need help identify this garand

tristanium said:
i just bought my 1rst garand,i'd like to know the mfg date.serial is:32510xx.
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Springfield Armory marked? 3251000 is 1944. What date is on the barrel ? It's on the barrel on the side of the breech. Visible when you lock the action open.
 
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What you have a hold of there is (if the stamping is not a fake) a ww2 manufactured stock. those can get pretty price on eBay goin for north of 200USD for the stock alone. The P with a circle is the proof mark WRA is of course Winchester Repeating Arms with GHD being Guy H. Drewry. then you have the ordanence wheel and cross cannons. This could be anywhere from 1942-1945 manuf. if the WRA/GHD is 1"x1" then it was made between June1942-Oct 1942. else it should be .81"x.81" and made from oct 1942 till the end of the war. you would need the serial number to know the exact date (and since the rifle stock is not original to the reciever you may never know). A good way to check to see if the marking are fake is to check under the ferrule and there should be a 2 to 3 digit code. if its there then is a better chance its real as many of the early copies ommited this... that is if you want to unscrew the ferrule. But any way you look at is it is still a nice garand and I am jealous as I don't have one...yet.
-Tom
 
Havent seen a Marlin barrel on a danish rifle before. Strangest mixer ive ever seen. Might not have been a danish navy rifle at all. someone may have put it on later.
 
Anyway you put it, nice Garand, Tristanium!
How's the bore condition? Remember, many Garand barrels have a lot of copper fouling in the grooves and may look worse than they really are.
A few sessions with an electrolytic copper cleaner alternated with vigorous brushing and a crud-cutter between the electro remover passes should do the trick.
And please, don't go over 168 gr. for ammo in this warhorse.
See you soon!
PP.
 
WW2GURU said:
Havent seen a Marlin barrel on a danish rifle before. Strangest mixer ive ever seen. Might not have been a danish navy rifle at all. someone may have put it on later.
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Most of the rifles the US lent to the Danes were used, it would have had that barrel before being sent there. Barrel is post war marlin.
 
Well it is a bit of a frankenstien but that is what most garands are these days. Congrats on the find and if you wanted to turn it into something a little more collectable you can switch out the barrel and rear sight to make a nice wall piece. But i must say an original Winchester stock in that condition is a nice find. I just love those markings :drool:
 
Like any military rifle, it's been through the hands of an armourer. There are anal retentive Garand collectors who sneer at replaced parts, but if nothing was ever repaired/replaced, then it would have been a rack queen.;)
 
Ditto on the concencus of opinion.

Your rifle was a US wartime production Garand that likely stayed in Europe at the end of the war. The Danes needed new rifles for their re-emergent army. When they standardized the model, it was G/1950 (or something close). At first the Danes used parts on hand, then they bought from the US and by the mid-1950's they contracted for new production guns from Italy. The Garands in Canada were bought surplus out of war reserves; guns inspected, rebuilt if necessary, and put into storage. Parts are parts. Guaranteed it meets specification, but not the internet sniff test for collectors.
 
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