20 April 2022 Garand Picture of the Day - Sacrilege

[jesse_]

I have a question for all the older gents who have seen so much of this first hand....

When we look at all the ads from the late 50s/60s and see M1s for 35$ or thereabouts, were they all re-welds?

If DCM sold them at the time "One in a lifetime", and they were still relevant military arms, how would the government have disposed of them? Truly "surplus to requirements"? I can imagine 1903s and M1917, but at the time the M1 was still being sent out as military aid, no?

The only actual "purchased in the 1960s" M1 I have put my mitts on has an IHC front end, Mid 1942 serial number, a 2-groove barrel pressed into a M1 stub, and no cross groove for a lower band pin. But that's a single data point amidst almost 6 million made

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

There was a time (don't kill the messenger) when these were considered cheap and worthless

While context is relevant it does not dimmish my eye pain.