Field Grade M1 from CMP North Store

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  • ken792

    Ultimate Member
    Sep 2, 2011
    4,480
    Fairfax, VA
    So I went to Camp Perry this past weekend to shoot in the JCG Match. We went to the North Store on Friday afternoon and basically found empty racks. There were no rack, field, or service grade M1's. There were a few worn 03A3's and a lot of M1C and M1D sniper rifles. It was pretty much the same way on Saturday afternoon. There were only two rack grade M1's left and a few worn 03A3's. We decided to go to the store on Sunday before we left. We got there before it opened and got in line. When the store opened, we saw full racks of field grade and rack grade M1's as well as two racks of 03A3's.

    I ended up buying this field grade Springfield M1. It's a 3.73mil (April 1945) with a 1-52 barrel gauging at ME1/TE3, which is actually better than either of my two service grades I got in 2012. The stock looked a bit ugly at the time since it had dents and dings from being stacked like firewood on the boat ride back from Greece. It's an HRA stock with a really crisp DAS cartouche. The trigger group appears to be all HRA and the bolt is WRA.

    This is what it looks like after I steamed the stock and poured boiling water on it to lift the dents and clean off the old finish, which appeared to be splotchy tung oil that had dried into a varnish shine. Then I lightly sanded down the raised grain with 150 and 320 grit before giving it a coat of BLO. I also cleaned the caked cosmoline off of the metal.

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    Mendozaco

    Active Member
    Dec 5, 2013
    342
    Rockville, MD
    Here is my CMP special. Yes the weekend sounds great.
     

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    ken792

    Ultimate Member
    Sep 2, 2011
    4,480
    Fairfax, VA
    I relieved the handguards a few days ago, and finally got around to shooting it today. It definitely is accurate. I shot a 95-2X prone unsupported at 100 yards with HXP. All I did when reassembling it was eyeballed the front sight to the center, brought up elevation eight clicks from bottom, and centered the rear sight. My cold bore shot was an X, and then they started drifting to the right slightly. All I had to do was bring the rear sight left two clicks and it was hitting tens again. I managed to throw an 8, but all of my other shots were 9's and tens. Eventually I'll get around to developing some handloads for it, because this seems like it is a good gun for JCG Match.
     

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