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Posted: 2/25/2016 9:30:29 PM EDT
So, all of Fluffy's M1Garand pic threads have finally propelled me over the precipice, as it were.
Got the cash together and sent paperwork for a .308 Special last Thursday. They should have received it Monday. Any idea how long till I hear from them? This will be my first Garand, and it will be in .308 because I have lots of .308 rifles and ammo and not a single, solitary .30-06. Spare me your comments of sacrilege. The Navy had .308 Garands and all that. I have 50 clips already loaded in anticipation, and just ordered a Dutch M5 bayonet off Ebay - hey, it was like new and cheap. I'll find an M1942 one later. Do I go with a repro M1910/1923 style cartridge belt? http://thecmp.org/training-tech/armorers-corner/garand-cartridge-belts/ or do I go with something new, like the Olongapo Outfitters one? http://olongapooutfitters.com/equipment-and-gear/garand-cartridge-belt/ Now, post pics of your CMP rifles, bayonets and other assorted M1 goodies to satiate my impatience. I want to shoot this thing for my annual rifle qual in June... |
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M1 picher thread? I love M1 picher threads! 6 Million SA <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Stripes/sastripes_zpscb2e7c68.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Stripes/sastripes_zpscb2e7c68.jpg</a> Winchester <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/132113/20160130_135431_zps2dqeyp0m.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/132113/20160130_135431_zps2dqeyp0m.jpg</a> <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/132113/20160130_135354_zpsxbyxhxhb.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/132113/20160130_135354_zpsxbyxhxhb.jpg</a> Late SA <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/6098318/IMG_2323_zpsef1d7fe9.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/6098318/IMG_2323_zpsef1d7fe9.jpg</a> IHC <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/IHC/ihc_zps22d907ff.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/IHC/ihc_zps22d907ff.jpg</a> Navy Mk2 Mod1 <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/radionicist/media/Navy%20Mod2/match.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Navy%20Mod2/match.jpg</a> Another Mk2 Mod1 <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/radionicist/media/Navy/navy.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Navy/navy.jpg</a> A few of the others <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/radionicist/media/Garand/garandrack.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Garand/garandrack.jpg</a> The CMP has been very good to me. View Quote How did you get the wood looking so nice? |
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M1 picher thread? I love M1 picher threads! 6 Million SA <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Stripes/sastripes_zpscb2e7c68.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Stripes/sastripes_zpscb2e7c68.jpg</a> Winchester <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/132113/20160130_135431_zps2dqeyp0m.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/132113/20160130_135431_zps2dqeyp0m.jpg</a> <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/132113/20160130_135354_zpsxbyxhxhb.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/132113/20160130_135354_zpsxbyxhxhb.jpg</a> Late SA <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/6098318/IMG_2323_zpsef1d7fe9.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/6098318/IMG_2323_zpsef1d7fe9.jpg</a> IHC <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/IHC/ihc_zps22d907ff.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/IHC/ihc_zps22d907ff.jpg</a> Navy Mk2 Mod1 <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/radionicist/media/Navy%20Mod2/match.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Navy%20Mod2/match.jpg</a> Another Mk2 Mod1 <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/radionicist/media/Navy/navy.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Navy/navy.jpg</a> A few of the others <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/radionicist/media/Garand/garandrack.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Garand/garandrack.jpg</a> The CMP has been very good to me. View Quote |
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View Quote ROFL. Best troll of the day, and we're only 18 minutes in, Central Time. |
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Look under sales on the CMP site, they still have original bayonets for sale.
