U.S Rifle Cal .30 M1 Photo post
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Just picked up a 1943 manufactured Colt a few days ago!!!
live4therut
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Nice, glad you finally found one, I picked a couple Ithaca frames recently to go with a couple Ithaca slides ive had horded away. hopefully they wont need to be restored but it looks like nick at Vulcan will get another couple winter projects from me.
I got this '54 H&R from P&S Militaria in '08 .
The metal finish is 75% worn off and thats the way it'll stay .
Gives it a nice warm sleeper look.
I do have accessories for it .
Most important one is the Shuster gas vent , then a no D/T scopemount , leather cheekrest
Lyman All American fixed 4X scope.
Did I say "sleeper " ??
* HEY !..Who hit my elbow !?!*
The metal finish is 75% worn off and thats the way it'll stay .
Gives it a nice warm sleeper look.
I do have accessories for it .
Most important one is the Shuster gas vent , then a no D/T scopemount , leather cheekrest
Lyman All American fixed 4X scope.
Did I say "sleeper " ??
* HEY !..Who hit my elbow !?!*
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Love these threads, joe I never get tired of pics of that garand, she's much better looking in personone day I hope to aquire something you can't live with out cause she'd look good next to these girls.
Nice Garands Patrick! If you want the Lend Lease, you just have to find that matching k98 and we'll talk
live4therut
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As promised my tractor garand, all correct and original metal but I don't believe it's an Overton stock, has a rack number of 350 on both sides of the butstock
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OccasionallyOnTarget
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- Burnaby, BC
M1 rifle -12-43 dated.--- Springfield Armory manufactured.
Serial number 1,722,249
Inspector’s final stock acceptance marking --: SA over EMcF with Ordnance crossed cannons escutcheon.
David
Various accessories.
Ammo belt- Midwest Duck & Canvas Co. 1943.
AFH manufactured bayonet. (American Fork & Hoe Company.)
The 10” Bayonet, M1 (M1905E1) was adopted on February 11 1943.
Production of the M1 bayonet was carried out by six companies.
Union Fork & Hoe Company 440,336
Utica Cutlery 200,000
Wilde Drop Forge & tool Company 60,000
American Fork & Hoe Company 200,000
Oneida, Ltd. 100,000
Pal Blade & tool Company 200,000
The revised Ordnance Department production requirements caused Oneida Ltd. and Wilde Drop Forge & Tool Company bayonet contracts to be terminated in September 1943.
Pal Blade &Tool Company and Union Fork & Hoe Company contracts were cancelled
effective March 31 1944.
Production continued at American Fork & Hoe Company and Utica Cutlery Company through August 1945.
A total of 2,948,649 M1 bayonets were manufactured from April 1943 to August 1945.
The brown grips on this bayonet are 'somewhat' less common...most were black.
Serial number 1,722,249
Inspector’s final stock acceptance marking --: SA over EMcF with Ordnance crossed cannons escutcheon.
David
Various accessories.
Ammo belt- Midwest Duck & Canvas Co. 1943.
AFH manufactured bayonet. (American Fork & Hoe Company.)
The 10” Bayonet, M1 (M1905E1) was adopted on February 11 1943.
Production of the M1 bayonet was carried out by six companies.
Union Fork & Hoe Company 440,336
Utica Cutlery 200,000
Wilde Drop Forge & tool Company 60,000
American Fork & Hoe Company 200,000
Oneida, Ltd. 100,000
Pal Blade & tool Company 200,000
The revised Ordnance Department production requirements caused Oneida Ltd. and Wilde Drop Forge & Tool Company bayonet contracts to be terminated in September 1943.
Pal Blade &Tool Company and Union Fork & Hoe Company contracts were cancelled
effective March 31 1944.
Production continued at American Fork & Hoe Company and Utica Cutlery Company through August 1945.
A total of 2,948,649 M1 bayonets were manufactured from April 1943 to August 1945.
The brown grips on this bayonet are 'somewhat' less common...most were black.
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M1 rifle -12-43 dated.--- Springfield Armory manufactured.
Serial number 1,722,249
Inspector’s final stock acceptance marking --: SA over EMcF with Ordnance crossed cannons escutcheon.
David
Various accessories.
Ammo belt- Midwest Duck & Canvas Co. 1943.
AFH manufactured bayonet.
last pic is so balls..the Thompson is just too cool
vermintrex,
Just because you like Thompsons.
Ordnance Department’s ‘Flaming Bomb’ acceptance stamp, “RLB” (Col. Roy L. Bowlin was the A.I.O. Ordnance inspector, once the inspectors stamp was stamped on a gun, it became government property)
“GEG” in a circle (GEG is for George E. Goll, the AO civilian inspector and former driver for General John T. Thompson)
This gun was manufactured in Jan-Feb 1942 by Savage -Utica, New York, Savage was a sub-contractor to Auto-Ordnance at Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Auto- Ordnance Corporation (were the proprietary owners of the design)
Army procurement figures indicate that Auto-Ordnance produced 847,991 guns and Savage produced 539,143.
A rack number on the stock of the M1 Rifle shown above.
David
Just because you like Thompsons.
Ordnance Department’s ‘Flaming Bomb’ acceptance stamp, “RLB” (Col. Roy L. Bowlin was the A.I.O. Ordnance inspector, once the inspectors stamp was stamped on a gun, it became government property)
“GEG” in a circle (GEG is for George E. Goll, the AO civilian inspector and former driver for General John T. Thompson)
This gun was manufactured in Jan-Feb 1942 by Savage -Utica, New York, Savage was a sub-contractor to Auto-Ordnance at Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Auto- Ordnance Corporation (were the proprietary owners of the design)
Army procurement figures indicate that Auto-Ordnance produced 847,991 guns and Savage produced 539,143.
A rack number on the stock of the M1 Rifle shown above.
David
vermintrex,
Just because you like Thompsons.
Ordnance Department’s ‘Flaming Bomb’ acceptance stamp, “RLB” (Col. Roy L. Bowlin was the A.I.O. Ordnance inspector, once the inspectors stamp was stamped on a gun, it became government property)
“GEG” in a circle (GEG is for George E. Goll, the AO civilian inspector and former driver for General John T. Thompson)
This gun was manufactured in Jan-Feb 1942 by Savage -Utica, New York, Savage was a sub-contractor to Auto-Ordnance at Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Auto- Ordnance Corporation (were the proprietary owners of the design)
Army procurement figures indicate that Auto-Ordnance produced 847,991 guns and Savage produced 539,143.
A rack number on the stock of the M1 Rifle shown above.
David
you sir...just made my day
thank you
edit: love learning about these old firearms...both my grandfathers died before I was old enough to learn about their guns....and my dad never kept firearms...I'm playing catch-up. I'm a history buff and really enjoy this stuff....so thanks for sharing.
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