Quote Originally Posted by Big Larry View Post
It would be interesting to find out why they would crush all the Winchesters and leave the Rems., Mossbergs, the Stevens, and some of the others that have been offered by the CMPicon. Paltry few (125) M52-C's and a few M52-D's made it through, but I do know for certain, some of the 52 series were destroyed, as a friend of mine, in charge of a Nat. Guard armory, did turn in about 100 of these rifles for destruction. That was stated on the official papers he got. He did strip them of sights and small parts before shipping them off. He sent me enough sets of Olympic sights for 5 rifles. About the stocks, the Rem. 513-T US marked stocks are still being sold, so one could fake one up but beings that the CMP sold them for around $100, I rather doubt they will ever attain M75 status. Besides, Winchesters always bring top dollar with any sort of martial markings. According to Batha, the US M75 should have the M57E rear and M93 front sights. From what I have seen, all should be blued from the factory, unlike the 513-T which came both ways, as did a few others. One thing about the scarcity of the Winchester, I think they cost more to produce and that kept production down. Big Larry
About 10-12years ago I used to buy demilled stuff from a place in Illinois they sold by the pound you specify what type of parts- rifle-pistol misc you wanted -It was like 10 lbs for $5.00 I bought some on a couple of occasions there were Win 52-75-70 -Rem513-40x -M1carb- M1icon garand-1911 pistols- All cut into pieces about 3or4 inches long- I got a lot of small parts this way they were cut in a shear with the bolt in place sometimes had wood attached I even found about a 3" piece of a US&S 1911 Who understands the goverment??