Late 1944 S.A. Garand (almost original?)

[hurrikane18]

We don't really disagree, your points are valid. My point is only that it is usually impossible to differentiate a rifle such as you describe from a total rebuild that some collector partially restored with a few correct parts.

Well after all this, my question remains: which parts are “correct” and which ones aren’t? I guess I should just go off the list I found on USRifleCAL30M1 and do my own research. Unlike you guys, I quite like this rifle and want to learn more about it - even if it’s not 100% original. I think it’s neat to find something like this in Canada when the majority of the market are complete mix-masters and just finding a WWII Garand can prove to be a difficult and expensive task. I am certainly jealous of your U.S. market, even more so now that I’ve read these comments

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[browningautorifle]

Unlike you guys, I quite like this rifle

You've misunderstood, we do like it. They're just answering your question about originality.

just finding a WWII Garand can prove to be a difficult and expensive task

There's a guy in London ON I should try to put you in contact with, he has a set of five all correct/original time capsules, he searched long and hard for them. One was my LL M1 SA 328219 that was all original/correct/unaltered. Now he has all five inspector stamps and the accompanying rifles. That took some looking and some coin. I probably sold mine about six years ago...