Anyone purchase one of these that can review it? Starting to see the ads in American Rifleman. They apparently make one to military specs and a variety of them with synthetic stocks and all sorts of add ons.
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Anyone purchase one of these that can review it? Starting to see the ads in American Rifleman. They apparently make one to military specs and a variety of them with synthetic stocks and all sorts of add ons.
What are the regular ones, without the add-ons' going for? I checked out the new Springfield Armory site and couldn't find them listed anywhere. Can you post any links? FWIW, I don't see them giving CMP any sort of serious competition, at least as long as they keep prices' on the beautiful Service Grade Specials where they are now.
Charlie
I had one back in the early 2000s. Nice rifle. I believe the receivers are cast, at that time at the Lithgow arsenal in Australia. That said, I'd rather spend the $995 and get the M1 Special from the CMP. New barrel, stock, on a genuine GI receiver, nicely reparked.
CMP M1 Special
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They are very hard to track down on the internet. I stopped in my local gun shop the other day and got pricing info on models that had some extras and they were running $1300. I expect the standard wood stock based on WWII will be somewhere around $1000-$1100 but he had no examples of that one to check. Not sure what he was looking at to get the prices, wholesalers list maybe.
I was hoping someone here would have more info on them. American Rifleman has a full page ad of one with a synthetic stock but no pricing information and very little information at all really.
This is an old thread, but I just picked one of these up from my local Gun Store at lunch today.
I haven't had a chance to tear it down completly to see what it is made from yet, but I will do that later tonight when I get home.
What I can see.. New receiver with a 70XXXXX serial number,WWII SA bolt with an A9 heat lot#, WWII milled trigger guard, wide base gas cylinder, single slot cylinder screw and a new manufactured .308 marked barrel. The wood appears to be a Boyds target/fatty walnut with a beautiful grain pattern. All of it parkerized to a dark gray/black.
I'll be putting the OEM stock in storage and dressing it in a USGI birch for daily use.
:) I purchased one when they first came out. A little pricey, but it shoots well
I picked up one of their first run Garands in the early/mid 80's. It's a NM that I shot DCM matches with for a few years before I transitioned to a supermatch M1A. It's one of my best shooting M1's and is now glass bedded. It's getting a bit difficult for me to see the NM sights and I have several USGI Garands now that I shoot more. Still it is a beautiful and accurate rifle.
I have one and have put over 2k thru it with no complaints.Springfield does not sell them anymore,ones advertised with synthetic stocks are the M1a not the Garand