I want to say they did the first time I sent it back. The second time I sent it back, they said it was a "timing issue" and that's when they replaced the rifle.
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Well sort of. That is the Selector Lock on it.Hmm, with the giggle switch.
How did it get into the wilds of civilian hands? (Should be able to go to the hardware store and buy one, but I digress)
My IHC pretty much has the same UK markings but I was told even the Danish M1's came through the UK.Here's my Garand I got at a gunshow over 20 years ago from a guy selling off his dad's stuff. Wrote a check for $800. The barrel date is 8-41 and it has a crown with Brit import marks on it. I have heard they are called lend lease garands among other things. The story I have heard and read in several places is that the U.S. was not yet in the war and shipped a bunch of them over to England but the English didn't want to use the new fangled rifles because they trusted their Enfields. The garands sat in a warehouse overseas until sometime in the mid 50's or thereabouts before being brought back to the U.S.
They didn't under go the rebuild process and supposedly are some of the most original but people didn't think much of them early on because of the crown and BNP import markings.
Then many moons ago there was a guy who had a booth at a gunshow with a few garands. He wasn't selling anything but was
looking to collect more and he volunteered for the CMP. Then he gave me his number and asked if I would be willing to come
to his house in Whiting. I called him a few weeks later and said o.k. He took it apart piece by piece, looked at all the drawing numbers and said the only parts that weren't original were the rear sight and front barrel band. The serial #, barrel date and inspector's cartouche all jive together.
He would call me once in awhile asking if I was willing to sell it until I told him it would be the last gun I would ever sell.
I do have a correct, long bayonet for it but didn't pull it out for pictures.
This is the import marks on the left side of the barrel behind the front sight.
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Six digit serial #
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It still has the front sight seal.
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Barrel date of 8-41.
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GHS inspector's cartouche for Col. Gilbert H. Stewart.
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I would shoot it.....my low# 1903 Springfield, yeah I know, the guns the internet tells you aren't safe to shoot.....
.....I have....would have shot it last weekend if I wouldn't have had to attend a family funeral.....club shoots require lead bullets with reduced loads and if shooting jacketed bullets, stay with military match loads similar to those shot with the Garand....I would shoot it.
I stick to Garand food for mine without any troubles. Good luck and have fun......I have....would have shot it last weekend if I wouldn't have had to attend a family funeral.....club shoots require lead bullets with reduced loads and if shooting jacketed bullets, stay with military match loads similar to those shot with the Garand....
We had a pair of those at work through the LESO program...an H&R and a Winchester. We recently returned them, but I was one of the few that actually shot them while we had them. I miss those guns, especially that H&R. Someday I will have an M1A to keep my Garands company.It’s the M1’s next generation but how about an M14? 1963 Winchester GI rifle. Oh, how I miss this oneView attachment 300057View attachment 300057