Being Offered a M1 Garand

[Singer B]

Congrats!! That is a great buy at $900!

[RCS]

Mr Baker, you have the milled trigger guard which is correct, as I stated above, the parts are around without being expensive to restore your rifle

[usabaker]

Mr Baker, you have the milled trigger guard which is correct, as I stated above, the parts are around without being expensive to restore your rifle

RCS, Since I'm only using this rifle for NRA Highpower Rifle and maybe Reduced Range Palma matches I'm not sure if I want to rebarrel a rifle with a perfect shooting barrel, maybe the other parts but I'll have to research to see what I need, I haven't looked at the part numbers yet to determine what is and what is not correct. I'm pretty much set on changing the stocks and handguards; they being sanded this much is bugging me even though its not hurting anything. Thank you for the help.

[Singer B]

Since it appears your M1 doesn't have any real collector value and is going to be used to shoot at competitions, why not dress her up? There are services out there that will reparkerize it and perform a trigger job so everything will look uniform and your trigger will perform better in your competitions. Drop it in a nice new stock and you will have a real beauty that performs as good as it looks. I have never used this service, but for about $200 plus S&H, you can get the trigger job and reparkerizing done. Maybe someone else here can recommend a good place to have those services done also. Good luck!

Order s Parkerizing

[usabaker]

Drop it in a nice new stock and you will have a real beauty that performs as good as it looks. I have never used this service, but for about $200 plus S&H,

Interesting site. Boy real one-stop shopping. I think if I change the stock and handguards she'll look just perfect though. The pictures I put up really don't do the Parkerization justice, everything matches just a bit of ware at the front section of the barrel.

[browningautorifle]

US Ordnance would not marked the barrel .30-06 which is a civilian designation.

Yes, that I know...the thing I wondered was this a High Standard barrel, I have no ides what kind of stampings they used. I would originally have guessed it was a civilian barrel, maybe the makers mark is under the lower handguard? Like the top of the barrel at the back?

[usabaker]

makers mark is under the lower handguard? Like the top of the barrel at the back?

Hi Jim, During my inspection of the rifle, and bit of coaxing of gas cylinder that was nice and tight, I removed both upper handguard and there were no marks there. Question, Are there supposed to be part numbers and maker marks stamped on the gas cylinder? I did not find any on the one I took off. I did find a lot of carbon build-up though, looks like this rifle has not had its gas cylinder and piston cleaned in a while.

[browningautorifle]

part numbers and maker marks stamped on the gas cylinder

I think only the earliest had markings. RCS has some of those he's displayed. The later ones didn't...no markings.

[usabaker]

I think only the earliest had markings. RCS has some of those he's displayed. The later ones didn't...no markings.

Jim, Thank you for the information.

[RCS]

Springfield and Winchester both had the drawing number on their early production gas cylinders .

Springfield from June 1940 until early 1941 and Winchester from Dec 1940 until around Oct 1941Attachment 110173Attachment 110172