Building your own Garand (any one done it?)

Ken T2 said:
At least in the US serviceable operating rods and gas cylinders are hard to find.
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You have Columbus Machine in Ohio! Send them most any op rod and gas cylinder and you will get back parts that are better than new and matched to each other. You will have to get them refinished elsewhere as they do not offer that service.
 
purple said:
For openers buy the Kuhnhausen shop manual on the M1 Garand and M14. It is the best source of technical information on building and maintaining a Garand. It is available from Brownells fo $50.

A set of good quality parts, incl a new Criterion or GI barrel and a Boyds stockset is around $1400-$1500 at present. Then there are tooling and gunsmithcosts as necessary. The low Cdn dollar iisn't helping. Suddenly those bargain $50 receivers aren't as attractive as they used to be.
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The $50 Breda and Beretta receivers would still be a bargain at ten times the price. There are people buying forged LRB M-14 receivers and these cost around $1000.

These LRB receivers are very nicely made hammer forged receivers, but I doubt they are quite as well made as the Italian Garand receivers.
 
At the risk of creating yet another Garand build thread, to the OP - I found the Marstar site helpful in understanding the parts involved and getting a sense of pricing (prices of parts are supply and demand driven and the high US dollar doesn't help). They also have some parts in stock and I was pleased with the parts that I got from them, and they're Canadian so no import carumba...

https://www.marstar.ca/dynamic/category.jsp?catid=78072
 
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