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Wonder if it was a presentation rifle?
Bob
Mark, that is certainly a beauty. Looks like everything is original, including the finish. What do you know about the heritage of the gun? Are my old eyes deceiving me or is that furniture "tiger walnut?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Rochester
Remember the story about Winchester grabbing what stock blanks they had to complete orders? Some came from the special select wood for special orders...so some guns wound up getting beautiful one off stocks. A grunt rifle with a stock better than a one of one hundred Winchester...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Womack
current CMP auction
more photos there
Got a link? Doesn't show up for me :(
Civilian Marksmanship Program - Promoting firearms safety training!Quote:
Originally Posted by bob seijas
final price 39,001.00
wow more than my first house
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Originally Posted by Mark in Rochester
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Originally Posted by mmppres
Stupid price, but stupid times we live in.
Just as stupid as paying 85K for number 7 M1 rifle
Supports the CMP mission, every dollar counts. Maybe it will get more M1s to shooters for the price paid. Many forget what the M1s are for.
buying serial number 7 for 85K does not support the CMP
At an OGCA show in the 1980's a guy had a T3E2 .276 Garand on display, I was wild to buy it and asked how much. He said it wasn't for sale. I wouldn't let it go and said everything is for sale at the right price. He said, "Not this one." I persisted, he got angry, leaned across the table and snapped, "$10,000!" That was as crazy as the 39K Winchester and ended the conversation. So how crazy did it turn out to be?
Where could it have come from? Excess from the Armed Services Museum System?
Neal
Hope not to far off topic. Just renewed my GCA membership and ordered the DVD. I had a chance to watch it last night. Several segments with Mr. Seijas.Very well done.
That is a truly amazing price. For the purist who wants a gun untouched right from the womb, I suppose it is a sought after virgin goddess. As I've commented about the unwrapped Enfield Mk2 guns:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Rochester
-- Pristine and untouched on the battlefield, to be enshrined on a pedestal and adored from afar
-- the mythical Virgin Princess encased by the protective shield of her unchallengeable beauty
-- the distant Venus star to be worshipped in the waning moments of her glory,
-- so real but so far
-- to be adored and displayed with pride, but never loved and cherished;
--for she has never provided protection to a weary and desolate soldier whose life was in imminent danger.
-- forever protected, preserved, and enslaved by purity;
-- so graceful but sadly never to be wrapped in the robes of glory, unblemished by tears of pain or the sting of battle,
-- for she will never experience the agony and ecstasy of war;
-- forlorn in perpetuity for she will never be exhilarated by the blast of powder from within her loins;
-- nor shall she rise to the pulsing beat of being loaded then expelling her spent shells and thunderously recharged again and again;
-- nor shall pound the marching cadence rhythmically perched on a soldier’s shoulder in beat with his comrades,
-- nor feel the joy rippling through her body after a true marksman with an eagle's aim squeezes her trigger ever so gently yet so firmly;
-- nor sense the safety and security her sisters brought to the lonely stalwart soldier who, shaking in anticipation of being attacked, embraced her dearly in his arms as she protected his life, his honor, and our future freedom; `
-- nor ever the warm protective touch of a restoration gunsmith’s healing hands like a physician caressing her skin and bringing her inner functions back to wholesomeness.
-- .... the sad fate of the Virgin Goddess -- alone, an object of attention, but never loved for the lives she never saved nor the freedom she never protected.
Wow, might have been Kipling.
As far as I can see, the first sale fell through, so a second chance, for someone.
Civilian Marksmanship Program - Promoting firearms safety training!
Nice looking M1, but the lack of provenance would make me tread carefully.
Sure is a nice looking rifle though. Just can't see myself paying that much.
Right side of the front sight is oddly pocked. And the op rod has lots of dings. I dunno. Not saying it's not very nice indeed, but unless it for sure enough was known to be some sort of presentation rifle, then one has to assume "parts is parts". So how much is a correct "formation" of parts worth?
Given that I've only about US$500 ( of roughly three big beans purchase price) to go before paying off a mostly correct and attractive 1944 vintage Winchester for which I have most of the rest of the parts at home, it's of considerable interest! (Need a gas plug and gas cylinder nut, mostly)
I'm sure you meant to say gas cylinder lock and gas cylinder lock screw.
Yah, severe brain fade on third shift last o' dark thirty! Rough week. Or, I'm just a hick.