M1 Garand Advice Needed

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Any M1 Garand experts here? If so, please give me your thoughts on this rifle that I came across at a local pawn shop today.




If my research is correct this rifle was manufactured in August of '43. I know that the safety on this one is the winter safety which from what I’ve read is rare. M1’s regularly used the rifle grenade during the war, but I don’t know how common they are to find now. I know it’s missing a part of the grenade elevation sight on the side, but I’ve been able to locate a few complete sights online. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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It looks like someone installed a shorter barrel, or chopped down the original by 5" or so. Generally not a good thing, and definitely not original.

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By no means would I call myself any kind of a Garand expert, but it looks like someone did a hack job on the barrel and then installed some extra unique parts they had laying around.

Does it run?

It’s possible that not a whole lot of science went into that barrel mod…

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Looks like a Tanker Garand, which would not be factory. While some run well, others not so much- generally I’d recommend getting a standard all USGI. They run like butter. Love mine.

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Tankers can be fun and LOUD! The flame that comes out of them can be impresive. The grenade launchers and sights are fairly common, I purchased a couple recently for $5. A couple of big questions:

  1. How much are they asking?
  2. Do they know who did the conversion?
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The disc on the side is used to get the proper angle when launching a gernade. Sometimes they can be found on M1 stocks on CMP rifles.

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That gun is worth about $300.

All of it has been refinished.

The stock, receiver, bolt, and small parts can be saved.

The barrel, operating rod, and forearm is trash.

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Thanks for the help guys. I passed on this Garand. They were asking $1000 for it. Someone had fired it - there was fouling in the barrel - but I have no idea how well it would run.

This pawn shop has kind of a hodge podge of firearms. They’ve got pistols ranging from cheap used Hi-Points to brand new HK’s, and rifles ranging from $300 AK’s to NIB Springfield M1a’s.

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TexHill;
If you’re wanting a Garand…Check out the CMP…They’ll cost less and you’ll get a quality rifle that hasn’t been hacked up. That, and if you would have problems with one bought from them, they’ll bend over backwards to make it right… www.odcmp.com click on ‘sales’ on the left sidebar. That thing you were looking at is just full of fail…

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What is the purpose of this little circular doohickey on the left side of the stock? I just got my CMP Garand which has this, and the various parts diagrams I’ve seen don’t seem to say what this is.

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Its the mount for the M1’s grenade sight. In theory that little disk gets mounted into the stock and then the actual main sight is attached to that. The little markings allow the user to get the proper angle measurement to launch for a specific distance.

Lots of GI’s just used the launcher without the sights because it was too much of a hassle to mount the sight and use it while being shot at.