Repro of Original

[Mark in Rochester]

Never have seen this manufacturer before

M1C Garand Flash Hider (GRD388)

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[mark1]

Reproduction. "Hard to find for more than a decade" Right. someone is making them again. Reproduction

[RCS]

Shooters and some collectors will buy them, when I was an armorer long time ago, we had three M1D sniper rifles.
These were all new H&R rifles with SA 52 M1D barrels and M84 scopes, never used the flash hider when shooting
these rifles.

[jond41403]

I agree it's a reproduction.the "hider, flash, M2"stamping looks a little wonky to me and the letters don't seem to line up as good as they do on other examples I've seen. Could just be the angle of the flash hider in the picture, but something does not look right to me about the stamping.

[Flying10uk]

The bracket part doesn't look "laser cut" as far as I can tell from the available pics which is normally a "dead-give-away" for a modern production. There are signs, in the pics, that it has been punched out, however.

[Bob Seijas]

SA had great trouble with the accuracy of the M1Cs they were building, many couldn't pass the tests. There were as many as 200 failures in the repair shop at times. One problem was thought to be the flash hider (new guns were tested with the hider on) so Aberdeen was asked to test them. The results were surprising: loose ones did indeed damage accuracy... but tight ones actually improved it!