ghostntheshell
CGN frequent flyer
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- GTA ONTARIO
Why are prices going up so much? Did I miss something this week? Just look at the EE and prices are 2500 - and UP!!
M1 garand prices gone up???
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Coyote Ugly
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Sgt Striker
CGN Regular
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- Great White North, Eh!
I think a Garand with a 3 digit ser number sold for $2500.... which may have been a bit high,(for a rebuild) but if it had still been in it's original condition ( a gas trap M1) it would have been worth around $30,000! and that's the truth.....
300Spartans
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- Canada of course
Garand prices have gone up a lot regardless of the joke. I bought my first Garand for $100. I no longer have it, but even back then I thought I was paying too much. 
Winchester-1897
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I think that was for all three.
I'm no expert, but I do know that 99% of all M1 Garands out on the market today (including everything on the EE) have been refurbished and/or rearsenaled. The only example of this is the Lend Lease M1 Garand. Here's a quote from an expert on another forum:
" The Lend-Lease M1 Rifles are just about the only original examples of pre-WWII manufacture. They were sent to England fresh off the assembly line, sat in storage for the remainder of the war, and beginning in the 1955 time period were released by the British government for commercial sale, with some of them making it back to U.S. dealers. There has been a drop in the market lately, but a year ago nice original Lend-Lease M1 Rifles were selling in the $3000/3500 range.
It is also unusual to find the painted red band indicating .30 caliber, as most were cleaned off by their new owners."
" The Lend-Lease M1 Rifles are just about the only original examples of pre-WWII manufacture. They were sent to England fresh off the assembly line, sat in storage for the remainder of the war, and beginning in the 1955 time period were released by the British government for commercial sale, with some of them making it back to U.S. dealers. There has been a drop in the market lately, but a year ago nice original Lend-Lease M1 Rifles were selling in the $3000/3500 range.
It is also unusual to find the painted red band indicating .30 caliber, as most were cleaned off by their new owners."
It's kind of "profaning" the E & E.....
...I wonder if the infractions will start soon ? 
