My Garands.

My first Garand! it is a collectors nightmare, I bought it to use it for competition shooting at the range. It's a rebuilt, based on a Springfield receiver, Serial # 369728, made in October 1941, with a NOS stock barrel from the fifties. The rifle has been proofed in Germany, complete with new fugly German proof marks! A tack driver but not really a collectors dream!

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Then I started adding some paraphernalia, old WWII stuff is still abundant in my neck of the woods...

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Nice looking group. Enjoy

Later 42rocker

I like the early receivers, you have the matching toys too for the early one.

It was a mistake to get all the accessories, because it kind of kickstarted my passion for US WWII small arms and militaria! This is an M1 Garand I found on the attic of an old farm house, where it had been hidden for seventy years. This is just how I found it, before I cleaned it up! I had only removed a layer of dust to take the pics, it was a little bit rusty but all in all in not too bad a condition!

This is another Springfield, the serial number puts the production date somewhere in the beginning of June 1943.

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Nice found!
Thanks for sharing, I hope the bore isn't rusty or pitted!

Second looks like a bringback, be careful about the excess oil running down, it doesn't take long to over saturate the wood and eventually it gets mushy... I take it you haven't shot this one by the rear sight setting?

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Second looks like a bringback, be careful about the excess oil running down, it doesn't take long to over saturate the wood and eventually it gets mushy... I take it you haven't shot this one by the rear sight setting?

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It's not a bringback, I live across the big pond, on the southern shoulder of the "Bulge" battlefield. After the war it was picked up by a farmer who had been hiding it in an old wardrobe on his attics for more then 70 years.

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Originally Posted by donki1967

Nice found!
Thanks for sharing, I hope the bore isn't rusty or pitted!

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The bore is not too bad, but I don't shoot my original WWII vintage guns anyhow, for that I have the refurbished and reproofed ones.

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on the southern shoulder of the "Bulge" battlefield

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I saw the reference to the Bulge and didn't look at info sniper for once...thought it must have been another reference... That would change the whole pic in my head to a guy finding it a while after it was dropped...and it being kept in hiding. Nice...very nice piece.

We have written up several M1s found by farmers after battles and kept all these years. The next GCA Journal features one such recovered from a paratrooper killed on D-Day. It's the subject of a book called "Uncle Matty Comes Home."

Another Garand "salvaged" from a farmers attic. The pics were taken after I had cleaned it up. According to Bruce Canfield's excellent book it was made in july 1942, same date on the barrel. It seems to be an all original parts, the stacking swivel is missing which somehow seems to be the norm for the battlefield leftovers.

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