CMP to receive 86,000 Garands!

[formerlyphat]

The CMP South Store manager confirmed that CMP is receiving the 86,000 Phillipines M1's as well as 13,000 from Turkey. It's about 1/3 way into this video from 2018 Shot Show range day

[Col. Colt]

In a backhanded way, I already have an M1 imported from the Phillipines. Mine is a 6.09 Million SA gun, (9-64 barrel) rebuilt at Ogden Arsenal (obviously before being supplied to the Phillipine Islands as Military Assistance) and is still in some kind of light black preservative coating. It does have some minor pitting under the stock line (yes, humidity, obviously but no structural harm), stong rifling and mostly most recent issue parts but is really a solid, nice rifle, imported and marked commercially by Federal Ordnance. And it has an IHC stock, darn it!

So I would withhold judgement - there may be some pretty nice rifles come in, particularly if they were supplied late, in the 1960's after overhaul. And even parts rifles have value, to keep the rest running! CC

[Bob Seijas]

As the Winter GCA Journal will detail, we examined quite a few nice rifles in the Turkish Air Force returns. Many IHCs had the original barrel and bolt (the rest was a mix of parts). I'm guessing there will be a few goodies in the Philippine lot, there always is. The rifle assigned to the company clerk, supply sergeant, etc often escaped much use.