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First M1 rifle gas port barrel dated S-A 6-40
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How rare are 10-40 barrels?
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Springfield 1940 dated barrels
All 1940 dates are on the rare list, one of the most difficult to find (besides S-A 6-40 and S-A 7-40) is the S-A 11-40.
A nice S-A 10-40 with a nice bore and without chrome at the gas port should bring $800 to $900. Alot of these 1940 barrels were used in the direct conversions of the gas trap rifle tp gas port before WW2. If you can find a nice reasonable early gas trap receiver, you could use your S-A 10-40 barrel for restoration.
Most faked 1940 barrels that I know about are S-A 8-40 and S-A 11-40
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Yep, have seen a few fake 8-40... Texas?
Real men measure once and cut.
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The early fake barrels were advertised from a company in North Carolina, first they sold nothing but fake Winchester barrels.
I would bet these barrels are still on rifles. Dick Deane did a short article in the GCA Newsletter showing photos of these
fake Winchester barrels. The fakers then took these barrels and applied Springfield 1940 and early 1941 barrel dates.
If you knew about barrels, you would notice the gas port hole was almost never in the groove, the groove for the rear hand
guard band was shorter than an original gas port barrel groove. The number 4 was always with a open top plus the drawing
number was not even with not all the number the same size.
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Heh heh, hard to fool an advanced collector like RCS... they can always find a fault the fakers didn't get right
Real men measure once and cut.
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This are rare to find. Thanks for sharing
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