A few years ago I bought an IHC in the Hudson Valley of N.Y. It is in pristine shape with a ser# in the 4M,500 range. The second digit from the right has been spot annealed and restamped from a 3 (overstamped) perfectly to an 8. I tried to get some/any information on why, when or where this was done and no one seems to know anything about it. Theories include fudging the numbers, illegal export and re- import at one time, etc. I questioned Orion on it and TP said that he had seen 4 of them in his experience (with similar strike-overs in various digits, but did not know anything about it. I know that IHC had various problems getting into production, especially at the start of production and their are many variations;enough to foster a separate collection of IHC garands by many individuals. Does anyone have any info on this mystery and is/was this number changing confined to only IHC or has it been seen in any of the other manufacturing brands like SA, WRA or H&R? Thank you for any ideas/info that you have. J.Cooper
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