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    Long shot: someone could have reworked a Sedgley USMC barrel with WW2 date into a M1icon rifle barrel stub. It would be easy to identify. The US Navy sold
    surplus M1903A1 barrels for years at Great Lakes (I still have one with the vise marks too).

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    Just to reply to some of the last posts ref the M1icon Garand I posted about, yer all without a doubt 100% correct on the M1 being 'humped and faked'. As with K98kicon's and others being faked stamped, I believe the M1 was also. Seems to me after cplstevennorton mentioned in his post about some guy stamping USMC on military rifles for a price, I recall on another military forum I read some years back the same information. Guys like that are no different than grave robbers IMO. The guy at the gunshop who originally advised that the barrel was made by United Shoe Machine Com when I relayed who did make barrels for the M1 advised possibly the M1 was owned and issued by the Mach Shoe Com used for security during the war. LOL. In regards to all of the drawing numbers of the major parts the seller had pictured, the only one that came close to the 11-43 receiver serial number date was the follower, and it had a number corresponding to Garands made in late 42 and early 43. Stock was even birch, something not used until late Korean War manufactured rifles as far as I understand. Someone got a shooter, when and if they try to sell it, they'll be educated. Thank you all for the info.

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    non of the A3 barrel, {2 groove} or 1903 springfield barrels grafted into a Garandicon barrel stub should ever be fired with live ammo.
    they will fail. not if, but when.
    and heres why.
    they cut a worn out Garand barrel right were it steps down, about 10 inches from the breach, they then reamed it out,
    then. took a new A3 barrel, and turned it down so it would fit inside the hole that was bore into the old grand barrel.
    its then soldered in place,. the muzzle end was then modified to accept the Garand gas system.
    so, when installed, the garand stub is nice and tight..{not the barre itself} when shooting the rifle it heats up, solder gets soft, barrel moves forward, while the Garand stub stays in place.
    then you get a big surprise ,, boom..
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