Need help identifing a possible NM Garand

[browningautorifle]

If it was in a rack that was designated to go as surplus sales to Greece it would just go in the crate. The Govt doesn't care that it's supposed to be special. I saw them in action on the Island of Cyprus and the Greeks and Turks didn't care if these were NM guns or pitchforks. I think what you have is to the effect of what Joe W says. Used hard and now you have it. Hope it shoots V's...

[Joe W]

. I understand the rear match sight and match trigger group being replaced if put in the hands of ground troops, the big question is why did it go to Greece in the first place (I assume it is one of the Greek returns)?

Thank you

Ray

Based on a 2006 article that Bob Seijas wrote for the GCA Journal, it seems that in 1973, when the DCM ended sales of NM rifles, there was about 9000 NM rifles still unsold. In 1974, 3,564 were disassembled and the remaining 5,677 given to Greece under a MAP. Seems that most were used by the Greeks as regular service rifles. Yours may have been one of these rifles or, as Jim said, a former military built match rifle that went to Greece, mixed in with thousands of other service rifles, the U.S. also sent under a MAP. It does look now as though alot of the 6 mil numbered rifles now being released by CMP may have escaped that fate but, somewhere along the way, lost there stocks and some original parts. If Bob Seijas comes back to this thread he may shed more light on the subject.