M1 Garand info for the new builder

Some interesting developments since I posted this months ago. All of the sudden the asking price of italian parts has tripled on THIS site and in many cases exceeded USGI parts!:confused: I guess either these sellers overpaid or they didn't read this thread stating italian parts are the cheapest lol. The $500 exemption seems to have opened up a lot more trade with the US companies selling garand parts although folks seems to be getting sent a lot of junk. Then we have the guys selling off their partial projects and asking the same money as a complete rifle would fetch :bangHead:. Seriously guys keep looking off this site for cheaper parts.
 
Gas traps were not manufactured after they were found to not work well. Any gas trap you see now was made that way by somebody with lots of time and money. In any case, assembling a rifle out of parts won't save you any money. It's no different than doing the same thing with a vehicle. You will learn a great deal about the Rifle though.
Using a European parts supplier opens a huge ugly can of worms. The EU requires enormous amounts of export paperwork and permits, usually by country. Some of 'em do not allow the exportation of parts for semi-autos at all.
If anybody ever tries to tell you they have an M1 Rifle with all matching numbers, smile politely and run. There's no such thing. Numbers on parts have nothing to do with the S/N. They're only drawing numbers.
 
All fantastic resource materials here you kind contributors.

You noobies:

Go to school on this wealth of information that these donors have made (with their keyboard skills). Learn as much as you can and enjoy the addiction to this fine semi-auto while Turdeau allows us to (well wait until the Young Lieberals have their way at the Policy Round Table).

Sorry for that anti-Lieberal bias! :evil:

Cheers,
barney
 
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