Need Help with Garand ID and Info (UPDATED - PICS)

[mosinnagantm9130]

Yeah, that's a trade I'd make.

[TregoMark]

Nice op rod. That alone is worth $150-175.
I agree with the others on price. $625 from the CMP for a service grade or $900+ at a gun show.

Do you know what is stamped on the barrel and the markings on the trigger group? Either way, I'd do the trade.

Damn. If I had only bought more $100 lowers, I could be trading them now for more Garands.

[SDJim]

That "Tiger Striped" stock is absolutely beautifully. Other than that, it looks like an average "mix master" CMP rifle.

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[FTC]

That's a real nice rifle, the stock is worth a couple hundred and if the receiver has lead and a date on the right side it most likely matches the rifle. What's the barrel date? I'd make that trade!

[Orlando]

That's a real nice rifle, the stock is worth a couple hundred and if the receiver has lead and a date on the right side it most likely matches the rifle. What's the barrel date? I'd make that trade!

The stocks alone sell for less than $100
I'll gladly sell you one for a couple hundred

[goodlookin1]

Unfortunately I know nothing about Garands.....is there an easy way to Check the barrel, receiver legs and trigger group markings? I'd love to find out.

And yes, I agree.....the tiger striping is gorgeous! Just with the hand guards matches the stock!

As for the marking on the stock, I can't make it out. Looks like its been worn off or not stamped that well.

[dinkydau]

Just go to the CMP website and click on Rifle Sales and then click on M1 Garands and scroll down. You will see the prices. The service grade rifles go for $625-$950. Most of the stocks I have seen I wouldnt care for but you do find a winner. Depending on the Muzzle Wear and Throat(chamber)wear, it will set what price it may be.
Go to www.jouster.com and you will see M1Garands/M14's. You see various topics. You can type in "Born on this date" and it has tables of serial numbers. That may help will more info.

[aghauler]

The other replies pretty much pegged it, can you get the CMP Certificate for it? The sling is on upside down and backwards. Should make a nice shooter, if the bbl date matches the receiver manufacture date it'll be worth more than the standard service grade. People pay big bucks for early receivers with correct bbls on them for "rebuilding" projects.

[metalliman545]

If you won't trade for it lemme know and I will. I have an almost complete lower for sale/trade

[rm1911]

forget trade values and $$$ and whatever. forget resell value. the lower is just that, a chunk of metal, albeit with a serial number, that does basically nothing. you will need to build it up and all that.

will you? when? how?

the M1 is there, all ready to shoot. and it's a shooter. forget the collector thing. I've had a low number springfield (with mix match parts) for over 20 years. when I was younger and had better eyes, it'd hold under 2" at 100 with reloads. and often better. I could dial in the sights and hit metal plates out to 500. used to piss off my scoped rifle friends that I could shoot as well as their scoped rifles. can't do that any more, as sadly age takes it toll on the eyes, but whatever.

they aren't building M1's anymore. you get rid of one or miss the chance to get one, you'll never get one again. get the M1. shoot it. screw whether numbers match. screw whether it's not perfect condition.

let me tell you a story. with a buddy of mine, long time ago, we went in and ordered M1's from our local shop. anyways, my friend's father, when he was a young man, got an all expense paid vacation courtesy of the US government. Unfortuantely they sent him to Tinian and Iwo Jima. It'd been a long time since, and you'd never know whatever about him, because of all the things he talked about, his vacation was never mentioned. So my friend and I, we bring them home, and he takes his over to show his old man. He holds the rifle, stares at it for a long while, silently, and without a word or expression, gives it back to his son.

Only once did I ever get the nerver to ask him about something. Turns out he was on a ship offshore ready to be among the first to land, prepared to kill as many Japanese as he could, when we dropped the bombs. A week later he lands and instead begins to hand out food and provide medical care for a starving and ravaged people. He'd been to Hell, real up close and personal, been trained to hate and kill Japanese, and was ready to do so some more.

I asked him that one time, "How did you guys do that, just drop everything that happened and help them?"

He replied, "We're Americans, that's what we do."

someone, a long time ago, carried that rifle and sadly is probably no longer with us. he made sure that despite the best efforts of the fascists running this country today, we'd still be free. get it, shoot it, honor that someone. that's the thanks he deserves.

and have a helluva time shooting it too. because you will. the hell with the price or trade value. it's a M1 Garand.

[beerman]

OP, slide the Op rod back to cock position and tell us what is stamped on the right side of the barrel (just in front of where the barrell meets the reciever) There should de an SA and a date of MFG (for the barrell only)

[aghauler]

forget trade values and $$$ and whatever. forget resell value. the lower is just that, a chunk of metal, albeit with a serial number, that does basically nothing. you will need to build it up and all that.

will you? when? how?

the M1 is there, all ready to shoot. and it's a shooter. forget the collector thing. I've had a low number springfield (with mix match parts) for over 20 years. when I was younger and had better eyes, it'd hold under 2" at 100 with reloads. and often better. I could dial in the sights and hit metal plates out to 500. used to piss off my scoped rifle friends that I could shoot as well as their scoped rifles. can't do that any more, as sadly age takes it toll on the eyes, but whatever.

they aren't building M1's anymore. you get rid of one or miss the chance to get one, you'll never get one again. get the M1. shoot it. screw whether numbers match. screw whether it's not perfect condition.

let me tell you a story. with a buddy of mine, long time ago, we went in and ordered M1's from our local shop. anyways, my friend's father, when he was a young man, got an all expense paid vacation courtesy of the US government. Unfortuantely they sent him to Tinian and Iwo Jima. It'd been a long time since, and you'd never know whatever about him, because of all the things he talked about, his vacation was never mentioned. So my friend and I, we bring them home, and he takes his over to show his old man. He holds the rifle, stares at it for a long while, silently, and without a word or expression, gives it back to his son.

Only once did I ever get the nerver to ask him about something. Turns out he was on a ship offshore ready to be among the first to land, prepared to kill as many Japanese as he could, when we dropped the bombs. A week later he lands and instead begins to hand out food and provide medical care for a starving and ravaged people. He'd been to Hell, real up close and personal, been trained to hate and kill Japanese, and was ready to do so some more.

I asked him that one time, "How did you guys do that, just drop everything that happened and help them?"

He replied, "We're Americans, that's what we do."

someone, a long time ago, carried that rifle and sadly is probably no longer with us. he made sure that despite the best efforts of the fascists running this country today, we'd still be free. get it, shoot it, honor that someone. that's the thanks he deserves.

and have a helluva time shooting it too. because you will. the hell with the price or trade value. it's a M1 Garand.

Well said!

[Dirtbiker]

Only rifle I regret selling was a garand. Make the trade.