M1 Garands .......... Beretta or Breda?

Based on my limited experience, collectors seem to prefer the American made Garands (SA, WRA, IHC and HRA) over the Italian variants. That said, Italian Garands typically make very nice shooters so they've become more appealing to certain people in recent years. To answer your question, there really isn't much of a difference between PB and BMB so either would suit your build just fine.
 
Now another factor ,the Italian made stocks were shorter in the forend likely for the .308 round .If a guy wants to make a 30-06 would the Italian stock work or interfer with the operating rod etc?Making a shooter not a matching collector piece.
 
mbogo3 said:
Now another factor ,the Italian made stocks were shorter in the forend likely for the .308 round .If a guy wants to make a 30-06 would the Italian stock work or interfer with the operating rod etc?Making a shooter not a matching collector piece.
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No you are confusing the BM59 Garand like stock. PB and BMR (Breda) made 30-06 rifles for Denmark. BM59 stocks are not the same, you can see some at sarco inc forsale to compare. The Garand actions forsale are ex Danish.
 
The Beretta receivers are made by the same company that makes all the other Beretta firearms just in case there is any confusion.

Lot more receivers made by Beretta than Breda. More opportunities for them to get good at it.

It's not a clone, it's just made in a different plant. After WWII, Winchester production machinery along with the technical data package
and on-loan personnel to setup the production line were given to Beretta. Since they were *not* made during wartime, quality control was likely better and shortcuts
on final finishing were probably fewer for the Italian units than the American WWII production.

Of course, in the US production from US plants will command a premium for buyers simply because of the sentimentality factory. Nothing wrong with that.
 
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Where did the American Garand tooling end up?

As for a Beretta and a Breda M-1. I can still remember when Beretta to me meant cheap chezzy 7.65 pocket pistols for 29.95 surplus and no one wanted them, and Breda was a well known and respected automatic cannon maker .
 
mbogo3 said:
Now another factor ,the Italian made stocks were shorter in the forend likely for the .308 round .If a guy wants to make a 30-06 would the Italian stock work or interfer with the operating rod etc?Making a shooter not a matching collector piece.
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I believe only a batch of the Danish Garands were converted to 7.62 NATO, and these are about 1/2 inch shorter than the standard Italian 30/06 Garands.
TSE sold a bunch a couple of years ago for $750.00.
Not to be confused with the BM59.
 
Shelldrake said:
I believe only a batch of the Danish Garands were converted to 7.62 NATO, and these are about 1/2 inch shorter than the standard Italian 30/06 Garands.
TSE sold a bunch a couple of years ago for $750.00.
Not to be confused with the BM59.
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Danish collectors have alrready sad the Danmark have never had Garands in caliber 7,62x51 NATO but only rifles in 30-06. All the ex Danish Garand made from Beretta and Breda Parts are rebuilt with commercial .308 W barrels ( we know some Lothar Walther were used) and ex italian 7,62x51 Barrels. About Italian Army made Garand they are:

1- Standard U.S. made ones in caliber 30-06
2-Standard Italian made by Beretta or Breda in caliber 30-06
3- Terni Model 1 Rifle in caliber 7,61x51 Long like the 30-06 one
4-Terni Model 2 with short 7,62x51 Barrel ( ex 30-06 shortened)

In the next months for the italian collectors will be possible to get the Breda Garand Sniper model T2 from the Terni Arsenal :)

best regards
 
I think you will have more of a chance of finding a Breda or VAR barrel for a Breda. There just wasn't that many Beretta m1 rifles to begin with out of the Danish m1 rifles. Most of the Italian 308 conversions seem to have used springfield cut down 3006 barrels on US made receivers with Italian wood. SARCO Inc sold them. Stocks were made by TERNI or STILE, barrels and op rods were springfield.
 
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