08-09-2018, 12:14 PM | #1 |
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John Garands retirement presentation rifle comes to auction
Tim get your auction money ready!
https://taskandpurpose.com/m1-garand...ef95&bsft_pp=2 |
08-09-2018, 12:17 PM | #2 |
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Nice striping on that wood!
Beautiful rifle even without the pedigree. |
08-09-2018, 12:19 PM | #3 |
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A buddy from my youth step dad was a retired Air Force Col. He had a presentation Garand that was as good looking as this one, it just lacked the pedigree.
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08-09-2018, 12:31 PM | #4 |
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$375,000? Chump change let me check the safe again. Every time I see an M-1 my butt hurts from that D.I.s boot in my ass.
But all kidding aside that is not a bad price for those serious M-1 collectors. That weapon is museum quality.
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08-09-2018, 01:08 PM | #5 |
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Asking price, go ahead and bid $1000.00
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08-09-2018, 07:12 PM | #6 |
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I have never seen any kind of walnut with that tiger-stripe grain in it, only American maple or birch. Still a beautiful piece of US history.
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08-29-2018, 08:25 AM | #7 |
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Many years ago I owned serial number 62, M1 Garand. I was not able to afford both it and Springfield Armory, M1 Rifle, prototype number seven...at the time. Proto # 7 did not have a serial number. It had a 3" diameter brass plate inset into the R. side of the buttstock with the information on THAT. It was handmade by John C. Garand. Serial #62, was one of 100 M1 Rifles that went to Camp Perry and had the shit shot out of it by the USAMTU of the time. The rifles were torn down behind the firing line and the separate, field stripped components, were placed on blankets...the rifles were re-assembled from random parts...and firing resumed.
Yeah...hard times forced the sale...
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08-30-2018, 03:27 PM | #8 |
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That is an amazingly beautiful firearm.
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12-11-2018, 04:37 PM | #9 |
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To bad John Garand stole the idea for the Garand from a guy named Smedley who designed it and made the prototype gas trap MI. John stole the prototype, took it to the gov't and the rest is history. After the war Smedley sued the gov't for millions and the gov't was shitting in their pants as Smedley had all the documentation and had hired Johnny to help refine it and reported that Johnny had stolen the M1 protype to the po-lice. The gov't papers admitted they knew that Johnny did NOT invent the Garand Rifle and it was stolen (remember the Jeep? Stolen from it's inventors and given to GM for political favors) from Smedley but when has the truth mattered?! When Smedley died there was a great sign of relief. Of course "Garand Rifle" sounds better than "Smedley Rifle", but some one has to tell the truth about stuff.
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