RIFLE COMPLETED! (UPDATED)...The M1 Garand BoB tribute rifle project

The first tool from the Hungry arsenal - barrel vise
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Hahahaha thats awesome, Barney still has that thing! :D
 
Striker66 said:
The first tool from the Hungry arsenal - barrel vise
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Hahahaha thats awesome, Barney still has that thing! :D
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And yes, it's been with me all across Canada this summer. 2 Clinics in Calgary and 1 in Winnipeg. Then I also carted it to Nova Scotia a year ago!

Striker66's great contribution to the M14 addiction! :D

Merry Chrismukkah!

Barney
 
Thanks, that is reassuring as I bought a Breda Garand a year and a half ago.
In Excellent condition with Danish crown, wood is near mint. The IH Garand that the dealer had was beat all to hell, the stock was awful, there wasn't a place on it without a dent or cut out on the wood, barrel was blotchey and pitted. Muzzle was also pitted.
He was looking for at least $1500 for it if indeed he decided to sell it.
 
Mmmm...that work bench and visegrip look awfully familiar. Oh wait.. I've been there before too :) Nice project Pocketfisherman, keep us posted. I did a rebarrel on an M14 using the same chambering method.
 
milshooter said:
Thanks, that is reassuring as I bought a Breda Garand a year and a half ago.
In Excellent condition with Danish crown, wood is near mint. The IH Garand that the dealer had was beat all to hell, the stock was awful, there wasn't a place on it without a dent or cut out on the wood, barrel was blotchey and pitted. Muzzle was also pitted.
He was looking for at least $1500 for it if indeed he decided to sell it.
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$1500:eek: WHAT? I just aquired a IHC M1 Garand with all IHC parts in a pretty decent stock. The metal is around 95%+. The LMR barrel shows 3 54 as the date of manufacture. There is only 2 things wrong with it. 1) it's missing the stacking swivel and screw from the gas cylinder. 2) it was purchased around 1973 by my friend's uncle and it has been shot very very little on their farm. The bad news is he heard a rumour back then about rifles with bayonet lugs being banned. So guess what:( he ground the bayo lug off!

So I need a gas cylinder for it. The rifle is a shooter! Everything is uber-tight and the barrel crown is perfect inside on the rifling and has the usual little nicks around the outer edge. I've been searching part for it exhaustively! But I can't figure out if there was actually a IHC marked gas tube/cylinder? I know the front sight is original because it's the wide eared style that IHC used. I cant find any markings on the gas tube, unless they would have been on the bayo lug that was ground off:confused:

I don't want to hijack the thread but we might as well keep it alive! So help you experts this is my first Garand. I checked the internal parts against pics on the net and YES YES YES they all bare the correct markings or stampings to be original IHC.

My buddy sold it to me with a black plastic stock for it, 8 enblocs and some ammo. For a whopping $1000! Did I do ok?
 
I am working on the artwork and deciding how far to take it. I don't want to turn into something that looks tacky as it is a military rifle after all. Once I have the artwork figured out I will bring it down to Windsor for the next phase. I plan to take lots of pictures and post as things progress.

The Stock arrived last week so for now it sits assembled as a Breda .308

Stay tuned!
 
Pocketfisherman said:
I am working on the artwork and deciding how far to take it. I don't want to turn into something that looks tacky as it is a military rifle after all. Once I have the artwork figured out I will bring it down to Windsor for the next phase. I plan to take lots of pictures and post as things progress.

The Stock arrived last week so for now it sits assembled as a Breda .308

Stay tuned!
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So what's the ETC on this Tribute Rifle.

Here's some ideas

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Pocketfisherman said:
I am working on the artwork and deciding how far to take it. I don't want to turn into something that looks tacky as it is a military rifle after all. Once I have the artwork figured out I will bring it down to Windsor for the next phase. I plan to take lots of pictures and post as things progress.

The Stock arrived last week so for now it sits assembled as a Breda .308

Stay tuned!
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All right I've stay'ed tuned for a month now :p . Where are you on this? :D
 
Pocketfisherman said:
1. Rifle is now in pieces, receiver is into the welder. He will get the metallurgy down on the receiver metal and make some rod in the same composition.

2. All receiver marks will be welded up, all drawing marks on all parts also welded up.

3. Receiver then goes to get annealed, temporarily taking out the hardness so it can be reshaped.

4. Once the receiver and all parts welded and up to a suitable level of metal prep, they go back to the heat treater to bring them back up to correct hardness.
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Umm... this would have me worried. For starters, unless your buddy can for certain say what alloy Breda used (US M1's were, I believe, 8620), then he will need a material composition gun or mass spectrometer to say for sure what the receiver is made of. I'm in serious doubt that he has either.

Next, the M1 Garand went through more than one change to it's heat treating process starting with a whole-receiver treatment followed by localized lead-dip heat treating of the heel and ending in a whole-receiver process later on in production that involved several steps. Unless you happen to know exactly the heat treat process for the M1 rifle, I'd be hesitant to have some local shop "wing it". They would probably get the receiver exterior right, but getting a ductile yet tough core is not easy.

In short, I hope you know what you're doing.
 
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