Danish Breda Garand, Longbranch No4 MkI*, Pics added!

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Thought I would post some pics of the Danish Garand I bought recently from a fellow CGNer on the EE. Had nice weather today and after svt1940 put up the tutorial thread that helped me to clean it up nicely I really wanted to take some pictures. Hope you all like them!

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Hopefully no one minds! I stripped it right down this week, re stripped the stock and got rid of the possibly old cosmo or varnish that was spotted on it, steamed some of the small dents out of the wood, and boiled all the cosmo off of and out of the metal parts (losing my ejector in the process, damn!) and re oiled the stock. I think it turned out really nice! Marstar had an ejector for me, tough lesson but not too tough. Also got the bayo and sling from Elwood Epps.
 
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Nice rifle. The Italian Garands will be the next examples to rise in price as American rifles climb into the stratosphere.

Nice pics too.

Pocket
 
flying pig said:
Thought I would post some pics of the Danish Garand I bought recently from a fellow CGNer on the EE. Had nice weather today and after svt1940 put up the tutorial thread that helped me to clean it up nicely I really wanted to take some pictures. Hope you all like them!

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Hopefully no one minds! I stripped it right down this week, re stripped the stock and got rid of the possibly old cosmo or varnish that was spotted on it, steamed some of the small dents out of the wood, and boiled all the cosmo off of and out of the metal parts (losing my ejector in the process, damn!) and re oiled the stock. I think it turned out really nice! Marstar had an ejector for me, tough lesson but not too tough. Also got the bayo and sling from Elwood Epps.
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Very nice one:) I love the danish Garand, mine is a Beretta made:D
Jocelyn
 
Some folks are a bit distainful of the Italian made Garands because they don't have the history of the US ones. The fact is that the Breda and Beretta rifles were made in peacetime to a high standard. They were also more gently used, many still having their original barrels.
 
This one I believe is one of those. B.Sid 1955 dated barrel. All parts are marked BMB or BMR. Only thing that has me wondering is the stock. On the left side near the butt plate there are numbers that have been removed by sanding or something, could the stock have been replaced with one from another rifle? The numbers appeared when I steamed the stock. Rack numbers or something? Thanks for the comments!
Edit: the stock is numbered to the rifle on its underside near the butt
 
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The Danes stamped the rifle s/n on the bottom of the buttstock on most of their rifles. The Danish Navy rifles had an anchor device and a separate inventory number engraved on the rear sight cover rather than a stamping on the bottom of the butt. Original Breda and Beretta stocks will show a BMR/PB stamp, along with the rifle s/n, on the left side of the buttstock just forward of the buttplate. You should also see a "SILE" (contracted stockmaker's mark) stamp on the butt under the buttplate.

Breda and Beretta bolts will also show a PB/BMR stamp, plus the s/n.
 
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He mentionned in another post that the ejector flew appart when the bolt was stripped for complete cleaning so he ordered an ejector from Marstar. I guess that's why he didnt put the extractor back yet.
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Ya its down the sink unfortunately. Replacement is on the way.

Purple it has the serial on the underside of the butt as described and the bolt has a lot number D28287-128A B4A on its top side. The stamp on the side of the butt appears to have been a PB prefix at one time. Isn't PB meant for Beretta rifles?
 
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Ya its down the sink unfortunately. Replacement is on the way.

Purple it has the serial on the underside of the butt as described and the bolt has a lot number D28287-128A B4A on its top side. The stamp on the side of the butt appears to have been a PB prefix at one time. Isn't PB meant for Beretta rifles?
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Yes P.B is for Beretta.
 
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Check the P trap in the drain. Smelly, but I bet your extractor is still there.
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Yeah I had hoped that too. They don't build new houses like the old ones! Wife had better be careful washing the dishes.

There's no p trap. Instead of leaving a good few inch drop in the pipe they used a short radius 180 and it must have passed through like nothing. stops the fumes but doesn't save the wife's ring (or my extractor).ovrec
 
A guy at the Chilliwack gun show had a Breda receiver for sale. How hard would it be to build a M1 shooter out of mostly Breda parts (if they could be found) and would it be worth the effort? Judging by the look of yours I'd seriously consider going that route if it made financial sense. Seems like a decent SA starts out at around $1,200 these days and they are only going to go up.
 
The sum of the parts to build a Garand nowadays is around $1000. You would need a barrel vice, action wrench, a set of headspace gauges, and a finishing reamer if installing a new barrel. Loose Breda parts were fairly common until a few years ago. These days you would most likely need to use a mix of parts from a variety of makers.
 
I started with a breda receiver after some digging I think I can get a shooter together for a bout $700. That is with sending it to Vulcan to get the barrekl installed and head spaced.I will post pics when i am done. Numrich sells complete trigger groups for $80 and they are breda.
 
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