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Single shot Garand as I don't see how you are gonna load a clip unless the scope flips out of the way.
Whoever did that should be shot by someone else shooting that Garand. "Buy it now" for $3500??????????????? I would give him $50 and set about returning that to being a Garand. |
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It is fully NY compliant, since it has a 7 round non-detachable magazine.
It appears it has that device that holds the clip in after the last round has been fired, so you can singly load rounds into the magazine. It is just not worth it IMHO. For $3500, I could buy an AR-10, put a great scope on it, and buy a shiton of .308, which preforms almost equal to 30-06 in the 150 grain bullet weight. |
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Amazing this thing is still being listed. Except since he couldn't sell it with a buy now price of $3500 and an opening bid of $3100, he raised the buy now price to $3700 and has the starting bid at $3300. Doesn't a rational person lower the price of something when it doesn't sell for a period of time? Of course, judging by what was done with this rifle, were are certainly not dealing with a rational person.
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The seller has totally unrealistic expectations. Or, he knows exactly what he's doing. Maybe he's sentimentally attached to the gun (strange, but possible), but his wife wants him to get rid of it. So, he puts it up on GunBroker for a price he knows no one will pay. It doesn't sell, and everyone is happy.
Seriously, what was done to that gun is a travesty. But people did such things back in the 50's and 60's. The NRA even published a pamphlet on how to sporterize a Garand. |
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Theres a place in hell for people that do that to historical rifles  Much of this work was done before the rifles were considered historic (I don't know about this one). Can sin be Ex Post Facto? I've seen some well done and impressive sporterized Garands. The Blue Book of Gun Values had one on the cover a number of years back. This one, unfortunately, is not one of them. |
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Theres a place in hell for people that do that to historical rifles Much of this work was done before the rifles were considered historic (I don't know about this one). Can sin be Ex Post Facto? I've seen some well done and impressive sporterized Garands. The Blue Book of Gun Values had one on the cover a number of years back. This one, unfortunately, is not one of them. Yup. Back in the '50s and '60s, and maybe later, if you couldn't afford a Winchester or Remington deer rifle you found an '03 or '03-A3 and had the sights removed and drilled and tapped for a scope. Back then surplus rifles were just old cheap weapons- nothing special. |
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Theres a place in hell for people that do that to historical rifles Much of this work was done before the rifles were considered historic (I don't know about this one). Can sin be Ex Post Facto? I've seen some well done and impressive sporterized Garands. The Blue Book of Gun Values had one on the cover a number of years back. This one, unfortunately, is not one of them. Yup. Back in the '50s and '60s, and maybe later, if you couldn't afford a Winchester or Remington deer rifle you found an '03 or '03-A3 and had the sights removed and drilled and tapped for a scope. Back then surplus rifles were just old cheap weapons- nothing special. +1. There were several good articles in the American Rifleman at the time detailing how to sporterize military arms. I've run across a few at gun shows, and while the work is generally good, it's so sad to see an early Garand that has been blued with a jeweled bolt, etc., etc. $3700? Maybe it was a genuine Lend Lease carried by Omar Bradley himself... 
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Theres a place in hell for people that do that to historical rifles Much of this work was done before the rifles were considered historic (I don't know about this one). Can sin be Ex Post Facto? I've seen some well done and impressive sporterized Garands. The Blue Book of Gun Values had one on the cover a number of years back. This one, unfortunately, is not one of them. Yup. Back in the '50s and '60s, and maybe later, if you couldn't afford a Winchester or Remington deer rifle you found an '03 or '03-A3 and had the sights removed and drilled and tapped for a scope. Back then surplus rifles were just old cheap weapons- nothing special. +1. There were several good articles in the American Rifleman at the time detailing how to sporterize military arms. I've run across a few at gun shows, and while the work is generally good, it's so sad to see an early Garand that has been blued with a jeweled bolt, etc., etc. $3700? Maybe it was a genuine Lend Lease carried by Omar Bradley himself... I think his wife made him post it for sale and he keeps telling her that nobody is interested. |
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