All original Winchester M1 Garand...

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What do you think one would have to pay for a "real" all original Winchester M1 Garand. With a good bore, clear markings on the stock and just normal handling marks?

I know there is a parts gun for sale on the EE, but I'm not interested in that one.
 
You'd be quite hard pressed to find a "real" one.
ALmost all Garands would have been serviced and parts changed out indiscriminatley.
The only all original one you're likley to find is one that for whatever reason never saw action, and then you're talking even bigger bucks.
 
Skippy said:
You'd be quite hard pressed to find a "real" one.
ALmost all Garands would have been serviced and parts changed out indiscriminatley.
The only all original one you're likley to find is one that for whatever reason never saw action, and then you're talking even bigger bucks.
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This is all well and good, but if you had a chance to purchase said item, what do you think would be a fair price, or what would you pay, before it started to hurt??? :D
 
"...a "real" all original Winchester M1 Garand..." That'd likely be one that is owned by somebody with too much time and money. Most rifles with "all original" parts have been put together by said people.
$1200 sounds a bit light to me, but I've been influenced by U.S. forums. Mind you, U.S. prices are vastly different from Canadian prices. Seems to me the Winchester made rifles aren't highly thought of either.
 
Where this $1500 parts gun i cant find it. I couldn't bring myself to pay that much. Maybe if it was used to shoot Hitler and Goering and Colonel Klink.
 
they're out there. I don;t think many knowledgable folks would pay more than 500 bucks for Breda and Baretta Garands. Sure, US made ones are more expensive, but it still doesn;t seem like they often exceed $1000.
 
Garand prices seem to be jumping a couple of hundred bucks a year for the last couple of years. I sold a complete SA made in '45 a couple of years ago for $550.00 and thought I was doing pretty good. The same rifle today would easily fetch $1000.00 CND.

I've seen absolutely horrible, rusted, pitted M-1s listed in the $700-$800 range and sell within minutes. That's freakin' crazy!
 
Yes, they are out there.
Just picked up a Springfield Armory 6 digit M-1 with a 1943 SA barrel...it was a Danish gun though...it also came with 320 rouonds of reloaded 30-06 in clips.
Got it all for 650.
After scrubbing the bore I used my fave M-1 load and shot a 100 yard 1 3/4 inch group for 5 shots.
I think it will be a keeper, but not an active shooter.
Cheers
 
I doubt that there are any all original Garands out there unless they never left the factory and were put in museums, My M1 was made by Springfield Armoury in the last run and has a serial number of 5,9XX,### and was manufactured in 1955. Even it went through refit in about 1962 before it was put into long term storage and now contains a few non SA parts in it. Personally I would not pay more for a rifle that has been made "correct" but some people will and the figure of $1200 might be possible if the right buyer comes along. I saw some really crappy looking Garands for sale at the Calgary Easter gun show for $800+ and they all sold the first morning.
 
The beat up Garands (mismatched wood, pitted, etc) were the $99 crap from the mid 1990's while the premium ones were selling for $275-$325 and M1D's were $1350 back then. Having said that and doing the math, maybe a Premium Garand today is worth 3 to 13.5 Times (M1D-13.5 Times) that of the $800 crap that is being sold today taking into account the 3:1 differential ($325 vs $99) in price back then and now. (Supply and demand will dictate the craps price when only crap is available for sale). The crap will surface and be sold today while the Premium Garands stay in collections. And maybe the $800 crap today is just overpriced.
 
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To Garand or not to Garand? You have to start somewhere or it will just be another 'I should have...' type rant 10 years from now.
 
Well, I figured that the only way Garand's prices were going up, up, up...so I went out and replaced the Springfield I should never have sold, with a cherry pre-war 1941 SA complete. Cost me darn near $1000.00, but given the rifle's condition and the scarcity of really nice SA Garands I decided to bite the bullet and picked it up last Fall. The one thing about it, Garands are just as good as GICs these days!:)
 
I doubt that there are any all original Garands out there
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Ohhhh.... they're out there, but most of them are in the States. A good number of GI's came home with a rifle or two in thier duffel bags. But up here, they are few and far between. I saw one at the Orangeville show a few years back for $450, and I was deep into Enfields at the time, so I passed on her. But you could tell by the finish and the fact the barrel was correct, that she had never been "touched" so to speak..... Still kicking my ass over that one!!!
 
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