CMP Garands received

[ontmark]

Very nice

[rdfact]

I posted these pics on the CMP "Official M1 Picture thread" and someone said the stock on the first rifle is a USGI birch, not a modern replacement like Boyds. Can anyone confirm?

[Cincinnatus]

Looking at the pic of the rear sight, am I correct in seeing a W in front of the word RIGHT? Is that a Winchester mark or a really strange spelling error?

[huntingsocal]

I posted these pics on the CMP "Official M1 Picture thread" and someone said the stock on the first rifle is a USGI birch, not a modern replacement like Boyds. Can anyone confirm?

Can't say for sure but all the "new wood" stocks I've seen, including the stocks on both the Garands I got recently, have a big CMP stamp on them like so

[Egaguila]

I posted these pics on the CMP "Official M1 Picture thread" and someone said the stock on the first rifle is a USGI birch, not a modern replacement like Boyds. Can anyone confirm?

That was my initial impression as well as far as USGI birch. And I have never heard of the CMP neglecting to stamp one of their stocks, but of course we will never know for sure I guess.

Both rifles look great though, and great score on that second one! Correct barrel, stock, and uncut oprod, among other parts, not unlike the field grade I received last month

[rdfact]

Looking at the pic of the rear sight, am I correct in seeing a W in front of the word RIGHT? Is that a Winchester mark or a really strange spelling error?

That's why I posted it - was not sure. Not a spelling error I'm sure but the company who produced that part?
Edit: Looks like it was made by Wright Mfg Co.

[rdfact]

Can't say for sure but all the "new wood" stocks I've seen, including the stocks on both the Garands I got recently, have a big CMP stamp on them like so

I can't find any stamp on that stock. I do have a Boyds stock with the CMP cartouche from the first CMP M1 I bought over 3 years ago.

[huntingsocal]

yeah you scored big time, well done!

NFR stocks alone command $300-$400 for service grade condition from what I've seen. And they are few and far between at that.

[Father Ted]

I posted these pics on the CMP "Official M1 Picture thread" and someone said the stock on the first rifle is a USGI birch, not a modern replacement like Boyds. Can anyone confirm?

It certainly has figure that walnut doesn't typically have. Birch and maple will have that pillowed or quilted figure as we in the woodworking bizz say, and as the nonwoodworking gunfolk say "tiger stripe". Looks like died birch from my house
Cheers
*dyed (not died )

[Garandimal]

When the CMP started accepting orders for M1s on 8/23 I ordered two. CMP received my paperwork on 8/26 and I received these two on 9/8.

First rifle:
Serial #: 956xxx Springfield November 1942, CMP wood, barrel dated March 1955. The stock has no cartouches and already has quite a few dings and dents, not that I mind. The stock does have some nice looking grain.

Is that a birch stock?




GR

[bigdrunk92037]

Looks like birtch

[IeatPi]

Boyds/CMP will have an ink stamp in the barrel channel.

[Bobby Ricigliano]

I hope you guys that are buying the Garands now plan to keep them. I sold my first CMP Garand and later regretted it.

[AR22]

Those are very nice.

I suppose alot of the new releases will end up on the Gun Show tables, and auctions sites. I figure on seeing a few this weekend at the local show

And no, I have no problem with that. New owners can do as they wish..They are theirs now.

[Bobby Ricigliano]

Those are very nice.

I suppose alot of the new releases will end up on the Gun Show tables, and auctions sites. I figure on seeing a few this weekend at the local show

And no, I have no problem with that. New owners can do as they wish..They are theirs now.

I generally subscribe to this capitalist mindset as well. The one down side of it though is that if enough people are buying 5-6 at a time, keeping the 1-2 best, and then trying to flip the remainder at a profit, a lot of other folks will get shut out of the CMP experience altogether when they inevitably run out Garands. This is a certainty, because they have already long since run out of all the other milsurps they used to sell.