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Posted: 10/19/2005 9:11:03 PM EDT
| Ordering another Garand from the CMP should I get a rack or field.Is the field grade that much better than rack or is it a toss up?Twice I've gotton really bad wood on the rackers, I have extra stocks laying around but no handguards. |
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I just got my second USGI field grade on Wednesday . At first, I wasn't happy with the stock when I toook it out of the box but then I got to looking closer. The rifle is totally Springfield Armory....everything including the stock. There are cartouch markings on the left side and the SA mark on the bottom of the heel. The first one that I got was a five digit serial number and this last one puts it at the end of the line for production. The barrel is actually dated 11-64. I couldn't be happier with what I got and you can bet that is what my next one, or two, or three, or etc. will be. |
P&C wrote:
You have a rifle that has been rebuilt with a mid 60's SA barrel... congrats. BUT... don't let that confuse you as to when the RIFLE was made. M1 production ended in 1957. Only with the serial number can you tell when the rifle itself was manufactured..... Best regards, Swampy Garands forever |
| I was in the North store on 10/20. looked at both grades, Field grade is the better buy. I saw a guy walk out of there with a field grade that could have been a service grade,(I helped him and his son pick it out) ME 2 TE 3, park was just about perfect, stock and handguards in very good shape, for $395 what a deal.... If I'd had the money I'd would have bought it. |
Yes, I knew that the barrel was from after the production run ended but the serial number itself puts it at the end of Springfield Armory's serial numbers. It is a 5,963,xxx. I couldn't find any chart that listed to that new. The barrel is just about perfect in both bluing and bore. It does have "LEAD 9-64" pencil engraved on the side of the receiver below the wood level. My stock has a cartouche of SA with a B(?)AW in stamp and a Springfield Armory stamp right behind it. There is a "P" in a circle on the wrist, also. Every part has an SA on it. I couldn't be happier. |
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