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Winchester Garand
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Seeking a little input regarding a recent purchase. I picked up a Winchester M1 garand, March of 1944 production. Appears to be a Danish return, with the Beech wood stock. Springfield barrel dated March of 53, trigger group is all Springfield. Bolt is BMB. I passed the rifle by the first time or two I saw it, but on closer inspection, found that the left side of the receiver has had the holes plugged where the scope base was mounted. I am sure that it is an M1C receiver that was plugged and returned to service as a normal combat rifle. I paid 2000.00 for it. Do you think that I did OK, or did I pay too much?
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Uh…mmm...(cough, caugh..)
" or did I pay too much?"
Oh Boy!
One of my first gun buying mistakes was a H & R Garand. I took it home and showed my brother, he looked at it and said you have a reweld. Sure enough you could see the welding right across the middle of the receiver. So I took it back and the "small" gun store, refused to buy it back as it was a consignment gun, but I could leave it as a consignment and it sold in a couple of weeks. Lesson learned and I only lost about $50.
But back to your Winchester, if you could show pictures of the receiver holes to confirm if they are for an M1C would be a great help to establish value.
the beauty of mistakes is only found if and when you learn from them.
This may not be a mistake if Winchester actually produced M1C Garands, though I do not see anywhere that confirms this.
A correct Winchester M1 will sell for north of $2,000. An altered receiver would not.
Brad Steele