Decided on a 1954 M1 Garand (CMP Correct Excellent)

[lkgmadmax]

Well I appreciate all of the help offered up earlier regarding the WWII 1944; I decided to go in a different direction. I may still pursue a WWII M1 later.

I found a 1954 CMP "Correct Grade Excellent” that was purchased by a fellow a few years ago, comes with all the paperwork. He said at the time he visited the store and they had a rack of 20, he looked over each one and selected the best they had at the time in his opinion. After getting it home and removing some of the grease he decided that the rifle may have possibly never been fired and since it was still in the grease, he decided to store this one away due to it being better suited in his opinion for collecting instead of an everyday shooter. He returned to the store and selected a field grade for shooting. He recently decided to put this one up for sale, I saw it, liked it and we were able to reach an agreement we were both happy with.

https://plus.google.com/photos/11044...CJPi4Ij6kNrPEQ

One I receive it and get it cleaned up I’ll have a photo shoot and post some of my pictures.

Thanks again for all of the help!
-David

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[browningautorifle]

Nice clean rifle...

[Sarge1998]

My HRA Correct Grade also came covered with grease, it was not unfired but gauged very close. Here is the current Correct Grade description at CMP. Now they are available by auction only.

CORRECT GRADE: (Very Good to Excellent)
AVAILABLE ON THE CMP AUCTION SITE ONLY
Correct Grade Rifles are similar to the Service Grade (above), but will show less wear and use. Correct Grade rifles will have all correct parts for the date of manufacture with 80% or better overall original metal finish. The stock and handguards will be of walnut and correct for the rifle but will have some dings, dents, scratches and marring of the wood finish. Stocks will have the appropriate original inspector's cartouche. The rifle bore will be very good with no significant defects and with a throat erosion of less than 4 and a muzzle wear of 2 or less. Very good to excellent condition. This grade is rare and is only available occasionally in limited quantities. Because of the scarcity of these rifles, they will only be sold on the CMP auction site at cmpauction.thecmp.org.

[Joe W]

Very nice. Are you going to clean it or leave it with the grease ??

[lkgmadmax]

Thanks guys!

[Orlando]

Correct grades were fired or they would have been sold as unissued, CMP doesnt leave that kind of money on the table. All of my Correct Grades came in same condition as yours in protective grease. They were done this way for long term storage.
Nice loking Garand, should make a fine shooter

[lkgmadmax]

Very nice. Are you going to clean it or leave it with the grease ??

Thanks Joe, cleaning her up.

[Neal Myers]

All CMP rifles are sorted & graded by their staff. Their armorers evaluate the better rifles. A rifle in really good condition with all original parts could be classified as "collector grade". But, sometimes the armorer finds a rifle that is in really good condition that has had some parts replaced, but he is able to swap the replacement parts for those that would have been on the rifle originally. It would be less than honest to call such a rifle "collector grade", but "correct grade" accurately describes such a rifle.

Since it was improbably that anyone in the military would swap out parts on an unissued rifle, we can be sure that all "correct grade" rifles were issued. We have no way of knowing whether or not they were actually fired.

Neal

[Bob Seijas]

"Since it was improbably that anyone in the military would swap out parts on an unissued rifle, we can be sure that all "correct grade" rifles were issued."

Orest told us that a guy bought a slug of new HRAs that had some original SA parts... he sent them all back to have the correct SA parts replaced with HRA so they would look right. No argument would talk him out of it, so CMP did it.