Type 1 NM MAYBE

[Bob Seijas]

"barrels were used by the various military teams in building match conditioned rifles and also as replacement barrels. Many legit National Match rifles went to the Army Marksmanship Unit"

Funny story about that: SA was running out of barrels and asked Ordnance to find them 5,000 LMRs. Ord was able to locate 5,000 and sent them to SA... but when they got them the found that the Army Marksmanship Unit had gotten there first and picked out all the tight ones SA was furious and said they wanted 5,000 that had not been picked over, but Ordnance said there were no more to be found. They asked SA if they wanted to take the remaining LMRs and fill out the 5,000 with SA barrels in the system. SA said NO. Luckily for them, Ord found 50,000 barrels stored at Schenectady, all SA from 1952 to 1955. SA immediately sent an inspection team to check them over, and the inspector called them on the phone as soon as he had gaged them... there were 20,000 1954s that were very high quality. SA wasted no time, telephoned Ordnance the same day and claimed them before AMTU and the Marines could horn in