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  • sofbak
    Veteran Member
    • Aug 2010
    • 2628

    Collector Garands

    So, I'm trying to nav this new forum format... IDK if I'm successful.

    But a heads up to the Garand collector community. Soon Lock, Stock, and Barrel will b posting some auctions for a few very RARE and sought after Garand rifles...
    If I manage to nav this new format, I'll post links when they are available.
    Tire kickers gonna kick,
    Nose pickers gonna pick
    I and others know the real
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    echo1
    Veteran Member
    • Apr 2010
    • 3861

    I've got one that's kinda scarce, a Winchester, '43 I think. It's my understanding that any M1 that's all matching with correct parts would have likely been assembled that way by someone. CMP/DMC were most always mixers, whether that's correct or not I'm not sure of. I picked mine up because it was a Winchester. A bud of mine in Idaho has a Winchester sniper with all the right bits, very sweet PAX
    PS, I'm glad we're up and running again but the new format has some degree of strangeness.
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    "A free people should be armed and disciplined" (George Washington),

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    • #3
      sofbak
      Veteran Member
      • Aug 2010
      • 2628

      There's nothing "wrong" with restored Garands. Even the CMP gets into it via their Correct Grade offerings, and considers them rare enough to offer them via auction-only sales.

      But the units I am reporting on are far above this. These are pristine, historically significant, and very scarce units. And each comes with documented provenance from the likes of the CMP, the DCM, Raritan Arsenal, Dean Dillabaugh, and Scott Duff.

      And the "pedigree" of a couple of these is well documented in articles from GCA journal features...

      Stay tuned...
      Tire kickers gonna kick,
      Nose pickers gonna pick
      I and others know the real

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      • #4
        echo1
        Veteran Member
        • Apr 2010
        • 3861

        I'd like mine to be Winchester everything, but it's not that pressing. I'd rather have an as Issued numbers matching '53 Izhevsk SKS, PAX
        You need a crew

        "A free people should be armed and disciplined" (George Washington),

        Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.~John Adams 1798

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        • #5
          sofbak
          Veteran Member
          • Aug 2010
          • 2628

          Originally posted by echo1
          I'd like mine to be Winchester everything, but it's not that pressing. I'd rather have an as Issued numbers matching '53 Izhevsk SKS, PAX
          Well, about 6 months back, you could have had an all correct, 6 digit Winchester from January of 1942, from LS&B.

          It went for $2700+, so ask yourself, "is it worth it?"
          Tire kickers gonna kick,
          Nose pickers gonna pick
          I and others know the real

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          • #6
            echo1
            Veteran Member
            • Apr 2010
            • 3861

            Originally posted by sofbak

            Well, about 6 months back, you could have had an all correct, 6 digit Winchester from January of 1942, from LS&B.

            It went for $2700+, so ask yourself, "is it worth it?"
            Not to me. December 2022, I picked up a Luxembourg FN49. I traded 3 SKS rifles, a Yugo m59/66, a home-grown Paratrooper and a commercial (not military issued) SKS for it. The LGS was asking $2400 bucks for the Lux. Was it worth it? I paid $1300 for my Winchester with 300 rounds of ammo on strippers in bandoleers 4 years ago. Was it worth it. The SVT was traded for 2 ratty SKSs in ATI Monty's and 2 big 5 Mosin 91/31s. This rack of rifles reflects actual costs of $4850 over 8 years (I had my trade fodder for decades). It was worth every penny. PAX
            Last edited by echo1; 05-02-2024, 11:37 AM.
            You need a crew

            "A free people should be armed and disciplined" (George Washington),

            Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.~John Adams 1798

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            • #7
              aghauler
              Veteran Member
              • Apr 2011
              • 4794

              Originally posted by echo1
              PS, I'm glad we're up and running again but the new format has some degree of strangeness.
              Well said and very correct!

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