M1 Garand....Scrubbed USGI receiver or Century Arms cast receiver....

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Hi everyone....I have an M1 Garand that has a scrubbed receiver....It does have the drawing number on the receiver leg and a couple other markings....I know that Century cast receivers had no markings on the heel...Can anyone tell me if this is a Century or a USGI scrubbed receiver and why it would have been scrubbed......Thanks


 
Arent the Century receivers quite new manufacture....This receiver looks old with lots of missing blueing.....I dated the drawing number and it looks like Springfield 1944....but just reading online people were saying that if it doesn't have heel markings its probably Century Arms....
 
I only have one Garand and it is very near new: 1953 Springfield from which I removed the grease.

One thing mine does not have is all that pitting along the mag well and in other places.

I would suggest that this is an original wartime receiver which has been rusted, cleaned up and scrubbed, dumped into a parts bin and then rebuilt.

Castings just don't look like that, generally; the lumps and irregularities tend to be outward rather than inward.
 
That last pic shows the receiver's drawing number and revision. Rev 32 is quite high if I recall, probably a springfield armory receiver.
 
That drawing number is correct for a Springfield m1 made between dec 43-May 44, serial# range 2,300,001-2,850,000. I'm trying to look hard on my phone at the lines of the heel, can you tell for sure it was scrubbed? Be super cool and rare if it wasn't stamped.

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