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Posted: 10/7/2009 3:14:51 PM EDT
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Stopped by there this week. Here's the summary. Good news: They seem to have HXP in stock to purchase in person. It is in 240 rd spam cans instead of the 192 rd spam can. Loaded in 8 rd clips in bandoleers, 2 cans per wooden box. ~$94 + tax ea. The guys I talked to didn't seem to think the HXP will last much longer even for in-person orders. You bet your ass I got me some!  Bavarian carbines are available, mostly marked rural and forestry police if I recall correctly. There isn't much Bavarian carbines left on the racks though. Regular carbines are available. Kimber model 82 .22LR available, very good condition. (around 10 or so) Krags are still available (around 6). 1903's still available (probably ~6 to 10 if I remember correctly). Sweat shirts from 2007 and 2008 are about 5 bucks each, sizes from M to XXXXL I think. Bad news: Garand selection isn't very much, most of the field grades measured more than 3 on the muzzle. Most of the Garand throat wears are also pretty high ~4 to 5 or more. The only Garands with good wood are the "service special grade" ones that are ~$780, muzzle measured ~2 to 2.5., stock looks to be new. The wood on the rest of the garands are in pretty rough shape. No .22LR, I overheard there's a bunch sittin' on some dock in Mexico that they can't get in due to paperwork problems. No .30 carbine ammo, none at all, period. Don't know when they will get anymore. No carbine magazines, restock date unknown. I picked up about 6 carbines to look at, most had big cracks in the stock. The only Mossburg m44 .22lr I saw had were beat to hell, most had missing trigger guards, the rest had broken trigger guards. Hope this helps y'all! |
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Stopped by there this week. Here's the summary. Good news: They seem to have HXP in stock to purchase in person. It is in 240 rd spam cans instead of the 192 rd spam can. Loaded in 8 rd clips in bandoleers, 2 cans per wooden box. ~$94 + tax ea. The guys I talked to didn't seem to think the HXP will last much longer even for in-person orders. You bet your ass I got me some!
Bavarian carbines are available, mostly marked rural and forestry police if I recall correctly. There isn't much Bavarian carbines left on the racks though. Regular carbines are available. Kimber model 82 .22LR available, very good condition. (around 10 or so) Krags are still available (around 6). 1903's still available (probably ~6 to 10 if I remember correctly). Sweat shirts from 2007 and 2008 are about 5 bucks each, sizes from M to XXXXL I think. Bad news: Garand selection isn't very much, most of the field grades measured more than 3 on the muzzle. Most of the Garand throat wears are also pretty high ~4 to 5 or more. The only Garands with good wood are the "service special grade" ones that are ~$780, muzzle measured ~2 to 2.5., stock looks to be new. The wood on the rest of the garands are in pretty rough shape. No .22LR, I overheard there's a bunch sittin' on some dock in Mexico that they can't get in due to paperwork problems. No .30 carbine ammo, none at all, period. Don't know when they will get anymore. No carbine magazines, restock date unknown. I picked up about 6 carbines to look at, most had big cracks in the stock. The only Mossburg m44 .22lr I saw had were beat to hell, most had missing trigger guards, the rest had broken trigger guards. Hope this helps y'all! thanks, I will be there friday. |
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Stopped by there this week. Here's the summary. ...... Hope this helps y'all! thanks, I will be there friday. If you don't mind, an update would be appreciated. Sure but I will not be able to go into such detail as I have only shot a garand once, and I had to google the target 22 mentioned before. I can take pics. 
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Quoted: Quoted: Forgot to mention the service special grade ones are around 5.4M to 5.8M on the receiver. what does this mean?? receiver serial # range. 5.4 million to 5.8 million. They have muzzle gages and throat gages for you to borrow if you let them hold onto your ID. The ones I borrowed were in pretty good shape and not worn out or anything. |
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Forgot to mention the service special grade ones are around 5.4M to 5.8M on the receiver. what does this mean?? receiver serial # range. 5.4 million to 5.8 million. They have muzzle gages and throat gages for you to borrow if you let them hold onto your ID. The ones I borrowed were in pretty good shape and not worn out or anything. Are the ones in this range better then others? I will be leaving in a bit to make it by opening. |
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Forgot to mention the service special grade ones are around 5.4M to 5.8M on the receiver. what does this mean?? receiver serial # range. 5.4 million to 5.8 million. They have muzzle gages and throat gages for you to borrow if you let them hold onto your ID. The ones I borrowed were in pretty good shape and not worn out or anything. Are the ones in this range better then others? I will be leaving in a bit to make it by opening. Rifles in this serial range are later post war rifles. Whether or not you think that they are better or worse is up to you. |
| I chose a Korean era Garand over WW2 when I was there last spring. Low bore mileage and I have been told the metalurgy was beter by then. Improvement on the op-rod design to handle grenade launcher and some other things to that affect. Moving parts have very low wear and it's an awesome shooter. |
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I was there Wednesday morning. Picked up a Winchester Rack grade, two 6 digiit SA Rack Grades less Wood for $375 each and a rack grade Carbine.
I got pretty lucky on wear overall. The Winchester was a 2 on the muzzle and a bit worse at the throat. It had an SA barrel dated 2-52. But, it did have a WRA marked milled trigger group. The Less Wood rifles are not bad deals at all. Picked up two that where all SA except for a WRA trigger group (both where milled). Main reason I picked up two is they both had WW2 barrels...one may have been original...dated 8-42 other was 10-43. They are pretty rough, but still I am pretty pumped about finding them. The Carbine was a fluky deal. Muzzle is a little over 1 but the stock was a Winchester that was finished in some kind of shallac. I guess thats why it earned a Rack Grade...its dated 1-44 and the metal is in great shape. I'll refinsh the stock and go from there. Glad I made the trip. Most folks went right by the ugly guns...but they can turn out to be the best deals. |
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Ok, I am not home but at least I have Internet back (at the hotel).
I will let photos talk but the camera is at the family's home  ..
The Garand Collectors Convention was happening on Friday, I they were cherry picking , picking up one dropping it off at the armorer going back to get another one and then they would put one back and repeat. The 30 cal carbines looked a little rough. 30 of them? There were 150-175 rack grade M1s. And only about 20 of the $795 dollar special grade service rifles. I picked one out with a 1955 barrel the muzzle was a shade over zero, and the throat gauge I read as a 2, but I never used one before. All and all it was slime pickings, but I did get my ammo. 
Everyone there was very friendly. |
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By chance were the 1903's the A3 version? Also did they have any stripped recievers for anything? thanks in advance I saw 4-5 1917s I can not say about the 03s, sorry I was not looking. They had a rack of barreled garand receivers, about ten levels high, 20 per level, so 150-200 from 3million to 58. |
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Quoted: if I remember right the stripped receivers were marked as good barrel, bad barrel, correct barrel, incorrect barrel, etc. You got lucky getting ammo with the GCA in town at the same time.Quoted: By chance were the 1903's the A3 version? Also did they have any stripped recievers for anything? thanks in advance I saw 4-5 1917s I can not say about the 03s, sorry I was not looking. They had a rack of barreled garand receivers, about ten levels high, 20 per level, so 150-200 from 3million to 58. |
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