M1 Garand 6.09M

[Joe W]

Mine's the same way. Got a pretty good deal on it but I also don't care for the so clearly period-incorrect finish. Fine shooter, though.
Has a Springfield Armory barrel dated to, if I recall, 1952. Reckon it was finished sometime around then.

Mine had what I believed to be the original 4 of 56 SA barrel. I suspected that CMP had it refinished but I could never find out for sure. One thing for certain, it did not have that finish when it was still a NM rifle. The rifle was built up from a barrel & receiver using a mix of late parts. All the parts had the same black finish so I believe that whoever built up the rifle applied the finish. My guess was that either CMP or someone contracted by CMP did the refinish but never could find out for sure.

[Herschel]

I bought a NM M1 Rifle new from the DCM at the National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio in 1958. There were dozens of NM M1 rifles in the arms room I could pick from. By that time they had begun to build NM M1's on used receivers.
I selected #6095050 as I wanted a rifle built on a new receiver. I doubt that the rifle you are considering was a NM but a lot of them in the 609XXXX range were NM. I regret that I had the type 1 NM glass bedded
as unmodfed type 1 National Match Rifles are pretty scarce. I was a competitive shooter at the time and wanted the most accurate rifle I could. Didn't give a thought about the rifle being a collectors item 60 years later.

[Bob Seijas]

Yes, and glass was totally unnecessary if you had a perfectly selected stock as the 1958s did when assembled. Glass became necessary when SA had to make existing stocks fit right.

[Joe W]

There were only about 22,000 rifles made in the six million serial number range vs about a million each in the 1,2, 3, 4,& 5 million ranges. No SA numbers in the 6002000 to 6079999 range were used. 400 HRA rifles in the 6034000 to 6034729 range to close out production.

Plus possibly another 500 SA's in the 6.1 range (6100000 - 6100499)