UPDATED! Question for folks who know the Garand - Bubba'ed rifle

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Hi folks, hopefully these few small pictures will allow for some diagnostic... how bad is this bubba'ed Garand?

I should receive it either Friday or next week... Thanks for any input (I know next to nothing about the M1)






 
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Poor M1... why would someone do that, seriously how much weight could you possibly save by pulling off a couple pieces of wood?
 
Is it just missing the hand guard and fore wood in addition to the buggered front site?
All in all a pretty easy gun to fix.

Edit I see the bayo lug missing...
Still not too bad.
What year is the barrel?
 
Dang, indeed the bayo lug's missing - well, can't have everything I suppose!

Not sure about the barrel year - will know as soon as the rifle gets here. My hope is that this one's shootable, and that a parts order from Numrich or somewhere else will make it complete (minus the bayo lug I presume - a gas cylinder is probably not cheap)
 
Looks like someone really tried cutting weight down. Definitely ad the front wood pieces but the main piece looks serviceable (i'd still look at replacing it). Numrich had some well priced stocks or if you want to spend more money, check out DGR ... beautiful pieces.
 
Just a interesting side note, those holes/divets in the stock around the middle of the receiver on the right hand side was from someone reloading the Garand. What troops used to do was take the clip, smack the rounds pointy end forward, against the stock to ensure they were all seated properly, then insert it into the rifle. Judging from the amount of divets that rifle or at least the stock saw a fair bit of use.
 
That was the way we sporterized garands back in the 60's and 70's. Sometimes we chromed parts and bright blueing looked good. Bishop stocks were usually used.Doug Hough Custom gunsmith did many.Who wanted an ugly military rifle back then? Ammo was cheap lots of it around, and lots of military rifles , factory sporting rifles were expensive, so, sporterize !
 
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I've seen a couple of attempts to "improve" the Garand sights by converting the aperture to a crude vee sight and dicking with the front sight. The Garand/M14 sighting system is probably the best military rifle sight ever devised and really cannot be improved upon.
 
billybob said:
That was the way we sporterized garands back in the 60's and 70's. Sometimes we chromed parts and bright buueing looked good. Bishop stocks were usually used.Hough Custom gunsmith did many.Who wanted an ugly military rifle back then? Ammo was cheap lots of it around, and lots of military rifles , factory sporting rifles were expensive, so, sporterize !
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The William Sight Company put out a "booklet" (I have a copy) describing out to sporterize different military rifles. One section deals with the M1 rifle and another deals with the M1 Carbine. I also think The American Rifleman had an article on the subject in the mid-20th century.
 
Hi Lou

She's not lost, Nice springfield made June 1944, assuming a decent bore or better. The barrel markings are
going to be on the right hand side of the barrel, hidden behind the oprod.

You need parts as mentioned above and a few more.

Stock set
Rear sight aperture
Lower Band and pin, the one there is cut.
Handguard Ferrule, Front
Handguard Band Clip, Rear
Handguard Spacer, Front
Front sight
Gas cylinder
Stacking swivel c/w screw

Pete
 
Ok, here we go! Thanks a bunch to tiriaq and to FALover for some parts and great advices!!

This was an interesting exercise for me. Never took one of these apart before. Lots learned.

Got some parts from Numrich as well. The gas cylinder was a good idea, the one I got is in great shape and price was reasonable ($90 US). The cheap stock set was, well, cheap in both sense. Inexpensive, but needed lots of fitting work. It's an "modified from Terni". It has a bend towards the back. Only realized this later, after much fitting :( so I won't be returning it to Numrich. But hey, for a first one, it'll be ok until I decide to get a better stock.

Complete disassembly proved necessary for a good cleanup.

http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y310/lousen550/misc%20projects/HPIM8250_zpsehzj###g.jpg


A few indentifying numbers...




The obvious mishape at the back (still need to stain that part which needed to be flattened)


Almost done.



Hope I can find the time to test this one out soon...
 
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