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About twenty years ago, my friend found an M1
at a veterans house sale. The man had died and they were selling off his stuff, he had only one military rifle, an M1 in the 2,77 serial number range. The condition was well used with alot of finish missing and the wood had dents and marked-up, there was not any interest in this rifle at the house sale and my friend bought it for me.
The barrel is dated 1SA 4 44 with a nice bore, bolt is rev 12 S-A1<>, trigger housing is revision 12-SA and the trigger guard is milled. The follower rod is long fork and the lock screw is single slot.
The stock has a faint SA GAW with P in a circle, op rod is uncut revision 9. The lock bar is the type 2 on the rear sight. This rifle appears to be very original
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07-24-2011 09:02 AM
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Right. That's right where we are in this discussion about timeframe. That should have been about the change over period for the forged trigger guard. Small parts too I should think. Spring or early summer of 44? We have visions of a few buckets of parts being assembled. There must have been crates of the stuff at the assembly tables. Back rooms stacked with more. Let's not forget the spares that accompanied the early rifles and just sat for a bit in some outer second line repair facility.
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