M1 Garands at Tradex?
- Thread starter ricohman
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By mandate the CMP can only sell rifles to qualified American purchasers. I "thumbed" thru the Tradex website and see that the majority of these rifles have been rebarreled at some point, which is mostly the case with Garands.
Would you think this would be a decent buy for a guy looking for a WWII Garand?
I'd like to get a WWII receiver with a decent barrel and wood work.
Not really when you can get one for $1500-$1600 in rebuilt to as new condition.
Purple. I will take your advice thanks.
And those are selling quickly. The ones I would have picked are gone......
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Depends who did the rebuilding.
There's been a big fad in building these up on the cheaply priced Beretta and Breda receivers over the past few yrs.Depends who did the rebuilding.
Are the Beretta and Breda receivers inferior to the Springfield and others?
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$2,195.00 Wow!! I paid $750.00 for my IHC Garand a few years back and thought that was pretty steep.
No. The Breda and Beretta receivers and rifles were built to a very high standard. They just don't have the collector's appeal of a US built Winchester or Springfield that was in service during the WW2/Korea era.
The Breda and Beretta receivers that we see in Canada are from rifles that were made on contract for Denmark. I've built quite a few rifles on them and they are excellent. They tend to have been used more lightly and were rebuilt less often than the Garands in US service. I've never seen an unservicable Breda or Beretta receiver, or even one with cosmetic pitting.
Those were CMP rifles. I'd like to buy one if they get more in stock.
I see. Once again you are the Garand go-to knowledge source.
A rebuilt Beretta with a new barrel would probably make for a better shooter and be cheaper to buy than the U.S marked rifles as they are not as collectible.
I can see I need both......
The reason why the Beretta and Breda Garands were parted out in Canada and the receivers left here as orphans while the parts were sent to the US, is because the rifles and/or the receivers couldn't be imported to the US under existing US laws. AFAIK things haven't changed.
Although it's too late to buy one as they are mostly sold, I did inquire earlier in the day as to their origin and whether they were CMP rifles.
I have not received a response and since they are mostly sold I doubt if I will.
