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7.62 Springfield Garand - NM?
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Geez it can be a rough crowd in here. :madsmile: Nice shooty thing, though.
Bob
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It sure looks like it was done for NM, there's a few here that will know for sure...
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Verify
It's nice enough to have been a SecNav Trophy Rifle -- let's ask Jim Adell to check his serial list.
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Would a SecNav Trophy Rifle have a metal 308 cartridge spacer or did they only use the white plastic spacers?
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Remember the white ones sometimes broke. Some people have no faith in them so it could have been changed.
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I think in Service rifles used the white, plastic spacers. This is a very well done match rifle, but not likely SecNavy rifle.
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White plastic was first and standard I think. The metal was an afterthought much later...
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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
