Gentleman, I started collecting Garands about a year ago when I purchased a 12-41 SA reciever (connected to a 51 Barrel) at a gun show. Im up to 4 rifles now and counting. I have built the 41 up...
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Gentleman, I started collecting Garands about a year ago when I purchased a 12-41 SA reciever (connected to a 51 Barrel) at a gun show. Im up to 4 rifles now and counting. I have built the 41 up...
If I remember correctly he was the youngest man ever to recieve th MOH.
The Barrel looks great no pitting or anything like that, I don't have a set of gauges but the muzzle fits a rounds very snugly also. My dad got this rifle from a friend of the family maybe 15 years...
Awesome, thanks for the help guys :)
I have a June 41 (275,XXX) SA, that has a very similar finish and grease pencil marking on the right reciever leg also. The barrel however has no markings on it at all and I believe is an...
I have owned a Garand for several years now, but have just recently gotten serious about researching what I have. I noticed that one of the Diagonal Saw cut gas cylinders I have has a small bump...
Thanks guys, you have put my mind at ease at tought me something to :)
I'm working on my 1st restoration project a Dec 41 SA Garand, starting with just a reciever (and the 51 barrel attached to it) I have peaced it together and I'm almost ready to shoot it. Do I...
Man, this can be a great source of info but a lot of times these posts just seem to go in completely a different direction, Informative for sure, But back to the original question...Does anyone know...
I can understand that. I don't think anybody can go through any branch of the services and not read "Marine Sniper", but not everybody that checks the forums is a Veteran I guess.
I never said that he wasn't. I think I pretty clearly stated that it was my friend who never spent any time over there.
I'm trying to locate information online about the USMC Shooting team in 1969 but havn't been able to locate anything and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
An old friend...
I'm just going from the photos I have, but I believe the heat lot is REP-30A, possibly its a little blured. Additionally the SA-10-41 is stamped upside down
I have a SA reciever #428,377 currently mated to a 1951 barrel. I'm attempting to restore the rifle period correct and I have run across a chance to purchase a 10-41 SA barrel for it. Is this barrel...
None of the rounds we found had red tips. We also routinely found Enfields, Sterlings and even a Wembley revolver. The Enfields would regularly have the stock and barrel cut down very short and would...
While deployed to Baghdad, Iraq in 2008 (my 3rd as an EOD tech) our operations routinely located and had us destroying insurgent weapons caches. During one of these operations one of my buddies...
hey there, I recently received a collecting guide for my M1 Garand and after running several of the serial numbers I have a few questions. The biggest being the barrels origin. This was my dad's...