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Since you reminded me about my Winchester. Both of mine showed the ugliest tooling marks (but don't they all?).I have never had a Winchester.
I bought my first Winchester Garand from a private seller while in Hawaii. I later sold it (before the move to WA). It was a lend-lease rifle. That M1 Winchester rifle had come back from the UK. Milled trigger guard, old style rear sight and: the broad arrow mark, along with the painted stripe handguard and other British proof/acceptance marks. I sold it due to.....I had too many rifles. And I didn't get a premium for it. HA, Ha, ha.....Rrrrright. How can anyone have too many Garands? And, what did I know about "collecting"? I even removed the painted stripe. Anyway, it was the ugliest of the bunch and I figured that they'd be easy to find again.
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
This is my second Winchester Garand. Yeah......I've posted the pictures before. The day that the truck arrived was like Christmas and it wasn't even close to Dec, 25th.....
I purchased a "Service Grade" rifle. Due to the bent frt sight I contacted CMP and they were really good about getting me a replacement. Thumbs Up to the folks at CMP.
Aloha, Mark
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