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Interestingly I have a safety which is marked PB/BMB. The original Breda and Beretta stocks were made of European walnut and tend to fit up very tightly. Danish replacement sticks were made of...

Handloading will bring out the best in the rifle. I load for mine a lot and find any of the 168gr match bullets to be a good starting point with IMR4064. The 155gr Sierra and Nosler match bullets are...

You are right on that Neil. You will only get your payback on the Garand tooling and gauges if you do a number of barrel installs. I've done a number of used Carbine barrel installs as well as new...

I've installed quite a few new and used Garand barrels. I've always been able to get the used ones to headspace correctly by selective fitting of bolts. The rear lug faces of used bolts are subject...

10 yrs ago or so I examined a bunch of the longitudinally split PS cases which I found with original packaging and reported the affected lot numbers on the old Culver Garand forum. I note that the...

My 03A4, s/n 4998457, is one of the final ones out of the barn in spring 1944. It has a RA 1-44 barrel measuring 302 on the GI throat erosion gauge and 30075 at the muzzle, which I believe to be an...

Tough to say. The Danes had these rifles for 40+ yrs so there were many parts changes done over that time, incl a swap of Italian and various Danish made parts. Some of the rifles still have original...

AFAIK the Danes had few, if any, HRA or other post-war US Garands. They used wartime WRA and Springfield rifles, which were furnished from US stocks in the 1950-51 timeframe, although I have seen one...

I have a copy of the Cdn Army EME Instruction which deals with the use of breeching washers on the No4. It identifies and provides stock numbers for 3 different washers, 1"ID and11/4"OD in...

I have recently aquired 3 Long Branch rifles which I believe to have been rebuilt/overhauled at Cdn Arsenals. Two of them have a unique marking on the receiver side above the ejector screw which...

BLO contains a drying agent and can produce a wonderful, glowing "sporter grade" finish if many coats are applied thinly, rubbed into the wood and allowed to dry between coats. If BLO is just...

A lot of military stocks retain residual oils which makes either a water or oil based stain a poor choice. Leather stains are alcohol based and will penetrate better. Fiebings is a good brand. They...

As I mentioned earlier, Boyds is the "easy button" on this one. Just keep the order total under $100USD. I've received 5 orders from them on this basis.

Here's another relavent tidbit. I have a copy of Cdn Army EMEI dated October 1946 which provides an illustrated parts list for the No4 rifle.

Para 13 of this document reads as follows; " It is...

It appears that this rifle is similar to the Italian Tipo2 7.62NATO conversions that were made up for the Italian army. These rifles are made from standard Garand parts with the exception of the...

Your 03-A3 was made with modern, high grade steels and if in sound condition, it will handle any off-the-shelf .30-06 ammo. When reloading IMR4895 and IMR4064 are great choices for accuracy with 150,...

This isn't hard. Just "google" Boyds stocks. They will ship outside of US provided the merchandise value doesn't exceed $100USD. An unfinished M1 stock is now listed at $74.50 with front handgd...

It's interesting what turns up. Not too long ago I got the book, "In Search of Pegasus, The Canadian Airborne Experience 1942-1999". It has a lot of good photos, incl one on page 73 of four troopers...

That NS stamping is a lot bigger and more irregular in comparison to the 2 NS bolts that I have. The Vi Shooter sticky has a couple of pics or both SA and RIA NS bolts to check out.

I like mineral spirits and a non-metallic brush. Sometimes you get to a point where you find that the grease/cosmo almost appears to be a laquer coating. In these cases a double edged razor bade will...

What stamped parts would have been original on the following Remington M1903 production:
-July 1942
-August 1942
-October 1942
-December 1942
I know that several stamped components incl...

Just to close the loop on this I installed a new SA 7-44 barrel on one of my Remington M1903s today and it all went well. The barrel was 18 degrees off index from a hand tight starting position as...

I agree with you.:D Some of us do get overly anal about our stuff.:lol: I'm going to install the SA 44 bbl on one receiver in the next couple of days. I'm going to re-park the other receiver before...

The more info and experience the better. It's tough to find reference material on the critical hand -tight starting point for M1903 barrel installation.

There is a lot more data on the M1 Garand...

So you are saying that this may be a no-go situation? I check for the alignment of the extractor cut when the witness lines match, but how often are the sight bases off center? It seems a person is...