Hello! New here, Question on possible M1 purchase.

[EarlB]

Hello everyone. I'm new here (or rather it's been years since I was around)

Anyways...I'm trying to make my mind up about whether to purchase this M1(Springfield Armory, January '42 Birth date, S#436610). I'm wanting to find a nice early war M1 with its original barrel. I don't mind a trip or two to an arsenal, just would like to start with an original barrelled receiver gun. I used to have all the books but long ago sold them.

I think this January '41 Garand has definitely been thru a rebuild - (probably refinished), original bolt (2SA), original 3SA oprod was cut, trigger housing (12 SA) was replaced - but the barrell, it is 3 months later than the gun being an April '42 barrell. Would it have been unheard of in early '42 for a receiver to not be mated to a barrell for 3 months?

The gun is a papered DCM gun shipping from there in December 2006. It hasn't been (I don't think) messed with since. So if it isn't the original barrell, when it was rebuilt somehow it would have had to be mated to a barrell made only 3 months after the gun.

So what do you guys think - original barrell? It has a TE of less than 2 and passes the bullet test on the muzzle end very easily.

Thanks,
Earl

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