Collector Garands

[sofbak]

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.

[echo1]

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.

[sofbak]

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...

[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

[sofbak]

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?"

[echo1]

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

[aghauler]

PS, I'm glad we're up and running again but the new format has some degree of strangeness.

Well said and very correct!