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

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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...