Fake M1C built from an M1D???????

[alfalfamt]

While stopping a the local pawn the other day, I asked if he had any old military guns. He brings me 2. One, a decent inland carbine with no import marks visible and a shiny bore, which I bought. The second was an SA Garand with a goofy scope mount and Universal scope. It didn't look right to me so I wasn't willing to fork over $1200 for it. I got to looking when I got home and realized I had better make sure it wasn't a M1C as it was a WW2 era SA serial and side mount scope. Went back today and turns out it is a 1.2 mil number or something and it has a williams mount on it (4 bolts). As I was sadly handing it back over the counter, It dawned on me that it still didn't look right. It has the mount for a D style scope mount on the barrel with the short upper handguard! I will admit my research has not been focused on sniper garands so I didn't know how to verify whether it truly is a D or not. I will go back Monday and check the barrel date/number placement, etc. But why would a person drill and tap a perfectly good D sniper that already has a mount???? There is no flash hider so I guess it is possible someone re-barreled with a D barrel? Any thoughts on what it is really worth? Thanks!

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[mack]

While stopping a the local pawn the other day, I asked if he had any old military guns. He brings me 2. One, a decent inland carbine with no import marks visible and a shiny bore, which I bought. The second was an SA Garand with a goofy scope mount and Universal scope. It didn't look right to me so I wasn't willing to fork over $1200 for it. I got to looking when I got home and realized I had better make sure it wasn't a M1C as it was a WW2 era SA serial and side mount scope. Went back today and turns out it is a 1.2 mil number or something and it has a williams mount on it (4 bolts). As I was sadly handing it back over the counter, It dawned on me that it still didn't look right. It has the mount for a D style scope mount on the barrel with the short upper handguard! I will admit my research has not been focused on sniper garands so I didn't know how to verify whether it truly is a D or not. I will go back Monday and check the barrel date/number placement, etc. But why would a person drill and tap a perfectly good D sniper that already has a mount???? There is no flash hider so I guess it is possible someone re-barreled with a D barrel? Any thoughts on what it is really worth? Thanks!

Willliams made scope mounts for the Garand in a time (the 1960's and 70's) when original and repop M1D scope mounts would not have been available to put an original M-84 scope on a rifle. These are the only scopes that fit the M1D mount.

As to the serial, unlike the M1-C, there is no serial range for M1D as these were pulled from existing rifles that speced with military armorers. The M1C rifles fit into a specific serial range.

It is probably worth restoring to military configuration as a shooter and any good gunsmith can likely put headless screws in the holes in the receiver.

[Mark in Rochester]

there are 1 inch m1d GI mounts

not so common

[USMC6094]

there are 1 inch m1d GI mounts

not so common

Yep I had one with a Weaver K4 mounted in it. Years ago I saw a plugged M-1C receiver built into a papered, no joke M-1D on the CMP auction site. Thats something I've never seen again