Garands

[Pete1979]

If you had a nice USGI stock why would you replace it? Just wundering. Sometimes you do find a stock that is worth pulling off to resell. Like a WRA that went for $1200 a couple years ago on eBay OR you may want to save the USGI wood instead of screwing it up. Luckily I still have some sets of USGI handgurds and a stock or two left, just "incase". I keepem GI, when I was still actively collecting Garands I learned how to redo the stocks in a GI fashion, a great learning experience. The new stocks weren't available or were of poor quality then.

I still have the stock it came with but the rest of it was like new so I sprung for new wood. There was only one stamp on the stock, a P on the underside. There were no marks in the parkerizing inside or out, no wear marks on the bolt, and the OP rod was squeaky clean until I put the first clip through it which is why I don't think anyone fired it between the time it was built (or rebuilt) to the time I got it. She's a shooter and a pretty good one at that but not really a collector piece.

[gotshotgun?]

She's a beautiful rifle!

[Pete1979]

I am looking at a RELLY nice HRA with all mixed parts (SA and HRA) , MINT bore (1 or less) , refinshied GI dark wood ( matching color handguard)

The rifle has moslty mixed parts (no commercial parts , all GI)

A lot of people say the service grade H&Rs from the CMP are in pretty good shape, If I were to get another one, that's the route I would go. Thats half of what I paid for mine and parts are available to make it really nice if anything is questionable.

[aghauler]

I still have the stock it came with but the rest of it was like new so I sprung for new wood. There was only one stamp on the stock, a P on the underside. There were no marks in the parkerizing inside or out, no wear marks on the bolt, and the OP rod was squeaky clean until I put the first clip through it which is why I don't think anyone fired it between the time it was built (or rebuilt) to the time I got it. She's a shooter and a pretty good one at that but not really a collector piece.

Quite possibly you did get one fresh from storage after rebuild, I scored an HRA and a SA in the same condition. The gas piston was shiney and the MW & TE are less than 1. Congrats on a nice rifle and all Garands are a "collector" and a shooter to a degree.

[rodngun762]

What would one exopect to pay for a NICE looking 1950's Grand with some mixed parts ,clean barrel and nice wood?

http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?263325-WTS-HRA-M1-Garands

[finloq]

1954 HRA



And, what you can do with it at 100 yards with HXP.