RRAD M1 Questions

[Joe W]

I have a LEAD 12/65 rebuild, the stock is clearly a Overton replacement and the wood is burch. The park is a silvery gray and the EP mark was done after refinnishing.

The rifle is a 5.91 and the barrel date is a SA 8/55 T/E=1-M/E=.5 are very low, the only non-correct part is the SA-77 series op-rod, what could be so wrong with a rifle that would need too go to a rebuild depot? I figure a unit armorer could more that handle a op-rod replacement?

I have no codes just the 12/65 and the LEAD?

Phil, in 1965 M1 Garands were no longer in the hands of regular U.S. troops as it had been already replaced by the M14. The rifles that were rebuilt in the 60s were rifles were from government inventory. Some needed very little work, others quite a bit. Read my earlier post in this thread regarding Canfields article on rebuilds.