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You can always buy a .30-06 Garand and convert it as well.
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You can always buy a .30-06 Garand and convert it as well.
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I have a couple of Navy M1s in 7.62 NATO.
I prefer shooting them to the 30-06 ones.
There are three guns in my collection that are my absolute favorites and are the jewels of my collection. One is a 1972 S&W Model 15. This was just a lucky gunshow find. It's nothing rare or special but is in really nice condition and I just love shooting it. The second is a 1952 Argentine Sistema 1911 that I sent to John Harrison back in the early 2000's for a custom rebuild. It came to me with a cracked slide so the seller sold me another Sistema for half price, and then I sent the broken gun to John to have him fit a 70 series Colt slide and then do some custom work for accuracy and reliability (beavertail, improved safety lever, trigger job, new Kart barrel, open the ejection port, tune the ejector and extractor). That gun also handles and shoots beautifully. It's got a bit of an 80's vibe with a Tripp's hard chrome finish and Pachmayr grips, but it's still very much a 1911A1.
The third is a 1942 Springfield Garand that came back from Denmark and I got it through the CMP as a service grade. It had a lot of problems, doubling, terrible accuracy, etc. I sent it to Dean's Gun Restorations and had Dean do his magic to convert it to 308, give it a trigger job, install NM sights, refinish everything, replace all the springs, and restock it. I got a Turner 1907 sling to finish it out. This gun is a real joy to shoot. Very accurate now and loves milsurp Portugese and South African 7.62x51. I highly recommend a Garand 308/7.62x51 conversion.
Dean is gone now and John Harrison is apparently not taking on custom work any more. I feel very privileged to have wonderful examples of the stellar work from these master gunsmiths.