I visited the SGK gun show this weekend and showed my garand to Gus Fisher. The gun is malfunctioning, a local gun smith checked my headspace and it was 1.969, 0.19 over his field gauge! One of Guses work associates checked the reciever # and the drawing number. After examining several small irregularities in the metal (very hard to see) they told me I had a receiver that had been cut up and rewelded. My heart sank.. where do I go from here? Sell the gun, make it some other poor saps problem? (had a bunch of offers at the show)... can it be re-barreled? I feel the best coarse of action, if I were to fix the gun, Legit reciever, new barrel, any input? besides the obvious," know what you're buying before you buy it!" Had I a few inexpensive gauges, and some GD common sense I would have walked the other way on this one. - Eric
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