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I'm also a UK Resident and have a Deactivated Garand, is yours an 'Old Spec Deact' ?

I recently added photos and information on mine and the guys on here really helped me out and...

Im Obviously no expert! But looks fantastic really nice example very jealous!

Ok thanks, So the ( JB 2 ) mark is a 1983 export? Which is interesting as it was deactivated in 1993 so must of came back into the country quite soon after.

Ok thanks, could this suggest this rifle was used by the British Military or just exported out of the country at some point ?

Hello again.

Thanks for all the information you all provided I have learnt a lot about my Garand, nice to know about the uncut op rod as well.

I have another question though, I would like some...

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Yes I do follow, thank you for explaining that to me. Im sure the receiever hasn't been messed with so in that case the 34th mod would be as you said Early 44 to the summer. Is there a...

Well hopefully if it does match the serial number on the receiver it's march - April 1944.

Just wanted to find out why/how the revision number is what it is. Thank you for your reply.

Yes sorry it is the drawing number I'm referring to. Is it called the 'right leg of the receiver'? Can't seem to find any reference to this number. It's my last number I need to identify!

Thanks

Ive been looking around these forums and found a very useful site, called 'M1 garand Armory' managed to find most of the information I needed really nice to relate all my pecies to certain dates.
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That's really interesting, happy to have the majority of the pieces WW2 dated.

Thanks for all the info, Do you know of any books with this sort of information in ? Would love to read up and learn...

Ok thank you.

Well they can be deactivated in different ways depending on when it was made unserviceable.

The more desirable guns are the pre - 1995 deactivations as semi-automatics/smg's ...

Thanks for the replies, really interesting and useful.

I was guessing the stock was from around the 41 - 42 period, I am more happy with that than a post war stock. As my profile states I'm from...

Hey Guys.

I have just registered, I am looking for some information on my M1 Garand.

I've done some research and I know the receiver '2758056' is a March - April 1944 dated.
I believe the...