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Posted: 6/18/2007 9:39:17 AM EDT
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I took the Inland to the range today with the Winchester Garand that I put together from a stripped CMP grade B receiver. I was shooting from 50 yards today. The Inland shot decent. I was expecting a bit tighter group but the Wisconsin Cartridge Corp. reloads may not be the best for accuracy. They are downloaded a bit compared to some others. I will try some Aguila and see if the results differ. The good news was 150 rounds of flawless function with the empties all going back right about 5:00 position. I need to lube this thing properly. Great fun to shoot and I will be taking this one again soon.  The Winchester was a dream. This was my first attempt at putting a Garand together from scratch and it went very well. 80 rounds through it with no hiccups and excellent accuracy, at least for me, with the empties ending up at 1:00 to 2:00 and about 6 feet out. With the front and rear sights centered and the rear sight ten clicks up I was only a couple of inches off in windage and elevation. I wish I had someone there who was a better shot than me to really get a idea of what it is capable of. I was using Korean PS surplus that has been OK in the accuracy department. I usually can get about 5 inch groups at 100 yards from a good barrel with this ammo.  |
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Lets say $150 for the trigger group, gas cylinder, op-rod and spring which were parts I had sitting around. $225 for the receiver $130 for the barrel(USGI off Ebay over the New Years holiday, everybody must have been too hungover to bid, MW1.4 TE2.2) $35 for stock w/ metal from Armscorp USA $40 for the two front HGs w/ metal at the gunshow. $300 for the rest of the small parts off one seller on Ebay, rear sight assy, bolt, clip latch assy and feed parts.(I could have bought cheaper but the finish matched well and the bolt was brand new) I also spent about $150 on tools, barrel vise, receiver wrench and headspace gauges. I am not including that cost in this build because there are several other projects they will be used on. All told, $880 for a Service Grade Winchester. That is probably not too far off of what the CMP will be charging for a SG Winny if thay are available in the future. It almost always costs more to put one together yourself with the cost of tools and parts. If you have one of the $295 rack grade Greeks that were sold by the CMP and it has a shot out barrel it would not be too bad. You can still get deals every once in a while on Ebay if you keep an eye out. I picked up a USGI barrel that is basically new, TE2.1 and MW1.4 for $40 a few months ago. All because it has a Blue Sky import mark on it. Yeah, I know that collectors hate that import mark but a new USGI barrel for $40? This will make a really nice shooter barrel later on down the line. Bottom line, if you like to work on your firearms yourself and you do not mind either taking some time to gather parts at a decent price or putting out the money to get them now, building your own is satisfying as all get out. This Winchester just jumped to the top of my favorite rifle list thanks to doing it myself and getting great results from it. |
Took mine out the other day to sight it in and generate some brass for reloads. It was printing slightly to the right, but with a couple of clicks of the windage knob it came in to the center. I was holding at 6 o'clock so I'm not going to mod the front sight. I was using Aguila at 50yds.
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