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Been 2 weeks. Hadn't heard anything, but wanted to find out how backed up they are/see if my paperwork made it vs. got shredded by the USPS,
so I wrote an email Tuesday, and heard back today. My paperwork has arrived, they are backlogged, and they'll send me an email when they get to it. The Danish bayonet arrived all oily and beautiful. This whole waiting thing is the reason I have no NFA goodies. I am by nature too impatient/ADD/fickle, and I have already moved on to looking at an M1A vs FAL for the next toy. I've always wanted an FAL just because the Rhodesian Army "Be a Man among Men" poster makes me feel inadequate without one. I think I must have the right arm of the free world, don't you? But I need the M1A because I have 7 M1A mags in the safe. So post pics of your Garands, M1A's and FN FALs Or maybe a G3 clone? A PTR or Springfield SAR8? Decisions, decisions... |
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View Quote ^87 Just don't. Please. |
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Quoted: M1 picher thread? I love M1 picher threads! 6 Million SA http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Stripes/sastripes_zpscb2e7c68.jpg Winchester http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/132113/20160130_135431_zps2dqeyp0m.jpg http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/132113/20160130_135354_zpsxbyxhxhb.jpg Late SA http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/6098318/IMG_2323_zpsef1d7fe9.jpg IHC http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/IHC/ihc_zps22d907ff.jpg Navy Mk2 Mod1 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Navy%20Mod2/match.jpg Another Mk2 Mod1 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Navy/navy.jpg A few of the others http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Garand/garandrack.jpg The CMP has been very good to me. View Quote |
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Years of practice. Oil finishes are pretty easy, they just take lots of time to do correctly. Refinishing a clean M1 stock with pure Tung oil can take six weeks. I've been lucky in that I bought most of my rifles in-person, and I'm picky about starting with good furniture - I like to find stocks with striping or interesting grain variation, but I've done some new stocks, too. These were both new CMP wood, the first walnut finished with Tung oil: <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/radionicist/media/3792183/3792183a.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/3792183/3792183a.jpg</a> and an unfinished birch set from the CMP that got a Pine Tar / linseed oil finish: <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/radionicist/media/Rifles/pwood2.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Rifles/pwood2.jpg</a> This was a new old stock 1903 stock set that probably has ten or twelve hand-rubbed coats of Tung oil: <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/radionicist/media/Rifles/smithcorona1-1.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Rifles/smithcorona1-1.jpg</a> I really like working on my rifles. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How did you get the wood looking so nice? Years of practice. Oil finishes are pretty easy, they just take lots of time to do correctly. Refinishing a clean M1 stock with pure Tung oil can take six weeks. I've been lucky in that I bought most of my rifles in-person, and I'm picky about starting with good furniture - I like to find stocks with striping or interesting grain variation, but I've done some new stocks, too. These were both new CMP wood, the first walnut finished with Tung oil: <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/radionicist/media/3792183/3792183a.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/3792183/3792183a.jpg</a> and an unfinished birch set from the CMP that got a Pine Tar / linseed oil finish: <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/radionicist/media/Rifles/pwood2.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Rifles/pwood2.jpg</a> This was a new old stock 1903 stock set that probably has ten or twelve hand-rubbed coats of Tung oil: <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/radionicist/media/Rifles/smithcorona1-1.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/Rifles/smithcorona1-1.jpg</a> I really like working on my rifles. Wow. Three more beauties. Guess my first questions would be how do you clean them up? My CMP random pick by them stock is pretty grungy, and hasa number of gouges. Am I better off just ordering new furniture? |
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I want an M1 Garand pretty damn bad.
I need that "ping" in my life. The money is not there. |
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I ordered a 308 CMP Special about a month ago, still waiting eagerly for it to ship. I've already got a reproduction cleaning kit for the stock, a gas wrench, 25 clips, plus a crate of German boxer-primed surplus 308. I don't even own a 308 yet.
I'm thinking about getting a Holbrook device so I can top-load it without sending clips into the mud, but I think I'm going to wait until I shoot it like God and Garand intended. |
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View Quote BAN HIM lol |
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Look under sales on the CMP site, they still have original bayonets for sale. View Quote I almost got one of those the other day. I have a bayonet and haven't taken time to figure out what type I have, as I would want a different one than what I got. Mine came from ebay years ago. |
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View Quote WTF eh? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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You ordered one. We all start there. <a href="http://s1214.photobucket.com/user/jimdgreat1/media/several002.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc492/jimdgreat1/several002.jpg</a> That was several years ago. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA....... View Quote Oh, I am sure that this will not be the only one. I intend to out "fluff" fluffy. Bimba will surely pack up and move south. We have back bacon and real maple syrup in our house, and probably an old Canadian flag around here somewhere. |
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It's worth the wait. I ended up with a Dec 1942 receiver with a new stock and fairly new barrel. It's beautiful.
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It's worth the wait. I ended up with a Dec 1942 receiver with a new stock and fairly new barrel. It's beautiful. View Quote This will be new stock, new bbl, and either new or refinished parts. My next CMP Garand will need to be all original/matching, or as close to it as possible. |
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View Quote Ban Him! |
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I'm thinking about getting a Holbrook device so I can top-load it without sending clips into the mud, but I think I'm going to wait until I shoot it like God and Garand intended. View Quote Make your own. Put an empty enbloc in the rifle. Close action. Remove stock. Take a pencil and mark the clip along the bottom of the receiver. Reassemble rifle, eject clip. Take a dremel and cut clip along the lines you drew. bend the bottom part out slightly. Carefully reinsert the clip until the tabs lock it in. Now you have a Garand that loads like any blind-magazine rifle. Total expense-one $1 clip(if you already have the dremel). |
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i think Fluffy needs an intervention because his sickness is now spreading...
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Sent my paperwork 2/12, haven't heard anything yet.
It will be an FG. My first M1. |
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4 weeks today and no word from CMP land.
