Just bought a Garand - what is it? 56K Alert!!

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Guys,

Just bought a Garand off a fellow gunnut. I think I got a fair price, but I'd like to know a little more about this rifle.

Don't know much about it, so I'll post some pics. Please let me know what I have!

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The WRA and SA parts in the same rifle are no problem. Very likely this rifle came from Denmark, and the Danish armourers used parts that met spec', regardless of the markings.
 
Probably Vietnam

I think this was one of the 400 or so that OSS brought in from Vietnam in the early '90's.

The wood is not black oil soaked like the "Ruko" Vietnam rifles were.

Mid '60's rebuild parts were very common on "Vietnam" rifles wheras the Danes usually had earlier US barrels from the '50's( Korea vintage) or their own VAR barrels dated thru the '60's. (rather than this '60's dated Springfield barrel)

Cheers Paul
 
Any idea on the value? I was thinking about trying to source a nice walnut stock - would that negatively affect value? You guys are AWESOME at this game, by the way... thank you all for your obviously knowledgeable advice.

And here I was hoping P M stood for "Palma Match" or something... :)

The gas plug says 'HRA' with a circle and 'minus' sign. Handguard ring is stamped with an H.

I've heard of garand thumb, and previously having an M14, I kinda knew the action, so haven't been dumb enough to do that yet. :)

I'm trying to figure out what the equivalent of the 'bolt catch' on the M14 does on the M1 Garand.
 
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canucklehead said:
Any idea on the value? I was thinking about trying to source a nice walnut stock - would that negatively affect value? You guys are AWESOME at this game, by the way... thank you all for your obviously knowledgeable advice.

And here I was hoping P M stood for "Palma Match" or something... :)

The gas plug says 'H&R' with a circle and 'minus' sign. Handguard ring is stamped with an H.

I've heard of garand thumb, and previously having an M14, I kinda knew the action, so haven't been dumb enough to do that yet. :)

I'm trying to figure out what the equivalent of the 'bolt catch' on the M14 does on the M1 Garand.
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I think it ejects the clip...
 
The gun looks like one from Thailand. The bolt and op rod are repacement....non-matching color. The late issue bbl 1965. I have a winch which has a 1967 bbl which came from Thailand in the same condition. The wood needed to be replaced with military birch. you could try stripping wood off gun and spray it with ammonia/water mix. This would take out all the old oil/dirt, rinse in hot water, let dry for a week and oil with marine teak oil.
 
can14 said:
The gun looks like one from Thailand. The bolt and op rod are repacement....non-matching color. The late issue bbl 1965. I have a winch which has a 1967 bbl which came from Thailand in the same condition. The wood needed to be replaced with military birch. you could try stripping wood off gun and spray it with ammonia/water mix. This would take out all the old oil/dirt, rinse in hot water, let dry for a week and oil with marine teak oil.
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I wonder why the Americans were still making new Garand barrels and refurbing rifles in 65 when the M14 had already been introduced and was close to being phased out?
 
can14 said:
The gun looks like one from Thailand. The bolt and op rod are repacement....non-matching color. The late issue bbl 1965. I have a winch which has a 1967 bbl which came from Thailand in the same condition. The wood needed to be replaced with military birch. you could try stripping wood off gun and spray it with ammonia/water mix. This would take out all the old oil/dirt, rinse in hot water, let dry for a week and oil with marine teak oil.
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Interesting - maybe I'll need to try the old dishwasher stock cleaning method. ;)

Can walnut wood still be brought up from the states?
 
The reason they were still making barrels in 1967 for m1 garands is: the us navy still had them as issue rifles! Later they converted them to 308, then.When the army and marines had enough m14's, the navy got issued m14's. The navy has the most issue m14's today because 308 is a better round for sea duty.
 
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