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The CMP North Store put out about a dozen Winchester rack grades for $595.00 each. This one just had too many interesting parts to turn it down.
The stock is pretty rough. I might be able to use the...

According to Scott Duff's, ""The M14 Owner's Guide" that rifle would have been a TRW.

I have a Winchester, but it needs a little work.
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Shotshooter,
I was at 50 for a while, but sold one.
I have two IHC's, both correct now.

I bought this nice 4.5M postage stamp IHC at the Maumee Valley Gun Collector's Show about a year back. The rifle was all correct except the wood. I asked the guy that had it, "How much?" He replied,...

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Yup, go for it!
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A lot of standard service M14's were issued with the selector lock out which made them semi automatic only. M14's were only capable of full auto fire if the selector switch was installed.

I sent my barreled receiver in to Kreiger for one of their stainless steel medium weight DMR barrels. While they were installing the barrel I had them unitize the gas cylinder and line everything up....

Always reload your ammo into enblocs you know you can trust for a match. The middle of a match is no time to find out which enblocs are going to be trouble.

By the way, I'll be at the pop up...

Yes, it is a revision 2. That was one of the first things I checked. My other receiver, serial number 49797 is a revision 1. Both have had the 7th. round modification done to them.

I was at the CMP North Store and came across this one in the woodless rack. Besides the very nice condition early receiver, the trigger group contained just the three WRA parts that I needed to make...

Very Interesting,
That puts my 5,979,876 SA right at the last of the 5.9's!

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I'm guessing WRA because it is rougher than most the SA's I have seen.

There were also the SA 5.0M rifles. Serial number 5,000,000 is in the Springfield Armory museum. But SA was also assigned 5,000,001 to 5,000,499 serial numbers. There could be up to 499 rifles out...

Somewhere, I read that breaking the seal around the bullet on the CMP's Greek HXP would improve accuracy. I decided to test this theory. All rounds came out of the same spam can of HXP-69 which has...

These parts were meant to be assembled dry. You do not need thread lockers or never sieze compounds. You just need the proper tools. These can be purchased through Fulton Armory and others.
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You got me on that one! I consider the 6.0 HRA's, like the 5.0 SA's to be out of the reach of normal guys like us. But if I get that lucky, you'll be the first to know.

I stopped by the CMP North Store last Friday just to see if there was anything new. They had the same old picked over Springfield and Winchester field grades and I was about to leave when I saw a row...

HRA had a contract to supply barrels for replacement purposes before they ever had a contract to build complete rifles.

Not that I saw. But mine was a rack grade, I didn't look at the field and service grades very closely.

The rear sight is a non-hooded .059 aperature that seems nicely fitted and tight even at extreme elevation. The front sight, as can be seen in the photo above, is a NM .062 blade.

I picked up a 6.09 Springfield Armory National Match Rifle at the CMP North Store Saturday. I have always wanted a six million serial numbered Garand and this looked like a nice one.

The front...

Wow John, you got me beat! I'm 13.6 miles south.

In this case, "all" works just fine because all 4.7's in M1 Garands are HRA's. Every last one of them!

Small 3/8" DAS would be HRA. A true IHC stock will have a 1/2" DAS, a non-serifed P in a circle and a Julian date stamped in the barrel channel.

All 4.7's would be HRA's. There are no 4.8's, there were no serial numbers authorized for production in the 4.8 million serial number range.