SmokeEaterPilot
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- Jun 3, 2011
- 525
This popped up and I couldn't pass it up. The SN alone is amazing but not the reason I jumped on it.
It's from the shipment of the first 400 Garands the USMC got for testing in 1938. It was tested by Company B, 1st Battalion 6th Marines. 260 rounds were fired through it.
You can still see the improvement to correct the "7th round stoppage."
The Marines saw promise in the Garands but realized they had some issues that needed to be worked out. But they definitely were not impressed in the condition they were sent to them.
A friend and fellow historian, is a Captain in the Army and just laughed at some of the paperwork saying "this is a classic, for the record these things were f'ed up when we got them, memo."
Had several people ask me if I plan on bringing it back to WWII configuration, and the answer is most likely no. The stock is a Letterkenny replacement (I'm told by the red triangle), the barrel is a 1966 replacement and the receiver leg is EPed "LEAD 9'66" so I'll just leave it as is.
The bore was rusted out, spent several rounds of cleaning and it still has some minor shine but some minor pitting.
Absolutely love this piece.
Some of the paperwork
Garands did not outperform the 1903 as far as accuracy.
Garand "thumb"
It's from the shipment of the first 400 Garands the USMC got for testing in 1938. It was tested by Company B, 1st Battalion 6th Marines. 260 rounds were fired through it.
You can still see the improvement to correct the "7th round stoppage."
The Marines saw promise in the Garands but realized they had some issues that needed to be worked out. But they definitely were not impressed in the condition they were sent to them.
A friend and fellow historian, is a Captain in the Army and just laughed at some of the paperwork saying "this is a classic, for the record these things were f'ed up when we got them, memo."
Had several people ask me if I plan on bringing it back to WWII configuration, and the answer is most likely no. The stock is a Letterkenny replacement (I'm told by the red triangle), the barrel is a 1966 replacement and the receiver leg is EPed "LEAD 9'66" so I'll just leave it as is.
The bore was rusted out, spent several rounds of cleaning and it still has some minor shine but some minor pitting.
Absolutely love this piece.
Some of the paperwork
Garands did not outperform the 1903 as far as accuracy.
Garand "thumb"
