The MG on top looks like a Nambu.
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The MG on top looks like a Nambu.
I recall one year a new LT made the mistake of standing between two M48 tanks on the firing line using his binoculars to see what they hit. They both fired at once and the blast deflectors forced...
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A fantastic character named Will Piznak who worked at SA and knew JCG well went through the war as an Ordnance officer in Paton's army. After the war, he was instrumental in getting the contract for...
The two companies contracted were American Machine & Foundry and H&R... we found many different marking schemes, including some with no contractor identified. Eventually we figured out that the...
From the 2012 article:
"Of particular significance is the fact that none of these receivers
had a barrel with 7.62 MM marking. The implication is that the
initial intention was to mark only the...
CMP has gotten another lot of Navy 7.62 conversions, reportedly from the Crane Depot. GCA investigated and wrote up the first lot in the Fall 2012 Journal, dozens of photos and all the details on MOD...
Collector Grade is valuable to those who want to collect "As manufactured." CMP often has the correct parts and can simulate originality by putting on the right ones. You can do it yourself with a...
The issue was Summer 2012, lots of great details on this variation. One I always thought was cool was the stock marking: last four serial digits, the date built, and one to five punch marks in the...
Air Force Premium Grade. Essentially the AF National Match, usually built at Lackland AFB. CMP got a bunch of them back in 2012 and we wrote them up in the GCA Journal.135929 The barrels are hand...
I was always a collector, so the original 6-digit rings my bell. Bet it's a Brit LL.
Looks like a typical Harvester date: the 245th day of 1954
Like Rockefeller, coming and going... oooh!
MOH Hector Cafferata told the story of how Truman ruined his shined boots... Hector was tall and Truman was short, could not reach high enough to slip the medal ribbon over Hector's head, even though...
The all-purpose steel pot: shaving basin, stool to sit on while eating in the field, cooking pot... oh yeah, and head protection. Even the Kraut kind would serve :)
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IMO the straight ears are fake or a bad repro. I don't think SA made that sight with straight ears.
I used to open mine just enough to take the pressure off the wood and insert a toothpick through the hole in the safety to hold the housing in and the gun together. Worked great.
Collectors always wondered about that... you mean Springfield couldn't drill 5 holes in a receiver to mount a bracket? Instead they had to send them to New York so G&H could do it and then send them...
An interesting piece of trivia is that SA had prepared a bunch of accurized rifles for the 1948 National Matches in which the High Power matches were scheduled to resume after the interruption for...
John Garand's M1E8 design was WAY better than the M1E7 with G&H custom fit mount, but the E7 was chosen and adopted as the M1C. Seven years later in 1951 Ordnance abandoned it and gave SA an...
We believe these marks are inspector view marks. No collector significance that we know of.
Please tell us Garand guys how you know it's an M2.
They called it the "Garang" :)
The GCA Journal recently ran a 3-part feature article on Dale Dye, including his role as military advisor on Band of Brothers and his actual part in the series. Quite a guy.
SA used the glass bedding compound they developed for the NM program to tighten loose lockup in rebuilds of the Sixties. When these were first seen, some collectors labeled them NM Type 1 1/2,...