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The Lend Lease Garand came today
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Im Obviously no expert! But looks fantastic really nice example very jealous!
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nice rifle
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I did some checking around, would advise you to check you buttplate checkering with other pre war SA rifles. The early buttplates had a half round radius below the bottom screw and above the top screw on the checkering pattern. There are four checkering points undere the lower butt screw and the center two are cut in half on the pre war buttplates, I would say that you have a mid to late war buttplate with the square bottom under the bottom screw and top screw.
Also the top screw buttplate screw (until Dec 1941) had the narrow screw slot (.044 in) which was changed to .048 in because the screw driver blade on the takedown tool would not fit the early slot. All this can be corrected should you want to - most do not know anything about buttplates - but the early no-trap had the checkering pattern changed a number of times too.
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Fantastic pictures! Man, I wish all the submissions to the GCA Journal looked like that.
Real men measure once and cut.
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Nice and clear pics. Mine's just a couple hundred after yours.
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Thanks guys. These LL rifles are nice little snapshots of time.
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You may want to check, but there may be a small ordnance bomb and flame right behind the stock ferrule, on the bottom.
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I'm in love!! Right down to the seal on the front sight a real beauty.....what sharp cartouches to boot!
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GREAT LL,and were did she come from?