Danish Beretta 308 Garands

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A few years ago a few dozen of these were imported. I tried to find the discussion on the "search" function to no avail. My question: what if any impact do all the recent "builds" on BM and BMB receivers have on those rifles value. I have seen only one of the batch come up for sale. Just curious because I have a Garand or 2 :cool:
 
A .308 M1 is a shooter. No collector value.
Danish 'VAR' barrels are very close to being match grade barrels. Beretta or Breda are good barrels, but not match barrels. Having a 'VAR' barrel will enhance value. Beretta or Breda, not so much.
 
Thanks but not quite what I was asking. These rifles were done in Danish armories by military after WWII for issue to Danish military as opposed to rifles done here in Canada on Italian receivers for hobbyists. I am asking out of curiosity, not because of any plans to sell .I am still trying to find the threads about them a few years back but no luck so far. They were sold out of a Calgary store,The Shooting Edge I believe.
 
AFAIK these were commercial builds in the Italian Tipo 2 Garand configuration using surplus Danish Beretta/Breda receivers and surplus Italian military Tipo 2 parts, including an op rod, rear handgd, 7.62mm barrel and stock, all of which were shortened .5 inch from the standard M1 Garand parts. You can also use the Italian military surplus 7.62 spacer block which prevents attempting to load an en bloc clip with standard .30-06 ammo. All other parts are standard M1 Garand parts. To the best of my knowledge the Danish military never adopted Garands chambered for 7.62 NATO.

These make up into nice rifles and all of the Italian 7.62 barrels that I have used gauged near new in terms of muzzle and throat wear.
 
purple said:
AFAIK these were commercial builds in the Italian Tipo 2 Garand configuration using surplus Danish Beretta/Breda receivers and surplus Italian military Tipo 2 parts, including an op rod, rear handgd, 7.62mm barrel and stock, all of which were shortened .5 inch from the standard M1 Garand parts. You can also use the Italian military surplus 7.62 spacer block which prevents attempting to load an en bloc clip with standard .30-06 ammo. All other parts are standard M1 Garand parts. To the best of my knowledge the Danish military never adopted Garands chambered for 7.62 NATO.

These make up into nice rifles and all of the Italian 7.62 barrels that I have used gauged near new in terms of muzzle and throat wear.
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Interesting, where can I read more about them?
 
aha! maybe...

Instead of doing my paper work I looked up Danish Garands:

www.odcmp.co/services/rifles/danish.htm

CMP source seems to indicate that the Danes did issue M1 garands from 1950 to the early 1990's. One of the danish marks said to be on these rifles was FKF and i am sure one of mine has this marking on it several places. It's deep in the safe ( I don't shoot them , they are too pretty, well just once I shot them, very accurate, just had to be sure they worked you know!;)) Sure wish some smart fellow could find the discussion about them when they were imported. I think it was 2013.
 
sunray said:
A .308 M1 is a shooter. No collector value.
Danish 'VAR' barrels are very close to being match grade barrels. Beretta or Breda are good barrels, but not match barrels. Having a 'VAR' barrel will enhance value. Beretta or Breda, not so much.
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Thinking, the overall scarcity of Garands is going to help increase the price of all, over time.

Grizz
 
big bear said:
Sure wish some smart fellow could find the discussion about them when they were imported. I think it was 2013.
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Maybe it was in 2009. That was the year The Shooting Edge brought in a bunch of Danish Beretta's in .308, and they didn't last long at all.
These were in excellent to almost mint condition. The op rods were marked 7.62mm and were overall about a half inch shorter than a 30/06 Garand.
 
There were a few of the Danish VARs at SIR about 14-15 years ago. Same price as the Bredas, which were the vast majority. I can't recall if they were 7.62 though.
 
great! those are the ones I was looking for.

Shelldrake said:
Maybe it was in 2009. That was the year The Shooting Edge brought in a bunch of Danish Beretta's in .308, and they didn't last long at all.
These were in excellent to almost mint condition. The op rods were marked 7.62mm and were overall about a half inch shorter than a 30/06 Garand.
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Those are the rifles, but I don't think it was that many years ago. At my age though the years seem to go pretty fast. If someone could find the thread and reply to it, I'd be interested in reviewing the shipment. I think there were less than 20 rifles.I've tried searching, I'll try again, tally ho!
 
VAR barrels are 3006. I have a few of them that Allen Lever got. They are brand new, I also got some used ones. There
was post war marlins, var, and a few springfield's barrels.
 
Is it safe to shoot 165gr hollow points through a beretta .308 Garand?

My buddy gave some to me, but I'd really rather not risk it.
 
165gr bullet not a problem, the powder/load is the issue. Check manual with Garand safe service loads listed and see recommended powders and loads. If you don't get it right, bent op rod!
 
I own a Danish M1 rifle in 30-06, with a Springfield receiver. The info sticker under the stock stated it was refurbrished in 1993.

Unfortunately most of the sticker is worn off now. But in rough translation I do believe it also once said; 13 clicks from bottom elevation=300 meter zero.

The metal finish in pretty much excellent. The front handguard and upper barrel shroud looks like walnut, and probably a replacement birch butt stock.

Otherwise it's one sweet rifle.
 
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I just saw at 'Breda' Garand on sale at my LGS (consignment). It was in beautiful shape, and of course, it was very pricey.

Was seriously thinking about grabbing it...
 
In 3006, Lever Arms had a small number of new all matching Breda Garand Rifles. They were numbered in pairs and
one set of three. The stocks were even numbered. I have these guns.
 
Any 165 grain load will be fine. The powder/load has nothing to do with it.
Epp's is listing 2 Berretta 7.62 M1 Rifles at $1765.00.
 
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