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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,...

Hold the rifle to your shoulder with one hand, reach straight back behind your head with your shooting hand, swing it up and over your head to the trigger. This will lock the bones in place and make...

Valuable service but no CIB. That's always the dividing line.

An old issue of the GCA Journal featured plans and directions on how to make one out of wood.

C'mon, guys, this is well known history... when the gas port system was introduced, the decision was made to continue to produce the "spline type" until all the parts were used up. The rationale was...

Combat Engineers?

Unfortunately, Ordnance bought into the Russian method: spray and pray by poorly trained troops. Enough bullets eventually work. They beat the Germans by sheer numbers... whenever the odds were 3:1...

Looks real, the TC is down in the hole, not standing up.

Original cheek pads are very common. FWIW, one thing I looked for was whether the front of the pad was molded to the comb of the stock... if it has been used, it usually gets formed to the wood a...

Hard to tell on an M1D (barrel mounted M84) without papers.

I'm not a fan of JFK. He chickened out and left the Cuban invaders stranded when we had promised air support. They were all killed or captured. He also used and abused poor Marilyn Monroe, then...