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Very nice rifle and a bit uncommon to find a Winchester M1 Garand with British markings, essentially with red paint, or at least a ghost trace, on the hand guard lower band area. Congratulations.
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Bottom one is Winchester

Not a Gas Trap part. I believe that swivel is used on one of the M14 stocks, E2 ?. It should have a bushing used in it also.

Paul

C1 is the first heatlot used in production then J1. Both of these bolts have the early milling. J2 bolts changed to the wider milling. D1 bolts came after J2 which shows that heatlot codes were not...

Most unmarked op rods are straight cut. Slant cut ones are rare and may or may not be foreign. Most foreign rods are marked on the undeside of the rod and not on the traditional places where USGI...

Numbered follower rods have been found in use until Jan. 1939, rifle 7114. There is a gap in known data as the next original rifle is 10355, April 1939, and it has an unmarked follower rod. So that...

Nice Gas Trap rifles 😁

Mark is there a date on the picture ?

32nd Infantry Div, Red Arrow Division, was made up from units from Michigan and Wisconsin National Guard. They were mobilized in 1940 and deployed to Australia and then on to New Guinea in 1942. Gas...

Iceland - July 1941, USMC occupies Iceland later to be turned over to the Army until 1945.

Panama - 1939-45. I believe there were Gas Trap rifles in use in Panama.

Alaska - Aleutian Islands,...

I was curious if anyone was going to try. I'm a bit late in my answer as Mark has posted the results but here goes anyway.

Mark is correct, Gilbert H. Stewart was in command at Springfield from Jy...

Modelshop. Very nice

Both books are good , neither are perfect. They both offer good information different from each other. There has been alot of information learned since either was published. Both have good...

It's a gas trap too. I saw a picture of one being used like this at Ft. Sam Houston.

I enjoy every one you post. Thanks. Keep it up.

Paul

Those look familiar 😉. April 1940 sisters...

Thete is sooo much wrong with the auction description. I love the "7 shot" configuration . 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

You are correct, modelshop parts did not have any drawing numbers stamped on them. The trigger...

What a fun one that would make to restore ;) . There was alot of good early production parts on that rifle but I never understood the postwar op rod. I assume it was put in as a placeholder during...

No buttons were used. Possibly grease or cosmolene would be my guess.

Cool pic. The enbloc is in mid air.

Lol, sounds familiar.

What an outstanding piece Robert. A great piece of history.

That would be a very fun to restore back to it's original form.

WHAT AN OUTSTANDING JOURNAL . Alot of great articles, gas trap, NM match rifles including 2 6.1 mil AFPG, my favorite Garand, etc..... A great journal.

The S is different from any of the others and the 1 looks to be a little bigger than other numbers.

keep counting...

🤐 ...... nice