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Item Name: FS 40+ M1 Garands for sale.

Location: Summerville

Zip Code: 30747

Item is for: Sale Only
Sale Price: 950 - 3,500

Caliber: 30-06

Willing to Ship: No

Bill of Sale Required?: No

Item Description: Pre-WW2, WW2, and Korean War era. All are good to very good, to excellent almost new condition.

Only one Winchester left. No International Harvesters left. Still have Springfields and HRAs.

As a general rule, the older pre-war guns saw the most use, but are still in good condition. Most of the late production 1950's guns are still in great to excellent condition.

Barrels gage from 1.5 to 5.0.

Also have a limited amount of GI issue HXP ammo available.

Not really looking for trades, but not gonna turn down a great trade, either.

The lower price range rifles usually have a lot of battle scars in the wood and worn finish, but still shoot great.

Very few of these WW2 rifles have WW2 dated barrels. After the war, the US Army replaced the barrels on all of their rifles. So they look like they've been through a war, but with newer barrels they still shoot great.

All of our Korean War dated rifles DO have correctly dated barrels, because most of them are still very good to excellent, almost never issued condition. Or if they were issued, were only used to garrison and occasional training.

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To do each rifle justice, I'd have to write a paragraph on each one, giving specifications, details, etc.

Now multiply that by 40.

My eyes would go crosssed.

But I'm happy to talk to you about Garand collecting, differences in makes and years and conditions, etc; so that you can get an idea of what you'd like to have.

Then it's easy to narrow it down to a few rifles that are right for you. And then it's manageable for me to give you lots of details on those in particular.

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950 gets you a Garand with a tight, great shooting barrel on it, with plenty of battle scars in the wood and/or parts that have been mixed up between other Garands of different years and makes.

Iv'e been wanting a Garand as a collectors piece....but unsure of where to start.
 
Iv'e been wanting a Garand as a collectors piece....but unsure of where to start.

None of our rifles have bad or worn out barrels on them. Everything gauges 5.0 or better, or else we put a better barrel on it.

That's on a scale of 1 to 10. With 1 (new) to 10 (worn out scrap).

After that there's 2 main areas, and each one moves the price around.

Overall condition
And "correct" parts.

Condition follows the same rules for any gun.

"Correct" parts is where things get complicated and Garand collectors don't always agree about what's really "correct".

The 4 companies that made Garands didn't always keep good records, they often changed the design of some small parts, and they even used each other's parts when they had shortage and supply problems.

So sometimes we can say for sure that a rifle is 100% original parts for that make and year.

Other times all we can say is "probably" and "appears to be" correct parts.

And a lot of the time it's obvious that a rifle is just all mixed up like crazy.

In every case, we're talking about real US military parts that fit and function properly, it's just that the parts got mixed around with other Garands during their military service.

The mixed up guns generally sell cheaper, and shoot just as good.

Some collectors care about that, and some don't.
 
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