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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 26497663, member: 13650&quot;]A while ago, I spent a couple years assembling this M1 Garand from parts.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1689137[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; (Spoiler alert: There&#039;s no cost savings realized building one from parts.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What it does do is educate you and allow you to have a like new one using the parts you want.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s somewhat like putting a coin set together.&nbsp; You buy parts over time, picking and choosing the quality &amp; manufacturer you want.&nbsp;&nbsp; Many are new.&nbsp; Eventually you have them all.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes, there are purists that won&#039;t like it and that&#039;s ok.&nbsp; It&#039;s a b***** child.&nbsp; &nbsp; No matching serial numbers here, but it sends 30-06 down range accurately and ejects enblocks over your head.&nbsp; I remember I gave $50 for the custom lower, walnut stock, but had to sand and finish it myself.&nbsp;&nbsp; It sat in a corner for years. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; The barreled receiver was the main cost and has the serial #.&nbsp; That is what had to go through an FFL dealer.&nbsp; Every other part you can buy through the mail.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The receiver is original Springfield Armory.&nbsp;&nbsp; The later 50s version which is supposed to have a stronger forged heel.&nbsp; Earlier versions had trouble with the bolt hitting and cracking it (there&#039;s no buffer in back), so I did not want original WWII version receiver.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Barrel is middle aged.&nbsp;&nbsp; The trigger group is new, original Winchester from WWII.&nbsp; It&#039;s what holds it all together.&nbsp; It came as an assembly so I admittedly didn&#039;t put every pin and spring in.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Gas tube new, old stock.&nbsp; The bolt was new old stock that was still in cosmoline that had to be boiled out.&nbsp; &nbsp; Gas plug is new modern stock, ported, so can use modern hotter 30-06 (.30 caliber designed in 1906) in it without causing damage.&nbsp; Leaves additional space for gases to expand.&nbsp; You can get these for any M1.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is where people get into trouble buying these with an original plug. They don&#039;t know about it then run modern ammo through them until it blows.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; I put national match sites on it.&nbsp; Charging handle had to be sent to a machine shop in Ohio to get the S-bend put in it so it would work right.&nbsp; Somehow I bought one that was straight and not bent yet. Miracle some place still knew how to do it. Sounds sketchy but, it&#039;s perfect or it doesn&#039;t work.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Reload my own for it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Free floating firing pin requires hardened primers.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s a clunky, bulky thing that just works with big moving parts and strong forces.&nbsp; Very representative of an era.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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