CMP 6 mil

[RCS]

Joe, Back in 1999, my friend bought an estate gun collection once owned by a Doctor who has died. There was one Type 1 NM M1 rifle in this group, s/n 6094444 with a SA 8-56 bbl, the sling was still in the shipping box with paper work. The Doctor just kept it in his rifle rack, never even shoot it. Robert

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[Joe W]

Joe, Back in 1999, my friend bought an estate gun collection once owned by a Doctor who has died. There was one Type 1 NM M1 rifle in this group, s/n 6094444 with a SA 8-56 bbl, the sling was still in the shipping box with paper work. The Doctor just kept it in his rifle rack, never even shoot it. Robert

Robert, I had made the trip to Anniston because I had thought my mail order would be to late to make the cut. As it turned out, I did make the cut and received a 2nd via mail order. That rifle was 6094414, only 30 numbers from the NM you mentioned. The rifle I got was not a NM, or if it was, it no longer is, as CMP had rebarreled it with a new 1 of 55 SA standard barrel. Joe

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Since my original post I have finished the stock with four coats of tung oil. Also I have found out that a number of these 6.0 rifles just released by CMP were not Greek returns. Some were Club rifles returned to CMP in the 1990s. This could be why this rifle had never went through a rebuild. Issued to a Club as a Type 1 and remained that way until returned, Just a guess.

[RCS]

Joe, Nice to get two 6 million SA rifles (also nice to find a H&R 6 million too). My friends 6 million is in FLA, the side of his barrel is marked as follows: T SA F6535448 6 56
A227B P M DOD stamp abd NM star between the gas cylinder rings

[Joe W]

Joe, Nice to get two 6 million SA rifles (also nice to find a H&R 6 million too). My friends 6 million is in FLA, the side of his barrel is marked as follows: T SA F6535448 6 56
A227B P M DOD stamp abd NM star between the gas cylinder rings

The barrel on my 6.087 is a 4 of 56 with a heat lot of A226B. Doubt I will every own, or much less see, a 6.0 H&R. Tony Giacobbe posted that in 1975, when he got his first M1 rifle, it was a HRA M1 D, serial number 6034402. In 1989 he sent it to Scott Duff, who at that time had never seen one.
Not sure of the real reason for allocating these 400 serial numbers. In a 2001 article by Scott Duff, he states that on Aug. 6, 1956, H&R had received an additional contract through the Boston Ordnance District, for 400 rifles. The assigned serial range was from 6034330 through 6034729. Scott further stated " it is believed this was a "clean up" order to allow H&R to use up receivers and other components.". Tony Giacobbe stated that "SA allocated HRA 400 serial numbers in the 6 million range to make up for receivers they made wrong and were destroyed."

[Bob Seijas]

When IHC negociated off their contract, they found themselves short of receivers to deliver the agreed number of rifles, and they couldn't make any more. Both SA and HRA supplied them to IHC, plus HRA had an overrun that Ord was thrilled to get to make up for any IHC shortfall. I have documents on it someplace.