Posted: 7/11/2013 5:04:19 PM EDT
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Well its been a hard year had to sell my bike and a few guns well to float the buiseness. Well I was able to keep back a little money and ordered
a service grad H&R m1 grand and some ammo from the cmp. After four months it showed up today. Few Questions: What would be the best way to get the cosmoline out of the stock Ive had mosins with less cosmo? Second should I think about refinnishing the stock it appears to be USGI and not the new stocks that have been appering on these rifles. Becouse the gun is basicly a rebuilt mix of parts would it be bad to try to bring it back to original condition. 
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| That is a very nice USGI looking walnut stock. Don't refinish it, you'll lose that great reddish tint and not be able to replicate it. The H&R's are my personal favorite. Very well made and machined and made post WW2 so they weren't cranked out as fast and they show it. Love my three. Keep trying to get some post WW2 Springfield's, but every time I order one I get a war year one. |
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Looks good, I agree with others ...leave the stock alone ! I have a pile of H&R's and have one very close to yours..5,586,772 with a 2-55 LMR Barrel. Your CMP Tag says 2-55 for barrel date did you get a LMR Barrel ? I did, what does that mean? sorry very new to these rifles |
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That is a very nice USGI looking walnut stock. Don't refinish it, you'll lose that great reddish tint and not be able to replicate it. The H&R's are my personal favorite. Very well made and machined and made post WW2 so they weren't cranked out as fast and they show it. Love my three. Keep trying to get some post WW2 Springfield's, but every time I order one I get a war year one. This, that's a great looking stock, you would be making a mistake to do anything drastic. The garbage bag and kitty litter absorbant or newspaper wrapped around the gun then in the bag. I'd clean as much of the grease/cosmo off as I could with papertowels and rubbing alcohol. Then do the black bag thing. |
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Congrats on a great looking M1! Hope your luck continues to turn around.  Thankyou for the kind words. The buisness is doing better so far Im a landscaper and last summer I ended up in the hospital and then had to fire my crew as well as drop some contracts. This year is shaping up bettet thank God Im being more selective on who I do buisness with. Any way saturday if its not raining I will be taking it out shooting |
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Looks good, I agree with others ...leave the stock alone ! I have a pile of H&R's and have one very close to yours..5,586,772 with a 2-55 LMR Barrel. Your CMP Tag says 2-55 for barrel date did you get a LMR Barrel ? I did, what does that mean? sorry very new to these rifles LMR ( Line Material Co ) Barrels were made for International Harvester . H&R would normally have a H&R made barrel but in the 5.56 -> 5.59 mil serial range H&R used a bunch of LMR barrels. LMR are good barrels . |
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Looks good, I agree with others ...leave the stock alone ! I have a pile of H&R's and have one very close to yours..5,586,772 with a 2-55 LMR Barrel. Your CMP Tag says 2-55 for barrel date did you get a LMR Barrel ? I did, what does that mean? sorry very new to these rifles LMR ( Line Material Co ) Barrels were made for International Harvester . H&R would normally have a H&R made barrel but in the 5.56 -> 5.59 mil serial range H&R used a bunch of LMR barrels. LMR are good barrels . awsome good to know looks like I have some homework ahead which is great. I get to get my mind off of work. My oldest boy is already fasinated with the gun. At eight he willn have to stick with his 22 for now though |
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Congrats! I was giddy as a school girl when my first CMP package showed up. When the wife called and said my package was in I stopped by the house (was going to a job near buy) and ran inside oppened the box and put the gun in the safe and ran back out the door for work. |
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Nice rifle.
Heat works well on stocks. Put it in a black trash bag out in the sun. Wipe off the grease that comes to the surface. Repeat. What are you wanting to do with the wood? It doesn't look like it "needs" to be refinished. Get the grease off it, add some Tom's 1/3 and call it good. If you want to do more, you certainly can. You can't take any stock and make them gorgeous though, but you can make them look better. Yours looks good, IMO. 
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You can do the black trash bag thing and leave it in the sunshine. Or you can leave it in a hot car. That also works pretty well.
But if you REALLY want to get the goo out of the stock, the best way to do it is to steam it out. Get one of these for 20 bucks: http://www.amazon.com/My-Little-Steamer-Joy-Mangano/dp/B00ALWL9KM/ref=pd_sim_hg_2/191-0721693-3103159 
Works like a charm. It will pull all of that crap out. Not just the cosmoline that has seeped into the wood, but all the hand oil and other grease that has accummulated over the years. It will also pop out minor dings in the stock as well. Just take the whole thing apart, separating the wood from the metal parts. Hit the wooden parts with the steam, holding it on an area for several seconds, then simply wipe it off. It will amaze you how much comes out. When it comes to the steel part of it, I used powder blast and a nylon brush. Then once I had it all cleaned, I put mine back together and applied the grease. I made sure to buy several of these: http://www.northridgeinc.com/store/index.cfm/c134/i228 
But of course there are other greases you can use. It doesn't have to be the expensive stuff. I know you didn't ask for it, but here's a really great link about lubricating a Garand: http://www.garandgear.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=39:how-tos&id=96:lubrication Hope this helps, and congrats on your Garand! |
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Quoted: Thanks this is my first m1 and the car idea is a great idea. These are actually cheaper them my ar's so it might be easer to afford a few more if this year goes well  I ordered a couple in March, got the 2nd one last wed. The HRA I got has heavy cosmoline also, I am not going to fuck with it, it will just help mitigate rust from forming in hidden areas. |
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Seeing as you're in FL...put the stock in a black garbage bag with some kitty litter in it. Place it in your car/truck for a couple weeks. The heat will bleed out the cosmo and the kitty litter will soak it up. Finish with Tung oil. Welcome to the addiction Nice input but waaaaaaaay too time consuming. Get a heat gun or a hair dryer and rags with acetone or denatured alcohol. Heat up the wood and the cosmo will just melt off. Do the same with the metal parts just make sure you have newspaper or something under the gun to collect all the drippings. I have done this to at least 20 US service rifles of all makes and it works well and is quick. |