Garand Receivers!
- Thread starter L.Parratt
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Hopefully this doesn't upset anyone! These won't stay in my safe.
A friend of mine has boxes of those things. He prob has 100 or more. I keep finding more boxes of them in the pile of stuff he has. I Picked out a really nice one w a 3 digit serial number to hang on my wall. 
I'm told he has parts kits in the US and he keeps threatening to import them one of these days.
I'm told he has parts kits in the US and he keeps threatening to import them one of these days.
I found the sale receipt for my Breda. Paid $225 for it.
You definitely got taken for a ride. Bought over 100 by now. Never paid more than $60
maple_leaf_eh
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The irony is in the 90s when Denmark was selling off their Garand war stocks the US slammed the borders shut. The USGI receivers could come back as US Goods Returned (or something) but not the Italian contract guns. The wholesalers needed to pay the bills, so they stripped all the saleable parts off the "stuck" receivers and sold those by the bag load into the US. Sending a few north is a full circle trip.
Any interesting serial numbers? Sequential sets? Low or high numbers? FWIW, the highest number I've seen was BMR 10278 and the lowest in the 30s.
BMR 254, PB 140
BMR 10741 PB 9944
I've had 5803 and 5804 but that's it. I have a lot of close ones. Maybe my next delivery of receivers will show some neat ones.
maple_leaf_eh
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Thanks for the high number info. I don't know why, but I like to record this quirky detail.
Apologies for my misunderstanding!
That is a whole lifetime for me, Born on 1998.
That was for a complete and pretty nice rifle. A rifle that today would be worth 12x what I paid for it back then.
The pile of receivers is giant and would take a ton of effort to catalog and sort serial numbers. There are a few 3 digit serial numbers and a lot of 4 digit serial numbers. Not sure if there were any 2 digit serial numbers. The one I grabbed has a 7xx serial number.
One of these days he will get some parts kits into Canada and we can build some complete rifles.
within 12 months of getting my first PAL i paid 200 for a springfield, have a box of 28 breda and a beretta. Now they're all sitting waiting for a skid of parts to magically appear.
The one idea i have for domestic stuff is ideally getingt some duplicators going and make some sweet grained wood stocks of various cuts. There is a LOT of exotic wood dealers in Canada.
The one idea i have for domestic stuff is ideally getingt some duplicators going and make some sweet grained wood stocks of various cuts. There is a LOT of exotic wood dealers in Canada.
