Trepang
Ultimate Member
It took a little bit of looking but I found what I was looking for: A WWII-era Springfield Armory M1 Garand. 2.2 Mil serial number. Receiver manufactured in November 1943 with a February 1943 barrel with good readings. It is a CMP Service Grade.
I have a SA Rack-Special and a Luck-Of-The-Draw SA or HR on order from CMP but there is no way to guarantee what you will get and the WWII era ones are getting harder and harder to come by. For that matter, I am not even sure if they received my Rack-Special order before the cut off.
This is also a CMP rifle that has been somewhat "corrected" by a collector in Michigan I came in contact with through the Garand Collectors Association. Other than being a 1943 Garand there isn't anything special about this one. No cool cartouches or anything like that but for me, being a 1943 M1 is enough.
Yes, I did pay a premium over CMP's price but I got exactly what I wanted. I didn't have to sit with my fingers crossed hoping my yellow sticky on my CMP order would pull any weight or spend the time and money on gas and lodging going to the CMP North and/or South Store in hopes I would find what I was looking for.
If I do get one or both of the rifles I ordered from CMP, I will cross that bridge when I come to it. Depending what I get, I may keep both, keep one and sell the other or flip them both. Is one M1 Garand really enough?
J2 Defense in Calvert did the FFL transfer for me. When I went in today to pick it up and was standing around waiting on the NICS check to come back, I discovered a bandolier of M2 in clips with the cardboard silencers tucked away in a corner.
If this old girl could tell stories.
I have a SA Rack-Special and a Luck-Of-The-Draw SA or HR on order from CMP but there is no way to guarantee what you will get and the WWII era ones are getting harder and harder to come by. For that matter, I am not even sure if they received my Rack-Special order before the cut off.
This is also a CMP rifle that has been somewhat "corrected" by a collector in Michigan I came in contact with through the Garand Collectors Association. Other than being a 1943 Garand there isn't anything special about this one. No cool cartouches or anything like that but for me, being a 1943 M1 is enough.
Yes, I did pay a premium over CMP's price but I got exactly what I wanted. I didn't have to sit with my fingers crossed hoping my yellow sticky on my CMP order would pull any weight or spend the time and money on gas and lodging going to the CMP North and/or South Store in hopes I would find what I was looking for.
If I do get one or both of the rifles I ordered from CMP, I will cross that bridge when I come to it. Depending what I get, I may keep both, keep one and sell the other or flip them both. Is one M1 Garand really enough?
J2 Defense in Calvert did the FFL transfer for me. When I went in today to pick it up and was standing around waiting on the NICS check to come back, I discovered a bandolier of M2 in clips with the cardboard silencers tucked away in a corner.
If this old girl could tell stories.
