What do you think of this...

[Minnesota Joe]

So, legit, suspect, or bogus?

http://www.gunsamerica.com/950319726...30_06.htm?wl=1

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[AKA Hugh Uno]

why would they make so many Zero's when ONE is sufficient? Why not just use an off the line M1 receiver?

[Calif-Steve]

Use of zero's is a little odd. Wouldn't they just pull a serial numbered receiver off the production line for a gas cylinder test? I thought serial numbers were applied to a receiver VERY early in the production process. I think I would pass on this one.

[Cosine26]

If that the picture in the upper left hand corner is a picture of the rifle, I cannot get a good picture but the device on the end of the muzzle looks very much like the “Herter’s Target-Type Recoil Eliminator” advertised in the 1967 Herter Catalog as P/N JA1D for $3.50with installation charge of $6.00.

[Ramboueille]

Use of zero's is a little odd. Wouldn't they just pull a serial numbered receiver off the production line for a gas cylinder test? I thought serial numbers were applied to a receiver VERY early in the production process. I think I would pass on this one.

Rifle is of typical marking of a presentation or a display rifle awarded to officials of SA/Ordnance comprised of rejected parts and serial numbered off the normal assembly line. Some were taken by employees when SA closed and assembled from random parts. Serial numbers were applied very near the end of manufacturing. Other than the use of the shown non-typical prototype gas cylinder and flash suppressor, other assembled parts were normally contemporary but rejects including the receiver. Looks legitimate. That rifle has been sold at least once or twice within the last 15 years.

[Cosine26]

I was finally able to open the pictures and find that the muzzle device is NOT the Herter device

[M1 Rifleman]

Due to the amount of money involved and the questionable nature of the piece, I would maybe contact Scott Duff and/or the Springfield Armory Museum for their input. I wouldn't plunk down that much money without doing some homework first.