Korean M1 Garands green light.

GeoShooter said:
They have arrived!!

My local CT is expecting some in, $499 price tag
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I got the hand select one! man we sure are lucky to get there rifles after 50 years of hard use! heres the new old girl! Image16.jpg
 

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If they do come im in good for a box of 10 easy.
I never knew i always wanted 10 m1 garands but now that it's financially feesable I need one for every room of the housey :)
 
rci2950 said:
I would be more interested in a quality US made new manufacture one. I have an original and would be more likely to buy one that i wouldn't feel bad shooting the crap out of.
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You're way in the wrong thread then pal.
For one thing, these are virtually fictitious rifles. Another, IF they ever materialize, they sure as heck ain't new manufacture. Save yourself some grief and go now, fast. For your own good, before it's too late, and you read all the pipe dreams people on this thread here have of mystical, fabled Asian M1's that by some miracle will be in working condition after roughly 62 or so years of being stored in conditions in Korea that would make rifles look like the artifacts on the Titanic wreck.

There' a site in the States that makes what you're looking for. They specialize in Garand restorations, I forget their name (just google for them) One or two of the vendors here have brought in their rifles before. They take Garands, refurb them and usually put new Criterion barrels on them. About as close as you're gonna get to what you mentioned.
 
BTW, you Bluenosers can make a fine joke, I truly liked your posts, but let's get serious here for a minute.
I have the lowdown on what the real Korean rifles available are, so listen up.

I have found out that all the surplus crates of these Garands are a mixed batch from the regiments that stormed the enemy positions at the famous Korean battles of Heartbreak Ridge AND Pork Chop Hill. For a complete collection you should get one rifle from each engagement.
AND, either General MacArthur (Douglas MacArthur) OR Ike (Dwight D. Eisenhower) inspected and touched every one of them just before they were crated up for storage. Ike pressed his oak leaf cluster into the wood of every crate to leave his mark. It's the army equivalent of having the Pope's blessing on every rifle. If you check them over you can find their fingerprints on the steel somewhere. You might get a "Mac" or an "Ike" blessed rifle.
And, that's not all, on top of that, each one of them has an old letter from home written to the soldier who owned the rifle during his tour in Korea, rolled up in the butt stock as a memento. True pieces of history, yours to own. Would I make this up?

On that basis, I think they're gonna sell for 4 or 5 grand a piece when they finally get here. A bargain at twice the price!
Yep, based on about as much scientific evidence as I've read here so far for the lesser quotes that were bandied about.
Put that in your MacArthur corncob pipe and smoke it.
 
Fellow Garand lovers;

Lets get our facts straight;
Most of the ammunition was long ago sent to the US Government for the Civilian Marksmanship Program

Marstar began work with the Korean Government officials back in 2004,

The US Government has placed every possible roadblock in the path of South Korean MOD exporting them....

I see many photos, descriptions, etc posted on this forum, I would be interested in discussing the findings of the various individuals who, in fact, visited the storage depots and examined the rifles. They look nothing like the ones we checked out....

John
 
El_Monty457 said:
BTW, you Bluenosers can make a fine joke, I truly liked your posts, but let's get serious here for a minute.
I have the lowdown on what the real Korean rifles available are, so listen up.

I have found out that all the surplus crates of these Garands are a mixed batch from the regiments that stormed the enemy positions at the famous Korean battles of Heartbreak Ridge AND Pork Chop Hill. For a complete collection you should get one rifle from each engagement.
AND, either General MacArthur (Douglas MacArthur) OR Ike (Dwight D. Eisenhower) inspected and touched every one of them just before they were crated up for storage. Ike pressed his oak leaf cluster into the wood of every crate to leave his mark. It's the army equivalent of having the Pope's blessing on every rifle. If you check them over you can find their fingerprints on the steel somewhere. You might get a "Mac" or an "Ike" blessed rifle.
And, that's not all, on top of that, each one of them has an old letter from home written to the soldier who owned the rifle during his tour in Korea, rolled up in the butt stock as a memento. True pieces of history, yours to own. Would I make this up?

On that basis, I think they're gonna sell for 4 or 5 grand a piece when they finally get here. A bargain at twice the price!
Yep, based on about as much scientific evidence as I've read here so far for the lesser quotes that were bandied about.
Put that in your MacArthur corncob pipe and smoke it.
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I love it.
 
El_Monty457 said:
BTW, you Bluenosers can make a fine joke, I truly liked your posts, but let's get serious here for a minute.
I have the lowdown on what the real Korean rifles available are, so listen up.

I have found out that all the surplus crates of these Garands are a mixed batch from the regiments that stormed the enemy positions at the famous Korean battles of Heartbreak Ridge AND Pork Chop Hill. For a complete collection you should get one rifle from each engagement.
AND, either General MacArthur (Douglas MacArthur) OR Ike (Dwight D. Eisenhower) inspected and touched every one of them just before they were crated up for storage. Ike pressed his oak leaf cluster into the wood of every crate to leave his mark. It's the army equivalent of having the Pope's blessing on every rifle. If you check them over you can find their fingerprints on the steel somewhere. You might get a "Mac" or an "Ike" blessed rifle.
And, that's not all, on top of that, each one of them has an old letter from home written to the soldier who owned the rifle during his tour in Korea, rolled up in the butt stock as a memento. True pieces of history, yours to own. Would I make this up?

On that basis, I think they're gonna sell for 4 or 5 grand a piece when they finally get here. A bargain at twice the price!
Yep, based on about as much scientific evidence as I've read here so far for the lesser quotes that were bandied about.
Put that in your MacArthur corncob pipe and smoke it.
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Now I'm in for two cases.
 
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