99,000 Garands

[Cactus_Tim]

Oh, and a few people will just grease their new rifles and start using up those hoarded cans of HXP in their garages.

But only a few.

Looks like I'm a greaser.

[Bobby Ricigliano]

I will throw out a wild guess that those 99,000 gun carcasses will generate enough useable parts to make 25K-35K sellable Garands.

[Mayor McRifle]

Oh, and a few people will just grease their new rifles and start using up those hoarded cans of HXP in their garages.

But only a few.

Not me. I've been stockpiling PPU.

[huntingsocal]

I will throw out a wild guess that those 99,000 gun carcasses will generate enough useable parts to make 25K-35K sellable Garands.

Will be interesting to see. I've heard everything from they'll be a bunch of rusted out piles of junk to the Filipinos cherished their weapons and took excellent care of them

[k1dude]

Sounds like they'll be expensive, termite infested, rusty, hunks o'crap. Bummer.

[John Browning]

I will throw out a wild guess that those 99,000 gun carcasses will generate enough useable parts to make 25K-35K sellable Garands.

I would agree. I think the real victory here will be in the 60k stripped receivers. I have a BM59 kit just waiting for one.

[bohoki]

buy a couple extractors they may soon become scarce

[kurac]

From Mark Johnson earlier this month

http://forums.thecmp.org/showthread.php?t=213464&highlight=Trucks&page=5

"The CMP had to pay DLA to repack the Garands in the Philippines. The wood crates could not be imported due to possible termite infestation. The new containers CMP had to pay for... The rifles had to be cleaned because of dust on the rifles was thought to contain asbestos, which CMP had to pay for. Every rifle now has a "no asbstos" clean bill of health, that CMP had to pay for... The boat had to have maintenance done before leaving the dock, that CMP had to pay for. The boat could not ship anything other than the rifles, so CMP had to pay for the entire boat... The boat is due into port around 10 Jan. 44 trucks later we should be seeing them late Jan at our docks, that CMP paid for..."
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From Shot Show, at about 2:28 Garand info starts . 86,000 Philippine and 13,000 Turkish returns

so the CMP got at least $43million worth of Garands from the PI, how much did it cost them?

[otteray]

Sounds like they'll be expensive, termite infested, rusty, hunks o'crap. Bummer.

The crates weren't termite proof; but the cosmoline drenched stocks might be!

[huntingsocal]

Sounds like they'll be expensive, termite infested, rusty, hunks o'crap. Bummer.

Yeah hopefully nobody bothers putting in an order.

[TRICKSTER]

So let us examine the normal evolution of such announcements:

The boards become abuzz with excitement.

Everyone chimes in that they have sent off their packet

Everyone chimes in that they received the DBU email.

Everyone chimes in that they have received a tracking number.

Everyone celebrates the arrival of the big brown van!!!!

Everyone posts their own personal milquetoast "Unboxing and first impressions" thread

But then..........

(Nearly) Everyone morphs from "New Garand owner" to "Freddie the Flipper" and posts their beloved new CMP Garands for sale for $1200 a few weeks later. They intend to corner the secondary market with huge margins because most people are just too dumb to figure out the CMP process and will gladly pay a huge markup for the convenience of a simple PPT.

Oh, and a few people will just grease their new rifles and start using up those hoarded cans of HXP in their garages.

But only a few.

The only Garand that I have parted with went to some strange guy in SoCal that was obsessed with SKSs at the time.

[Bobby Ricigliano]

The only Garand that I have parted with went to some strange guy in SoCal that was obsessed with SKSs at the time.

Hey now, I resemble that remark!

[joefrank64k]

I will throw out a wild guess that those 99,000 gun carcasses will generate enough useable parts to make 25K-35K sellable Garands.