1943 M1 in GCA article spring 2011

[Garandrew]

I will send pics tonight..its a dead ringer, black paint and all...even Duff mentioned the likeness.

[Garandrew]

1-44 SA GAW revisited

SA144 pictures by AndrewG1957 - Photobucket

[Maniac]

Wow, very interesting, Andy. Have you by chance sent pix of this to Duff to get his thoughts?
I wonder if he has seen others like this or whether he thinks yours is uniquely similar to the Guam Garands?

[Garandrew]

Weve talked about it,,its not from his SN...

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He commented on the similarity

[Maniac]

Weve talked about it,,its not from his SN...

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He commented on the similarity

It could well be that the Guamanian police authorities were left with more than 30 Garands after they and U.S. forces completed the post battle mop-up of Japanese holdouts on Guam and some time in subsequent years. How did the parts composition of your 2.435xxx compare with the Duff's data sheet of 2.466215 listed in his "The M1 Garand: World War II"?
Where Guam is a US territory therefore not subject to importation laws it probably wouldn't have been real difficult for an M1 to find it's way back to the States in the period from the end of WWII to the 1990's when the Guamanian authorities decided to divest themselves of their remaining inventory of Garands.
One interesting thing I noticed in comparing data sheets of the certain "Guam" Garands with my 1.5618xx is how frequently the receiver heat lot #'s changed. For example, the gap between the two closest numbers Duff lists in his monographs is 81 digits. Mine falls in between those two and all three have different receiver heat lot #'s.

[RudyN]

I managed to get a M1 Garand from CMP and the serial number is 1,38x,xxx. Maybe I was lucky and got either a USMC or Guam Garand.

[Garandrew]

Rudy, was the 1.3 annealed?

[bulldog_mack13]

Hows a shot at one of mine , 1448xxx ?

[cplstevennorton]

I want to play! Here is one I have. It's 1,554,8XX. It's all original according to duff, and has been in a private collection since the 70's. The receiver on this one was definetly annealed. But I doubt this one ever saw anything but an armory. It's just too nice.

I would love to know if it had a USMC lineage.

[Garandrew]

More proof of annealing in this range