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well here is what font on a 1M SN SHOULD look like
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05-30-2009 11:25 AM
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and here is another real 1M
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Thank You to AKA Hugh Uno For This Useful Post:
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(M1 Garand/M14/M1A Rifles)
Originally Posted by
goo
Yer killin' me...
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
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You Can see the letters do not line up properly also. The "periods" between CAL. .30 are way to close together for example. Ask him if it was done in New Jersey as there is a good engraver there and it looks like his work.
You can also see the rear has been sanded down and polished heavily. Rick B
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It is a restamp
the no. size and the lettering are not spec.,,there is more difference between these pictured
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Both the font of the lettering and numbering and the appearance of the receiver look like a Federal Ordnance manufacture. But I've never seen a Fed. Ord. before with the SA logo and serial number.
Must be a restamp. Interesting.
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Also notice how rounded the edges are on the flat "V" shelf behind the rear sight on the receiver.
Compare it to the images posted up here.
Could this rifle have a duplicated SA serial number (USGI)?
jimL
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Compare the relation of the "P" in SPRINGFIELD" to the "C" in CAL. .30".
On all my SA receivers the "P" is offset to the right. In the GB rifle the "P" is to the left.
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Just curious??
Why would somebody go to these lengths to turn a $500 rifle into a $800 one? Just like I never figured out why somebody would spend $100's of dollars to turn a M1A magazine worth $15 into a $25 fake. What is the point? No profit from where I sit... or am I just ignorant?
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The serial # isn't centered, the font and size looks wrong, and the rest looks goofed up too - now that I look closer, it seems like the rear of the receiver has been ground down some.
Who would take the trouble to take at least 1/64 (or more) of steel off an M-1 receiver and restamp all new mfg'r info on it - and who makes or how do you get the die to accomplish this, to stamp this on what has gotta be very few rifles - or just this one. Besides, getting this done is probably no easy task either, considering how hard an M1 receiver is.
Un-messed with receivers are easy enough to get, then you can repark it and put on the spiffy wood and off you go......
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