A few more pix. I know we all like examining numbers and little nicks in metal.
The receiver was built in 1943. Nothing matches the receiver.
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At some point I had looked up all these numbers as much as I could. I don't remember all the details except that almost nothing matched anything else. The rear sight is NM and I think the Op rod might be as well.
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This is the barrel. If I remember correctly it was manufactured in 1966, the last two digits on the barrel number, and it was made by Springfield as a 7.62, not a rebarrel.
The guy who sold it to me was an armorer at Annapolis, or a base near there I think, and bought the receiver out of Shotgun News. As an armorer he had access to the other parts and probably one of these barrels was wrapped up unused in a corner somewhere. Also the butt of the rifle is full of lead which makes the balance really nice. I don't know how many matches he shot with it or if he won any. I was ecstatic when he offered to sell it to me. We used to talk guns and he said he wanted to get a Ruger Blackhawk, so he offered me his Garand for $500 so he could get it.
Food for five years. A thousand gallons of gas. Air filtration. Water filtration. Geiger counter. Bomb shelter...underground goddamn monsters?!