homework, he didn't. Another good deal I actually got on G.B. A rifle was advertised as "having some match parts and looked to be refinished". The pictures were not very good, but good enough that I was pretty confident that it was a 1963 version of a NM rifle. I bid $ 1500.00, his starting bid. No one else bid and I started to worry a bit, thinking "what am I missing ?'. Anyway, when I received the rifle it turned out to be a never used 1963 NM as I had thought. Without having read and reread everything Bob Seijas had ever written in the GCA Journals over the years and also articles by Dave McClain, I would never have been able to identify that rifle for what it was. Thanks again Bob and Dave. Same as a few weeks ago when I bought a Mar. 42 from another dealer at a show. Top end was correct except for a few parts in the trigger group. The stock was a post war SA but the flush nut was there. I paid $ 1000.00. Worth the price, but not even close to the deal you got. Congratulations on a great find. A once in a lifetime find at that price these days.