I am disappoint. Last week I ordered 50 more clips from the CMP and this week loaded them up in a ritual ceremony hoping that the Garand Diety would look favorably upon me and send me an email from the powers that be. But, alas, such was not to be. I even stacked them in a .30 cal ammo can, and then a .50 can. Seems 36 will fill a .30 can nicely in 3 rows of 12 and 72 will fit in a .50 with some interweaving, being .308, it's a little shorter. It amused me for a few minutes in between checking my email for a CMP notice. Curse my procrastination. Why did I wait to send paperwork till just after they were flooded with M1 Carbine orders?... I did this to myself, I know, but since "dindonuthin" is the norm these days amongst the hipsters, I shall blame others and feel blameless myself. Maybe I should start a protest movement entitled "Old Rifles Matter" That may use up some of the time... Never mind, it's raining outside. I think I'll go check all the clips again and make sure that the top round is on the right.. |
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4 weeks today and no word from CMP land. I am disappoint. Last week I ordered 50 more clips from the CMP and this week loaded them up in a ritual ceremony hoping that the Garand Diety would look favorably upon me and send me an email from the powers that be. But, alas, such was not to be. I even stacked them in a .30 cal ammo can, and then a .50 can. Seems 36 will fill a .30 can nicely in 3 rows of 12 and 72 will fit in a .50 with some interweaving, being .308, it's a little shorter. It amused me for a few minutes in between checking my email for a CMP notice. Curse my procrastination. Why did I wait to send paperwork till just after they were flooded with M1 Carbine orders?... I did this to myself, I know, but since "dindonuthin" is the norm these days amongst the hipsters, I shall blame others and feel blameless myself. Maybe I should start a protest movement entitled "Old Rifles Matter" That may use up some of the time... Never mind, it's raining outside. I think I'll go check all the clips again and make sure that the top round is on the right.. View Quote I think mine took a little longer than 30 days. Maybe 6 weeks? And then I got a call that I had not gotten my paperwork notarized . The stamp just wasn't at the very bottom. Once that was sorted out they shipped within a few days. |
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4 weeks today and no word from CMP land. I am disappoint. Last week I ordered 50 more clips from the CMP and this week loaded them up in a ritual ceremony hoping that the Garand Diety would look favorably upon me and send me an email from the powers that be. But, alas, such was not to be. I even stacked them in a .30 cal ammo can, and then a .50 can. Seems 36 will fill a .30 can nicely in 3 rows of 12 and 72 will fit in a .50 with some interweaving, being .308, it's a little shorter. It amused me for a few minutes in between checking my email for a CMP notice. Curse my procrastination. Why did I wait to send paperwork till just after they were flooded with M1 Carbine orders?... I did this to myself, I know, but since "dindonuthin" is the norm these days amongst the hipsters, I shall blame others and feel blameless myself. Maybe I should start a protest movement entitled "Old Rifles Matter" That may use up some of the time... Never mind, it's raining outside. I think I'll go check all the clips again and make sure that the top round is on the right.. View Quote I think the Garands might be on backorder at the moment. |
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5 weeks in CMP paperwork limbo.
The sun's rays do not warm me. The new buds of spring yield no joy. Everything is grey and cold. Not even sure that I want one anymore... Maybe I'll fo take up golfing. |
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5 weeks in CMP paperwork limbo. The sun's rays do not warm me. The new buds of spring yield no joy. Everything is grey and cold. Not even sure that I want one anymore... Maybe I'll fo take up golfing. View Quote If it makes you feel any better, I shot mine for the first time this weekend. Hitting 6" plates at 200 yds is no problem. To save you the blood, the bolt closes as soon as you put the clip in . |
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6 WEEKS!
Nothing. I'm dying here. No email, no order number, no nothing! Where's my Garand? Gimme Gimme Gimme! I feel unloved and neglected. I feel like I'm in middle school gym class, and I'm going to be picked last. I feel like I'm the only kid in school without the latest, coolest must-have brand of whatever. Fluffy has 87 Garands. It's not fair. Where's my safe space? I'm being triggered! Where's Bernie to redistribute the unequal distribution of "PEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPING" goodness? |
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Snail mailed for a .30-06 special about Feb 10.
Realized along the way that I misread about getting it notarized, so quickly got a fresh copy, got it notarized, and UPS'd it last Thursday....it'll arrive tomorrow (today, it's officially Tuesday already). Got an email and a call the day after UPS'ing out the notarized page, from the CMP, politely telling me they got my order, but it's no bueno due to no notary. You should hear from them any moment now. My stupid mistake will only slow the order down not even a week. The CMP forums make it sound like the specials ship pretty quick...my ammo is already on the way. |
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A quick update for you.
Sent my order in about when you did, Feb 10th or 11th. I'm a dope and didn't get the notary thing done, sent that by UPS last Thursday, they said that CMP would get it today. Cmp calls and emails me the very next day, Friday, order received and is on hold until they get the notary, I tell them to be on the look out for today. Just got an email from the CMP that the .30-06 special grade is on the way. You should be doing the bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-Ping dance before you know it. |
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