15-305 Garand Picture of the Day - WIN 13

[Mark in Rochester]

gas cylinder which has a blueish black color and has a wide base.

Gas Screw is O.P.,
Lower Band is milled finish and Arched.
Rear Handguard clip is stamped
Bolt is a D28287-WRA with the hole on underside.
Clip latch has rounded nose.
Rear sight is lock bar cover punch and has ribs.
Knobs are open arrows, thick aperture with double track.
Op-Rod is straight cut WRA D35382.
Trigger housing D28290-WRA
Hammer c46008-1WRA,
Hammer spring plunger w/ wings.
Op-rod catch WRA,
Follower #13, follower arm single bevel,
Bullet guide is punched.
Muzzle 1+
Throat 2+

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[Bob Seijas]

At the end of the war, Winchester had a couple of hundred undelivered WIN-13s. They used some for retirement gifts, customer relations, sales prizes, etc. but still had some left when they closed their museum. Most were sold to connected New England dealers who could buy them at a low appraised value of about $200. A couple of dozen were not bought and were sold in an unpublicized auction. I bought one from one of those dealers for $400, he doubled his money on that fish from New Jersey LOL

[browningautorifle]

The wood has a very pronounced arch over the trigger guard.

[Bob Seijas]

Yes, that was the original SA specification. They dropped it for simplicity, but WRA never changed anything in their contract unless they got paid to do so.

[browningautorifle]

the original SA specification

Thanks Bob, it looks like artwork.

[Tom in N.J.]

And they duplicated SA serial numbers in the 1.6 million range.

[Bob Seijas]

I guess we will never know why they jumped from 2.5 mil to 1.6 mil -- I was very disappointed that Bruce Canfield's Pugsley files never mentioned a word about it. It's so strange... they changed the receiver drawing number, so they had something in mind for that lot.