November/December 44 Trigger Guard Query

**LimeyCarbineLover** · 07-21-2011 07:00 PM

Guys can you help put this one to bed for me.....i own Garand icon

serial number 333657* which by the tables makes it late 1944 production....correct ?

My question is which trigger guard would this have had on it....the early or late type.

Any picture help welcomed as i want to put this back to its correct specification.

Thankyou for any advice

Regards

Lloyd

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**Bill Hollinger** · 07-21-2011 07:20 PM

Late type. This one is 3509977 Feb/Mar 1945

**LimeyCarbineLover** · 07-21-2011 07:54 PM

Thanks Bill..you guys are great.....but one head scratching query is i was always under the impression that the flat milled trigger guards were early production like in Bills picture and the trigger guards with the "loop" on were later production.

Educate me Garand icon

guys please.....

Regards

Lloyd

**browningautorifle** · 07-21-2011 08:31 PM

The flat stamped ones like the one in the pic were late. Typical of a late production item. Machined and milled was always early. Hard to produce gives way to easy.

**LimeyCarbineLover** · 07-21-2011 09:30 PM

Thanks to Jim and Bill the "mists" are clearing..so help the Limey out here and can you guys just give me the idiots guide to trigger guards....early middle and late production

I ashamedly think ive got it wrong all these years....

Regards

LLoyd

**Bill Hollinger** · 07-21-2011 09:53 PM

Early = milled (forged) till about mid 1944 very early had drawing number C46025-1SA, 1-SA and 3SA. Mid and late = stamped started with an overlap with the milled around early March of 1944? I believe the stamped with milled hook only lasted a few months, again with an overlap from the beginning and lasting till mid 1944. Late = mid 1944 till end of production and into the post war production.

**LimeyCarbineLover** · 07-22-2011 03:11 PM

2 more pictures would really help me here fellas.....please...so the flat forged one in Bills pic is late...what are early and mid ones looking like...

looks like on my 3 x Garands (2 x US and 1 x FKF/Breda) im gonna have to have a switch around.....

Regards

LLoyd

**browningautorifle** · 07-22-2011 05:11 PM

This is the early forged trigger guard. Careful about that switching around thing, it's going to make you drink heavy...

**LimeyCarbineLover** · 07-22-2011 05:17 PM

it's going to make you drink heavy.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whys that Jim ?.....i frely admit i got them completely the wrong way round.....i thought flat stamped was Early and the forged one was late to post WW2.....god how dumb am i ?

Checking on mine now......i may need to consult the oracle for trigger grouping dis assembley soon......

Regards

Lloyd

**browningautorifle** · 07-22-2011 05:20 PM

Trigger mech stripping is up in the stickies. And besides, what's wrong with a liter or two while sorting out the smokepoles?

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