M1 Garand ADI Lithgow Receiver

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Does anyone here have any experience or knowledge of this receiver? I know Lithgow made some fine, strong firearms, but what about their M1 Garand receivers? Are they reliable? From my understanding they are machined to Mil-Spec from a steel casting.
Thank you.

I did wittness one early production Lithgow receivered M-1 in which the threads for the barrel were not tapped on the proper axis. Rather than point "dead nuts" straight ahead the barrel pointed off in one direction or another.
The problem became apparent when the rifle was found to be impossible to sight in. After being removed from the stock it was observed that the receiver had to be torqued over to one side and then, while being held to that side, pushed down into the stock under pressure in order to reassemble.
Upon returning the rifle to the dealer, the owner was informed that his was the last of the batch of those M-1's that the dealer had purchased, to be returned, all with a similair defect. Note that this happened approx ten years or so ago.