7.62 Springfield Garand - NM?

[Leggett71]

Just picked up a nice Springfield wih NM sights & op rod. Stock is glass bedded. Barrel is 3-66 manufacture . Appears to be a Navy 7.62 Match but since I have never seen one before posting photos for comments.















Looking for your comments

thanks
Leggett

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[Lonely Gunny]

Nice toes

[Bob Womack]

Geez it can be a rough crowd in here. Nice shooty thing, though.

Bob

[browningautorifle]

It sure looks like it was done for NM, there's a few here that will know for sure...

[Bob Seijas]

It's nice enough to have been a SecNav Trophy Rifle -- let's ask Jim Adell to check his serial list.

[five 0]

Would a SecNav Trophy Rifle have a metal 308 cartridge spacer or did they only use the white plastic spacers?

[browningautorifle]

Remember the white ones sometimes broke. Some people have no faith in them so it could have been changed.

[Calif-Steve]

I think in Service rifles used the white, plastic spacers. This is a very well done match rifle, but not likely SecNavy rifle.

[browningautorifle]

White plastic was first and standard I think. The metal was an afterthought much later...

[Leggett71]

I sent all the info to Jim Adell in a seperate e-mail after reading a GCA member's suggestion to another post. This rifle came from an estate in South Dakota that a local gunsmith in Oklahoma bought in total. Saw it at the shop when I was picking up a H&R M12 I had shipped there. No papers & he thought it was a std garand someone had added NM parts to but with the correct barrel and build details as described by Joe Poyer's "The M1 Garand 1936-1957" I could not leave it in his shop, it had to come home with me. Would be great if Jim could verfy it is a Navy NM.

Thanks for all the comments so far. Looking forward to see what other info may surface.

By the way the receiver is a Springfield sn 4,374,XXX

Leggett